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Danger about carrying li-ion cells in pockets

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This man is lucky. You might not be.
Never transport Li-ion cells in your pockets with your coins or keys.

Here's a great example of why you never put li-ion batteries in your pockets
with other metal objects. This brings a new meaning to pocket -rocket. :crackup:

Extended: Battery explodes in Calgary man's pocket | CTV News

A Calgary man felt sparks and plenty of heat on a Friday night date with his wife after a spare battery for his e-cigarette erupted inside his pants as they stood in front of their favourite restaurant.
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Yeah... especially unprotected cells. This has happened a few times recently due to people carrying spare batteries for their vapes and such.
 
Wow, that guy suffered some very serious burns to his leg, not to mention his hand while trying to put out the fire.
Thanks for sharing Seoul, even though we know these Li-Ions can be dangerous, it's good to have a sobering reminder every once in a while.
 
BowtieGuy said:
Wow, that guy suffered some very serious burns to his leg, not to mention his hand while trying to put out the fire.
Thanks for sharing Seoul, even though we know these Li-Ions can be dangerous, it's good to have a sobering reminder every once in a while.
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Yes, I'd say he was lucky that short didn't occur inside the vape.
A worse situation occurred with a 3x18650 cell flashlight several years ago that unexpectedly experienced a short. (featured on CPF) The flashlight end was blown into the roof.
In a pocket Li-ion cells are an incendiary. Confined they are akin to a small bomb.
 
Lots of energy in these batteries, I can't mail them on military APO mail because of that. They must be shipped via FedEx which is too expensive. That means I cannot mail laptops either, not if they have batteries in them.
 
Alaskan said:
Lots of energy in these batteries, I can't mail them on military APO mail because of that. They must be shipped via FedEx which is too expensive. That means I cannot mail laptops either, not if they have batteries in them.
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Lol was planning on mailing 23 laptops yesterday, 8 laptops today, 110 for the month, definitely a common thing to be mailing laptops......:crackup:
 
Crazlaser said:
Lol was planning on mailing 23 laptops yesterday, 8 laptops today, 110 for the month, definitely a common thing to be mailing laptops......:crackup:
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It is if you're in IT. :na:Always had to send ours DG, at increased cost. Shipping department always complained about it, probably because it wasn't billed back to us. :p
 
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Seoul_lasers said:
Samsung batteries are pretty nice. Got a bunch myself. Currently they have up to 3200mAh 18650's for bulk order for laptop battery replacements.
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Was referring to the Samsung Galaxy S7s
exploding in fire....:evil:

Jerry
 
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paul1598419 said:
I guess people will always make mistakes like this. No matter how much they are warned to the contrary, I guess it's just human nature. At least for some people.
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Yup... :can:

Flashlight dead short = boom.


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Vape pen detonation wound left in man's hand.

 
Youch! I can't imagine why the battery in the first video seemed to spontaneously explode. The second video shows just how deep the wound can get from an explosion. I guarantee you he had anesthesia when they packed that wound. The best he can hope for now is maybe some lidocaine when they repack it. He'll have months of healing to do before they can close that wound.

Edit: Oh. This is not my night. I see the first one was a flashlight that exploded.
 
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After seriously thinking to get a few of these lithium battery flashlights to keep around the house and one for the car, i'm just staying old school with regular alkaline's.
Quite right as to how to easy to make a simple mistake..
Don't tell me people put lithium's in head band lights?:can:
 
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GSS said:
After seriously thinking to get a few of these lithium battery flashlights to keep around the house and one for the car, i'm just staying old school with regular alkaline's.
Quite right as to how to easy to make a simple mistake..
Don't tell me people put lithium's in head band lights?:can:
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Lithium is such a volatile material. It scares me even thinking about lithium headband lights.

This is a good warning thread and should be taken note of.

When I transport li-ions I never store two together without insulating the first. And I never pack them with anything conductive around them. It is far too risky and the consequences are not worth chancing.

It worries me that the best batteries commercially available are also the most dangerous. We should be beyond this by now.
 
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