So we had a battery explode today at the track. The kid said he wasn't charging and it was just sitting there i find it hard to believe the it was just sitting on the pit table. Fire was about 3 feet high. Total lost to his euro truck guess on way to look at it is he's not out much as they are cheap any other story or theories. Would be great thanks

It’s possible that it got damaged during a run or he overcharged it? If you’ve never see a lipo fire, google it. This is why people’s garages burn down. They usually don’t take too long to burn out (from what I’ve seen on internet), but they burn at thousands of degrees.

Still that sucks. sorry for him..

There are alot of factors to consider. The age of the battery. The condition of the battery. How much it's been abused. If it's ever been over charged. If it's ever been ran too low and brought back. Was it in direct sun. Was it charged while hot. This all will contribute to making the battery unstable. Something could've gotten spilled near it and caused it to get wet. Also don't rule out an internal short. While it's rare I have seen them go up in flames just sitting on the bench.

It had been sitting at the track for two weeks with out being disturbed and it supposedly wasn't charging so it just seems funny it sat there for to weeks and nothing he walked over did something walked away and 1min later poof hes the owners grandson so his stuff isnt really misused and hes a decent drive
It was one of them Peak packs that is required by tamiya. For T.C.S. racing

Over-discharge or mechanical damage are the two most likely causes. Both can cause damage of the separator (insulator between the electrodes), and if that happens, then the electrolyte can ignore and you've got yourself a pyrotechnic show. The same can also happen via manufacturing errors, although that's much less common (maybe one defect per several million cells produced).

This sort of "spontaneous" thermal event (which isn't so spontaneous, but is rather initiated by the type of events listed above) is why it's important to treat lithium batteries with great respect. Don't overcharge them, don't over-discharge them, and if they suffer any sort of mechanical damage, treat them like a ticking time bomb. And even if you don't think that any of this has occurred, store them in a fire-resistant container whenever they are not being used.

Never forget - there isn't much difference between a really good battery and a mediocre bomb.

A few weeks ago at a nats event here in Australia, a kids orion shorty went up in smoke while still in her car while the father was working on the car. no one knows how it went or what happened, there was no flames luckily, just alot of smoke and heat. Most of the electronics in the car survived, but the battery looked like a giant over cooked marshmallow.

Sometimes it can just happen, no explanation, no nothing.

Whats worse is one of the cells in the battery was still intact after all this and we were just waiting for it to blow from the heat.

I overshot a turn and cartwheeled. Not a real bad crash. The car ended up on its wheels, stopped, and billowing white smoke came out of it. Didn't see any flame.
20 guys stood there with their mouths hanging open watching it until I yelled to get it out of there.
Someone threw the car outside. I popped out the batt hold down and tossed the still smoking battery. Only car damage was some melting on the body, and a fried rx.
There was no obvious cause as to why the batt cooked. probably an internal short.

Lipo fires are a real eye opener the first time you see one! lol

I had one this summer,, cause was the battery came loose and damaged the cells (my bad),,, luckily it melted the straps and dropped out of the car before it did severe damage

Too good for a lipo bag?

Not sure what you're saying here,,,,,

I have three, I always charge and transport them in a bag, I store them in a ammo case,,, but it's kinda hard to have them in a bag while in the car