Have you had a lithium battery fail in a catastrophic manner (meaning fire/explosion)?
Have You Had a Lithium Battery in a Device Catastrophically Fail?
ihfree on 23/05/2023 - 23:42
Last edited 24/05/2023 - 10:55 by 1 other user
Last edited 24/05/2023 - 10:55 by 1 other user
Poll Options
- 4Yes - Phone
- 2Yes - Laptop/Tablet/Console
- 3Yes - Wearable- Watches, headphones, etc
- 0Yes - Remote Control Toy
- 0Yes - Transportation eBike/Scooter
- 5Yes - Other
- 105No
Comments
No fire or explosions. Had an iPod touch that failed and heated up. Pretty sure it was the battery
Also had the battery bloat in an Alienware laptop
Where is the Tesla option?
In your imagination
You better donate more dog food for Gerry and Rupert!
Where is the samsung note 7 and washing machine option
Which washing machine had a battery?
maybe they were washing their samsung note 7
Don't forget Dell and Apple recalling laptops due to batteries. Every now and then there are manufacturing faults or design flaws - recalls do happen.
And some beats XL speaker too
I had an aftermarket battery attached to a Ryobi angle grinder catch fire. I had 3 others fail too but they just dropped dead without the excitment. I switched back to genuine Ryobi batteries and it's been smooth sailing since.
I've had aftermarket Ryobi 5Ah batteries for about 4-5 years and they work the same as the originals.
Yep had a work Surface Pro run hot quite a bit. Piece of shit device but it's what work provided so whatever. Came in one morning and saw the screen had split from the frame. Looked further and noticed the battery had puffed up.
JB had them on display about 8 of them running videos on the Microsoft display I had a memo come through to remove them immediately all 8 I removed had swollen batteries too !
Not too dramatic but I’ve had a laptop battery bulge significantly that letters on the keyboard have popped off. When my IT department opened it up, they were surprised it hadn’t completely exploded.
Nothing to serious, bulging battery in my Note 9 that had a cracked screen i cracked, actually saved me trying to figure out how to remove the front screen dare i say would have probably damaged in the process, well the battery buldged that much it literally popped the front screen off on its own lolz
EDIT: not a good idea on my part having my Note 9 phone beside me while sleeping on my bed, so many times I've rolled over my Note 9 were i i woke up finding my phone was so hot was impossible to hold
You are very brave.
Still do it but my current phone i keep way above my head and close as possible to the bed head, anyway once my Note 9 buldged certainly didnt keep it near me,.. unless you were refering to the supposedly reported risks to 5G lol
My Sony Xperia phone original battery bloated.
A couple of bloats only
Had a solar charged device with a lithium battery inside my car, stuck to the windscreen on a hot Summer day.
I lost a mavic pro to the ocean when the battery was swollen and popped itself out. I only worked it out after when I saw the remaining two batteries were swollen too
ebay jump starter,
behaves like the Vatican announcing a confirmed vote
Lotsa white smokeAre you asking for a friend?
Not catastrophic, but had a power bank battery expand on me and crack open the outer case.
Big issue with Airlines.
Many airlines now carry fireproof bag and welding type gloves to deal with Lithium battery fires. Cabin crew uses the welding type gloves to place burning or smoking lithium battery powered device in fireproof bag.
There are some videos on youtube of this occurring.
Also a friend who is a international skipper confirmed they carry the gear on flights he commands .. though fortunately he has not had to deal with a cabin lithium battery fire yet but he knows of colleagues it has happened to …
A google search to find info on airline related fires..
https://www.google.com/search?q=lithium+battery+cabin+fireBit of scare-mongoring, no?
Planes have been carrying flammable materials for as long as they've been around - starting with the big fuel tanks in the wings.
Many airlines now carry fireproof bag and welding type gloves to deal with Lithium battery fires
Guess what? Planes have all sorts of fire detection and suppression systems … smoke detectors, insulation, extinguishers, mechanical ventilation …
There are some videos on youtube of this occurring.
Yet the number of fatal incidents is 0 (from what I can tell).
Heck, modern planes (eg Boeing 787) use lithium batteries for internal components.
Fuel tanks and aircraft lithium batteries are from verified suppliers, and planes have regular maintenance schedules.
Not so much passengers trying to dump uncertified Aliexpress powerbanks into checked baggage where they are buried under piles of other luggage and completely unmonitored.
lithium batteries are from verified suppliers
Verified suppliers stuff up too … the 787 batteries had some teething issues early on.
Not so much passengers trying to dump uncertified Aliexpress powerbanks
There's a good chance those Aliexpress powerbanks were transported on a plane after manufacturing.
I don't know what you're trying to say … there's been plenty of cases of cargo fires from non-lithium sources too.
checked baggage where they are buried under piles of other luggage and completely unmonitored.
You make it sound like there's no screening or controls around checked baggage. Yeah, I'm sure some stuff slips through, but I don't think it's anywhere near as risky as you make it sound.
I might reassess my opinion once there is a confirmed case of a lithium battery fatality on a plane, until then you're just scaremongering like @Rob-4x4
There's a good chance those Aliexpress powerbanks were transported on a plane after manufacturing.
Most the low value stuff stuff out of Chinese factories come via cargo ships. Have you tried shipping lithiums via DHL? There are hoops to jump through.
Do you have any actual experience, professional or hobbyist, with this tech or are you blowing smoke and making stuff up?
I've only dabbled at the amateur end of things- built plenty of packs using Japanese and Chinese cells because I used to live in a market with easy access to both. Most the Chinese ones failed within 2 years. Not catastrophically, but either with swelling, leakage, or massive capacity loss.
Most the low value stuff stuff out of Chinese factories come via cargo ships.
What's your point? There's low value stuff that comes via planes too. Just look at how many fleabay sellers lie about the item location.
Have you tried shipping lithiums via DHL?
I have - what's your question? It's not as complicated as your think. I check a box saying "lithium battery contained within device" and it goes through without any issues. If I have multiple devices in the same package, it's normally flagged as "cargo plane only".
Electronics manufacturers pay attention to the limits for lithium batteries on passenger planes, for example a dell xps 17 has a relatively small battery so it can still be used on planes.
I've never had the need to ship raw battery via DHL.
Most the Chinese ones failed within 2 years. Not catastrophically
Still not understanding your point. Alkaline batteries deteriorate and explode too.
Do you have any actual experience, professional or hobbyist, with this tech or are you blowing smoke and making stuff up?
My only point is that there's always some idiot in these threads (or ones about electric cars being unsafe) that goes on about how dangerous lithium batteries are. They're not. They're fine and over any period of time I think you'll find that they kill less people that exhaust emissions.
No fire, but my Razer blade 15 Advance 2019's battery puffed up and caused the touchpad to not work properly.
Swollen batteries in old phones but no fires. Oddly only the Samsung ones.
Had a laptop battery fire in my office once. Threw it out the window… problem solved.
Ive had a nimh battery start to smoke. Child put it incorrectly into the charger.