lithium batteries.

Hi Bill

These photos have been circulating for years and they have been posted on the forum before (cant find thread)....My understanding is that it has nothing to do with a gps containing lithium batteries exploding....

Snopes rates it as FALSE

Which is not to say it can't happen (?) just that the pictures you have posted are not a true example of it.

Cheers
Greg

hi no
but last week while in perth during the heatwave I forgot and left my nav-man 400 gps on the windscreen when it was 39deg for 2 hours and when I came outside and opened the car the gps was so hot
I had to get a piece of rag so I could get it off the screen it was burning hot still had 12v power on plus glaring sun

I made a firm decision there and then never to do that again as I have fear that it could result in a fire luck doesn't last 4 ever

g/day Bill.
A little Armaoil and a cloth will fix it.

its on the net so it must be true

Near Bendigo, just last year, a small girl using a dvd player in the back seat of the family car had the unit explode and catch fire while it was in her lap.
The car was stopped at the time and the father was at the front of the car and heard the noise and the his daughter crying. He saved the situation very quickly but some hand and face burns were suffered by the little girl. Also the car required repair to trim. Could have been worse if adults weren't on the spot.
Dick Smith had to recall all units sold by order of authorities.

The girl isn't a fan of DVD players now.

Not sure of the legal wrangling going on post the event.

Hi All

i am a avid remote control car freak and use lithium batteries for there amazing performance, but i will tell you if you treat these batteries badly they are close enough to a bomb that it doesn't matter. if my batteries get over handling temp after using for 30 min i discard. Don't want the batteries blowing up in my RC car.
Just be careful with these types of batteries.

Quite apart from what has been said...Be very aware that the Lithium iron Phosphate (LiFePo4, LFP) batteries being advocated for use in RVs are a vastly different beast to the Lithium ion (Li) batteries featured in those above events.
LFP batteries have a very much better safety record, but of course, at this early stage there are fewer in circulation, and generally not in totally uneducated hands.

I fly RC model aircraft which are electric and use Li-Po (lithium polymer batteries) as noted by the RC car poster above. Li-Po's can explode if charged incorrectly, discharged too quickly, or damaged, but I do not believe that Li-Po's are used at all in GPS or mobile phone batteries; NiMH, LiFe or Li-ion batteries are used almost exclusively for GPS/phone applications.