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LiPos and water?

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:10 pm
by Synergy
A couple of years ago I changed to LiPos on my Tamiya F350 but I've never had the guts to run them submerged, I always swap to my NiMh packs for water sports. So the question is can I without issue run my hard cased LiPo packs fully submerged?

I'm hoping for a definitive answer from someone who has experience of this :wink:

Re: LiPos and water?

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:12 pm
by Charlie don't surf
it's fine, as long as the balance plug or the deans connector don't get wet and short out which I don't know how you can submerge without this happening and burning your truck into a little flaming ball- :(

Re: LiPos and water?

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:27 pm
by Synergy
I use Trakpower gold bricks so Corally style connectors, I never thought about the balance port :roll: The connectors don't short on the NiMh, do the cells we use have the power to short through water?

Re: LiPos and water?

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:29 pm
by Charlie don't surf
I know that the cases are waterproof, but maybe if you packed the connector with dielectric grease of something it would be ok, but it's a hell of a fire if it shorts-

Re: LiPos and water?

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:40 pm
by Synergy
I don't know why there are now two threads with the same titles :?

Continued in other thread.

Mods please can you combine, thank you.