Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: wmartin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Kids got an E-scooter? Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 12:51:30 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 72 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:52:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f11ceb17cdf7ba8065ae02b75c642acc"; logging-data="521460"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18cAoOy/hej3mQmrLfSGd32WwTtU7oouPY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:oAYx09Rigo3OM2U6+Uw2xyNDQGQ= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4282 On 6/23/24 09:56, Cursitor Doom wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 11:25:21 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote: > >> On 23/06/2024 9:58 am, john larkin wrote: >>> On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:39:48 +0100, TTman >>> wrote >>>> On 22/06/2024 18:22, Cursitor Doom wrote: >>>>> On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 09:12:04 -0700, john larkin wrote: >>>>>> On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:22:25 +0100, Cursitor Doom >>>>>> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Get rid of it! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxwwzd99r2do >>>>>> >>>>>> I doubt that there is any serious quality control on cheap >>>>>> batteries. >>>>>> >>>>>> Kids are maiming and killing themselves on cheap unlicensed >>>>>> battery-powered scooters and such too. >>>>>> >>>>>> Imagine maybe a million unused battery-powered toys gathering dust >>>>>> in garages and closets waiting to explode. >>>>> >>>>> A frightening thought! Not so much batteries; more incendiary bombs. >> >> If you can describe it as a thought. More a deluded fantasy/ >>>>>> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33963903/ >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Go-Bowen-Baja-1000W-Electric-Go-Kart/dp/ >>>>> B00NOD6T4G >>>>> >>>> That's why we charged our RC lipos in a fireproof bag... >>> >>> If it ignites, it would burn through a steel lunchbox. >> >> Really? Do you have any evidence for that that claim? >> >> This is just more of the usual alarmist nonsense about lithium ion >> batteries. This should be the kind of forum where we discuss the design >> of lithium ion battery chargers and lithium ion battery condition >> monitors - which could, in principle be designed to discharge the >> battery if the internal temperature of the battery rose high enough to >> suggest a risk of runaway self-discharge. >> >> Cursitor Doom and John Larkin are much too devoted to their alarmist >> fantasies to want to think about that (always assuming that they could >> if they wanted to). >> >> -- >> Bill Sloman, Sydney > > Perhaps you'd like to explain to the lady who's house burned to the ground > and her similarly stricken neighbours that this is all just an "alarmist > fantasy" Bill. Alarmist fantasy in action... https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/05/18/battery-fire-at-storage-facility-in-otay-mesa-keeps-reigniting/ also: (different incident) "On April 19, 2019, a fire captain, a fire engineer and two career firefighters suffered serious injuries dealing with a thermal runaway incident at a 2.16-megawatt battery facility in Surprise, Arizona. According to a Underwriters Laboratories report on the incident, When firefighters opened a door to the building, a 75-foot jet of flame extended outward from the doorway. The fire captain was blown over 70 feet against a chain-link fence surrounding the building. The entire hazardous materials team lost consciousness from the blast. " Not to be an alarmist, just be aware that even professionally managed lithium batteries can do bad things. Don't keep them in your house...