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08-Jul-2009, 12:48 PM #1
battery dangers
cell phones explode-how often?

i had a small aa battery get hot-i think it got nicked on end or something

it was redish--i put it in water in a jar and threw it out

i wonder what the worse it could have done

i m collecting them all and trashing them

do the laptop batteries do this?
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17-Jul-2009, 10:31 PM #3
Hi,

Yes, laptop batteries can explode, catching the computer on fire and causing injuries. I've had one here I was working on do that- an old ThinkPad that had a bad battery that would never finish charging. I was new to computing at the time, and just kept on letting it try to charge to 100%, not knowing that the battery itself was beyond all that. It heated up and in seconds, popped and there was a flaming mess on the table which I had to scoop up in a bath towel and run outside with.

It's probably not happening a lot but there have been some incidents

Here they intentionally show you what happens to one



Dell had some that did also

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...ese-conference

There have been quite a few recalls of Dell and other major laptop manufacturers with batteries that could explode....also with the AC power adapters.

Some laptops really need their software monitors, that regulates power and charging....some users like to remove this "unneeded" program which may accelerate battery damage....or, they are defective and explode.
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