Originally Posted by
Sunfish
Earthx Lithium’s have a battery management system that should allow the unit to fail gracefully. In any case they use safe chemistry. We don’t know the cause of the fire anyway.
Relevance? What does EarthX have to do with this?
A Jabiru burning to the ground is a rare event. I know of two in 20 years. One was a bushfire and the other was a lithium battery. With the battery on the outside of the stainless steel firewall and heat shielded fuel hose, there is effectively no fuel source for a fire to keep going. Shorts on the inside whilst rare, rarely result in more than a spark or some smoke before the circuit breaker trips out.
It would not surprise me if they had a lithium battery fitted and had possibly just jump-started it and or used one of those jump-starter packs like the one that popped and fizzed and blew up the car in Sydney a couple of weeks ago, where the woman was lucky to get her two children out before it exploded.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...n/ab-2018-124/