TheBeastie said:
dnmun said:
this is the second reported catastrophic fire from using the BC168 charger. how many houses will burn down before people learn?
Who else had a catastrophic fire from a BC168 charger? Do you believe the blame for a fire should be aimed at the charger?
Anything is always possible, but If lipo fires while charging were caused by faulty chargers, then there would be lots of manufacturer's being sued. Lipo fires during charging are usually always caused by fault battery wiring and faulty connectors via defects or as dmnum mentioned, over wear and tear of the connectors. Or when people bulk charge too many batteries at once and it turns out 1 of the cells is out of whack, but the chargers don't see the single cell out of whack when you have many batteries connected in parallel to be bulk charged.
I have been member of a few RC clubs for many, many years. We been using lipo's since they came out for RC applications. And the only incident I ever heard of that can be blamed to a charger, was 1 member of my plane RC club, who had a significant fire during lipo charging that was actually caused by a faulty charger, and his insurance company got the manufacturer to recognized the firmware bug, and they paid for all the damages done to the house. There was $120k of damage. The member is still an active member of the club, i'll try to find out what the brand of the charger was.
Wishes