Exploding Cells
 

A buddy of mine was running his converted savage x today and all of the sudden 1 cell in the middle of a 6 cell pack exploded. What would cause this?

What cell was it? IB or GP? I had the same thing happen, it was a bad cell.

it was an elite 3600 cell

Yeah, sounds normal to me..

Get good cells, that's my advice!

I've personally seen a set of IB4200's blow before. The second cell to the end blew. Shot the 1 cell at a wall and the impact caused the cell to have a huge dent, the other 4 cells were shot clean across the pit space (about 50 feet). IT was a hell of an explosion. It was loud enough to silence the entire building and all the truck's paused for a minute on the track.

Whats up Serum? Not a fan of the Elite cells?

That is all I run and I have no problems with them. They usually take about 4000mah of charge and that puts 16 cells at about 22-23V.

Overcharging "non-high quality" cells isnt reccomended. ;) Id reccomend either GP 3300's or GP 3700's or if you want IB cells than 3800's will suffice.

pics ???????


steve:028:

sorry no pics of it he just told me about it over the phone. He said it was the second to last cell in the pack. I didnt figure I was overcharging the cells since im using the superbrain 989.

these NimH cells sound dangerous,i think i'll stick with Lipos for now:p

Yea...I run either Lipo's or GP3700's (but I'm selling the 3700's for some Flightpowers :D ).

LOL! :005:

I had a 4.4k cell blow once but I think in shorted on the chassis

Where can I get some of these GP cells? Maybe I'll give them a try. I would go LiPo but they're a little out of my price range right now.

I am sure Max Amps has them.