Carrying lipo's on planes

[Freakypen]

Hi-can anyone tell me if its ok to take lipo batteries on planes-in this case easyjet? I know from they're site they say no alkalai or wet batteries. Don't know where lipos come into the equation.
I'm flying to ireland 2nite and need to know...any help would be great!!

[MatJohnson]

Ignore me, am thick!

[bigred5765]

Originally Posted by Toadeh

They contain liquid so no.

Best bet would be put them in the hold. But even then i wouldn't like to chance it. Small little square blocks look a bit sus

Do they
are you sure

[MatJohnson]

Originally Posted by bigred5765

Do they
are you sure

No not anymore

[Matt_N]

I've taken lipos on a plane before, just put them in the hold luggage as other people have said just to be safe.

Matt

[Col]

I was led to believe there was a 5000mah capacity limit, but I may be wrong...

[lukehobson]

They're perfectly safe in the hold luggage that gets checked in.
If you put then in your hand luggage then they might choose to search it and you could have problems (possibly)

hth
luke

[blue_pinky]

Since they are not disimilar to camera batteries, mobile phone batteries, laptop batteries, etc, etc, you should have no problems. Lithium Ion and Lipo's are close in construction.

Lithium polymer is not classed as a wet battery...that is reserved for lead acid style batteries where there is a true liquid electrolyte...lipo's have a gel electrolyte in them.

That's my understanding anyway, not tried travelling with them myself...but I wouldn't have thought it'd be a problem.

[MattW]

I have taken them on Easyjet recently. I put them in the checked in bagage.

I believe there is some ruling in the US (or it could be that I dreamed it!!!) that says for LiPo batteries you are allowed to take one battery in the item (i.e laptop/camera!) and one spare. However, when I searched for this before I travelled I coudln't find anything about it.