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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ronny" data-source="post: 6699672" data-attributes="member: 619486">Usually in automotive and industrial apps C ratings are not given, but they surely come in handy with hobbies like R/C.A manufacturer will give burst and continuous C ratings for a certain battery. Such as 20. If you are using a 10aH pack, and it has a continuous C rating of 20 you multiply them together (C rating * aH) to get the amount of continuous current discharge one can safely run. In this case, it would be 200A. For burst, maybe 25C is given, so one can take 250A safely from the pack, but for only a couple seconds. Going above the continuous rating will cause large voltage drops, lots of heat, damage to the pack, and sometimes ka-booms, but that is mostly seen when using Lithium Polymer batteries. Lead acid, NiCd, NiMH, LiFePO4, etc can take abuse much better.</blockquote>

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