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Gibbs Guide to LiPo (Lithium Polymer) Batteries

The NEW Gibbs Guide to LiPo batteries is a comprehensive resource for modellers needing to know how to safely get the best from their LiPo batteries.

This extensively revised and enlarged guide concentrates only on LiPo batteries. It contains a wealth of guidance and essential information along with many clearly drawn diagrams, tables and charts. Topics covered include charging, discharging, ‘C’ limits, balancing, safety, avoiding fires, hints and tips and much more.

Like all Gibbs Guides, it’s written and illustrated in a clear and easy to understand way. No assumed prior knowledge is made. Each chapter builds on the material from previous chapters, but is also a clear explanation in its own right. By the end of the guide you will have been presented with a concise yet very thorough guide to LiPo batteries.

This guide should be considered essential reading for every user of LiPo batteries, even if you’ve used them without problems until now – because well used LiPo batteries that have so far given no problems may be about to catch fire on their next charge. This guide will show you how to identify such batteries and also tells you what to do about them.

The guide will serve as an excellent introduction for newcomers to LiPo use and will also develop the knowledge of modellers with considerable previous LiPo experience.

This guide will help extend the life of your batteries and help you avoid a LiPo fire, so investing in a copy really could save you much more than its purchase price.

Summary of contents:

Chapter 1: Battery basics
Chapter 2: Connecting cells
Chapter 3: Battery characteristics
Chapter 4: Introduction to LiPo batteries
Chapter 5: Characteristics of LiPo batteries
Chapter 6: LiPo Safety
Chapter 7: Charging LiPo cells
Chapter 8: LiPo batteries under discharge
Chapter 9: Balancing matters
Chapter 10: Getting the best from LiPo batteries
Chapter 11: Checking and testing LiPo batteries
Chapter 12: Using joined LiPo packs
Appendix: Top Tips and a detailed summary of best practice

The choice is yours

The Gibbs Guide to LiPo batteries is available either as an e-book or in the familiar paper version. Both guides contain exactly the same information and whichever you choose you’ll find the information easy to read and digest.

e-book

The e-book is simply an electronic book that you can download directly to your computer. If you choose the e-book version of this guide, you can be learning from it in just a few minutes from now – there’s no waiting for the post to arrive! The main benefits of an e-book are:

a) You’ll be able to access the information instantly
b) With no printing and shipping costs, Gibbs Guides is able to pass on a saving to you – so the e-book’s a bit cheaper than the paper version.
c) You can print a copy for your own use.

Delivery of your e-book

When you order the e-book, you’ll automatically be sent an email containing a link allowing you to immediately download the document. It’s as simple as that!

Paper version

Containing the same 22,000 words of text and illustrations as in the e-book, this 44 page paper version of the guide comes in the traditional Gibbs Guides format, a compact yet comprehensive A5 (6 x 8 inch) booklet.

What other modellers say about this guide:

• An accurate, high quality guide that’s a definite must have for any modeller involved with LiPo batteries. Highly recommended.
  Andy Kirby, FlightPower.
  
• "... your book (on lithium batteries) saved my flat from certain destruction!"
  LS, London.
  
• "Please send me a copy of your book 'Guide to Lithium batteries', if it gives me as much knowledge as your guide to nicad and hydride batteries I shall be well pleased"
  JG, Leicester.

Postage and Packaging per guide (paper copy only)

• UK - £0.95
• EU - £1.50
• Rest of World - £2.00

Please Note
When ordering the e-Book version please select "e-Book" in the destination box which is immediately below the total in the first page of the shopping cart.