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Originally Posted by stumpiey
i suspect that most of the time it is user error, the amount of times i have been racing and some guy is laughing about how puffed his lipo is, and there is those that charge on the wrong setting etc etc, lipo's are not dangerous, people are, if lipos was a problem with bursting into flames randomly then we would have read about shops burning to the ground on a daily basis.
also, how many lipos are out there being used everyday without a problem, they are everywhere, not just RC, phones, ipods anything battery powered could have a lipo in.
this is like a daily mail knee jerk reaction trying to fan some lipo flames
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100% agree, at a club I used to race at there was a guy with a really expensive 1:1 scale car who used to charge LiPos in the engine bay without a LiPo sack every week. Out of exasperation I even offered to lend him one on one occasion but he refused.
I've used LiPo batteries for over 3 years with no problems whatsoever, and I knew nothing about them when I started. All I did was read the article below a few times and I was good to go, and i've asked a few times now for it to be a sticky in the electric section of this forum:
http://www.rchelicopterfun.com/rc-lipo-batteries.html