before you short it check it with a voltmeter and if it's farely dead put some charge back into it first, but be careful and watch it while you do that too

I used a jumper one time to direct short a Venom 3s pack. All it did was hiss and then melt the solder joint on the jumper. No flames, no smoke, no nothing. I almost cried.

thats just lame, all this fear they put in us about lipos and you can't hurt yourself with them if you try

Another myth disspelled. Love the brief commentary tho. Maybe if we could get all the RCM members to donate some 'fuel' we could have a medium-sized bonfire.

Nice try JJ.

Aww, I'm bummmed, I was hoping to see a nice big fireball when I came back from Orientation :(

What if we put a constant, say, 20V into a 7.4V battery, wouldn't that make some fun?

yes, yes it would!!!

We have a goal!

That would be GREEEAAAT!

I think if you do a slow over charge to warm all the internals nice to cause thermal runaway, that should do it!

HA, I like to take a spare car battery and some jumper cables and hook it up to a already puffed cell. Did this a few times, the cell puffed to about 10 times its normal thickness then popped and produced quite a bit of smoke. No fire though. I have also driven nails in them, cut them in half with a machette and crushed them under car tires and in a bench vise. I have dead lipos sitting around and have never had an issue. I did get one pretty warm once, left my m8 tx on all night and the next morning the pack was quite warm, lucky I did not melt the radio!!!

I pulled it out of the fire with pliers (still smoldering)

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...poburnt001.jpg

I feel I gave that turd battery back the suffering it gave me

I say send it back to maxcramps like that.

LOL river, good one but im not spending the $5 to ship it to them they got 1 over on me as a newb. Nothing more goes to them..... My wife had a point if these lipos dont burn why did I spend $60 on lipo fireproof bags. What a racket

Well I know the first gen. lipo RC batteries sure had fire issues, that's what the scare is all about, but the packs in the last couple years have a much lower ignition rate.

Lithium Ion cells are much more prone to catching on fire.

Yea just say you went to charge it and it did that for no reason. I'd love to see the reaction:yes: