To: Swordmaker
...Actually the first spontaneous fire in an iPhone 7 is not a case for a massive recall...It depends upon whether the LIPO batteries installed in the phone have a protection circuit or not.
Protection circuits add cost to the production of LIPO batteries. One way to reduce production costs is to eliminate the PCB from the batteries.
The downside to this is that batteries burst into flames.
10 posted on
10/21/2016 6:57:11 PM PDT by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
To: Ol' Dan Tucker
It depends upon whether the LIPO batteries installed in the phone have a protection circuit or not.
Protection circuits add cost to the production of LIPO batteries. One way to reduce production costs is to eliminate the PCB from the batteries.
The downside to this is that batteries burst into flames. The iPhones survived that USB killer device that is supposed to kill any computer or device it's plugged in to. . . because they DO have a charging protection circuit, and an isolation system.
16 posted on
10/21/2016 7:08:03 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson