Lithium ion batteries...?
With all the new of these smart phones with lithium batteries catching fire and previously those hover board thingys with similar problems that supposedly had LI .. is there a general concern with lit...
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d3500ram wrote:
OK thanks fo rthe replies... I was just wondering since those smart phones were having issues and I read that they are discontinuing production because even the replacements are still defective.
Was just asking the question since it seemed that batteries were being blamed even though I never had any one fault on me.
Samsung will likely never release the information on the "root cause", but I will bet it is not primarily the battery itself.
Frequently, like in the Boeing 787 battery issue, it is more than one thing that causes a serious problem. In that case the following poor design decisions were made even knowing Li-Ion batteries are much more likely to catch fire than any other battery.
- Not venting the battery compartment overboard
- In sufficient thermal and smoke detection
- Insufficient built in fire suppression
- And ultimately waving third party design analysis and testing
