The UK Home Automation Archive

Archive Home
Group Home
Search Archive


Advanced Search

The UKHA-ARCHIVE IS CEASING OPERATIONS 31 DEC 2024


[Message Prev][Message Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Message Index][Thread Index]

[OT] Beware exploding laptops


  • Subject: [OT] Beware exploding laptops
  • From: Mark J Cox <mark@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:15:40 +0100 (BST)

I thought the risk of laptop exploding batteries to be quite low, (and
if
you did have a bad battery that you'd spot a little fire or smoke and have
time to run away) but it happened on Friday to a fellow UK Red Hat
employee, Alan Cox:

http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~telsa/boom/

This is HA relevant to me as I have a thinkpad on and charging 24x7
including when the house is empty, and a number of Fujitsu point tablets
with their batteries left on.  I've no idea what cells are in use in the
Fujitsu Point batteries, but I'm about to take them all out to reduce the
risks.

Mark
--
Mark J Cox  www.awe.com/mark






** Sponsored by www.BERBLE.com **
all the Cool Stuff, in one Place



UKHA_D Main Index | UKHA_D Thread Index | UKHA_D Home | Archives Home

Comments to the Webmaster are always welcomed, please use this contact form . Note that as this site is a mailing list archive, the Webmaster has no control over the contents of the messages. Comments about message content should be directed to the relevant mailing list.