Re: [RE-wrenches] Lithium battery fires

2022-03-12 Thread Jerry Shafer
Lithium batteries are not all the same, any battery having cobalt, magnesium, manganese are some of what will start fires, batteries with Phosphate does not have the same fire possibilities. On Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 12:11 PM Dana Orzel wrote: > >

Re: [RE-wrenches] Lithium battery fires

2022-03-12 Thread Kienan Maxfield
Kienan Maxfield Solar maxfieldso...@hotmail.com<mailto:maxfieldso...@hotmail.com> (801) 631-5584 (Cell) From: RE-wrenches on behalf of Dan Fink Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2022 3:41 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Lithium battery fires Safer

Re: [RE-wrenches] Lithium battery fires

2022-03-12 Thread Dan Fink
Safer LiFePO4 vs. "lithium ion" NMC formulation for ESS is also important to carefully explain to customers--especially since the UN 3480/3481 hazmat shipping labels and regulations group them both into the same category of "Lithium Ion" and that's what stamped and placarded on the box. Ran into

Re: [RE-wrenches] Lithium battery fires

2022-03-12 Thread Sindelar Solar
I would start by choosing my lithium technology carefully. I have only installed Blue Ion LiFP batteries, and have relied on Blue Planet's assurances that lithium ferrous sulfate technology is non-flammable and thus safe in residential applications. Allan On 3/12/2022 1:11 PM, Dana Orzel

[RE-wrenches] Lithium battery fires

2022-03-12 Thread Marco Mangelsdorf
As I far as I know in the grid-tie residential storage market, Tesla Powerwalls have dominated, especially in the two largest markets of California and Hawaii. (Full disclosure: I'm a Tesla Certified Installer.) To my knowledge, I've never seen an example of one torching. In fact, Tesla, to their

[RE-wrenches] Lithium battery fires

2022-03-12 Thread Dana Orzel
https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/01/massive-cargo-ship-carrying-electric-car s-sinks-in-atlantic-ocean-after-fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWq-Mq1Uqpw NTSB video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6eS6JzBn0k Without trying to be a fear monger but definitely concerned as an installer -