[Elecraft] Fire in the house li-ion

[Harry Yingst]

You have my sympathies for your loss, I can only imagine what you are going through.I'm not sure if you're a praying man or not but I'll add you to my prayer list.

Fire is scary and moves very fast in a home. We had a small fire caused by a defectivelamp in my wife's sewing room; in less than five minutes it did thousands in damage.
I'm a bit Leary of Lithium batteries it's a lot of energy packed into a small area.
Again you have my sympathies, I'll be praying for you and yours.


      From: William Lagerberg <pe1bsb at zendamateur.nu>
 To: "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 5:32 PM
 Subject: [Elecraft] Fire in the house li-ion
   
Guys,

I want to give you a advice, my shack it (was) in the basement (cellar??) I do all my thing for the hobby there.
A collega of mine asked me to take a look at two Go-Pro LI-Ion accu's because they where not loading anymore.

So I put the first one on the loader for 8 till 9 hours and checked it and it was ok  ( with 10% loading current)
Then I dit put the second one in same place at 10 in the morning at 3 my daughter called me there is a fire.
We rusted to the cellar but I could not enter it was filled with dark smoke.

My shack is gone and 90 % off my house, I have insurance don’t now if it is enough to cover all of my Elecraft stuff

My K1, my own build K2 my K3  and my KX3 are gone, I found my K1 in 20 cm off water really down under, I clean’t it with fresh water.
After that flushed it with pure alcohol. It is completely taken apart today as far as is possible.
I Hope it will survive I will let it dry for a lot of day’s

My K2 is melted the same as my P3 and my K3 perhaps I can order the outside of both, but a am still not allowed to enter the basement so I don’t know how it looks at the inside.

So finale the message is please take care with li-ion accuse battery’s. It did cost me our house in 1 hour.