"So loan your manual charger to a buddy. He gets busy and leaves it on 15+ volts for a week or three. Battery eventually causes a fire. What do you tell his kids?"Let's drift on over to the reality dept...
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v13i6.pdfhttp://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics-and-reports/Fire-statistics/Fire-causes/Appliances-and-equipment/Heating-equipmenthttps://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/287000-vehicle-fires-and-480-deaths-yearhttps://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
I have had two battery charger fires a)Schumacher smart charger b)Craftsman smart charger
Manual Battery charger 0
Lessee. 55 years with manual chargers and 10 years (or so) with smart chargers. "Hey wait a minute that ain't fair...the manual chargers have a whole 40 years head start on the smart chargers. Ooooo, wait a minute I have to think about that one"
Kitchen fires are real. A battery "catching fire"? Lithium maybe. Gel perhaps in thermal runaway.
This scares me. People demanding strict controls. Then they drive. So badly MY LIFE is threatened. Let's BAN EVERYTHING and let failed lawyers decide how or if we should live...
But this is all fantasy. The human race was so stupid they failed in the Cro Magnon era. No wait! Lucy perished when she bragged her wooly mammoth hide was fireproof.
Wotta Hoot :)
