[NSRCA-discussion] What the heck .... starter battery charging ouch

[brett terry]

IIRC it was a similar situation that took out all of Chip Hyde's planes a
few months back.  The wall wart charger for his car "jump starter" that he
was using  as a field charger caught fire and destroyed the garage.

It is a good thing you were there to witness it and prevent further damage!
I can't count how many times over the years I have plugged in the charger
and not looked back until the next day.

i am glad to hear the only damage was the smoke in the air.

Brett

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Michael Cohen <precisionaero at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  I was working on my Brio out in the garage after having plugged in the
> wall charger for the (glow) starter battery about 10 minutes ago.  You know,
> us internal combustion guys need to do that once in a while.  All of the
> sudden, I was standing in a cloud of smoke!  I thought the Triton2EQ, that
> was also charging the Brio, was the culprit but somehow, the wall charger's
> wire's were the one's smoking!  I quickly pulled the both plugs from the
> outlet and got out of the garage ASAP.  Never seen that happen before!  I
> guess you high powered LiPo guys don't have exclusive rights to smoking
> batteries/charger excitement.
>
> Mike C
>
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