The advantage of lithium ion batteries is that they store a lot of energy. And the disadvantage is that they store a lot of energy.
How much concern should there be for hybrid vehicles in attached garage?
Made in Chyna.
Four people killed, dozens injured due to an electric scooter fire in a French apartment building in Reims last week.
I had a little remote control airplane that I augered into the ground one day. The battery got damaged enough to go into runaway and it was impressive how hot and hard the Hot Wheels car sized battery burned.
In the coming years, we can expect more fires as these batteries slowly corrode.
I believe that it’s the chargers or charging circuits.
Overcharging one of those - regardless its purpose - guarantees a bad ending.
Found out the other day that one of the wife’s gadgets - an Android pad - had a battery ‘event’ at some time in the past number of months which caused it to expand and permanently pop open the case (still worked on adapter power).
I still don’t believe she understands how close we came to losing the house.
I was considering buying one of those power pack devices after our last winter storm but the idea of the lithium ion batts scared the heck out of me. I’ve settled on building my own in an old 20mm ammo can with lithium iron phosphate batts. Now that I’m typing that, I really need to get back to that little side project...