I put my DeWalt 20V batteries in a charger and walk away all the time.  I 
shouldn’t do that?  I think the batteries and the chargers are both smart.

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2020 7:37 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT rechargable

 

Isn’t everything lithium these days?

 

From: TJ Trout 

Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2020 6:33 PM

To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT rechargable

 

Never ever ever charge lithium batteries unattended. Build yourself a box out 
of cinder blocks for future charging. 

 

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 5:20 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> > wrote:

Couple of our guys came to check some thing at the shop today, the OSP crew 
ready room was full of smoke.

Our horizontal directional drills use sondes in the drill head for tracking 
purposes.  We recharge the batts every time they come back to the shop.  

 

The batts we use are smaller than normal sonde bats so they fit into an 
adapter, sabot type of thing.  

 

The industry standard is double C cells, but the vibrations are such that 
normal C cells will give you intermittant service.  So most use a special 3 
volt battery that is probably just 2 c cells welded with heat shrink.

 

Our new locators and sondes use a voltage a bit higher than most 3.3 volt 
lithium.  They like 3.6 volts I believe.  So the smaller batteries are adapted 
to fit the sonde, but the charger for them requires the adapter.  

 

They really should make the charger such that the larger batts cannot be put in 
it.

 

Just glad we didn’t have a fire.  It did blow the corner of a piece of 
shelving.  

-- 
AF mailing list
AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> 
http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

  _____  

-- 
AF mailing list
AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> 
http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

-- 
AF mailing list
AF@af.afmug.com
http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Reply via email to