Battery Safety

 

 

     Battery Safety

     Lithium Polymer or LiPo batteries where considered safer than the old Lithium Metal batteries.  Lately however there have been several fires.

     The causes of fires can be over-charging, discharging to fast, damaging the battery in a crash or putting in a hot car and over heating them.

     Chargers are the biggest cause.  Automatic, or peak chargers may be confused by a nearly charged pack of 2 cells and think it is a discharged 3 cell pack.  They will then charge , at too high of a voltage, and start on fire.

     On some chargers you manually select the number of cells and if you select more cells, or a higher voltage, you may have a fire.

     There can also be problems with using cells in parallel if the cells are not matched in power.

    "Charge your batteries on concrete where they can't start a fire and watch them while they charge".

I publish Metro Area R/C Flying to make a central web site for all the area R/C clubs, not to replace individual club sites, but to tie all of them together and promote growth and interaction between clubs. The most important service of the web site is to post the Metro Area Schedule. The schedule lists all the events for all the clubs in one location so that R/C flyers can see what events are available in the area and plan ahead. I believe it will also help the area clubs to work out their schedules so that one clubs events, will not conflict, with another's. The next most important service is to provide a Map Page that has maps to all the events, meetings, dinners and parties. Right after that comes the Newsletter Page which lists all of the different club newsletters. Reading other club newsletters lets members see what others are offering in the area that they are interested in and promotes interaction between clubs. Perhaps an even more important item is the New Flyers Page that gives new members information they need to join a club and become part of our R/C community. This is your web site, if you would like to show-off your newest plane, or share an experience, you can E-Mail pictures and articles to me. There’s an E-Mail Link on every page.

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