PsyBorg
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Hello gang. Recently I have started a Tips n Tricks series and I am getting good feed back so far. Several people have asked various questions about how to work with heavy gauge wire for battery connectors and such. I have also seen a lot of people doing questionably safe things when disposing of lipo batteries. I decided today, since I recently had a brand new battery kill a cell that I would use that to make a how to get rid of lipos video.
The first thing I do when I have a bad or damaged battery is to drain off any residual power to make the battery as inert and safe as possible. I simply use the 12 v light bulb from my smoke stopper to drain of as much as possible. I leave it sit connected a minimum of 24 hours outside in a safe place. On higher c rated batteries like this one I will let is rest a few hours then put it back on the bulb another 24 hours as they tend to regenerate power over time for quite a while which is why just throwing them away is a REALLY bad idea as they can still cause fires at that point.
Once that is done I check it with a multimeter and look for the battery to actually be taking a charge from the meter itself. At that point is where I will start the video. I hope it helps you guys as well as make our hobby a lot safer and less chance of causing more issues then we have over batteries. Above all PLEASE stop puncturing them to make them burn its just bad all around.
The first thing I do when I have a bad or damaged battery is to drain off any residual power to make the battery as inert and safe as possible. I simply use the 12 v light bulb from my smoke stopper to drain of as much as possible. I leave it sit connected a minimum of 24 hours outside in a safe place. On higher c rated batteries like this one I will let is rest a few hours then put it back on the bulb another 24 hours as they tend to regenerate power over time for quite a while which is why just throwing them away is a REALLY bad idea as they can still cause fires at that point.
Once that is done I check it with a multimeter and look for the battery to actually be taking a charge from the meter itself. At that point is where I will start the video. I hope it helps you guys as well as make our hobby a lot safer and less chance of causing more issues then we have over batteries. Above all PLEASE stop puncturing them to make them burn its just bad all around.