*attention all lipo users liposack saves my house*

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  • BakedMopar
    No Mo Slipah
    • Sep 2009
    • 1679

    #1

    *attention all lipo users liposack saves my house*

    I just had a very bad Lipo fire in my garage screwing with a battery that I should of just thrown away. Long story short I put it in my lipo sack and set her on the ground. I was checking on it every 5 minutes. Just as I went to sit down I heard Boom! and another and I saw out of the corner of my widow a glow of fire. I ran down stairs to find the bag on fire along with my charger and the cooler that it was sitting on. If it wasn't for that liposack i don't think I would of been here writing this. Besides some chared fingers and electronics no damage to my home.


    Please be very carefull with this thing and practice safety when using them. Right now my fingers are too chared to post pictures but I will tomorrow.
    If all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed!
  • Team FFRB
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 328

    #2
    Wow

    Glad to hear you came out of that with out burning your house down and or killing your self from the fumes!!!!
    HOT RODS ON WATER

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    • maxmekker
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2010
      • 412

      #3
      Each time I get sloppy with lipo's I take a tube tour, ore read one of this stories.
      Thanks for sharing.
      Drammen rock City

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      • line6
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2008
        • 478

        #4
        Wow scary glad to hear it turned out ok. So what was up with the lipo. I think that would be worth telling so others no when to just dispose of one the proper way.

        JAson Sims

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        • BakedMopar
          No Mo Slipah
          • Sep 2009
          • 1679

          #5
          First off it was a little puffy BUT i think the real cause was that the balance tap was not working so I tried to charge it up to a safe storage voltage ( it was dangerously low 11.98v for a 4s pack) without the balancer. About two minutes from my last check the pack was at 12.9v before she let go.

          Upon further inspection I am really lucky. Some of the brning debris burned the ATV covers on two quads. If those things ignited for sure it would have not been good. I'm glad today was raining here all day and I have an open carport so everything is pretty damp. My fingers are felling better and my palm is pretty good, the only thing hurt is my morale.

          *EDIT* The battery was being charged at .5 amps.
          Last edited by BakedMopar; 09-21-2010, 05:13 PM. Reason: Added charge rate info.
          If all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed!

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          • simo71
            Member
            • May 2010
            • 74

            #6
            Just think, if you had of not attempted to play with what you knew was a bad pack it may never had happened.

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            • Chuck E Cheese
              Fast Electric Addict!
              • May 2008
              • 1684

              #7
              well i am sorry to hear about your experience. i am sorry you got burnt and glad you, your home and family are ok. this makes me think a little. i am the worst with charging lipos. i have a fire safe that is set up to charge them in, as well as lipo sacs. usually you can find 2 chargers and batteries sitting on top of the safe charging. i dont mess with puffy batteries at all. a little puffing and i quit using them. but as sad as it is i just got rid of a box that was on my lani that had about 25lbs of old lipos. they were all in a box with no protection on the 5.5 bullets. even now i have a box with about 15-20 4-5000mah 4s sitting on the living room floor in my apartment... this is for sure an eye opener for me... i have always heard about lipo fires but never knew anyone that has had one. at the pond one day one of the guys put one in a back pack and it starter fumeing but i have never seen one actually go up in flames...
              see my fleet : http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/...hp?albumid=294

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              • Chuck E Cheese
                Fast Electric Addict!
                • May 2008
                • 1684

                #8
                yesterday i also had a lipo experience but i threw it right in the pond to soak in the salt water. it was a 4s 5200mah 40c thunder power that busted right open while running. nothing happened it is just what i found when i opened the hatch
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                • Steven Vaccaro
                  Administrator
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 8718

                  #9
                  Sorry to hear this. But thanks for sharing, its going to open some peoples eyes to playing with a damaged lipo pack.
                  Steven Vaccaro

                  Where Racing on a Budget is a Reality!

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                  • Basstronics
                    Fast Electric Addict!
                    • Jun 2008
                    • 2345

                    #10
                    Can someone compile, post & sticky a topic about how to appropriately/safely store lipos. Also what bad lipo's look like as well as how to dispose of them.

                    Ive had two packs which I would consider "slightly puffed" and to be honest- I dont know where they got to. Kinda scary. I think the G/F threw them in the trash...
                    42" Osprey, 32" Pursuit, 26" Bling Rocket (rescue), Blizzard Rigger, JAE 21FE rigger, Hobby King rigger (RIP)

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                    • skellyo
                      Senior Member
                      • Feb 2010
                      • 592

                      #11
                      If the liposack caught on fire, it didn't do what it was supposed to do. It may have kept it from being as bad, but the whole point is that they are supposed to contain a fire.

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                      • Doby
                        KANADA RULES!
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 7280

                        #12
                        Originally posted by simo71
                        Just think, if you had of not attempted to play with what you knew was a bad pack it may never had happened.
                        Bingo
                        Grand River Marine Modellers
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                        • Chilli
                          Fast Electric Addict!
                          • Jan 2008
                          • 3070

                          #13
                          I always balance charge and monitor individual cell voltage closely while charging. Twice, I have had cells that I could tell were going bad because they were having a hard time balancing. I kept a close eye on them and eventually they started to puff (at which time they were disposed of).
                          Mike Chirillo
                          www.capitolrcmodelboats.com

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                          • westbeach
                            OSE Rocks!
                            • Feb 2008
                            • 951

                            #14
                            Sorry to hear George, but glad that the family and house is ok. This is a good reminder for us all.
                            HPR115 x2 ,Dark Horse Shovel, Delta Force CyberStorm, Delta Force Sniper 23-RTR:

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                            • SweetZ28
                              Fast Electric Addict!
                              • Apr 2007
                              • 1322

                              #15
                              Have a ? what happened with all the black smoke that comes out of a lipo is that stuff toxic what does it do to the room that the pack burned up in also is it a big mess when this happens?
                              :p What go faster that's what I like to do!
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