LarryF Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Saw this on Digg. Keep in mind, this is a little Li-ion battery. http://digg.com/video/a-compelling-argument-against-stabbing-your-phone-battery-with-a-chefs-knife Best Regards, Larry Fisher Lectrosonics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jKennedy Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Wow. So the batteries are powered by fire bombs? That's scary. Could this scenario play out with a short or does it take a puncture to create this situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Borlace Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 You don't even have to abuse lithium batteries to have bad things happen. I worked on a documentary about UPS flight 6 that had a cargo of lithium batteries in the hold. They started a heat buildup, caught fire and created smoke in the plane and cockpit. The pilot's oxygen mask stopped working, the co pilot lost flight control and the plane crashed, killing both pilots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryF Posted March 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Short, puncture or a manufacturing defect can cause the battery to overheat in a small area and then thermally runaway. The problem with shipping multiple batteries is that one battery can fail and then cause all the other perfectly good batteries next to it to also catch fire until the whole load goes up. Imagine that happening to a shipment of batteries in a cargo hold with nobody around. This is why on passenger flights they won't take shipments of Li-Ions in the cargo hold. Also the airlines want even small quantities of Li-Ion batteries to be only in the passenger compartment so a problem can be attacked by motivated human beings. Best Regards, Larry Fisher Lectrosonics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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