<div>I saw some pictures on a Japanese web site of an electric Impact which caught on</div> <div>fire and was completely destroyed while in the air flying presumably from too much</div> <div>load on the batteries or maybe a short. I wish I could read Japanese to find out exactly</div> <div>what happened.</div> <div> </div> <div>tommy s<BR><BR><B><I>Larry <ledunn@centurytel.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe this is a good time to share these videos - if you haven't seen them they are well worth watching. Look on the left side of the bottom of the main page.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lipos fires 1,2 & 3</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2><A href="http://www.utahflyers.org/">http://www.utahflyers.org/</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have become a bit of a lipo safety nazi lately - ever since I had my first lipo fire a couple of months ago.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been using lipos since the early days. I'm a smart guy with a background in electronics and all things electrical. I am known as "Electric Larry" at our field. I teach other people how to do electrics and what NOT to do. I'm the go-to guy in our club. In spite of all that - I had a major lipo fire a couple of months ago that destroyed almost all my RC gear and planes and came very close to burning down my house. It was 100% my fault. I was doing too many things at once and had become casual/careless in my care of lipos. I had gone YEARS with no issues at all and had gotten
complacent.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My equipment and charging routines are now 100% improved.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Be careful guys.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Larry</FONT></DIV></DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR>NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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