Recycle LapTop Batteries

[joel321]

A lot of people have died because lithium batteries have caught on fire...

I'm sure more have died driving a car but does that prevent people to drive a car? NO! It just means to use common sense. I understand that there are situations to push ligal actions, but over all, I don't see a big deal in the lithium batteries.....

If you smell smoke coming out of your electric bike, and all of your fuses and protection got bypassed, you have 3 minutes to walk away from it and tell people to watch the puny fireworks...lol

please google "airline crashes battery fire" and spend half an hour reading.

Well yes, I understand that, but the solution would be enclose those batteries in a metal case or ad as many fuses or implement a fire extinguisher when detecting fire....yara yara yara....that is more related to negligence (saving money) than the actual danger of the batteries.

You know about the Model S Tesla, fires have occurred too due to the batteries being low and gotten punctured by road debris...but never exploded because of the safety measures....got shyt on fire, YES, but not exploded.  But it's all a mater of using onion layer safety!

Now the TESLA is getting four-wheel-drive...

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/11/3578698/new-tesla-speed-awd-efficient-range-self-drive/

[TommeyLReed]

Hi all,

First of all, someone on this forum is misleading the fact that no laptop battery ever explodes sitting in a box.

Lithium explode for two reason:
Charging them with a bad balance/charger or too much load being pull from them.
You have a better chance to fart near a fire and see smoke  then having a lithium battery explode in your hand.

Rechargeable batteries are no different, they also can explode if you over charge them.

Don't fart guys. you can burn your house down

This is how foolish some people sound

Tom

[ramset]

Don't fart in the house ..."you'll shoot your eye out"


Tom,
of course all safety concerns must be addressed ,And  as Tinsel stated,
an air tight container would be inappropriate for these early experiments.
Big challenge there for long term ..........


I am amazed at the difference in power density between these batteries and lead acid batteries.
sheeez just typing "lead acid" makes my palms sweat......


I like the cheap source for good batteries.


Good topic, not for the faint of heart.


thx
Chet

[TommeyLReed]

Hi All,

This is a video how lithium reacts to water and fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BliWUHSOalU

How lithium ion are made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PjyJhe7Q1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_72pVVmgcY

Tom

[TommeyLReed]

Hi All,

This is a lithium battery pump circuit design using 3v-4v and charging each can while in series.

This also can be use to charge ten 12v batteries in series using a single 12v charger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpOZ4HvFv-g

Tom