LiPo Batteries in Gliders

While charging a LiPo model airplane battery with a top-of-the-line charger
at the proper rate it burst into flame. I had carelessly left it out of the
flame-proof charge bag and when I checked strange noises the room was filled
with acrid smoke and a Mt Vesuvius mass of sputtering pyrotchnics was
burning a hole in the work bench. Don't fly with you-do-it LiPos unless you
have an ejection seat!

Karl Striedieck


"johngalloway" wrote in message
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What about Li Ion batteries like these? Is the fire risk sinificantly
less than Li Polymer?

http://www.streckenflug.at//shop/pro...roducts_id=608

A bit pricey, and probably not approved in Europe, but might be a
thought when a transponder has to be carried.

John Galloway