Can someone run me through the basics with Lipo charging/balancing, etc...lol
09-21-2011, 09:55 PM
#32
This one is a good example of a battery failing, no explosion, just a nice melt down. LRP: Blue is better, unless the blue is smoke pouring off your batteries.
This one is staged, but shows what happens when you get an explosion.
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This one is staged, but shows what happens when you get an explosion.
| + YouTube Video | |
09-22-2011, 03:24 AM
#33
Ok guys so you stop the argument here is a precautions and guidlines for charging lipos and from a military factory owned by government and now if they dont know then there is no way in hell anyone else does either .
enjoy .
enjoy .
...lol
09-22-2011, 07:51 PM
#35
They aren't dangerous when used within their design criteria. This isn't different from any other battery. Phones, laptops and many other consumer goods use Lipo technology. If these things were exploding (which seems to be another myth) left and right and burning houses down do you think any company in their right mind would continue to sell them? Their legal team would have a melt down from the class actions. From the physical abuse I have seen these batteries take in a racing environment I would argue they are actually more robust than most give them credit and the dangers are overstated.
Most (if not all) of the failures tend to result from abuse of batteries.. quite simply, worst cases, and the dangers do seem to get banded about as regular phenomena. In four years of using LiPo's, I've never seen a pack that was properly looked after have a problem. Follow the guidlines, and they will be fine. End of.
LiPo is inherently safer than what we were using before. NiMh that would burst (literally explode) a casing if the vents got blocked during soldering were a load more dangerous. Fact.
09-25-2011, 08:28 PM
#36
Tech Rookie
charging a lipo 20c 7.4v
I just bought an e-revo and have a thunder bolt charger... can any one tell me how to set the charger to correctly charge my batteries? It is a Reedy Lipo 5000 mha 20c 7.4v
09-26-2011, 05:33 AM
#37
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