Glad you weren't hurt - whew! It might be a good idea to report your experience to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. If your battery had a defect there's a distinct possibility other batteries from the same lot or manufacturer are defective also. Getting the CPSC involved might prevent someone else from being injured - or worse.
There are downsides to packing more and more energy into smaller spaces. 73, Al On Wed December 10 2014 6:39:25 pm Doug Person via Elecraft wrote: > Have to admit, outside of actually combat, that was the scariest thing > I've ever experienced. The battery was a generic, Chinese manufactured, > lithium-Ion pack made up of 3 main, but unmarked, cells, wrapped in a > fairly tough flexible, plastic wrap. A little forensics leads me to > think the flexible outer shell probably absorbed some the initial blast > and helped contain the shrapnel - or at least slow it down. I shutter > to think what would have happened had it had exploded inside the steel > case of of the equipment it was meant for. I bought it from one of the > many vendors on ebay - I couldn't really say which one. I use these in > many different projects. They're very convenient. The charger is a > Tenergy Universal Lithium-Ion Smart Charger. I've used it 100's of > times without a problem. I think this was just a couple of defective > cells. Or, perhaps bad wiring. > > All I can say is the explosion was far beyond anything I've ever heard > of happening with bad Li-Io cells. If it had been inside the steel > case, it would have been a hand grenade. > > 73, Doug -- K0DXV > > On 12/10/2014 5:15 PM, Nick Kemp wrote: > > One thing available and recommended are fireproof/resistant envelopes > > to put LI-Io batteries into while charging. Maybe good practice it to > > charge them outside at least the first few times. > > > > Good to hear that you were not injured. > > > > Nick > > N1KMP > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to k0...@aol.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wb5...@centurytel.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
