Originally Posted by benamin

Wrong!
Treat them right,inspect, and always store properly.

I had a 1 month old rx lipo sitting on my bench in the garage. It had an 80% storage charge on it and had only been out of the truggy for three days. I had held in my hand the day before it blew up and it had no damage! Before going to bed I went lock the garage and smelled smoke, opened door and could bareley see the three foot flames through the smoke. It did a lot of damage to stuff that is replaceable, but if this random occurance happened even an hour later my family may have not have survived.

So don't get complacent with these batteries. Go to an army surplus store and buy an old steel ammo box to store your lipos in when they are not in use.. Better safe than really sorry!

Sorry for the soapbox but I still shudder about what could have happened!