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Old 05-30-2011, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by velotek1
Hey Pretty much all of my lipos are swelling when they are used, They are hard case and some of them are pretty darn expesnsive batteries. It doesn't matter which car or esc I use. Is this normal? if not is there some setting I should change so that they don't do this
That's normally not supposed to happen. It happened to me all the time when I left them sitting around fully charged for days before using them. Now that I leave them at around 60% charged, until I actually use them, no more swelling. Also don't leave them sitting around where it's real hot. If you leave them in a hot car for hours, they will puff. Occasionally they will swell because because of a defect, but I haven't had that happen to me in a long time.
The worse thing that can happen is if they puff during charging. Don't use them again if that happens.
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