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Exploding battery!
NS Dev - 19/7/07 at 12:26 PM

hmmm, sat at my desk for five mins at work having a sandwich and we heard a loud crack, like an exploding capacitor noise.

opened my colleagues drawer to find an AA battery looking very sorry for itself and leaking everywhere with one end blown out (duracell procell one)

It was sat in a cool wooden desk drawer with no conductive bits nearby, why the hell did it suddenly and randomly explode??

iank - 19/7/07 at 12:28 PM

Looks like it was probably a fake.

http://www.batterystation.co.uk/fakeduracell.htm

For the reason it went pop
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/68444d67b2071110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/11.html


[Edited on 19/7/07 by iank]

NS Dev - 19/7/07 at 12:49 PM

oooh!!

could well be it!!!

Gosh you really can find anything on here!

Will see if the box is lurking anywhere!

C10CoryM - 19/7/07 at 02:08 PM

Wait until you see a car battery explode

speedyxjs - 19/7/07 at 02:30 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NS Dev
why the hell did it suddenly and randomly explode??


Maybe your colleague is planning a prank involving exploding batteries and wanted to try one out

martyn_16v - 19/7/07 at 06:30 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NS Dev
why the hell did it suddenly and randomly explode??


Maybe it was just tired of life, the monotonous drudgery of making small and pointless electrical items work for a brief while before being cast away without a second thought sounds a pretty miserable existence to me.

I had a flash gun commit hara-kiri today, the big discharge cap blew itself up with a loud pop and a big cloud of smoke. I could probably have fixed it if the staff around at the time hadn't unleashed a fire extingisher at it

[Edited on 19/7/07 by martyn_16v]