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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
I hear one of the most common reasons that plane guys have lipos go up is when they charge an already mostly charged 2S lipos as a 3S accidentally.
aka user error, I agree is by far the main cause of catastrophic failures. |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
My charger won't even allow me to do THAT; automatically kicks up an error message.
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
yeah, I was thinking about it....8.4 full charge, is less than 9.0 for a min 3S....? weird, I know there was a thread I was reading of just lipo fires, and that was a common cause, musta been older chargers.
you could accidentally charge them as a NiCd or NiMH though with bad consequences. |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
ORIGINAL: RobbieP My charger won't even allow me to do THAT; automatically kicks up an error message. Mine I almost made a very big boo boo with when I put my wires in backwards once on my connector and my charger said right away reversed terminals. I'm sure a cheaper charger would have just tried to charge it anyways. |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
If you look at the EXIF data, these images were taken over a month ago.
DateTime 2010:09:27 08:37:50 |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
The guy posted the same thread over on RCTech and he answered questions there.
http://www.rctech.net/forum/electric...her-stuff.html I had a thunderpower 3s charging and some others sitting on the table I was using a piece of junk mystery b5 charger - apparently the built in voltage check failed and it kept charging the lipo after it was fully charged I have too look at the pics I took for a table shot It's a user error fault. |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
HOLY ****!, what is going on with peoples lipos!?, i dont want this to happen to my maxx
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
Sorry guys - I work all day so its hard for me to get back on
Here are the details I used a 5200mah 3s Thunder Power 40c hard case lipo I used a (this is the failing point I believe) Mystery B6 Charger The charger has a balancer built in but it didnt do too great of a job the emaxx is a 3905 HPI Flux BL system Thats what I can think of right now, if you have any more questions let me know PS the guys at thunder power believed the issue was related to the charger not being able to shut off after the battery charged too long or charged for a certain amount of time Ilearned my lesson and I have a new charger and lipo bag etc and I will not charge unattended especially while sleeping anymore |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
What charger do you have robbie?
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
Which one?
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
How come your only showing up on all these forums now that this happened? looks like you have been in the hobby for awhile.
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
User error is one of the main causes for Lipo failures... Minor correction... User error is THE main causes for Lipo failures... |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
ORIGINAL: quickshot23 Sorry guys - I work all day so its hard for me to get back on Here are the details I used a 5200mah 3s Thunder Power 40c hard case lipo I used a (this is the failing point I believe) Mystery B6 Charger The charger has a balancer built in but it didnt do too great of a job the emaxx is a 3905 HPI Flux BL system Thats what I can think of right now, if you have any more questions let me know PS the guys at thunder power believed the issue was related to the charger not being able to shut off after the battery charged too long or charged for a certain amount of time Ilearned my lesson and I have a new charger and lipo bag etc and I will not charge unattended especially while sleeping anymore To me it's more of a matter of that's the problem with buying generic products, and in your case a low-dollar ($40) charger. Don't forget, REMOVETHEPACKFROMYOURTRUCKWHILECHARGING. |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
I was asking which charger you use to charge your lipos , because you said your charger wouldn't alow you to charge a 2 cell on a 3 cell setting I think.
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
I have several, premium brands, and they all go through a "check mode" before sarting charging and will not charge a 2S battery when they're on the 3S setting. Any of the premium brands that I've seen do just that, as a safeguard. Idiot-proofs the charger. http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/js/f...sn/biggrin.gif
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
Yeah, even if you spend ten years or more in the hobby, ideally you only have to buy one charger, maybe two if you want to charge multiple batteries at once. So make it a good one, not an unknown.
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
True, butyou do have to update from time to time to keep up with current technology. I know I did when I got into lipos a few years ago.I have one that stays on the workbench and two I take to the track with me since I race multiple classes.
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
Anybody wanna buy a Tekin BC112?
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
Is that the one with the flaming-great heatsink on the top of it?
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
HERE we go...this one is before ThunderbirdJunkie's time. The BC112 doesn't have that huge heat sink
http://www.rctech.net/forum/attachme...co-tekin-1.jpg |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
ORIGINAL: ThunderbirdJunkie HERE we go...this one is before ThunderbirdJunkie's time. The BC112 doesn't have that huge heat sink Though I was thinking about the black-cased model that pre-dated that one. |
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Edited that post[&:]
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
Hell, my second charger was a rectangular Novak one that you couldn't even adjust. LOL http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/js/f...sn/biggrin.gif
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RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
ORIGINAL: RobbieP I have several, premium brands, and they all go through a ''check mode'' before sarting charging and will not charge a 2S battery when they're on the 3S setting. Any of the premium brands that I've seen do just that, as a safeguard. Idiot-proofs the charger. [img][/img] |
RE: Lipo Fire Destroyed my E-Maxx among other things
ORIGINAL: Brainanator ORIGINAL: RobbieP I have several, premium brands, and they all go through a ''check mode'' before sarting charging and will not charge a 2S battery when they're on the 3S setting. Any of the premium brands that I've seen do just that, as a safeguard. Idiot-proofs the charger. [img][/img] and you're in the correct charging mode for that specific pack. |
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