[TheForge] Battery technology (was Cordless drills)

[James Binnion]

>That's because fast charging MUST use sophisticated charge 
>termination to keep batteries from exploding (not that that wouldn't 
>be cool :)

Actually having been involved in a battery explosion incident it is 
not so cool, exciting but definitely not cool. A careless tech  as 
soldering a D cell size Lithium Thionel Chloride battery cell into a 
stack and got one in the stack incorrectly. The rest of the stack 
tried to charge that one , it protested this by shattering the 
stainless steel battery can and proceeding to burn violently. It damn 
near burned down the lab, luckily no one was hurt but it scared the 
s**t out of every one in the lab at the time.


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Jim Binnion

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