PickUpThePieces
New Heliman
Location: Essex, Vermont
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Personal ExperienceThe Official recommended would be ABC, but any Dry Chemical should work. We had a relatively small pack (3S, 2500ma) go off in our garage, it jetted out into some gasoline, lite some xmas decorations on fire, started up the wall. We put it out with a BC dry chemical. BC is less corrosive to electronics, but depending on what ignites around the pack its best to have ABC.
If you do end up needing to use it, blow out all of your chargers / electronics with a air compressor and wipe everything you can with a damp rag.
Also as a note, keeping it near your charger will not help you very much, we had a ABC that was with the gasoline crate that ended up on fire, We had to find another extinguisher to put it out because that one was engulfed in flames. it actually melted into the plastic crate.
Some really great videos on how to build safe "Battery Bunkers" are on youtube posted by the UTAH Flyers. We built a bunker for ourselves. Everything we charge at home gets put in there. While at the field dont forget LiPo Sacks. $20 bucks for a LiPo Sack is way better than totaling your car. |
