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Hi Ian -Interesting comparisons and a useful site.

On the subject of batteries - The guy who sits next to me at work put some rechargable AA's on charge yesterday. after a couple of minutes we could smell this awful smell - one of the batteries was smoldering - he immediatly unplugged the charger and as he tried to remove the burning battery from the charger with a screwdriver - the thing exploded. It was like a bomb going off !! luckily no one was hurt but the boss got some fall out in his hair... and the office stunk for several hours. I didn't know rechargables could do that.
Phil

Phil McGarrick wrote:I didn't know rechargables could do that.

Were they really rechargeable ones ?

Didier

Something from the Flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bfenech/381952576/

Cheers
Barry

I had power connected to a portable radio transceiver,
permanently at one point, which was no problem until one night,
I was sitting at the computer and I heard a hissing noise and smelt heat.

I put my hand on the transceiver and it was red hot so I unplugged it and
opened the battery cover, the 6 "C" cells had all the plastic coatings melted off
them and one was steaming.

I shook the batteries out of the radio out of the window into the garden.

A close shave indeed, the batteries were Nicads and the reason for the problem was
that I had been using a 2.1mm power connector that was slightly too long which overrode
the contacts that disconnect the battery supply when using external power!

P.S. Ian, who's that bloke in your avatar? I've seen him before somewhere!

Amanda

Didier wrote:

Phil McGarrick wrote:I didn't know rechargables could do that.

Were they really rechargeable ones ?

Didier

Yes definetly rechargeable ones - but we wont let him charge anymore !
Interesting that artical on the Flickr site so it's happened before.

I think Ian has the right idea - use the chart on Ian's link and buy the non rechargable ones that last the longest.

Phil