plenty of houses and businesses lost from charging lithium batteries, especially unattended.
If you aren't going to be present,, atleast make a little 'safe' spot with bricks and far away from combustible materials On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 7:04 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > 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> 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 > 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 > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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