Time to replace it?

[DougStar]

Like someone rushing to the toilet before they poop their pants!.....

Bob has a few storys?‍???

 

[Jshaff16]

So I sent an email we'll see what he has to say.

About the battery. Not to Bob

 

[Rgarbarino]

Either way the battery is toast. I think to really kill the battery and make it safe you soak it in salt water. Someone correct me if I'm wrong...

 

[misterleon]

Salt water

 

[buzzkill]

I would never soak any battery in WATER ! if needed discharge it with a resistor of some sort over time , a dead short like water can cause a explosion !!!!

 

[crucialRC]

Cant you take it to Home Depot and dispose of it in their battery disposal box?

 

[Jshaff16]

Exactly what I was probably going to do. I'm there often enough as is

Cancel all that, he asked me to send it back for inspection and or repair.

Will report back

 

[misterleon]

I would never soak any battery in WATER ! if needed discharge it with a resistor of some sort over time , a dead short like water can cause a explosion !!!!

Throwing it in a bucket of salt water is a recommended way of disposing a LiPo. You can have the opinion that you wouldn’t want to do that but it won’t cause an explosion

 

[crucialRC]

Exactly what I was probably going to do. I'm there often enough as is

Cancel all that, he asked me to send it back for inspection and or repair.

Will report back

That's great send it back in the same mail truck my new project comes in. Burning it to the ground??

 

[cbaker65]

That's great send it back in the same mail truck my new project comes in. Burning it to the ground??

LOL....I was thinking the same thing ,but was thinking maybe not wise to send an unstable batt. through the mail!...

 

[Jshaff16]

Kinda why I shared it with y'all. I replied with exactly that. Is this safe to send through the mail.

 

[buzzkill]

I stand corrected , Li-Ion that Im used to you don't want to do that from what I remember ? I used to make Ecigs using Li-Ion batts back in the day

 

[siblues]

# Salt Water
This is not the most recommended method, because it’s slow and ineffective.

Salty water is conductive and it discharges the battery slowly overtime. It’s also said that salt causes chemistry reaction with the substances in the LiPo battery, and neutralizes the Lithium. However I am not a chemist, so I hope someone can verify this theory.

However the problem is that salt water might not completely discharge your lipo. Corrosion can take place, where the exposed metal of the connectors/wires will have a layer of insulator building up in salt water. Eventually the electrical conductivity would slow down, even stop the discharging entirely.

The advantage is that your battery is relatively safer to discharge as it’s immersed in water.

1. Get a plastic container which you can afford to throw away, fill it with cold water
2. Mix it with salt and make sure it’s dissolved completely. I always use about 30g of salt per litre of water and that has been giving me good result
3. Put the battery in the salty water, and leave it somewhere fire proof for two weeks. Depending how much charge it had originally, you might want to leave it longer
4. Finally, wrap the battery with paper and it’s ready to be thrown away

 

[1Coopgt]

It smoked and you want to run it again?

Shhhhh just sit back and watch . The shows about to start. Here have some popcorn.???

 

[crucialRC]

Right there with ya Coop

 

[cbaker65]

Right there with ya Coop
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You even got your purple cup!....

 

[Jshaff16]

Never said I had planned on using it again.

 

[crucialRC]

Never said I had planned on using it again.

?The title of the thread is "Time to replace it?" So unless that was a rhetorical question it sounded like you was thinking of continuing to use it.

 

[Jshaff16]

That is true. More of a "so hey this just happened" lol I'm not one to put real thought into my titles.

 

[21bangbang]

Id have some fun with it. Old LiPo's, tannerite, and some Pyrodex for good measure. Bust out the .22 and have some fun.?‍