Li-Po's and boats?
10-17-2006, 03:52 PM
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RE: Li-Po's and boats?
You can not treat LIPOS like hard bodied batteries.
The battery can NOT shift in the boat and touch the hot motor. POOF.
The batteries are like a Magniesum flare. Once they are overloded to much during charging or discharging and start to short out internally, POOF.
There is no such thing as taking a sort cut or being lazy with them.
Go to a Moli or a A123 pack. they are as safe as a car battery and can be treated like crap and not cause fires or explosion.
Lots of safe, light, high power batteries out there.
Lipos are old, user unsafe technology. They are history.
They never made it into the military or auto or home products industry.
You can do much better.
The battery can NOT shift in the boat and touch the hot motor. POOF.
The batteries are like a Magniesum flare. Once they are overloded to much during charging or discharging and start to short out internally, POOF.
There is no such thing as taking a sort cut or being lazy with them.
Go to a Moli or a A123 pack. they are as safe as a car battery and can be treated like crap and not cause fires or explosion.
Lots of safe, light, high power batteries out there.
Lipos are old, user unsafe technology. They are history.
They never made it into the military or auto or home products industry.
You can do much better.
10-17-2006, 03:58 PM
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RE: Li-Po's and boats?
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You can not treat LIPOS like hard bodied batteries.
The battery can NOT shift in the boat and touch the hot motor. POOF.
The batteries are like a Magniesum flare. Once they are overloded to much during charging or discharging and start to short out internally, POOF.
There is no such thing as taking a sort cut or being lazy with them.
Go to a Moli or a A123 pack. they are as safe as a car battery and can be treated like crap and not cause fires or explosion.
Lots of safe, light, high power batteries out there.
Lipos are old, user unsafe technology. They are history.
They never made it into the military or auto or home products industry.
You can do much better.
You can not treat LIPOS like hard bodied batteries.
The battery can NOT shift in the boat and touch the hot motor. POOF.
The batteries are like a Magniesum flare. Once they are overloded to much during charging or discharging and start to short out internally, POOF.
There is no such thing as taking a sort cut or being lazy with them.
Go to a Moli or a A123 pack. they are as safe as a car battery and can be treated like crap and not cause fires or explosion.
Lots of safe, light, high power batteries out there.
Lipos are old, user unsafe technology. They are history.
They never made it into the military or auto or home products industry.
You can do much better.
11-06-2006, 04:13 PM
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RE: Li-Po's and boats?
Some (seemingly knowldgeable) site I read said that Lithium can pull the "O" out of H20, thus fueling the lithium fire and added explosive Hydrogen gas to the mix... so never use water to extinguish a Lithium fire. That said, the batteries must be air-tight to operate normally, so exposing a good Lipo to water should not be a problem. However, if it were in water when it went up, I could see how that might be bad.
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11-10-2006, 04:14 AM
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RE: Li-Po's and boats?
Guys I hate to burst your bubble but I've been running them in subs wet now for over a year. All different ones in diffent subs.
No problems found.
It's an old wise tale.
U812
No problems found.
It's an old wise tale.
U812
