Storage of batteries in a butter dish in the refrig???

Hmm. Now that's a new one. I was under the impression that storage of Lipo batteries in cold conditions is not optimal for the batteries.

I have about 6 packs sitting next to me in the floor. The are brand new and have never been below 3.74v. (Now that I think about it, I haven't check them in 3 months) Anyway. They have been sitting there for about 1.5 to 2 years. These are cheap Chinese batteries I bought as a test to see if they were as
powerful as the IB batteries I bought when I first started racing 1/8th scale electric.

I left my IBs in the garage which got around 35 degrees. Left the Lipos during the winter time with 3/4 of a charge. The packs were swollen, but, I raced these packs for 2 years with no problem. Last year, they finally started to get hard to balance so I stopped using them. I could basically
pull the trigger on my buggy and flip it over. I could mow the grass with my buggy as well. The buggy could go about 50mph easily.

Anyway... I have another 5 to 6 packs I race with of the cheap batteries. The C rating is about 20 I would say because the IBs were 40 and these don't get nearly as much punch as the IBs. I recorded with a spread sheet the charge times, run times, how much volts I had to put back into the batteries and how many cycles I got out of these batteries. I would say, around 50 cycles and the Chinese batteries were done. Batteries started to puff and then forget about trying to balance them. It just would not happen.

Anyway. the ones I have left seem to be holding up o.k. Given I'm not racing as much so it's hard to tell. They are not puffing and are balancing fine.

I have read here somewhere the Protek batteries do puff. I also have heard people say they didn't get many uses out of them as well.

I think all toll, I got maybe 6 charges out of this pack before they puffed. I may contact A-main just to let them know, but, unless Lipo Receiver packs are hard to find, I don't think I'll be buying another one. 6 races surely won't cut it.