On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, steve szmidt wrote: > Our battery manufacturers did the same to stop people from recharging them. > They came out with this fantastic story of how batteries might explode if > charged. Most everyone believed it too.
It is quite true for some classes of batteries. E.g. some Li-ion batteries will explode if charged (or in the case of rechargeable batteries charged with the wrong voltage / polarity). They pack quite a punch as well. The normal household alkaline batteries are safe as far as I know though. Peter _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
