ORIGINAL: swansons
For those of you who charge their Li-Po batteries in their planes, take a look. This happened with me sitting 6 feet away. A battery exploded while charging inside the Li-Po Sack.
THANK goodness it was in the sack and not in my plane.
I was one of those guys who thought it would never happen to me.. WRONG!!!
John S.
I agree the li-po sack is better then charging in your plane... but it's still not a safe place! Li-po packs holds an enormous amount of juice, I use a 3S 2200mAh to jumpstart my Volvo diesel in the winter, doing the work my 120Ah lead battery can not do. I would never recommend anyone to trust a li-po sack with anything larger then a 500mAh pack.
When a pack caches fire there have been something wrong, mostly user error when setting up the charger. Would be intresting to know if you did find the answer to why this pack cought fire.
A concrete box with 2" walls would be a fire proof place to charge your packs, but the smoke would ruin alot of the stuff in the surroundings any way.