Green Machine
100 kW
So was riding through golden gate park on an ebike date and heard my girl behind me start swearing.
We are going through the frisbee gold coarse in the park and i think she just got hit by a flying disk.
To my amazement when i look back i see that her bike has caught on fire thanks to lipo fire.
The battery in question is the battery space lipo 48v 10ah with BMS: http://www.batteryspace.com/highpowerpolymerli-ionbattery518v10ah518wh40adrainrate.aspx
So the fire breaks out and it burns steadily as in the below video for 10 minutes straight.
Frisbee golfers are coming over concerned.
Im having the girl hold the bike so I can video the catastrophe for the sake of fellow es'ers who think lipo is ready for the general public.
After i finish taking a few videos i notice a crowd of frisbee golfers have gathered around to see the carnage (we are stuck in the middle of the course.) One of them suggests i should ride the bike out to the street so it doesnt burn there course down. I say hell no i am not riding it.
When i tell them it is an electric bike the general reaction is "your going to have a great lawsuit with whoever sold you that bike"
It was kind of scary..one frisbee golfer was actually a lawyer and gave me his card.
At one point i decided to use a stick to separate the battery from the bike so it would not do any damage to the bike frame.
When the pack hit the ground the frisbee golfers got concerned that somehow i was going to burn their course down so at that point they decided to assist me putting the fire out using there frisbees as shovels to throw dirt on the fire.
Me and the girl i was with got a pretty good whiff of lipo smoke...i am not sure if i am gong to have cancer in 5 years or whatever ramifications...but the smoke was nasty.
Afterwards we got the hell of of there (before the police or fire deparment showed up) and amazingly the bike was still ridable as a pedal bike.
[youtube]2Q_LB_AyDVk[/youtube]
We are going through the frisbee gold coarse in the park and i think she just got hit by a flying disk.
To my amazement when i look back i see that her bike has caught on fire thanks to lipo fire.
The battery in question is the battery space lipo 48v 10ah with BMS: http://www.batteryspace.com/highpowerpolymerli-ionbattery518v10ah518wh40adrainrate.aspx
So the fire breaks out and it burns steadily as in the below video for 10 minutes straight.
Frisbee golfers are coming over concerned.
Im having the girl hold the bike so I can video the catastrophe for the sake of fellow es'ers who think lipo is ready for the general public.
After i finish taking a few videos i notice a crowd of frisbee golfers have gathered around to see the carnage (we are stuck in the middle of the course.) One of them suggests i should ride the bike out to the street so it doesnt burn there course down. I say hell no i am not riding it.
When i tell them it is an electric bike the general reaction is "your going to have a great lawsuit with whoever sold you that bike"
It was kind of scary..one frisbee golfer was actually a lawyer and gave me his card.
At one point i decided to use a stick to separate the battery from the bike so it would not do any damage to the bike frame.
When the pack hit the ground the frisbee golfers got concerned that somehow i was going to burn their course down so at that point they decided to assist me putting the fire out using there frisbees as shovels to throw dirt on the fire.
Me and the girl i was with got a pretty good whiff of lipo smoke...i am not sure if i am gong to have cancer in 5 years or whatever ramifications...but the smoke was nasty.
Afterwards we got the hell of of there (before the police or fire deparment showed up) and amazingly the bike was still ridable as a pedal bike.
[youtube]2Q_LB_AyDVk[/youtube]