2 new lipos and 1 short

[Reflection]

I just bought a couple lipos,11.1v, and run into a problem. I put the deans plugs on and hooked them to my Triton charger. The first one charged up fine,but haven't run it yet. The second one,when I hooked it up to the charger it gave me an "open circut" error.

I don't have any fancy testers other than a test light(if thats fancy ) On the balancing jack,theres 1 red wire and 3 black wires. When I test all 3 cells(1 of the black wires and the same red for all three) only 1 cell lights up the tester. Could it be as simple as a loose wire inside the pack? Could I take the shrink wrap off and fix this? I know that I can't be aggressive with the cells but I believe I could be carefull enough to fix this if it might just be a loose wire. I'm just not sure what a lipo cell looks like under the shrinkwrap to know if I can try this or not.

I know how electronics are as far as returning them,especially after they've been "altered"(putting my deans plug on it). Plus,it'll be agravating to get back down to the LHS I bought them at. Anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks

[JohnRobHolmes]

I wouldnt mess with it. Can you give the hobbyshop a call? Sounds like you might have a bad cell in there, the wiring is probably good. Im sure they would mail you a new pack if you expained to them the situation with driving and you can send back the old pack.

Bad lipo packs do happen sometimes, just like bad nimh cells.