Another total newb question - Hard case lipos

[jhautz]

I've sen one unintentional lipo fire at the track. It happened during the pre race practice at huge event at our local track so it happened right in front of everyone right in the middle of the track. A guy lawn darted his truggy and the pack wasn't held in a proper tray and it slid out of the straps and got punctured on the impact. I wasn't like a mushroom cloud. A bunch of smoke and some flames from under the body. He melted the body pretty good and a few parts on the truggy too.

Afterward I went over to the guy and asked him what happened. He said he didn't know. Then I asked him what lipo it was and he didn't know what brand, how many cells or how big it was. I asked him what motor he was running and he told me "the black ones, you know...."

It just pissed me off cuz that moron that knew nothing about what he was doing, let alone any basic safety made the brushless conversions look bad. Cant tell you how many "electric fireball" comments I got that day.

In my opinion the hard case doesn't really offer any better protection than a proper battery box would. I don't think the hard case is a bad idea, but the same basic safety precautions need to be used with or without a hard case.