Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family William 73 Al W1NGA Colorado Springs, CO
> On May 17, 2017, at 6:28 PM, Matthew Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > William, > > We're sorry to hear about your fire, especially loosing all of your > Elecraft gear. > > If you are washing your equipment with water it's important that you go to > the shop and purchase *distilled *water like you should use for your solder > sponge or car battery. Distilled water will mobilise ions and remove them > from causing further corrosion damage to your electronic assemblies. Your > worst enemy are alkalies like salt and reactive elements like Iron, both > found in municipal town water. Keep washing with distilled water and keep > flushing it for a few days and then let it dry out in a warm dry place. I > have rescued a few KX3's after having taken a swim in sea water. I'm also > luck to work at a semiconductor foundry, so we have 99.99995% pure water on > site to work with (*grin*). > > I'm also assuming that the fire was a LiPO battery. The advice you have > received about not entering your basement is wise. LiPO fires create > compounds that are very, very toxic, I would also expect your insurance > company to have your basement professionally cleaned before going back > inside. You may find that after cleaning it may be necessary to seal in > all the contaminates with paint or sealing compounds. If in doubt talk to > your local fire department (seriously) they should have Material Safety > Data Sheets (MSDS) for LiPO battery and containment after a fire. Europe > and Australia are similar in adoption of solar battery systems, so with > large scale LiPO batteries in homes now, fire departments have further > health risks to concern themselves with. > > Having had LiPO and LiFePO4 batteries (yes these burn too) that I use in my > Radio Control Models catch on fire at various times I now charge any LiPO > battery in a fire bag. > > https://hobbyking.com/en_us/batteries/lipo-safe-bags.html?___store=en_us > > They are cheap insurance that is for certain. > > Mijn beste wensen > > Matthew > VK5ZM > > >> On 18 May 2017 at 06:59, William Lagerberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> http://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/206119/bewoner-vlucht-met- >> dieren-pand-uit-vanwege-grote-brand <http://www.nhnieuws.nl/ >> nieuws/206119/bewoner-vlucht-met-dieren-pand-uit-vanwege-grote-brand> >> >> Regards William Pe1bsb >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
