> He didn't handle 18650s. He bought a battery pack for his laptop that was supposedly an HP replacement, except it was either counterfeit or refurbished by a t

> He didn't handle 18650s. He bought a battery pack for his laptop that was supposedly an HP replacement, except it was either counterfeit or refurbished by a third party. If you reread the article, you'll see that the article mentioned a series of related issues, one was about the defective laptop (and other off-the-shelf) battery packs. I think everyone knows something about it already, even the great kernel hacker Alan Cox was a victim! His 3rd-party laptop battery pack exploded in 2006. * https://slashdot.org/story/06/09/24/062217/alan-coxs-exploding-laptop https://slashdot.org/story/06/09/24/062217/alan-coxs-explodi... But the article mentioned another issue as well, which is the purchasing and handling 18650 cells by individuals (mainly for e-cigarettes), which I found was something new and different. Thus I posted the discussion above.