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Fingers crossed it doesn't burn your house down when your out and about. At least put it somewhere outside.
by V__ 21d ago
Fingers crossed it doesn't burn your house down when your out and about. At least put it somewhere outside.
- embedding-shape 21d agoI have plenty of fire alarms, both local and remote, and extinguishers of different types around, I'm not too worried :) But thanks for the concern kind stranger!
- Epa095 21d agoAt least put it in a coffee cup or something like that!
- toss1 21d agoYES!! The other thing to do is discharge it, so it has little energy stored to maintain/enlarge a fire A drone engineer I worked with would immediately put any suspect battery into a barrel of water for several days, then get them disposed of properly. The risk really seems trivial, probably because of our extensive experience with ordinary alkaline and NiCad batteries with a very benign degradation pattern, but the risk with Li-Ion is no joke. All your fire extinguishers will do you no good if it goes off while you are out of the house. Also, the fire extinguishers will only suppress the surrounding fire, and do nothing about the core Li-Ion fire itself.
- jacquesm 21d agoIt's trivial until they go, and then it is instant misery. I've done it on purpose just to see how bad it would be and even knowing it will happen it will still surprise you with how sudden, total and hot those things burn. You have < 2 seconds from first signs of ignition to all-out fire with the battery moving all over the place due to outgassing. It's a thing to behold.
- embedding-shape 21d agoHow am I supposed to be able to observe it slowly swell more over time then? I think I might have overstated how big this battery is, or understated how small it is. It's fiiine :)
- jacquesm 21d agoYour extinguisher will do absolutely nothing. Get rid of it. Soon. Better now.
- embedding-shape 21d agoThe extinguisher is not for the battery itself silly, it's for when everything else around it is on fire :)
- boringg 21d agoBut if the fire continues after the extinguisher is done… what is covering that scenario?
- lazide 21d agoLol, literally none of those will meaningfully reduce or stop the damage if it happens. Very applicable example for the thread!