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. <br>
<br>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.<br><br>i am glad to hear the only damage was the smoke in the air.<br>
<br>Brett<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Michael Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:precisionaero@hotmail.com">precisionaero@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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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.<br>
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