More on the Lipo Option (and Battery Configurator Spreadsheet)
File this under “typing myself smart”. Or “smaaaht” as we say in Boston. Anyway, I’m trying to work out the maths on the lipo cells I looked at here. Now, […]
File this under “typing myself smart”. Or “smaaaht” as we say in Boston. Anyway, I’m trying to work out the maths on the lipo cells I looked at here. Now, […]
Do we love a product shot of a lipo cell that looks like it’s already puffed? Of course we do. This is from First Energy Power. Though the battery choices […]
Long story short, as of a few weeks ago one more friend, who knows well how to do everything right in the Care and Feeding of RC LiPo, had a […]
This is an awesomely cheezy, but remarkably informative video showing every step of the process of RC lipo battery manufacture and testing. It’s done by Revolectrix, an RC battery company […]
In a previous post with a video showing what happens when you short out a Turnigy lipo pack something kind of bugged me. There were lots of safety precautions taken, but […]
huh. Some things never get old. I should have said, “But With No Fire”. I just saw this video of yet another attempt to blow up RC Lipo batteries and […]
I thought I posted all of this information somewhere, but I can’t find it now. There’s a lot of what I’d loosely call “hysteria” about the relative safety of what’s […]
Thanks to “Guy”, I stand corrected. Well. Sort of. Lipo is kind of a general term… The Empulse cell I showed in my previous post is what is commonly called […]
Want to see about as far under the hood as you can see, behind the 100mph/100mile range of the Brammo Empulse? Courtesy of the boyz at Hell for Leather*, feast […]
So, if you’ve looked into lipo chemistry at all, you have no doubt read all the warnings about their volatility and the potential for fires and explosions. Repeatedly I’ve been […]
Yeah, when you saw my previous post about dissecting a lipo pack, you had to know this wasn’t far behind. I decided to make my lil’ own lipo explosion video. […]
File this under “Taking Stuff Apart for No Apparent Reason”. Here’s how to take a Turnigy hardcase pack apart. You need a little bitty screwdriver. If you want to be […]
Here’s the short version of what happened to my pack recently. I frankly had no idea this was possible, yet, from the response of a few friends with considerable lipo […]
I have been wondering about storing my bike outside in the cold New England winters. Here’s a great post that talks about that, and other storage, temperature and charging issues […]
As is often the case when I’m in the middle of a project I put all this stuff together and kind of forgot to post it here. Sorry. Here’s what […]
Slow day at work yesterday… did a little playing around with the harness to try to get less of a mess:
Simple as pie. XBox 360 PowerBrick from eBay- $14. Cut connector, jump the red and blue wires (turns on the power supply), and your black and yellow wires deliver 12.5VDC […]
Here are the harnesses- each one is crimped in the middle, paralleling the four packs in each module, then series connected to the next module: There’s one connector that’s flagged […]
So here’s the final strategy. (Comment from RC” “ur doin it rong. but not too rong” The idea is to discharge the packs down to a safe level, (see additions […]
The primary purpose of testing the Turnigy lipo packs, at least so I’ve been told, is to determine how each cell “drops off”, or, how the voltage decreases as the […]