Posted on 01/27/2024 4:35:31 PM PST by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK..............
Health Canada is warning that a battery sold on Amazon for Dyson vacuum cleaners could pose a risk of fire and burns after a report of “significant” property damage.
The FirstPower 4000mAh V6 battery replacement for Dyson V6 Series vacuums were sold online between January and April 2022.
According to the product manufacturer, the battery is also compatible with the following Dyson vacuum cleaners: SV04, DC58, DC59, DC61, DC62, DC72, DC74, Absolute Animal Motorhead Slim, SV03, SV04, SV05, SV06, SV07, SV09.
PICTURED: FirstPower replacement battery for Dyson
Vacuums sold to 1,731 Canadians on Amazon. Health Canada The battery packs are not a Dyson or Dyson-authorized product, the Health Canada warning notes.
The product’s Amazon Standard Identification Number is B085RSLXK1.
The third-party company reported that 1,731 units of the affected products were sold in Canada. As of Nov. 24, 2023, there have been six reports of incidents including one report of “significant property damage due to fire in Canada,” Health Canada says.
Health Canada is advising consumers to immediately stop using the affected battery and safely dispose of it. If consumers are unsure how to do so, they are advised to contact their municipality for instructions on how to safely transport and dispose of lithium-ion batteries.
The agency also reminds consumers that batteries are considered hazardous waste and should not be placed in household garbage.
Dyson is also advising against purchasing third-party replacement batteries for its products due to potential safety concerns, Health Canada says, adding that consumers should learn the risks of buying consumer products online.
The product has been removed from the Amazon.ca website.
Luckily I live in the US, so my Dyson is fine.
Interesting. Now you can burn your house down with a vacuum battery.
That sucks....................
Fire safety tip:
Don’t leave the Dyson in your closet at home.
Store it in the EV car.
From TV series Chicago Fire
https://pics.imcdb.org/9656/chicfire-519-009z.jpg
original headline included “lithium-ion”:
“Suspected lithium-ion fire causes toxic smoke in Brisbane suburb”
27 Jan: 9News Australia: Residents told to stay inside as toxic smoke bellowed from housefire in Brisbane
By Mikala Theocharous
Residents of a Brisbane suburb were told to stay inside as toxic smoke bellowed from a lithium-ion battery fire.
The home on Sirius Street in Cooparoo, in Brisbane’s inner south, caught alight at about 7pm last night, with the fire quickly spreading to the roof, causing it to collapse.
Fire crews believe the fire was caused by a lithium-ion battery inside an electric scooter...
https://www.9news.com.au/national/residents-told-to-stay-inside-as-toxic-smoke-bellowed-from-housefire-in-brisbane/2de49f05-a3da-4dbd-aeb8-e8edd3ab5c62
27 Jan: Sky News Australia: ‘Shut windows and remain inside’: Toxic smoke warning after Brisbane home destroyed in massive Australia Day blaze
A two-storey home in Brisbane’s south-east has been destroyed by a massive fire with investigators on the scene amid unconfirmed reports the blaze was sparked by an e-scooter battery.
by Reilly Sullivan
Ten fire trucks battled to bring the blaze under control before the roof of the house partially collapsed about 8:10pm.
Firefighters battled the flames externally as they could not get inside the home...
Channel Nine reported the blaze may have been started by a lithium battery in an e-scooter.
But a QFES spokesperson told SkyNews.com.au there was currently no confirmed cause for the fire...
https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity-life/shut-windows-and-remain-inside-toxic-smoke-warning-after-brisbane-home-destroyed-in-massive-australia-day-blaze/news-story/09052b55c458a33e4a56efb659c13b1b
happening across Australia all the time.
Flee Canada.
I bought a battery for my Dyson on Amazon because Dyson batteries were out of stock for months.
The Chinese are exploiting Amazon to sell defective batteries across the board. I’ve bought several replacements for the batteries in my older Dell laptops over the last year, and 4 out of 6 have died already.
We have a local Battery Warehouse that will ‘rebuild batteries’ that are difficult to find. They take them apart and replace the individual cells and somehow seal the case back together. Perhaps there is a similar place near you.................
Having been an RC airplane nut in the early 00s, I was an early adopter of lithium tech, back when we built our own battery packs and learned to "balance" them manually.
Li-ion and Li-poly batteries must have all the cells at exactly the same state of charge at all times, and individual cells must never exceed the maximum voltage that's defined by the chemistry. Balance failure leads to overcharging of one or more cells, and that's when they catch fire. So my strong belief is that these battery fires we read about are caused by defective charge control, not the cells themselves. These Chinese battery assemblers undoubtedly cheap out when buying the electronics, and the result is sometimes even fatal.
We RC nuts built "charging safes". Fireproof containers in which batteries were imprisoned while charging. Military ammo cans were a common sight at flying fields. This is an idea whose time has not passed.
Since extreme temps are bad for these batteries, I can’t store them in my shed here in NH. An option I’d considered is renting a small storage unit (I have over a dozen of them in different sizes for yard equipment), but that’s expensive.
The only other option is stick them inside a wood burning stove which I’m not currently using, but that wouldn’t hold more than 5 or 6.
Any other suggestions? I don’t want to burn down my house, and I have these things sitting around the place. Thanks.
One form of the “fire safe” I saw advertised was a bag made of fiberglass cloth. I don’t know if they are still marketed, but you could easily stitch one up out of a fire blanket as sold on Amazon. You’d want a separate bag for each battery.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=welding+blankets&i=tools&ref=nb_sb_noss
Ammo cans are still a possibility if the batteries you are thinking about will fit into them.
We had a store like that here. They mostly did NiCad battery replacements. Dunno about the Lithium-Ion ones.
Thanks for your advice!
Or they could not.
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