> The camera was hot, not the battery. This is a rather curious reply. What source, other than the battery, is going to make the camera hot? If you are saying that the battery was not hot when you took it out, but the camera was, then I can only postulate that (since you said the camera was discharged) that your timing was such that the battery itself (the source of the heat) was no longer outputting heat but that the camera was still storing/dissipating the heat that had come from the battery.
Irregardless of that battery appearing to recharge again, I would toss it in the trash. It is clearly failing. Even if the battery was the not the source of the heat ( I would wager it WAS) lithium ion batteries hate heat and is it effectively "toast". The overheating problem of lithium ion batteries is a known problem, but relatively rare (hence few others with your experience). Why lithium batteries keep catching fire http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/01/economist-explains-19 How Lithium-ion Batteries Work http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/lithium-ion-battery2.htm On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: > It was likely that the camera was locked up in some non-standard mode > where motors were powered inappropriately. For instance if the SR > circuit was malfunctioning the current drawn would likely be within > the spec of the battery but the SR system may not be able to > adequately dissipate the heat developed due to the fault. > > > > On 7 July 2014 11:16, John <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 7/6/2014 12:44 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: >>> >>> Am 06.07.14 18:35, schrieb Zos Xavius: >>>> >>>> But yeah, damage to batteries tends to sometimes make them catch on >>>> fire. >>> >>> >>> The camera was hot, not the battery. >>> >>> Ralf >>> >> >> If the battery inside the camera was discharging at an excessive rate, >> would that cause the camera to overheat? >> >> -- >> Science - Questions we may never find answers for. >> Religion - Answers we must never question. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
