ICAO and IATA Air Transportation Compliance

[Manuel Wenger]

In the past we had some issues with Li-Ion Batteries on planes, since the regulations where strenghened some tima ago.

Are the RED Powerpacks IATA/ICAO compliant ?

Manuel Wenger

[Jarred Land]

Good news.. our Red Batteries are all IATA compliant.

[Manuel Wenger]

Thanks for the Info, Jarred :)

Manuel

[n21k]

I thought the permitted wattage is below 105wh? If I'm not wrong, RED's battery are 140wh, is it above the regulated wattage?

[Cail Young]

To my knowledge it's a per-cell limitation for Li-Ion batteries; if there's multiple cells in the battery then it's rather easy to deal with.

EDIT: Actually, it's a rather technical definition of the weight of lithium contact in the battery - 8 grams is the maximum for unrestricted travel. IDX's 142Wh battery apparently falls well under this amount.

EDIT AGAIN: Hrm. from IDX's site:


Batteries with a lithium content exceeding 8g are batteries with a capacity of more than 14.4V/6.7Ah (approx. 96Wh), based on the calculation aforementioned.

The calculation involves multiplication by the number of cells, so I'm guessing there's less cells in their 142Wh battery.

[Michael Brennan]

Lithium Trivia.

This Lithium restriction came into force after a pallett of batteries caught fire at Memphis airport in 2004.

http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2005/HZB0501.pdf

FAA finally acted after half a dozen similar fires had been reported in aircraft in the preceeding years.

Lithium self ignites at 350F and if water is then applied releases Hydrogen.

A side note, a decade ago UK CAA took no action after warnings of potential fires in aircraft hold following fires in vehicles caused by poorly recelled nicad ENG camera batteries.

Nicad is far more dangerous than Li-ion as a nicad camera battery can deliver 100 amps.

Smokey the bear says an unprotected tungsten bulb equipped battery light can start a fire regardless of the battery type powering it.




Mike Brennan