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You're not wrong about the fire risk, but just to note, house batteries nowadays are almost always LiFePO4 -- which don't catch fire the same way LiPo batteries
by Filligree 1y ago
You're not wrong about the fire risk, but just to note, house batteries nowadays are almost always LiFePO4 -- which don't catch fire the same way LiPo batteries like to do.
They can still do so for other reasons, like a short circuit in the wiring.
- vel0city 1y agoFully understood and agreed. That's why I bothered saving that for the second comment, because it's not necessarily that high of a fire risk but it is still a little bit of one. Having that much energy stored in that small of a package will always have some kind of risk of "what happens when that stored energy gets released in an uncontrolled and rapid manner?" And that said, I do have lots of other somewhat beefy batteries around the house. They do a lot of useful things for me such as power my tools including my lawn mower, string trimmer, hedge trimmer, saws, etc. There is a massive one in the car parked in the garage. In these cases it is a useful trade off of that slight risk as I'm actually getting something normally useful out of it.