I've said it before and I'll say it again, we need to start treating these kinds of anti lithium posts as trolls going forwards, not try to educate them. They put people off of lithium for no good reason other than their own wilful ignorance. There's so much info these days you have to try really hard to still believe this nonsense!
That would mean admins need to understand all of the different things that are discussed on these forums, not really practical.
You think I'm trolling?
In parts of OZ, you don't get constant high temperatures. Same here in the Caribbean. The summer peak in Grenada last summer was the highest ever recorded. 35.4degC. Surprisingly low compared to the Med and OZ. My batteries hit 35degC a few times. Now we are in winter the batteries are about 27/28degC. The lowest I have seen so far this winter is 26degC. The perfect temperature is 25degC so we are pretty close to optimum.
good job too!
No, but the post Geem quoted may as well be these days as it was talking about airlines banning lithium due to fires. While that sort of confusion was excusable 5 years ago, there is significant information explaining the subject now, so much so that anyone still talking in that way has either chosen not to educate themself or they are deliberately trolling for whatever reason. So many lithium threads on the forum go down that road that it distracts from the actual subject.
If we report them though, we could at least tidy the threads and prevent the misinformation.
But the fact is there is no distinction in the regulations on carriage of dangerous goods between any of the different Lithium ion chemistries. Airlines all follow the same rules on dangerous goods. ICAO and IATA write them so only if the manufacturers can lobby them will it change any time soon.No, but the post Geem quoted may as well be these days as it was talking about airlines banning lithium due to fires. While that sort of confusion was excusable 5 years ago, there is significant information explaining the subject now, so much so that anyone still talking in that way has either chosen not to educate themself or they are deliberately trolling for whatever reason. So many lithium threads on the forum go down that road that it distracts from the actual subject.
Sorry if you thought I was talking about you, not sure why you would have
My last lifePO4 cells from the US were sent by aircraft, even though it said all over the box, 'not to be sent by aircraft'. They were supposed to be sent by ship. Nobody seemed to care
No, but to suggest that's a reason that LiFePo4 is dangerous is misleading in the extreme, so while technically correct it's entirely off topic for a boating forum in a thread about LiFePo4 house batteries.
If you report them, the mods would need to know if they were correct, or not before deleting them. That isn't practical.
Possible if it was a cargo only flight. Otherwise naughty and costly if caught.
Is it because I'm using the term dangerous goods?
I suspect it was a cargo only flight. They tried to charge me for the extra cost of flying them. I had stipulated ship only. The manufacturers box stated ship only. They gave me a £75 credit note. That worked out fine as I have shipped in way more stuff now anyway.
It's because the specific wording of flight rules is not relevant in any way to a thread about house batteries on a boat and the other poster suggested that the flight rules in some way suggest these batteries are dangerous. I've no idea why you're pursuing this now, so although I didn't think you were trolling before, I certainly think you might be now.
I'm certainly tempted but nah.....
