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A123's in all my jets.. and i'm slowly converting most of my electric fleet from Lipo's to A123's as well.

Slight over reaction I might suggest. Happy new year

Bod

I have a 2 lipos in a TF Giant P-47. I charge them out of the plane in the house in a lipo sack in case they do catch fire. I also take them out of the plane when not in use. The problem is that there are 2 sides of the story with anything. Can they go up in flame just sitting there? Yes. Can they go up in flames when I charge them? Yes. Can I die walking across the street....Yes. I just take some precautions regardless by charging in the lipo sack and taking them out of the plane. Charging them outside is an idea too I never thought of, but the precautions we all are taking with the ammo box and outside just reduce the odds of something bad happen because that ammo box can still fail or something else can fail. It's just the odds of something happening are slimmer.

If your turbine is Kero start the load on the battery means the likelyhood of a ballance issue arrising increase's therefore the need to ballance on charging also increase's, hence the increased usage of A123/LiFe's in jets.

Mike

Mike how many cells are you using for the ECU with the A123's

I use three A123 cells on both my converted JetCat ECU's both @ 2300Mah one converted by JC Germany and one by JC USA.

Mike

As they say, ignorance is bliss...

Just curious are cell phones lipo or ion??