Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-38362264-20190302005336/@comment-27306930-20190313045741

Just to be clear, LiFePO batteries generally aren't as good as Li-Ion IMRs. The charge cycles are better, but the specific power isn't nearly as good. Look, I know most of you guys haven't taken college Chemistry or Physics yet, but LiFePOs are pretty much bottom of the line lithium cells.

There are lots of battery chemistries, but LiFePO, and LiMnO, and LiPo are not the same. For starters, the "PO" in LiFePO stands for Phosphate. But the "Po" in LiPo stand for Polymer. It's quite literally two totally different things. In fact, the only thing these batteries have in common is they contain some Lithium.

Above and beyond all that, different types of batteries have different capacities and different discharge profiles.

Do the research. Choose wisely.