About half of the cutting edge vaporized and it sounded like a gunshot. This was not a pair of thin wire cutting dykes either, this was one of those heavy duty ones straight out of the automotive toolbox. 
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Sounds like that one time when I was still an electrician and I cut into a 277v lighting circuit with a brand new pair of kleinsā¦gg no re lol
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Lol, i get at least one little short every pack 
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I shorted my first lipo a year ago. It sits now in my drawer with one dead cell. 
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Shorted a pack too whilst building.
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@Lee_Wright I wouldnāt agree that price of pack dictates quality. For example, @Acido and I are from not so rich country, average monthly salary is around 700 eur - and most people earn much less than that. Earning around 100 eur per battery (for 8-12h of work) is actually pretty good here - earning much more than average salary and still offering competitive prices. Local people think that our belowe average price is still very expensive and it would be stupid/greedy to have one price for locals and another for richer Europeans. Hell, sometimes I have to give discounts to locals because I feel sorry for them (they see price of chinese batteries on ebay and after that everything is expensive). Maybe I am wrong, time will tell.
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yeah that makes sense! Since labor is the most expensive part, we might as well outsource that! Where would be a good place for cheap labor though?.. China! oh waitā¦
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I always start with 3-4 protons, 3 neutrons and 3 electrons and a bottle of water to speed up the process
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Using prebuilt protons? Thatās not DIY. I build my protons with quarks mined from dark matter.
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Shit, Iāll turn in my chemistry set in shame
But Iām keeping my bottle of waterā¦makes me turn faster
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Mate thatās amazing and well done for supporting your community. I get that totally bro but in my local economy it is obviously a bit different. I dont doubt your abilities but in general in the UK you can pay less but you get less.
This is a Ā£250 10S4P here (the pack I repaired) I should add this is pre repair we sorted it out.
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I build 1s1p packs for free, I donāt bother with a bms
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Iād take free shipping any time!
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Yes, you can very much be Doing It Yourself.
How about ESCs? If youāre not designing your own ESC, are you Doing It Yourself? What if youāre not mining the metal your trucks are made from? Are you Doing It Yourself?
Iād argue that even prebuilts that have been heavily modified and/or modified many times over should be qualified as DIY because there may not be much original skate left. (Iām not talking about deck or wheel swaps)
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I put stickers on my Boosted. #DIY
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So @longhairedboy and @Lee_Wright should we assume that if we pay less than (maybe that stop high letās say 500US$) 700US$ for a 12S4P pack it is a fire hazard with no warranty?
Also assuming that the fine folks of the community who donāt like money and make packs for kicks donāt exist in the real world.
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If you are using your own hands to build it itās a DIY
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Been wishing for that for a long time
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I would just add up the math, look up cost of cells from a genuine site, multiply the cost of those cells + # of cells in your pack, then add in materials + BMS, which is anywhere from $30-100 depending on the BMS, + about 4-6 hours labor cost.
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Definitely not that. Oh lawd not that!
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