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

[Bill Glaze]

And, we all know that, with my hearing, if the back of the van 
disintegrated, I wouldn't know it until I felt the highway draft
Bill Glaze
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hatfield" <randy10926 at COMTEKMAIL.COM>
To: <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!


>I would never hear anything from the back of the pea-cup truck.  Maybe the 
>1st rule is stick with glow.
> Randy
>
> --- seefo at san.rr.com wrote:
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> From: "Doug Cronkhite" <seefo at san.rr.com>
> To: "'NSRCA Mailing List'" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:08:56 -0800
>
> Actually..
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> 1st rule of Li-po charging is.. Never charge unattended.
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> 2nd rule is never charge in your car.
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> Eric got really lucky and I suspect won't be doing either 1 or 2 again.
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> -Doug
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> From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
> [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Dean Pappas
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 8:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!
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>
> Hey Evil,
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> I'd rather be lucky than good: any day!
>
> And that's why you use a charger that looks at each tap, before charging, 
> in
> order to determine the number of cells. The same problem exists when
> dis-charging packs. That's how I trashed one cell in one of my 5Ses.
>
> Dean
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org on behalf of Grow Pattern
> Sent: Tue 3/21/2006 6:04 PM
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> Cc:
> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!
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>
> http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_4056141/anchors_4064428/mpage_1/key_/ancho
> r/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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