Laptop battery explosion

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gegs wrote:
Leonardo wrote:MAMMAMIA!!! :D
A great Italian exclamation that needs no translation :lol:
Used by the great Freddy Mercury too in the wonderful Bohemian Rhapsody, a masterpiece!!!
I think that helps a lot the diffusion of the exclamation around the world!
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I removed the HD to see if it has survived. Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, but still rather burnt. here is a photo of the underside of the machine.
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BuZz wrote:I removed the HD to see if it has survived. Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be
Are you saying you could access the info on the hard drive?
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No - it's still too damaged for me to want to try,. There is nothing on the HD I need to access either as I have a backup.
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Leonardo wrote:
gegs wrote:
Leonardo wrote:MAMMAMIA!!! :D
A great Italian exclamation that needs no translation :lol:
Used by the great Freddy Mercury too in the wonderful Bohemian Rhapsody, a masterpiece!!!
I think that helps a lot the diffusion of the exclamation around the world!
I see you've carefully sidestepped ABBA ;)
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Thank you for sharing buzz.

What model laptop / battery was it again?

Lately over the last year I've been buying whatever batteries I can find for my laptops on Amazon. I've had OK luck but noticed the last one I purchased for the HP laptop is starting to go. The current battery is about 2 years old and did give me something like 4 hours of battery time for a long time.
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gegs wrote: I see you've carefully sidestepped ABBA ;)
Uh yes I forgot Abba, but... let me say... two different worlds, Abba are good, ok, but Queen... another italian way of saying: "non c'e' confronto", literally: "There isn't any way to compare" (don't know if I can explain), the meaning is, one is good, but the other is thousands times better! Always personal idea, of course!!!
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BuZz wrote:I removed the HD to see if it has survived. Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, but still rather burnt. here is a photo of the underside of the machine.
Ooh, look at the line the heat sink has melted into the plastic. At least your COA survived though, BuZz! ;)
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Ha ha, yes. I just saw the Windows licence sticker..... But I'm gonna guess the laptop was running Linux. ;)
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yeh. it ran linux ;-)
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BuZz wrote:yeh. it ran linux ;-)
whatever?!?!?
No windows in my house, and neither in my office!!!
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Leonardo wrote:
BuZz wrote:yeh. it ran linux ;-)
whatever?!?!?
No windows in my house, and neither in my office!!!
Isn't it a bit dark :-)
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You need to watch your vitamin D! ;)

Amusingly, a friend recently got a job where his office is without windows. For the first time in 2 years, his daylight-powered watch died last week. He's now waiting for the vitamin deficiency to kick in. Supplement time!
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@ Spoyser and Roobarb: LOL :D
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Yoiks! Just this weekend I had to dig out my old (c2004) Acer laptop (in order to use the only available tools (windows!) to re-flash my new Android tablet, but that's another story! >.<), 'luckily', only the hard drive failed on me! /me removes battery from laptop...

Good think the Joggler doesn't have a battery!

Worryingly our office is full of old laptops and betteries!

Were you doing anything that was especially power demanding at the time of the fault?
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acesabe wrote:
Were you doing anything that was especially power demanding at the time of the fault?
nope. machine was idle
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Hmm. My UPS would make a mess if that went up. ;)
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roobarb! wrote:Hmm. My UPS would make a mess if that went up. ;)
UPS batteries tend to be lead acid and as such are designed to be kept constantly on charge.
They sure make a mess if you drop one and break the casing though... :lol: :roll:
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QuackingPlums wrote:
roobarb! wrote:Hmm. My UPS would make a mess if that went up. ;)
UPS batteries tend to be lead acid and as such are designed to be kept constantly on charge.
They sure make a mess if you drop one and break the casing though... :lol: :roll:
We had some rack mount UPS units at a place I used to work. After a year or so they started beeping with a 'replace battery' warning. We had to dismantle the entire rack because the cells inside the units had swelled, making it impossible to slide the whole thing out. I left shortly after that, so never knew what happened to them.
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I'm wondering now if its the QA stuff going on with these batteries.

I don't think much has changed in the development or methodologies of the charging circuits. I have looked over my older APC UPS's and they just have exhausted batteries. None of them leaked though.

Seems a bit like the exploding capacitors thing that was happening on the motherboards a while back. I had a brand new Intel motherboard do this to me about 2 years ago. Not too long ago I switched out my carpc's Via motherboard for same said reason.

It could be just the tolerances of manufacturing these laptop batteries that isn't being paid attention to?
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