Well I could can shed some light on this subject lol . My v2 when up in flames a couple days ago and i was using the True rc 8000 15c lipos. One lipo died a horrible death and one survived. When I opened the pack out of curiosity the tabs on the lipos had obviously been seriously heated and you could see burn marks. The pack had no voltage. Somewhere in the connection of the cells went bad and opened. I tried jumping the tabs also to isolate the wireing and no good..... So yes a shorted esc can kill a lipo. Im so scared it will kill my enerlands next but i figure they can take the heat better then the true rc's

Thanks guy's for the input, I run polyquest packs and I would hate to lose one. But I feel a little safer now. I have another concern about lipo's (something I heard) if you get them wet they are f....d, so I dip the ends of my packs in plastidip you know that rubber tool handle dip to seal and water proof them. It's realy not that messy and it looks kinda cool when I'm done. I dont know why water kills the cells either.

If you like, run your truck into a pond, then yeah, you might kill your lipos, but you would also kill your MM/MMM and brush less too... I run my gear in wet grass a lot, and haven't had any problems with any of my gear....


EDIT* Not soaking wet rain-grass, but dewy morning grass.