What would you do?

[sikeston34m]

Originally Posted by kulangflow

I had that exact same thing happen to me. Fried a good lipo and ESC because the previous owner installed his Deans backwards and I didn't double check it first. Shame on both of us!

It does put on quite a show doesn't it?

The absolute Maximum Burst Capacity of Lipos must be way up there when you dead short them. LOL

What type of ESC fried on you?

[kulangflow]

Originally Posted by sikeston34m

It does put on quite a show doesn't it? What type of ESC fried on you?

It was quite a show, but not quite as impressive as when I accidentally dead-shorted a 10s a123 pack!

I can't remember the name of the ESC. It's been a while. It was a brushed ESC, so I guess I really wasn't out much. I was much more annoyed by the lipo loss.

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by kulangflow

It was quite a show, but not quite as impressive as when I accidentally dead-shorted a 10s a123 pack!

I can't remember the name of the ESC. It's been a while. It was a brushed ESC, so I guess I really wasn't out much. I was much more annoyed by the lipo loss.

That is too bad, but it is very cool that you can come here to share the experience with everyone here. It may give just one person a good enough reason to be careful and double check their own stuff in order to avoid this type of catastrophy. We all learn from mistakes, so why not someone elses mistake???

[sikeston34m]

Originally Posted by kulangflow

It was quite a show, but not quite as impressive as when I accidentally dead-shorted a 10s a123 pack!

I can't remember the name of the ESC. It's been a while. It was a brushed ESC, so I guess I really wasn't out much. I was much more annoyed by the lipo loss.

Since we're talking about "Dead short" shows, this reminds me of an incident at work.

I was changing out an SB350 Connector on one of the forklift batteries.

They are 1000ah 36 volt, Lead Acid type, and weigh about 2850lbs each.

To get the lugs out of this type of connector, there are springs that you have to press down with a flat screw driver, then the lugs will slide out the rear.

Well, while I was pressing, something slipped, the connector turned and that screw driver was suddenly jammed in there shorting the terminals.

It snapped that screw driver in a spray of pretty sparkly thingies.

I think the correct word is "abated". LOL

[JERRY2KONE]

Back when I was in the Navy stationed in Hawaii I had a co-worker do something similar with an 18" screw driver. All I saw was a bright flash of light, and the only thing left of the screwdriver was a piece of the handle about the size of a common egg. The rest of it had desintigrated/vaporized. he was checking for voltage and did not feel like climbing down from the ladder in order to get his muiltimeter. What an ass. Scared the bejesus out of everyone around, and he fell off of the 20' ladder that he was standing on. Some people actually have accidents, and some are just stupid.