The full video is here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGK1nqXr28
The pack started with a peak current of about 500A before getting all hot and flustered.
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16 thoughts on “Shorting out a lithium jump starter. part of a larger video.”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars arkid77 says:

    More videos of things exploding please Big Clive. You'll be onto a winner with that! You need at least a regular once a week slot for such a video.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars KUTE says:

    Fantastic upload 😀

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alucard Taylor says:

    I call that pillowing up. You turn your battery into a pillow!

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars rustymotor says:

    Always wondered why LIPO batteries for RC aircraft start to swell up as they age, I tried to let the gas out by puncturing the cells, big mistake as it quickly went up in a cloud of foul smelling smoke!

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James Madden says:

    I like your new avatar…hehe

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars BS Or Not? says:

    Clive, I'm sure that when you shorted that jump starter, the Lithium battery went bipolar.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Restore and use says:

    Don't try this at home kids, leave it to Big Clive 🙂

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars LostJohnny says:

    I wonder if those 16v blue elecrolytic capacitors still smell of Sugarpuffs™ after being connected to 240VAC?

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lovreli says:

    poke it

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars 2010craggy says:

    Best fireworks ever invented these Lipo batteries……. I've deliberately overcharged no end of these cheap Chinese power bank type cells then put a screw driver through them 🙂

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ross Mitchell says:

    I want to see what would happen if the lithium pack was tightly sandwiched in the casing while this is happening, would the inability to expand cause it to catch fire

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Turner says:

    Love your vids

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Jordan says:

    If you put a big flat rock on the pack to help it resist the urge to swell up, it may help to keep the internal resistance down. I'm talking about the battery pack of course…

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gary G says:

    Where's your pie dish you reckless maniac?!!

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Nuts n Proud says:

    Clive broke 'elf and safety' regulations – he did not use the explosion containment pie dish!!! Bad, bad Clive. Now go and sit on the naughty seat!

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars tasmedic says:

    MORE!!!!!
    please

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