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Ken Weitzel
- Jan 1, 1970
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Hi...
Gosh, I'd really suggest NOT throwing NiMh's in your pocket!!!
Was outside taking pictures of flowers, grand kids decided to
ride their bikes to the park. Wanted to go with them, so
put the 4 spares I had outside with me in my (reasonably
tight) jeans pocket. Figured there was no way they could
arrange themselves in a way to short any of 'em.
Was terribly terribly wrong. One of the batt's had a
tiny flaw in the plastic wrap near the pos terminal, it
shorted and I would have sworn my pants were on fire.
Awfully hot, awfully painful. And to add insult to injury
permanently ruined the battery too
Please be careful.
Ken
Gosh, I'd really suggest NOT throwing NiMh's in your pocket!!!
Was outside taking pictures of flowers, grand kids decided to
ride their bikes to the park. Wanted to go with them, so
put the 4 spares I had outside with me in my (reasonably
tight) jeans pocket. Figured there was no way they could
arrange themselves in a way to short any of 'em.
Was terribly terribly wrong. One of the batt's had a
tiny flaw in the plastic wrap near the pos terminal, it
shorted and I would have sworn my pants were on fire.
Awfully hot, awfully painful. And to add insult to injury
permanently ruined the battery too
Please be careful.
Ken
Dave said:Thousands if not millions of rechargeable batteries are in use. My
completely uneducated guess is that the writer of the article you quote plus
a couple of his close friends and confidants carefully store their
rechargeables upright. The rest of us (thousands if not millions), just
throw in them in their pockets, camera bags, whatever, so I wouldn't lose
any sleep over it.
Dave Cohen