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TH-F6 Swollen Battery
I have a TH-F6 which I have had for about 2 1/2 years. It has been very
well treated, and care has been taken to treat the battery properly. I noticed that the battery would no longer hold a charge. I tried to remove the battery, and it was extremely difficult. It turns out that the battery was slightly swollen, and pressing against the HT case. LI-ion batteries trouble me a bit. I have seen some explosions and fires in RC aircraft using them. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar problem with the PB-42L stock battery with the TH-F6? Al / K1LTJ |
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TH-F6 Swollen Battery
"K1LTJ" wrote in message
oups.com... I have a TH-F6 which I have had for about 2 1/2 years. It has been very well treated, and care has been taken to treat the battery properly. I noticed that the battery would no longer hold a charge. I tried to remove the battery, and it was extremely difficult. It turns out that the battery was slightly swollen, and pressing against the HT case. LI-ion batteries trouble me a bit. I have seen some explosions and fires in RC aircraft using them. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar problem with the PB-42L stock battery with the TH-F6? Al / K1LTJ I would replace the battery and check your charging system (not over charging) w9gb |
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TH-F6 Swollen Battery
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"w9gb" wrote: "K1LTJ" wrote in message oups.com... I have a TH-F6 which I have had for about 2 1/2 years. It has been very well treated, and care has been taken to treat the battery properly. I noticed that the battery would no longer hold a charge. I tried to remove the battery, and it was extremely difficult. It turns out that the battery was slightly swollen, and pressing against the HT case. LI-ion batteries trouble me a bit. I have seen some explosions and fires in RC aircraft using them. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar problem with the PB-42L stock battery with the TH-F6? Al / K1LTJ I would replace the battery and check your charging system (not over charging) w9gb be sure to dispose the battery they can explode w/o warning swelling is a danger sign |
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TH-F6 Swollen Battery
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:10:53 GMT, ml wrote:
In article , "w9gb" wrote: "K1LTJ" wrote in message oups.com... I have a TH-F6 which I have had for about 2 1/2 years. It has been very well treated, and care has been taken to treat the battery properly. I noticed that the battery would no longer hold a charge. I tried to remove the battery, and it was extremely difficult. It turns out that the battery was slightly swollen, and pressing against the HT case. LI-ion batteries trouble me a bit. I have seen some explosions and fires in RC aircraft using them. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar problem with the PB-42L stock battery with the TH-F6? Al / K1LTJ I would replace the battery and check your charging system (not over charging) w9gb be sure to dispose the battery they can explode w/o warning If it won't take a charge it's probably past that danger point, but OTOH was probably close to it about the time the swelling ocurred. :-)) swelling is a danger sign Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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Roger wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:10:53 GMT, ml wrote: In article , "w9gb" wrote: "K1LTJ" wrote in message oups.com... I have a TH-F6 which I have had for about 2 1/2 years. It has been very well treated, and care has been taken to treat the battery properly. I noticed that the battery would no longer hold a charge. I tried to remove the battery, and it was extremely difficult. It turns out that the battery was slightly swollen, and pressing against the HT case. LI-ion batteries trouble me a bit. I have seen some explosions and fires in RC aircraft using them. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar problem with the PB-42L stock battery with the TH-F6? Al / K1LTJ I would replace the battery and check your charging system (not over charging) w9gb be sure to dispose the battery they can explode w/o warning If it won't take a charge it's probably past that danger point, but OTOH was probably close to it about the time the swelling ocurred. :-)) swelling is a danger sign Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com Thank for the comments Roger. Yes, the first thing I did was dispose of the battery. I have only used the stock wall wart charger with the TH-F6. I checked the output voltage of the wall wart, and it was fine. If I hadn't tried to remove the battery, I might not have been aware there was a problem. I put this post here, in part, to make others aware that there might be a problem here. It might be a good idea to remove the battery, and check it from time to time. Li batteries make me a bit nervous, and I was concerned when I found this problem, and thought it would be a good idea to make this post. Thanks Al / K1LTJ |
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TH-F6 Swollen Battery
On 28 Nov 2006 11:48:26 -0800, "K1LTJ" wrote:
Roger wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:10:53 GMT, ml wrote: In article , "w9gb" wrote: "K1LTJ" wrote in message oups.com... I have a TH-F6 which I have had for about 2 1/2 years. It has been very well treated, and care has been taken to treat the battery properly. I noticed that the battery would no longer hold a charge. I tried to remove the battery, and it was extremely difficult. It turns out that the battery was slightly swollen, and pressing against the HT case. LI-ion batteries trouble me a bit. I have seen some explosions and fires in RC aircraft using them. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar problem with the PB-42L stock battery with the TH-F6? Al / K1LTJ I would replace the battery and check your charging system (not over charging) w9gb be sure to dispose the battery they can explode w/o warning If it won't take a charge it's probably past that danger point, but OTOH was probably close to it about the time the swelling ocurred. :-)) swelling is a danger sign Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com Thank for the comments Roger. Yes, the first thing I did was dispose of the battery. I have only used the stock wall wart charger with the TH-F6. I checked the output voltage of the wall wart, and it was fine. If I hadn't tried to remove the battery, I might not have been aware there was a problem. I put this post here, in part, to make others aware that there might be a problem here. It might be a good idea to remove the battery, and check it from time to time. Li batteries make me a bit nervous, and I was concerned when I found this problem, and thought it would be a good idea to make this post. Over the past few years we've seen some great strides made in both battery capacity and current density. We've seen an extremely expensive recall due to a few failed Lithium batteries. Some of those failures were spectacular. The batteries don't usually explode with much force but the results, as I said, can be spectacular and dangerous if you are close. This brings to mind a question. Just how far will we be *allowed* to go with battery capacity and current density? There are two ways of extending the charge quantity in a battery. Increasing current density, the physical size of the battery, or a combination of both. Both have some distinct drawbacks. The one of size is obvious. The drawback(s) for increased current density OTOH are not so readily apparent. Batteries of high current density are characterized by a very low internal resistance. That means the results of shorting out a 2 AH dry cell and shorting out a 2 AH Lithium battery are quite different. Both have the same charge, or Joules of energy BUT the rate at which that energy can be taken out of the battery is much greater with the Lithium battery than the dry cell. IOW the current flow is not limited by a high internal resistance, but is extremely high due to a very low internal resistance. A watt is one joule per second. It's also 1.5 Volts pushing 0.66 amp through 1 ohm for 1 second. A watt is also (I^2)*R so anything we do to increase the current flow will dramatically increase the power released per unit of time. As Lithium batteries are already spectacular in this respect we really don't have a long way to go before there could be a lot of force released when a battery is shorted either internally or externally. Thanks Al / K1LTJ Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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