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Yeah that's pretty crazy. If the battery produces gases like that, shouldn't it be vented?
by thrownaway2424 12y ago
Yeah that's pretty crazy. If the battery produces gases like that, shouldn't it be vented?
- tantalor 12y ago> If the battery produces gases like that Run.
- pling 12y agoYes spot on. When I was a teenager I used to race RC cars. The things had pretty hefty NiCd an NiMh cells. Occasionally one would vent and catch fire in someone's car or more usually attached to a fast charger. Flames, smoke, nasty chemicals spilling out and everything for about 2 feet in each direction pretty much destroyed or covered in chemical gunk. Now there are LiIon and LiPoly cells with an even higher energy density and discharge rate. If one of them goes, I'm out of the place. I trust a 240v mains line over those things. Typical outcome (artificially started with a hammer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjkW3KUz5uo#t=116 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjkW3KUz5uo#t=116
- stinos 12y agojust last week a house got burnt down overnight due to an electric bicylce's bettery catching fire while left charging. Luckily nobody got hurt or worse. Moreover, a quick glance over news sites indicates this happens a couple of times a year. Run indeed.
- nwh 12y agoSomething tells me you don't want the lithium in your batteries reacting with the water in the air.
- thrownaway2424 12y agoHey, not a chemist :-) But wouldn't they be "reacting with water in the air" rather quickly if they burst?