ORIGINAL: eldher13
TWINSYNC GLOW DRIVER FIRE
I was just chaging the battery attached to my twinsync glow driver and the glow driver caught fire! The polarity was set correctly and also the current and voltage settings. I have had this setup working for a year and charged it at least 20 times. It just went POOF!
Any ideas what could have gone wrong? or better yet, how to keep it from happening again?
Was the battery still connected to the glow driver when charged. I am sure I recall seeing advice that the battery should be disconnected because the charger could give rise to a higher voltage than the glow driver rating under certain circumstances. I found an earlier reply covering this where someone had asked Bill this question, here is his reply
I e-mail Bill and ask about charging the battery while it was still connected to the glow driver and this was his reply
You can charge with it connected BUT ONLY a DC Voltage Trickle charge. You can not charge it with a Fast, rapid, or pulse charger while connected.
See [link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_4700596/anchors_8022924/mpage_25/key_/anchor/tm.htm#8022924]Charging reply[/link]
Hopefully this may be useful.