So I purchased some batteries a month ago from FifthUnit: ALHAGEN – Lithium Cell Battery Sets. They were the AG13 model, but I’m not sure if that’s the universal name. They were cheap and I bought my toy LED flashlight from there and thought I might as well get some batteries from there too. It was just a toy, something I would rather not waste money getting good quality batteries for. Anyway, I stored them in a tiny ziplock bag since it came in a plastic carton type thing with dents/holes for the batteries.
Today, while I was running some tests, I suddenly hear a loud pop and my bag of batteries sort of jump. I take a look at it and my ziplock baggy now has a hole. I dump them all out and here’s what I see:
I mean, literally, they were just sitting on top of my desk. There was no heat fluctuations. It did rain last night/this morning, so it might’ve been the humidity. When I touched the batteries, they were cold (like what ambient metal temperature should be like). I guess this is what happens when you buy cheap quality lithium batteries. And people wonder why their Dell’s explode into flames. You get what you pay for (unless you buy Sony). That’s why I stick with IBM (now Lenovo).
As Derek suggested, it may be the fact that I had all the batteries inside a bag and it shorted a few of them out, causing the explosion (well, the tiny one). I’ve unbagged them now and am trying to figure out what the best way to store them.
//krunk (^_^x)