Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:00:26 -0500
From: Christopher Kalos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] battery check
To be perfectly fair, he said he wanted to measure the *voltage* of
the battery pack using his ohmmeter. He *could* very well be one of
the people who just simply calls a multimeter by whatever he first
used it for when he bought it. (There's a lot of them. Then again,
there's a ton of people on the Internet who haven't bothered to make
sure that what they post is accurate. That's the great thing about a
reasonably affordable communications system. Anyone can learn
anything, given time, and if you're smart, you'll know not to trust
everything you read.)
Now, we both know that using an ohmmeter to test a battery's a very
very bad idea, but really, berating someone doesn't help them or
you. In fact, you're more liable to get a defiant attitude, and the
guy's going to say "Oh, I'll show him! I can totally figure out the
voltage if I just put this lead here, and this lead--"
*POP*
Sure, that's natural selection in action, but is it truly a fate that
we'd wish upon anyone? Does yelling at someone who hasn't done
anything wrong really help?
Honey versus vinegar and all that, not to mention, education over
berating. Better to have one understand why he's got a bad idea,
than to harp on him without helping. Both ways avoid the worst case
scenario, but one of them leads to the misinformed party spreading
the right information in the long run.
(And I, for one, am smart enough to not even think about messing with
my spare Li-Ion packs without getting some seriously detailed
instructions first. And don't think I'm not tempted. I've probably
got a couple of dozen cells out of all of my Libby packs, and they're
sitting in a pile, waiting for the day that I either get the
instructions, or take them in for processing and recycling.)
CK
On Feb 3, 2006, at 12:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:41:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LIB] battery check
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Matthew Hanson wrote:
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:34:18 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] battery check
Safety & training in LiIon pack work have always been issues with
John, Carvel, as I'm sure you know from readind the list as long
as you have been. But you also know that people on the list have
succeeded in working on these packs. John is right though.You do
need to be careful when working on LiIon battery packs.
Thanks, I'm glad to see others on this list have sense. Did you see
the eyewitness news, (nbc i believe) where some kid tried to
'improve' a li-ion battery pack by 'repairing' it and blew a big
hole in his stomach?
John must have mis-read your message when he thought you wanted to
measure resistance, as you clearly state you want to measure the
voltage with the meter your described as an 'ohm-meter'. Though
'multimeter' may be a more appropriate term.
nope. ohmmeter means resistance he said it and that is exactly what
he wanted to measure. have you ever heard about technically
incompitant people all of a sudden, after being caught of course
kind of reniging on what they're intent was. happens all the time.
I read somewhere about what voltages for these packs were supposed
to be. Maybe in the archives. As for which contacts are which...
I was wondering that myself.
I know what they are.
john
