I just Googled "battery explosions" and found lots of reports of battery explosions. Most of them have to do with laptop batteries and such, there were also reports about flooded cell batteries too.
The first one was about a room-sized UPS in a large building that did have a computer center that had since departed leaving the UPS room still operating. The vent system was turned on by a hydrogen sensor but for some reason unknown, did not operate. (we, wiser engineer as we are, connect our vent fans to a voltage sensitive switch rather than wait for a hydrogen buildup, don't we?) A hydrogen alarm had been sounding for three days before the explosion. (we, wiser captains, investigate every suspicious event immediately, don't we?) When the hydrogen did finally find a source of ignition the explosion blew the roof off and knocked down numerous interior walls. Fortunately, there was no one in the building and no injuries. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek FL 30 07.72N 081 38.4W _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
