Scary Lipo Fire - Thought I might be moving into Lincs basement.

[lincpimp]

From my experience with lipo:

Over discharge (low voltage) usually causes puffing. But the lipo has lost most of its juice so it does not really have the potential that a full pack has.

Over charging causes the battery to be too full, and it has alot of potential energy so you can draw your own conclusions!

Now running a battery past its capabilities while it is close to full may have similar effects to over charging. So trying to pull 100 amps out of a 50amp rated pack may cause a dynamoc reaction.

A good carger and properly picking your packs will put you in very good standing considering safety. Gee did not cross his Ts and dot his Is and it bit him in the ass... Good example!

[tmaxxdaddy]

I feel your pain. I too had become very "layed back" when caring for lipo's. So much so that I had been charging in my trucks. This was a Maxamps 6500 pack that had been in a hard head on crash with my 1.1 van tire. I had been having an mgm esc braking issue. After the crash, the truck sat on my bench for about 4 hours and no I didn't even check anything , I got ambitious after the 4 hour break, charged up the one pack (all seemed ok, I did balance charge with a 606i ) It took about 50 minutes and put 5000 mah into the pack.( I came back 90 minutes later , charger said complete and all seemed ok). So I put my charger on the other side, went upstairs and about 15 minutes later......BaBoom, Not just fire, a big bang . By the time I realized what had happened (and got back downstairs) all the big flames were done and I was left with a smoke filled basement, a bench on fire as well as a whole buch of other things. I too was very thankful Kiddie was there to "put out the basement". I know better but had just got to use to not having problems........Never again !!!!!