[Swansea Hackspace] The dangers of playing with batteries

[Emyr Morris]

Impressive - almost as good as the I shared ;-)

On Saturday, 13 September 2014, Neil Jones <neil at aurinia.co.uk> wrote:

> It seems from speaking to people that my posting the other day about Li
> ion Batteries wasn't fully appreciated.
> The point I was making is care is needed with them because they can
> EXPLODE !
>
>
> The example I used was from our member Telsa Gwynne's on-iine diary where
> she wrote about her husband, Linux Guru, Alan Cox and his laptop.
>
> It would appear that even with properly used and genuine batteries there
> can be a risk because his laptop blew up one day!
>
> Here is the link again http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~telsa/boom/
>
> Here is a youtube video where a laptop is rigged to fail Laptop Battery
> Fire <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pizFsY0yjss>
>
> Neil
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