Not to point out the obvious, but why would you think their rules need to
make sense?
I can not think of a reason why a charger would be considered volatile. I
suppose if there are some electrolytic capacitors in the circuitry, they
could "pop", but in my experience that's only an issue when they're in an
active circuit.
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 3:39 PM Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm going with a group of High School kids from Church to the Bahamas
> this summer to do hurricane relief construction. Has anyone flown with
> Drill batteries recently? It looks like the FAA Allows Lithium
> batteries that are <=100 Watt Hour in your carry on bag, they are not
> allowed in checked baggage. A Dewalt 20v, 5ah battery is 100WH. Has
> anyone flown with batteries, do you have to do anything special in
> screening or anything?
>
> From this document
>
> https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ash/ash_programs/hazmat/passenger_info/media/Airline_passengers_and_batteries.pdf
> It says that chargers are considered volatile, and must be treated as
> batteries, I'm not sure why that would be. According to the infographic
> it seems that the battery can be in the checked bag if it's attached to
> a tool? That doesn't seem to make any sense.
>
> Nate
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