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

[Bill Glaze]

I've charged NiCds for years while driving, no problems.  But, now you've 
got me looking at that practice, too, and wondering....... Bill Glaze.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grow Pattern" <pattern4u at comcast.net>
To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!


> 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>
> To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> 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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