[Elecraft] Battery Leakage

Marc Veeneman mveeneman at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 16 06:36:03 EST 2017


Threw away a stored RCR123 last week due to leakage.  The light brown oily fluid could be washed off the container but the positive pole of the cell was partially gone.  The other 3 cells were still charged and now in use.

That's the first rechargeable lithium I've seen with leakage.
-- 
Marc W8SDG

> On Jan 16, 2017, at 3:29 AM, jonlevy73 <jonlevy73 at usa.net> wrote:
> 
> Had some Lithium AA fail.  They smoked and caught on fire.  This was not in a
> radio.
> 
> Jonathan
> 



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