[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Gaston, our astonished reader reports: "The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes".

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Camden said it was **too early to draw any conclusions** and **added that it did not appear that the incident had anything to do with the battery issues related to the recall.** "From here it's going to be a very methodical and meticulous process to figure out what happened," Camden said.

Uh-oh. It sounds like someone decided to save some bucks by not including a voltage-limiter on their Lithium-Ion batteries...

[bwteim]

Perhaps. Putting a laptop on what appears to be some type of fabric or plastic table cloth wouldn't help with heat dissipation either.

[Publius6961]

It sounds like someone decided to save some bucks by not including a voltage-limiter on their Lithium-Ion batteries...

I was hoping someone more knowledgable would supply a correction but, if memory serves me right, that would be current limiting circuit....