How Soft Is Soft Case

[DaveG28]

Having never seen one, how soft are soft cased Lipo's?

Do they literally squash in your hands etc? What leaks/blows if anything if you drop them?

[Mike Hudson]

I had a maxamps one, they are just basically heatshrinked, they are solid... if you drop them you could damage the heatshrink... Nothing will leak or blow...

[Chris Green]

I've seen some soft cased flight and micro lipo's. the cells themselves have quite a soft alluminium casing, and there is a layer of thin heatshrink around them.

you could definitely alter the shape of them if you push them hard enough against a desk or something.

not sure what happens if you puncture them though!

[electric]

Originally Posted by Chris Green

I've seen some soft cased flight and micro lipo's. the cells themselves have quite a soft alluminium casing, and there is a layer of thin heatshrink around them.

you could definitely alter the shape of them if you push them hard enough against a desk or something.

not sure what happens if you puncture them though!

so long as you double heatshrink them they are fine i run them all the time in my 1/8th truggy and buggy

[BagofSkill]

all li-po's are layers of a malliable plastic vaccuum packed in a aluminium pouch. Soft case cells are just the raw cells in heatshrink. This is normally what you get for flight packs. they're fine to handle but can be deformed by impacts- eith dropped or hit. Once deformed they can be damaged leading to best case- puffing up and losing performance, worst case toxic fire.

If the cells get puctured by something conductive like a scre or carbon, you're almost gaurenteed a fire.

Hard cased cells are the same cells in a tougher plastic case instead of heatshrink to make them more robust and resistand to impacts. This is a bigger priority in TC when cells can be hit in accidents, by other cars, or come loose from the chassis. Off road cars tend to offer a little more protection but I think hard cased are still mandatory for any BRCA events and some clubs.

[Battle_axe]

well all i can say is that the rc flight guys the ones who truely understand lipo all use soft case cells and they have been ffor years now i would say in a crash the cellls take allot more stress in a plane i have only saw one cell get dammaged i run a rc helicopter and i also have never had a cell go bad and i have also had some good crashes. so all in all to me soft case is a good money saver