Buckyaga

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So yesterday in our 4 wheel mod main, we had a mod truck running with us. About 3 minuets into the main, we heard something that sounded like a M80 going off in the building(indoor offroad track). Everyone stopped on the track and all we saw was the truck sitting in the middle of the track and smoking.

Looks like one of the cells did not vent and just exploded. The area where the 3rd cell was melted on the chassis and cracked it. The battery was brand new and it was the 4th run on it.. I guess they are going to try to get a hold of the manufacture to see what they can do about it..lol

Please excuse the crappy resolution on the pics, all I had was my camera phone, but it gets the point across











it did a little damage as you can see

Johnathan

iTrader: (1)

lol, like a giant firecracker!

Valentin.H

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wow..that is like a firecracker..its all black and crap....imagine if it was a lipo...id imagine that car would be gone if it was..

BigTrucks

Tekin speedo was it the G11, if it was my buddy has torched three of them running Mod TC.

Racingfreak6

I have never seen anything like that happen before.

santinuchi

All i can say is Wow......

FBR

i've seen a pic from the uk of an ib cell having a similar problem cell exploded while charging

encore75

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Well, that beats my motor seizing up and smoking on the track this weekend. haha.

SpeedBump57

Man that is wild!

Randy Pike

It wasn't the Speedo. The battery shorted or vented and just went Boom!

If it was the speedo it would have gone up in smoke instead of just being charred by the small fire that followed...

I've heard of the Ib's doing something like this when they are soldered in this fashion ie. high heat short period of time...causes a carbon track in the cell build up was the "excuse."

Iceracer

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A guy at our track had a receiver pack blow up like that in his toolbox on the way to the track. Probably a short caused by something metalic coming in contact with it.

I had a nicad blow up on me years ago during charging. It sounded like a gun went off in the house. A piece of the cell was all the way across the room. Failure to vent properly? Glad my face wasn't over it at the time.

Scottmisfits

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While charging is something ALOT different than being in use. In charging it is generally an operator error. To me, that pack looked like a pre-assembled match pack which could be a problem with the soldering. Like was said earlier as well, the pack could have shorted out but that should have given some radio issues, not an exploding pack.

I'm interested to see what the results of talking with the matcher are.

Rysuleod

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Let me be the first to say:

That will buff right out.

*and*

Car chassis: $60
Battery pack: $40
Having the only exploding car at the track: Priceless. You wanna pass me? I don't think so! KABOOM!

*and*

All jokes aside I'm sorry to see that happen to anyone. I hope the esc still works!

BSchorr

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I sure hope John Malin from Fusion replaces this guys stuff. That is really unfortunate. anything that is black should be replaced

Turbo Joe

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Wow.

I can smell that from here.