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Assuming you are on about LiPO of LiFe batteries. Did you leave them partly charged, about 40-50%? LiPO and LiFe batteries do not like being stored completely discharged or fully charged. It tends to cause them to fail. The other thing that most of the guys have found in my RC flying club is that the batteries on have about 1/3 of the life that is stated on them.
May 12 2015 07:46 PM

spiguy

could be the batteries, I am assuming you mean NiMh packs. I have had this with 4 cells before in my old mardave, where an old pack would charge up (seemingly) OK but in truth one cell was bad and discharged very quickly dropping the voltage and causing a similar effect to yours.
May 12 2015 08:17 PM

RooBoonix

If you are using NiMH/NiCD packs, make sure you don't have any LiPO safes turned on the ESC, as this will often cut power if the voltage drops too low (as would happen with a NiMH/NiCD pack with any considerable current being pulled...)
May 12 2015 09:01 PM