It’s a risk in any Lithium ion battery, but particularly in low quality and poorly manufactured ones.
By now most or many people have dozens of Lithium-ion batteries in their homes. Nintendo Switch? Smart watch? Cell phone? Laptop? Rechargeable Li-ion AA/AAA batteries? Yard tools (mower, leafblower, string timmer, saw, etc.)? Car? Other crap small electronics?
It’s probably a miracle we don’t see MORE structure fires caused by batteries.
The risks for small batteries are infinitesimal. There's billions (or trillions?) of them out there but they rarely go up in flames.
The bigger they get? The more common immolation gets. Thus huge EV batteries & even worse: grid storage batteries are far more likely to erupt.
Add to that: cheap and crappy ones & things get even worse.
Yeah, I've been meaning to dig up some of my old lipos that I know are going to go off soon, problem is I can't for the life of me find the one I'm looking for and I've been looking for years.
It’s a risk in any Lithium ion battery, but particularly in low quality and poorly manufactured ones.
By now most or many people have dozens of Lithium-ion batteries in their homes. Nintendo Switch? Smart watch? Cell phone? Laptop? Rechargeable Li-ion AA/AAA batteries? Yard tools (mower, leafblower, string timmer, saw, etc.)? Car? Other crap small electronics?
It’s probably a miracle we don’t see MORE structure fires caused by batteries.
The risks for small batteries are infinitesimal. There's billions (or trillions?) of them out there but they rarely go up in flames.
The bigger they get? The more common immolation gets. Thus huge EV batteries & even worse: grid storage batteries are far more likely to erupt.
Add to that: cheap and crappy ones & things get even worse.
Yeah, I've been meaning to dig up some of my old lipos that I know are going to go off soon, problem is I can't for the life of me find the one I'm looking for and I've been looking for years.