How To Fully Discharge and Kill a LiPo Battery 

Airbus737 welcome to the channel!

I get asked this question *a lot*. Good to hear from you ;)

It says on the video when he's Plugging it in "6 ohm 100w wound resistor"

Halgoen lights get really really hot and you're not supposed to touch the glass because the oils from your hands can cause the glass to break.

@@RCVideoReviews Really good to know thanks

At 3.1v, it's probably not strong enough to cause any damage by itself. If the internals are damaged in any way, they could spontaneously combust, but again, at 3.1v it probably wouldn't amount to much. There's certainly no way for me to predict how long a damaged battery will remain volatile. Now if a bunch of flammable material were sitting on top of it when it let go, that could wind up on the news. Your friend should probably get busy and find his battery.

@@RCVideoReviews he says thank you and he'll get to it even though he's moved and reorganized everything where it should be two times already 😬

Yikes! It's probably not in the basement then. Did the dog get hold of it?

@@RCVideoReviews nah, my little buddy passed about two months ago, he was good about leaving stuff be. Only thing I could think of would be that it might have been mixed in with some packaging on my desk and probably got thrown away. I'm pretty sure wherever I had left it i saw it and a little voice said to charge it and put it away but I didn't do it, I also seem to remember it falling in some God-forsaken crevice and I told myself I would find it later. Rip. I'm not too concerned about cells and stuff not discharging at the same rates because I've left it for a few months (in my lipo bag) forgetting to charge it before and they were within about .7 volts of each other. Still something I don't want to leave laying around tho, cuz there's a high change a tool or something else could get dropped on it

@@jerrym.9159I know this was 3 years ago but did you ever find it? lol

Nice work!

Ohhhh...that ship hasn't sailed yet...

I decided to go ahead with discharging individual cells via balance plug. Seems to me it is safe.

You can find a lipo killer for next to no money. It's so very cheap to buy a resistor--it is literally the cheapest thing to do. Save your $$ and get one.

Connect the mains to a load just like this video shows. It doesn't matter what the battery wants. A load will drain the battery. When you read 0.0v on the mains, you put it in the trash as it becomes inert.

@@RCVideoReviews I tried to discharge the battery with my lectron pro charger but won't let it use it because the 3rd cell is not working.

You have to use a dumb device like a resistor.

@@RCVideoReviews I need that because I have one lol

@@RCVideoReviews i buy a "testload" from ALI

I started with a 6ohm100w and switched to a 2ohm100w.

Not sure. Something got by on the final edit. I'll try and trim on YT.

If you run a lipo to 0v, you need to retire it as there is permanent damage to the cell. It's not worth the risk trying to recover.

Well then you're ahead of the game.

Why? This method works just fine. Salt baths have been shown to not be 100% effective.

Thanks. I had to goof off a little in this one because the material is kind of dry. Glad you liked it.

Lol. That one is dead Jim!

Yessir, it is.

Glad you found the humor :)