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Originally Posted by xtreme-rc
it seems to be these incidents are commonly caused by charging issues, personally chargers should be designed to do one job i/e just charge lipos and seperate chargers for Nimh's etc but that is too late to even entertain. It is user error if a charger changes settings with a reset and doesn't check before hitting the go button.
have any of these incidents been down to faulty good condition homologated lipos charged at 1c as recommended?
yes,as ed`s dad i know what went on with his fire, all we want is that racers charge there li-po`s in a sack so that if anything goes wrong you can deal with it.
for the record, the charger was a high end li-po charger, with near new cells, charged at 6 amps, with-in the 1c
all the talk about li-po sacks not doing there job is incorrect, the heat produced is very high, with-out the pouch, at best they would be looking for a new home, at worst lets not go there,
we are still trying to find out what caused this fire, if we can but lets be honest we have all charged out of the sack, in the home and at the track, why does it have to be enforced , we should all take the safety of our selves and others and not have to watch as others walk round and check.
we certainly will and if this thread does anything it will open racers eyes as to what can happen
xtreme
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I think the major point is that there are different brands/types of containers sold on market as safety charging holders and from what has been said some of them will lose threads or velcro seals quickly in event of a fire inside and not contain the fire as well or could cause further issues by spreading burning debris.
In my eyes what this really means is that we need testing done to separate the best containment sacks/boxes from the weaker types/models/brands and then make sure our hobby community know that buying and using sack X is more sensible/safer than buying sack Y
We can pretty much assume that all the containers will be manufactured in China and just have various brands stuck on them for the resale companies but they need testing
I'd like to think the distributors and importers etc would actually be human enough to accept this and any results from destruction testing... if a safety product is weaker then they shouldn't be selling them