Originally Posted by
MADMAN66
If I was you I would search for lipo fires first.. to see the damage they cause when overcharged.. All it will take is forgeting that batt for 20-30 min and you could lose your house or garage... Part of my job involves designing and maintaining a lipo charge and test center and I have seen a cell batt (Alot less energy then an rc batt) explode and shoot a ball of flaming chemicals across a room and stick to someones back because one of the engineers dismised a safety step (guess what happened to THAT engineer?)
that person was lucky to be wearing a sweater over a shirt that day!
Just my 3 cents
What he said.... I bought the platinum 4800 Mah batteries from Orion when they first came out. After about a months use I got bored with rc and threw them and my gear in a box and tucked them away in my closet. Here about 5 months ago I got back into the hobby and did some research on lipos before I tried charging them again. You wanna talk about some volatile lil s.o.b's! I put them in the heaviest cooking pot I owned and duct taped the lid on for safe measure when recharging them lol. Luckily they work fine... but after seeing all those videos of them exploding and catching fire, I don't recommend charging lipos any other way then how the battery manufacturer and the charger manufacturer suggest. Even then I would still suggest a fire proof lipo bag to store and charge them in.