A GPS left on a dashboard in the Sun! ... KA-Boom!!!

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Don Parscale

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A GPS  was placed in its bracket in the windshield and left in the sun.

The lithium battery overheated and exploded !

Look at the damage !

Looks like a good lesson to learn.

I bet this also applies to cell phones, tablets, digital cameras, and other devices that use lithium batteries.
You think this may be a reason why the US Postal Service no longer will ship electronic devices that contain lithium batteries?
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A close friend is into RC cars with the lithium batteries. He had one explode and burned half his house down. After that I bought special fire proof cases for mine. I like my house. 

 
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This is just a generic copy/paste of who knows what.

But ya, charging lipos are the dangerous time.

Not sure what most GPS units take.

 
This new battery crap cannot be trusted. I've had my share of issues with them including on an airplane. Girl next to me had her E-cig thingy, tar machine whatever they're called, short circuit and basically smoke itself out and was frying in her pocket. She jumped like wtf wtf!! I was like wtf? as she pulled it out of her pocket. It stank! Like electrical fire. She ran it to the back where the attendants were and they just set it on a counter and watched it. We had just touched ground so I wasn't freaking out too bad but still! Everyone was tripped out. 

 
What do you do if the battery is built into the car? 
 

asking for a friend...

 
BONES said:
A close friend is into RC cars with the lithium batteries. He had one explode and burned half his house down. After that I bought special fire proof cases for mine. I like my house. 
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rc batteries are very dangerous they are lithium polymer most in electronics are lithium ion safer but still dangerous 

 
BONES said:
A close friend is into RC cars with the lithium batteries. He had one explode and burned half his house down. After that I bought special fire proof cases for mine. I like my house. 
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All my RC car batteries are in ammo cans. No exceptions!

:poule:

 
Pretty sure the cause of the 30+ people that died on that dive boat fire was a lithium battery fire on the charger.

 
Anyone have a link to the story? I own around 50 lithium batteries. Some are tiny. Some are 8000mah. Curious what size device could burn for that long.

Like Jeff said there are a variety of lithium batteries out there. What they put in your cell phone or gps device is the safer version. You dont ask it to supply a huge load like an RC car battery. Or worse is the drones. I will pull 100amps from a 800mah battery. Not 8000, freakin 0.8amp hours!!! So small it fits in your palm.

For anyone who cares its best to store your RC batteries in the fridge at around 3.6-3.8 per cell. Makes them last a long time. I just tested all my batteries a couple months ago. Couldnt believe how well they maintained voltage.

 
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