jago_svensson
New Heliman
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Hi.
I had a little mishap yesterday evening.
Was coming home from a short flight from outside Zurich.
I packed my batteries 6 x 6s 5000mah in my wheel bag, and went on the tram.
About half way home I smell something a bit strange, and a few seconds after I was small smoke coming out of my bag. And a few seconds after that hell broke loose. The big black bag started to puff, and it was filling the tram with black smoke, I paniced and tried to get the door open as i knew there was 6 more batteries in the bag, but we ware a few meters from the stop, when the tram finally opened the door (it feelt like a eternity, but in reality I think it was 15 sec or something), I threw out the bag. and emptied all on the street, a burning liipo and all other lipos, also the transmitter for my camera mount, and my downlink reciever and display, and a big set of tools, and other equipment. All half melted together with the bag. I managed to get away the burning lipo from the other liops. There ware quite lot op people watching me picking my toys of the street :-)
I have no idea what happened. It was completely new lipo, just charged once, never used. The cables ware ok, and in the ends there was shrink tubing, and it was not all ok, so I do not think the leds did touch each other. Only reason I can think of is that some sharp edge of something would have punctured the pack, and started the reaction.
Well, now itś of to buy a metal box for my lipos in the future, was a experience I do not want to have again.
But the thing what I see the bigest problem is the smoke, the fire is easy to prevent with a lipo bag, but having this smoke, on a train, or even in a car, is not nice.
Well, hope you other have better luck.
Br
Jago Svensson |
I think I'dd be arrested with such box in my car! LOL
