Diem Turner
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Yeah, of course. I guess "use common sense" was my overarching point. If people can't be bothered to put in the tiny amount of effort required to make sure that basic things like smoke detectors are in working order...well, I don't know what to tell those people. If they can't take care of that, what hope do they have of handling lipos in a safe and responsible manner?My experience. Old discharged or mostly discharged lipo's produce a lot of smoke and not a lot of flame. My old batteries are left to set for some time then shot with air pellet several times to be sure they will not start a landfill fire. Most of what I get is smoke. One time had a new fully charged battery that had to be destroyed. WOW AND WOW. Lots of flame and lots of heat and smoke. Lesson, do not store batteries fully charged. If they go off, they produce a lot of flame and heat. Does impress one how much energy they can store.
Those bag test on you tube are make by overcharging a lipo until it blows, Not a real world test of bags. Made for view count not for really what it is like. Just like a new, non real car posted on YouTube, can believe all you think you see. Stored batteries will produce a lot of smoke for some time and likely not enough heat to do a lot of damage, so smoke detector could be a very valuable early warning help.
For a real world test, Next time you have a bad battery, change to storage level then hit with hammer or air pellets and see what happens. Videos can be found of hitting a lipo with hammer and then hold in hands by leads.
They say to replace on a holiday or special date like anniversary every year. Have had bad detectors go bad and never chrip. Why they say to test them to make sure they still work.