Lipo Battery

Today I have been shopping for lipo batteries and something that I discovered today was internal resistance. I have purchased some low budget batteries and some high rated batteries IE RA TECH. So I came across Blue Lipo and it was only by chance I was on a budget and I wanted to have a Lipo. I did not want to spend money on a lipo battery that cost over 80 – 100 dollars. I decided shop for batteries at hobby shops not over priced Airsoft stores. I told my self there has to be some good price’s and knowledge since hobby stores have been in the battery game much longer than airsofters have. I discovered several stores that carry blue Lipo, tenrgy, sky, gens ace, and other generics. I have come to conclusion that many batteries are made with the same intention give you the best power for the buck. I found that the only way to truly rate how a battery performs is by looking for batteries with low internal resistance. How often do we really look at this? Well no one told us, right? I have discovered that most of the problems related to the airsoft gun problems IE stripped gears, stripped pistons, and pinion gears, come from Lipo batteries. Is it really the bad gear sets and pistons or inconsistent batteries? We spend tons of money on our AEG’s because we want to have the best internals? Why because we want high fps, high rof or low but I have found that most batteries are never checked. We just go into a Airsoft store like evike get our AEG and batteries and then we are on our way. We then go to TAC City and show off to our friends and then discover that our piston stripped. We always say “get a better piston”, “are your gears shimmed”, “your gun is not lipo ready”, etc….. We need to look at batteries internal resistance before you buy. The bottom line is always check. If you have a two cell battery or three cell battery, all cells should be somewhere in the 4’s when you check. How do you check you ask? You can ask the retailer your buying from to check with a charger before you leave. If they have good chargers then they should be able to check to see what the internal resistance is. If they can not show you then maybe you should think twice before buying a battery from an Airsoft retailer.