Yeah, I've heard stories of people blowing them up by overcharging. Yet I wonder, my son's mobile phone has a Li-Po battery and the charger looks pretty standard to me. But hey, what do I know? I'm all ears to hear all about them cos when the price drops a bit I'll be using them as RX packs (with a regulator, of course!)
Reminds me of the NiMH batteries when they first appeared. There were all sorts of stories of them just "dying" in flight and so on. Me, I've been using them for, oooh, at least two years, with no problems at all (he said, touching wood!). In fact I was worrying about lost capacity because I'm always overcharging them. I was talking to a friend of mine, who is an electronics wizard, about it. Anyhow, next time I saw him he'd built me a wonderful little discharger. It discharges your RX pack at exactly 200ma, when it gets to one volt per cell a buzzer sounds (buzzer doesn't do it justice, I can hear it in the garage with the discharger in the front upstairs of the house!). So, if the pack was 600mah and it takes three hours to discharge, then it's still at rated capacity, and every one of mine was! Within a couple of percent. Very reassuring I can tell you!
