The Samsung Galaxy has a serious battery fire issue. I don't think it is that size has a huge impact on the probability other than maybe scaling linearly obviously, but that it has a huge impact on the seriousness of a problem.
John On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Millions of air passengers carry their cell phones onboard. Cell phones > have lithium batteries, yet you don't hear about them being a problem. It > would be interesting to know if there is a correlation between the size of > the battery and the failure rate when airborne. > > > mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I recently saw a sticker on an envelope that said "road transport only, >> do not >> send by air", and it occurred to me that the item in question probably >> contained >> Li batteries. I wonder why it's safe to transport Li batteries by road, >> but not >> by air? >> Also most of the Li battery failures I have heard of have been in >> aircraft. If >> that's the case, then perhaps the higher level of cosmic radiation at >> altitude >> is the immediate cause of failure of Li batteries transported by air?? >> >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >> >> >
