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A Small Improvement in Battery Storage….!!

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Nigel B recently showed me a very neat little battery bag you get from amazon.

Actually you buy them in bags of four at an embarrassingly low price. You can get two or three 2-cell LIPOs or LIFEs in there easily.

I’ve been wanting to neaten up and smarten up my battery storage recently. These things are ideal, because of the outer bag that I use.

It keeps all the batteries in neat little pockets so that during race day it is much easier to remember where you are with power supplies. I reckon I could get another four little bags and then easily store 8 of them inside my outer bag. Very neat and tidy.

All inside this single outer bag. You could easily store 20-24 batteries in there very neatly, bagged boy connector type maybe.

Thank you, Nigel!! This was the Amazon page…. £14 for four.

Batteries For Beginners Two – Storage Bags…!

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In our last article about Batteries in Radio Sailing we talked a little about safety and fire risk.

Look in this photo above. There is a bag within a bag. They are both made of the same type of weird robust material. The inner bag is like a simple envelope with a velcro sealed over-flap. You’ll see simply loads of people using exactly this bag design to store their batteries. My little pouch bag will take three IOM batteries, then it’s pretty much full. The cost of the bag is minor.

I figured I needed more than one bag as there are more than three batteries here at home. The outer bag in the photo is more like a small picnic hamper with a zipper lid. It was about £15 on Amazon. I keep everything in there really. £15 compared to the cost of fire damage or your marriage breaking down is trivial. Buy one or more. I keep a bag within a bag because then I worry less.

Amazon claimed the outer bag was “explosion proof”. What I really liked about the Amazon bag is that it has a little port in the bottom so that you can get a charging cable in – and charge the battery INSIDE the explosion proof bag. I’m going to write some more later about when you are at peak risk … and while you are charging is about the highest and most regular risk you have.

Just get a bag and try it.

See what you think.