It's good that everyone posting in this thread is super cautious, but the real problem is all the other pilots who have been using Lipos for years, and think that they have a handle on all the safety issues.

I am/was one of these.

Until I talked with Robert about his incident, I thought that I could always predict when a pack was going bad, and that the worst it would do is puff and split.

Also, I assumed that once a pack is charged, or discharged, any risk of fire was over so I stored them in my car and my house without a second thought.

Now I realize that I was just an accident waiting to happen, and I'm sure that there a lot of others out there like me.

Brenner ...