Posted by T.D. Gonzales on February 5, 2011 at 7:30pm
Well I bought what is going to be my first UAV a SkyFun and a battery for it. On the first charge it swelled up like the Michelin man. It is a Turnigy nano-tech 3.0 3000mAh 25-50C charged by a dynamite charger at 1A.
There is only one still running that I know of here in Albuquerque. This isn't the first time I have dealt with them and this is about par for the course(Last time I was 13 and bought a boat). I think I'm stuck with ordering online.
Ah okay that nice to know. So I need a charger and a balancer wohoo! Well lesson learned. At my last internship one of the staff engineers had a battery pop and start a fire in his office so I was watching it which saved me on that little whoops.
You are very lucky it didnt start a fire. Time to give the LHS person you talked to a piece of your mind. Btw, you need not only a charger but also a balancer for any lipo that has more than 1 cell (aka all useful ones)
Its a brand of charger that I bought at my local hobby store. They said it would work just fine for LiPos. Although that might be my problem I'm not seeing anything that says what kind of battery it is supposed to charge.
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Sounds like a NiCad peak charger and 1A is way too much. Lucky it didn't explode and set your house on fire.
Get a LiPo balance charger before you get another battery.
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