Radken
Maybe this is aleady mentioned in this thread.... but isn't one of the very real negatives about these LiI batts that they can simply, without any predictability, installed or uninstalled, new or old, suffer an internal short, and instantly dump huge current with resultant explosive arcing---- which will always ignite the flammables inside as well as adjacent cells? Isn't this how the cargo of Li batts brought down that Everglades DC9 about 20 years or so ago?
Isn't shaky batt technology, potential arcing, ignition, uncontained fire, et al, an unnecessarily nasty threat to colocate in the same area with flight critical electronics and thousands of wire pairs all ready to fuse together for the slightest of excuses? IMHO 'twas mostly the bean counters who have created this situation. Engineers would never have thought this up on their own unless forced to do so? Right?