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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.

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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.

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I hope the receieve was not damaged...

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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.

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:D Been there

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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!)

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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!

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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.