[NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!

[Grow Pattern]

Ed,
       I was playing the Animals CD, "We gotta get outta this place......" 
and my phone rang, so I muted the disc. Then with my headset on I was 
chatting away and then the "Phutt!".

I was so lucky that it was not much worse. What different day it would have 
been if  those 45 seconds had taken place 45 seconds earlier, or I had not 
had a call come in.

I learned my lesson about charging while driving, that's for sure...

Regards,

Eric.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Alt" <ed_alt at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!


> Wow Eric!  Good thing you were't playing the radio loud and heard that
> "Phuttt" noise.  There's a good safety lesson in there.
>
> Ed
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Grow Pattern" <pattern4u at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:04 PM
> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!
>
>
>> http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_4056141/anchors_4064428/mpage_1/key_/anchor/tm.htm#4064428See
>> picture on RCU.I had a bit of a set back today with my winter fun 40 
>> sized
>> glow to electricconversion. I had wanted to try the Thunderpower 4200
>> instead of the Tanic3600. I set off to the field with a borrowed
>> Thunderpower 4200 mAh pack. Iset the Astroflight 109 to 2 Amps. It ent to
>> stage 1 and was calibrating toa 3 cell pack and was well on its way to
>> charging the pack, or at least so Ithought . I have done this
>> topping-it-up many times before. I set it on a 2Amp charge rate.I never
>> made it to the field. I heard a light "Phuttt!" about ten minutesinto the
>> journey. I stopped the van and ran back to the back doors. Thebattery was
>> bloated and looking bad. I grabbed the Deans connectors andunplugged it.
>> Dangling it by the lead and as far away from my face aspossible I lowered
>> it to the curbside.I then personally backed up and was about to move my
>> van forward a bit . (Ihad just put 3!
>> 5 gallons in it!). Seemed like a good idea to get clear. Neverhad the
>> chance. The pack blew up in a ball of flame about a cubic yard insize and
>> proceeded to burn fiercely. I had grabbed the fire extinguisher 
>> butdecided
>> not to use it.The local police joined me for a while and seemed more
>> interested in theplanes in the back of the van than the charred remains. 
>> I
>> scraped all of thebits up to keep the country side pretty. Estimated that
>> the grass would growback soon, and went home.Fortunately I was able to 
>> get
>> it out of the van before it blew up intoflames etc.Long and the short of
>> it is. "Do not charge a fully charged battery with anautomatic
>> charger"Dodged a BIG bullet today.....Regards,Eric.P.S. If 3 fully 
>> charged
>> cells = 12 V plus, and 4 discharged cells = 12 Vplus, then how does the
>> charger know which is which?
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