Ways that LiPoly will get banned

[sjslhill]

Here is a perfect example of what not to do....

[Steven Vaccaro]

Wonder what a drop would do from a 6 foot ladder? boom?

[NitroVal]

Hmm... I wonder what my DeWalt could unscrew with a 10C LiPo plugged into it...

[Ub Hauled]

what should get banned from a world with lipos are the people that do such mickey mouse build and later complain that they don't know why the damn thing exploded or caught fire... come on guys... make it right.

[egneg]

If he uses it as a hammer he will be in for a surprise ... I have seen folks use a drill as a hammer to pound in wall anchors.

[ksm2001]

You can't fix stupid

Ken

[tharmer]

If I dropped it from a high rampart of my ancient stone home would it be a "Castle Boom?"

-t

[Simon.O.]

If I dropped it from a high rampart of my ancient stone home would it be a "Castle Boom?"

-t

After I got back on my chair I could type this reply.

Anyone who does that sort of stuff is a potential candidate for a Darwin award.

In all fairness to the "dangerous and explosive" lipo grenades that we like to power our models with I have tried a few things.

Over the last few months I have puffed a few cells and they are no longer considered safe for me (by me) to charge or use.
These are some of the tests that I did.

• Run over by the tyre of my Hilux (Four-runner) and was squashed. It vented and that was it. Justr a bit of gas
• Repeatedly thrown across the concrete driveway. Nothing happened so I ran that over too.
• Hit with a crow-bar pointy end first. A small flash and vent
• A near full 4S pack that vented a cell in the boat due to water ingestion.
  This one was left with a 100W lamp to dump the pack to zero. No puff or anything. That got run over too.

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QUALIFIER
I will say now that all of these events occured under quite safe and controlled conditions.
I know what risk minimisation and hazard control is.
There is very little chance ( you can never say no way ) of me being hurt or any property being damaged.

DISCLAIMER
I did this so that I might know how "dangerous" lipo cells are.
I DO NOT advocate anyone trying this. If you do and get dead don't blame me.

Lipos are fine if handled with a bit of care and common sense.

Don't get me started on how dangerous petrol is.

btw you should have seen some of the destructive testing I have done to Nimh cells...........BOOOOOOM !!

[mickvk]

I've seen some youtube videos of overcharging til failure. Those results were more spectacular. Thanks for all the "testing" you did for the cause!