Indeed. You're going to need a pretty big cinder block box to charge your car in...
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 7:38 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > 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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