15 Aug
2006
15 Aug
'06
5:29 p.m.
--- Don <THX1138 at dakotacom.net> wrote:
> I have mini-Maglites in my toolkit - three of 'e m,
Yeah, what brand?
Have you heard (I read this today) that Dell
has been forced to RECALL 4.1 MILLION batteries
, made by Sony (haha!), from there notebook
computer thingies made from... *checks dates*
...April 2004 to July 2006!
Why? Because of a risk of "smoke and/or fire".
On a similar note, a heard of mobile phones
exploding (yes, exploding) in Japan a couple
of years ago, because they weren't using the
recommended rechargeable batteries.
Apparently, IIRC, if the batteries short out
they become VERY hot (700 degrees C?) and
explode like a grenade.
Many of the owners of said phones were
hospitalised and/or had hands/ears blown off :(
Also, after the recent hot spell (36 degrees C)
here in the UK I discovered that one of the
batteries in a remote had leaked. I put it down
to the extreme heat (in 27 years I have only
seen a battery that has leaked twice now),
as in my experience it's a rare occerance
(unless the battery is really old).
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
O. Sharp wrote:
> snip <<
and they all get use; I
> work in the dark a great deal, but that's anothe
r
story * - and recently
g
had the unpleasant surprise of having one of the
"regular" batteries
corrode and die (and the batteries had been
replaced less than a month
earlier). This did an _astonishingly_ effective
job of destroying the
> interior of the Maglite as well, the acids eatin away the Maglite's
e_
shell in a way I literally didn't think was
possible. Defective battery?
Some other problem? We may never know.
What brand of battery? I haven't seen a battery
fail like this
in decades. Was the light stored in a harsh
environment?
> Whatever the cause, I'd hate to even _contemplat the idea of that
> possibly happening right next to a DEC backplane
.