Hi,
before someone replies here, oh no, it's to dangerous to have on board, that is not the subject of this thread.
This thread is for those people who have something like this on board or will have soon.
We just ordered an e-scooter to be a bit more mobile when on shore. This scooter has a
battery which is not easily removable.
Now, to those of you who have something like this, how do you store yours and how do you charge it?
My main concern is fire
safety and humidity, as they do unfortunately have big
Lithium Ion
batteries, rather than the much safer
LiFePo4 batteries.
I recently read an article in the magazine "Der Spiegel" who tested fireproof pouches from Amazon and found most if them utterly useless despite other claims by the sellers.
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadg...1-c66d6e163ac9
I am looking at these solutions.
1)
Built a metal box for it which, in the worst case, can be grabbed and dumped over board. Weight wise I would prefer aluminium, but it inself can catch fire if it's hot enough.
Maybe it needs to be lined with Promat?
Alternativly build a
plywood box and line it with Promat?
2)
Exchange the
battery for a
LiFePo4?
3)
Buy or sew a fireproof pouch for the complete scooter.
As I prefer doing stuff myself. Sewing it from several layers of tightly woven heavy
fiberglass cloth might
work.
Possibly I could use severa fire blankets for this. They are
cheap and easily available.
4)
We have a hard
dinghy where it might fit into a watertight compartment.
Store it in the
dinghy and have a
charging cable go into it.
Generally we will only charge when awake and on-board.
I don't need the box to contain a fire very long. 5-10minutes should be long enough to react.
One more question, did you seal your scooter with Silicone to waterproof it better from sudden rain showers?
I hear many lack good waterproofing right out of factory. I'm not concerned about warranty.
Thanks for your thoughts.