{"id":15653,"date":"2017-06-07T00:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T04:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=15653"},"modified":"2017-06-07T00:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T04:14:20","slug":"a-battery-mooch-post-never-keep-your-batteries-in-a-charger-when-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/15653","title":{"rendered":"A BATTERY MOOCH POST: Never keep your batteries in a charger when traveling!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Whether it&#8217;s just to work or around the world, using a charger to store your batteries can lead to a fire or bursting of your battery if the wrap is damaged.<\/p>\n<p>I feel this is what happened during a recent flight (photos from a CNN post). Two batteries, it appears, were being stored in an Efest SODA charger in a day pack during a flight. One of the batteries went into thermal runaway and caught fire. Luckily, everyone was ok.<\/p>\n<p>Photos:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/mVYOy\">https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/mVYOy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What caused this?<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t because they were AWT batteries.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t because the battery ignited on its own.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t from being charged at the wrong rate.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t from being used too hard.<\/p>\n<p>Eagle-eyed vapers might notice that in the photos one of the two batteries is reversed. Could this be the cause?<\/p>\n<p>No.<br \/>\nI tested this in a SODA charger at both charge rate settings and there were no problems.<\/p>\n<p>But, like many chargers, if the wrap is damaged and the battery slips a bit out of position the positive contact of the charger can short-circuit the battery center positive contact to the negative outer ring at the top.<\/p>\n<p>This can force the battery into thermal runaway leading to a fire or even violent bursting of the battery.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER keep your batteries in the charger when traveling. Yes, it saves space. But it&#8217;s not worth the risk, especially when all the jostling could take an otherwise ok wrap and damage it.<\/p>\n<p>ALWAYS store your batteries in a case, sleeve, or even a box and not in the charger.<br \/>\nALWAYS keep your battery wraps and the insulator ring at the top of the battery in perfect condition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5525-e1496304645922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5525-e1496304645922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"A%20BATTERY%20MOOCH%20POST%3A%20Never%20keep%20your%20batteries%20in%20a%20charger%20when%20traveling%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it&#8217;s just to work or around the world, using a charger to store your batteries can lead to a fire or bursting of your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-battery-mooch","category-recent_news","wpcat-139-id","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15659,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15653\/revisions\/15659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}