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To: Chad C. Mulligan

We have a local Battery Warehouse that will ‘rebuild batteries’ that are difficult to find. They take them apart and replace the individual cells and somehow seal the case back together. Perhaps there is a similar place near you.................


10 posted on 01/27/2024 7:19:46 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
The failure in the Dell batteries I mentioned wasn't the cells. It's the charge control electronics. So rebuilding them is futile. (I always salvage the 18650 cells, they have so many uses.)

Having been an RC airplane nut in the early 00s, I was an early adopter of lithium tech, back when we built our own battery packs and learned to "balance" them manually.

Li-ion and Li-poly batteries must have all the cells at exactly the same state of charge at all times, and individual cells must never exceed the maximum voltage that's defined by the chemistry. Balance failure leads to overcharging of one or more cells, and that's when they catch fire. So my strong belief is that these battery fires we read about are caused by defective charge control, not the cells themselves. These Chinese battery assemblers undoubtedly cheap out when buying the electronics, and the result is sometimes even fatal.

We RC nuts built "charging safes". Fireproof containers in which batteries were imprisoned while charging. Military ammo cans were a common sight at flying fields. This is an idea whose time has not passed.

11 posted on 01/27/2024 8:08:45 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Red Badger

We had a store like that here. They mostly did NiCad battery replacements. Dunno about the Lithium-Ion ones.


14 posted on 01/28/2024 1:07:46 AM PST by Gaffer
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