<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(107, 109, 111); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">DOT’s rule on lithium batteries in air travel, which took effect on January 1, 2008, prohibits carriage of spare lithium batteries in checked baggage, such as large suitcases you hand over to the airline for handling. If you put a portable electronic device in checked baggage, you may still do so with the batteries installed in the device. -- In short, you cannot *check* bagage with LiPo batteries.</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6b6d6f" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In checked baggage, I believe the rules say that 8 grams of equivalent lithium content is approximately 100 watt-hours while 25 grams is approximately 300 watt-hours.<br>
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You can bring batteries with up to 8-gram equivalent lithium content (100 watt-hours). </li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.496094); border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">
You can also bring <b>up to two spare batteries with an aggregate equivalent lithium content of up to 25 grams</b>, <b>in addition to any batteries that fall below the 8-gram threshold</b>.<br></li><li style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.496094); border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">
For a lithium metal <a href="http://www.tech-ex.net/2007/12/new-lithium-battery-flight-restrictions.html#" id="itxthook4" rel="nofollow" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="float: none !important; left: auto; right: auto; top: auto; bottom: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: normal; text-align: left; position: static !important; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; font-family: inherit; font-variant: normal; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 100, 0); font-size: 15px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0); border-bottom-width: 0.1em; "><span id="itxthook4w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="float: none; left: auto; right: auto; top: auto; bottom: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: normal; text-align: left; position: static; display: inline; white-space: normal; font-family: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-size: inherit; text-transform: none !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 100, 0); ">battery</span></a>, whether installed in a device or carried as a spare, the limit on lithium content is <b>2 grams of lithium metal per battery</b>.</li>
</ul></span><div><br></div>So, 5s * 5A = 92.5 Watt-hours, just under the 8 gram equivalent. "per battery" is "per-cell" so we're well under the 2 gram threshold as well.</div><div><br></div><div>In theory, because each individual pack is under the 8 gram threshold, you can take as many as you like. In practice, given that these things are *very* obvious and suspicious looking in an X-ray view and the TSA boots on the ground are probably not as familiar with bare LiPo batteries such as we use, I'd limit myself to taking 4 5s batteries, 2 10s packs in my baggage. If he's travelling with someone, I'd put 4 more packs in there and have them go several people in front or behind in the security line.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Peter+</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:51 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:AtwoodDon@aol.com">AtwoodDon@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div>Guys, what is the latest rulings/guidelines for shipping or flying with
lipos if you have to travel to a contest? Have a friend coming out from
Denver for the Sacramento contest and he was asking if he could ship or fly with
his lipos. He has 5S setups he connects as a 10S to fly.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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