Okay, I'm not sure what happened here, but I connected my servos and battery to my receiver for server centering and all of a sudden wires from the battery to the receiver started pouring smoke out. I had the battery hooked up earlier, without the Switch & Charge jack and everything was fine. Could the jack have shorted out? I guess I have to buy a new battery too, as the wires are absolutely cooked.

Burned fingers.

Forget it. I found out what it was. The wires on the battery shorted on each other. The casing must have had a hole in it or something. Never seen that before.

I hope the receieve was not damaged...

Yeah, me too. I won't know until I pick up another battery today. The wires were sparking and smoking all the way from the battery, through the switch (which may have started it) to the receiver.

Been there

Thunderhead, in reply to your e-signature, if she'd been in the air, it would have been pretty spectacular. I can just imagine what a smoking battery would have done underneath a plastic tank full of nitrous. If she ever goes down flaming, I just hope the camera is handy. (Keep in mind, this is my first plane ever, and it's not an ARF, so I just want to fly it - even once!)

I can answer that WK

Back in the 70's my dad was flying a pattern plane, and I was his caller. As he crossed the threshold for a low runway pass, the plane suddenly wobbled, did a half roll to inverted, then smashed spectacularly into the runway.

Cause: The battery pack had been in a previous crash and the two leads had not-previously-noticed bare spots in the wires.

Pack shorted out, plane came down -BOOM!

I had that happen in my huge G-202 twice. The first one I caused by putting a wing screw through an ail ext with the radio on, everything melted because it took a while to get the wing off. Not good. I sent the rec in and they checked it, cheap ins. Cost me $15 to make sure it was ok. Replaced all the servos, bat, switch and put it all back together, pluged in the bat and the bat and switch melted. That was a bad switch. Ticked me off. Ruined another battery and switch. It was a cheap switch. I threw all the others in the drawer away because they were all new and came from the same dealer and I didn't trust them. Ordered a bunch of futaba switches. Those I know are good. New battery too.

Hate to see it. Send in the RX to make sure it is ok.