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In Lipo batteries, the "C" means the rate at which the current your battery can discharge in a given time. If your battery is, say 5200 mAh, it means it has the capacity to discharge 5.2 amphere (or 5,200 milliaphere) in one hour. So 1 C means 1 hour. 2 C means it can discharge all the current at doublt that rate, i.e. in 1/2 hour. 4C means 4 times that rate and so on. So a 30C battery with 5200 mah means it can dishcarge all 5,200 ma the battery holds in 1/30th of an hour, i.e. 2 minutes continuously, without damage to the battery. Think of "C" as the diameter of a water hose. The bigger the hose, the faster the current can discharge without damage to the battery.
As the amount of current required is decided by the "ESC" depending on the demand of the motor, so however many "C" or capacity of your battery, it won't damage the Esc. It will only ensure that it will always have sufficient current at its disposal in meeting the demand of the motor. However these days some brushless motor are so powerful that it requires be fed so much current at "burst" time that you will need to have a high capacity Esc, together with a high capacity battery with high C, in order to enable the motor to reach its peak performance. |