Exploding Laptop Battery.

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on December 14, 2006 at 11:06 am


What does a flaming laptop look like? Here’s a setup of one:

To jump start the reaction, we artificially forced the battery pack into an unstable state. But the initial battery cell reaction and the on-going chain reactions are real.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via PC Pitstop – Thanks Dougall!


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6 comments to "Exploding Laptop Battery."

  1. Aleki
    December 14th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    I hope the rest of the airlines don't start banning laptops because of this. Quantas, Korean, and Virgin already placed restrictions on certain laptops.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2474607&page=1

  2. Starstonight
    December 14th, 2006 at 10:39 pm

    Sitting here watching youtube (on my laptop) (a dell BTW) this still made me laugh. I love the guys in the back ground cheering on the explosions. This is what happens if you leave boys unsupervised!! I am convinced. Now I am off to double check a) my batteries serial number and 2) if my fire extinguisher is a class D....

  3. april
    December 15th, 2006 at 9:38 am

    i wouldn't blame the airlines for banning laptops. what would you do if that happened on an airplane? i'd like to know how the makers of this video put out the fire. i guess they had one of those class d extinguishers.

  4. dodgyd55
    December 15th, 2006 at 10:33 am

    wasn't it sony that had problems with the battery packs and had to recall alot of them?

  5. Alice H
    December 15th, 2006 at 1:16 pm

    Both Sony and Dell had battery problems.

  6. stacyj
    December 16th, 2006 at 5:26 pm

    I believe the Dell laptops (and IBM, and Apple, etc etc etc) with the exploding battery problems were all supplied with Sony batteries, though. Poor ol' Sony, just hasn't been having a smash-up year I guess. http://www.engadget.com/tag/explodingbatteries

    And I agree with Starstonight, the guys cheering on the exploding batteries rock =) What fun it would be, to get to take part in stuff like that!


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