Originally Posted by
Bigedmond
I will never buy a Lipo sack. I understand what they are for, and why people need them. The thing is, if you pay attention and charge the batteries the way your are suppose to. You will never have the problem.
Never say never. Equipment can short out or whatever. I had a charger short out during the middle of a charge and start delivering the full power from the power supply (30 amps in my case) to the battery. Luckily for me I was parallel charging two 5000 mah packs so it was only doing 3c. Might not have been good if I was charging a single pack.
Originally Posted by
Bigedmond
How many people here are seen a NiHM battery loose a cell? I saw one go at the track once. Poor guy was peaking his battery in his 10th buggy. Everyone was just sitting around and BOOOOOM. No more NiHM pack, no more car. 1 cell blowing took broke the chassis in multiple pieces, destroyed the ESC and damaged the case to the Receiver.
The difference is that while an exploding NIMH cell might injure someone when it blows it is far less likely to start a fire compared with a lipo that goes up in smoke.