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| Elliot Cannon |
 Nov 20 2016, 08:19 PM
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914 Guru  Group: Retired Members Posts: 8,487 Joined: 29-December 06 From: Paso Robles Ca. (Central coast) Member No.: 7,407 Region Association: None 
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This Piper burned because a flashlight was being charged unattended. Be carefull out there.
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| Krieger |
Nov 21 2016, 12:17 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,800 Joined: 24-May 04 From: Santa Rosa CA Member No.: 2,104 Region Association: None
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Shit! That sucks! Yeah, I have two lithium batteries charging now in the garage unattended. One for the flashlight and one for the cordless drill. Am I supposed to be watching them?
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| falcor75 |
Nov 21 2016, 12:50 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,579 Joined: 22-November 12 From: Sweden Member No.: 15,176 Region Association: Scandinavia
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When I was active in the RC flying and we used Li-Po batteries the advice was to keep them in a non flammable container while charging. Steel or stone works, I used a large flowerpot that sat well away from anything that could catch fire.
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| porschetub |
Nov 21 2016, 03:03 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,796 Joined: 25-July 15 From: New Zealand Member No.: 18,995 Region Association: None |
One of the vessels in our fleet had a serious fire @ sea,fire investigators traced it to a laptop charger blowing up,the cost to repair was estimated @ 20 million and a years worth of work to repair.
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| stugray |
Nov 21 2016, 03:23 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,825 Joined: 17-September 09 From: Longmont, CO Member No.: 10,819 Region Association: None |
Yes being an EE it makes me nervous when I walk around the house and can count over a dozen devices sprinkled around the house that are actively charging LiIon batteries.
3 tablets, two laptops, 4 phones, a quadcopter, cordless screwgun, flashlight, the list goes on. And THEN the samsung battery problem - dont get me started. When I fisrt heard about this i was quoted as saying "They had BETTER NOT come out and say that they have a software fix for that!!" Then they came out the very next day saying "we have pushed a software fix to all the phones that will limit the charge to 60% which will reduce the chance of a fire" YOU DUMBASSES! that means that some rogue hacker can push a patch that will tell all of the phones to charge to 150% and we will have fires breaking out all over the world. Battery charge control should NOT be reconfigurable via a software patch. A "minor software patch" was what caused the loss of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft when the batteries BLEW UP because some key fault protection parameters were inadvertently overwritten by the patch. |
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| stugray |
Nov 30 2016, 03:56 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,825 Joined: 17-September 09 From: Longmont, CO Member No.: 10,819 Region Association: None |
Training at work for Li-Ion battery handling.
They made us watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxJBRK2EXFc&vl=en |
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| rjames |
Nov 30 2016, 04:06 PM
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I'm made of metal Group: Members Posts: 4,231 Joined: 24-July 05 From: Shoreline, WA Member No.: 4,467 Region Association: Pacific Northwest
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QUOTE(falcor75 @ Nov 20 2016, 10:50 PM)  When I was active in the RC flying and we used Li-Po batteries the advice was to keep them in a non flammable container while charging. Steel or stone works, I used a large flowerpot that sat well away from anything that could catch fire. Great idea- thanks for sharing. |
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