PSA salt water lipo disposal.
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Horatio
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Excellent post. We collect a large number of these lipos and they don't last forever.
We're encouraged to recycle
them, but I'm not convinced that your average bod working at a recycling centre understands the risk posed by lipos over a typical alkaline battery. Case in point:
This recycling centre in Wales had a lipo battery in with other recyclables when this fire burnt for 2 days, causing millions of £££ of damage. Fortunately no-one was hurt.
So great post.
I'll be sure to discharge to zero and short circuit them prior to disposal, rather than just taking puffy packs to battery recycling points at supermarkets.
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I’m not sure which chargers have this option but on my ISDT D2’s I have a option to destroy making them safe for disposal
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What does that mode actually do I wonder?
Edit: Ah, I see - it's a discharge to 0v function. Basically, just like how my Kronos eats batteries during speeds runs!
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Yup I as of yet haven’t used the function but do have 2 packs that are damaged due to my stupidity. Crashed a plane got mad threw it in a shed forgot I left the pack in it for a few months and 3 cells died on meWhat does that mode actually do I wonder?
Edit: Ah, I see - it's a discharge to 0v function. Basically, just like how my Kronos eats batteries during speeds runs!
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I once got into a disagreement with the missus over something and threw my keys into the garage in a display of chimp-like disapproval.
Keys ended up hitting the roof, then falling into the cavity wall - all the way down into the foundations.
Car keys, house key, work key, hard drive key, locker key - everything.
Once my wife had finished laughing at me, she asked how I was going to replace the keys. When I phoned the car dealer, we were looking at a 4 figure sum.
So, I bought an endoscopic camera, with light, magnet and hook.
I climbed a ladder the next day, armed with my new camera, and fed the camera into the cavity from the eave, all the while listening to my wife telling me how it was never going to work and that I'm a huge geek, etc etc.
Connected to my laptop at the bottom of the ladder, I fed my camera down into depths of the foundations and lo & behold - I could see my keys!
A couple of twists and turns - and my keys were hooked. The return journey up to the top was done in 2 attempts and met with hilarity from both of us when we finally had the keys back in our hands.
It was all recorded in a 720p endocam video!
Plus - I was forgiven.
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My Lordy sounds like a very interesting day to say the least, my wife is super cool also been married will be 36 years the next. She puts up with all the toys I have delivered every week never says a thing other than what did you get this time.I once got into a disagreement with the missus over something and threw my keys into the garage in a display of chimp-like disapproval.
Keys ended up hitting the roof, then falling into the cavity wall - all the way down into the foundations.
Car keys, house key, work key, hard drive key, locker key - everything.
Once my wife had finished laughing at me, she asked how I was going to replace the keys. When I phoned the car dealer, we were looking at a 4 figure sum.
So, I bought an endoscopic camera, with light, magnet and hook.
I climbed a ladder the next day, armed with my new camera, and fed the camera into the cavity from the eave, all the while listening to my wife telling me how it was never going to work and that I'm a huge geek, etc etc.
Connected to my laptop at the bottom of the ladder, I fed my camera down into depths of the foundations and lo & behold - I could see my keys!
A couple of twists and turns - and my keys were hooked. The return journey up to the top was done in 2 attempts and met with hilarity from both of us when we finally had the keys back in our hands.
It was all recorded in a 720p endocam video!
Plus - I was forgiven.