For all of the people who have lipo’s!

[TDC57]

Wow that’s quite a variable in opinions.. Let’s see something, out of the 13 commented members this is how it looks so far.

• 6 and ½ members do use some form of protection, the half comes from Duster_360 (laying them on top) really doesn’t count! .

• 6 members don’t use protection, other than carefully monitoring and using proper charging procedures. (as all Lipo owners always should).

Final thought!
Any repeated task completed 24 times becomes habit forming, (think about it!)

[BP-Revo]

Yeah I honestly don't pay any extra special attention to my lipo's. I just make sure the settings are correct and let them go. I don't charge them unattended, but I always hook up my thermometer so if anything goes wrong the charger will start screaming and let me know. One thing I do for all my packs when I charge them is I have them rest on a piece of granite tile, since it is much less flammable than carpet.

[lincpimp]

I do not use any sort of protection while charging. Never had an issue either.

James

[MetalMan]

My Lipos also don't get to see the inside of a fire-resistant sack. The only Lipo fire I had was the result of a full 12v from a 30amp power supply going into a single 1650mah Lipo cell, which I purposely did.

All of my good Lipos are either sitting on my workbench or are mounted in a buggy/truck. A couple which have puffed are resting in an ammo can I found at my grandma's house.

I have the same lipo sack, and the ONLY reason is because its required at my track.... I dont use it for any other reason, to me, lipos are just batts, any batt can be a ticking time bomb, and dangerous, and I dont think lipos are any worse then NIMH's, IMO there safer.....

[Getter Robo]

I'm using metal ammo crates.

[jhautz]

I'm using the lipo-sack if I am doing other thisngs around and just checking in on the packs as they charge. At the track I use the sack just beacuse most of the time I have one on the charger as I am on the track so I am out of sight. There are plenty of people around if there was a problem though, but I figure its at least being semi responsible.

I ahve never had a charging issue with a lipo either. The only lipos I ever puffed were from a severe crash or battery holding device in the vehicle failing. I build them much stronger now than I used to so I havent had a problem in a long time.

[rootar]

i have a brand new maxamps 2s 2100 only ran it for 10 minutes in my mini and then recharged it,i got it out the other day and was gonna check the balance on it before putting it in my friend's new tlt1 crawler he got off ebay to test and the damn thing kept giving me a lowvoltage alarm on my charger so i grabbed the votlmeter and sure enough one cell was gone and the other only had 2.6 volts in it, i dunno what the hell happened its not really swollen, thats the only lipo ive had a problem with.

but i still leave it in the bucket when charging just because you never know right and i forget what im doing half the time and go outside and leave it alone in the house for more than an hour.

I was reading in this thread and I saw everybody was talking about not using protection than I noticed it was about Lipos...nevermind.......:-0

I didn't use anything for protection, then one day at the track I saw a genuine LiPo fire during a charge. It was awful. It took out a table and looked for a short time like it was going to be much worse. It changed me, from that day forward I've used the RE Sack (pictured in the first post of this thread) I also store my LiPos in a fireproof safe when in my house. In my head I know that the really bad things happen when they are overcharged but having seen how unbelievably flammable they are, I have to use protection. Of course I use the right kind of charger on the right settings.

I don't doubt that they are safe and that other batteries also have risks but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

[Patrick]

I always charge mine in a lipo sack, and at home I also put the lipo sack in a metal toolbox. I haven't had anything go wrong charging a lipo, but I'm not going to stand in the garage for an hour + watching a battery charge. And at racing you can't watch it all the time, because of marshaling and things like that. So I feel a bit better having it in the lipo sack.
The only lipo charging accident I have seen was when another racer was using the same charger for the lipo's in his G2R and the nimh's in his 1/10th buggy. He forgot to take the charger off nimh settings and plugged in his 2s 4800mah orion pack. Luckily he saw the lipo swell up and unplugged it before we got to see fireworks.
Lipo sacks or other protection is good, but prevention is more important. The biggest thing for safety I think is to always use a charge through balancer, and always double check your charger setting before you hit the start button.

[KaztheMinotaur]

I took one of my wife's cooking pots to charge / store LiPos in.

Now I need the protection...