A Little Accident. W/123's and a Peli. M6

RY3

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A Little Accident. W/123\'s and a Peli. M6

Not very good at writing story, so I post some pictures instead...

I was at work when this happen. Fortunately my wife was at home. What I can say is that we are lucky that someone was there we are not using the flashlight when that happened.

My wife was nice enough to leave everything untouch for me to do some CSI works /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jpshakehead.gif except took out the box that was on fire.

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jtice

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

WHOA !!!!!!!!!
That looks pretty bad !
Looks like a couple lights there,
I assume a 123 cell exploded?
What light was it in? or was it laying there loose?

Did your wife say there was a ban on lights yet?

Glad noone was hurt !
 

Sigman

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

PLEASE POST MORE DETAILS...I'm on the edge of taking the batteries out of all my torches?! Sounds extreme, but I've got torches all over this house with batteries in them.

Looks like a Pelican M6...

Now we've heard of this happening before "here & there", but it sounds like it's happening more & more often.

How many incidents does it take before "big industry" puts out warnings & recalls - I don't know. I'd hate to hear of someone getting hurt or their house burning down!

Please let us know what the "Flashaholic CSIs" find!
 

Robban

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

*looks axiously at his own M6* /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif
 

greenLED

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

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That looks like a disaster waiting to happen!! Luckily your wife was home to stop the fire on time and nobody got hurt. Oh, God...

Are those SF cells that went POOOOM!!? The Peli looks bad, but that other light definitely saw better lumens /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/au.gif RIP. We need more details!
 

BBL

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

How the h*ll can that happen? Dont 123s have overpressure-valves or something like this?
 

KDOG3

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!! (WTF?!?!)

Thats a problem. You should really email those pics to Surefire or whoever made the batts... They may not cover anything since the batts were in a Pelican, but they will probably look into it, even if they don't say so... I know I would!!
 

Vrt

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

What was the cell(s) brand ?
On 2nd picture the door is damaged from outside. Why ? The flashlight's tailcap was fired with such a force ?
 

SilverFox

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

Not sure what the light is, but here is my take...

It looks like the light was in the cupboard. The battery (or batteries) rapidly vented with flame and blew the tailcap against the cupboard door with enough force to fracture the door completely through. A little more pressure and there would probably be a hole in the door.

Total speculation here, but that is typical of Li-Ion unprotected cells that have suffered anode damage through high current (discharge higher than around 2C or charge faster than 1C) or high cycle voltage (over 4.2 volts and/or under 2.5 volts) causing a short circuit to form within the cell.

Any other guesses?

Tom
 

dano

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

I'd guess it was a bad battery. Some of the cheaper Chinese made cells don't have any built in protection.

-dan
 

BlindedByTheLite

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

am i seeing 3 different brands of batteries in that picture? you're not mixing brands are you? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 

Pydpiper

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

And to think I keep my EDC so close to my little buddy..Damn.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
Im glad everyone is OK..
 

stockae92

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

somebody gotta figure this out

i wouldn't want some ticking time bombs sitting at my house ...
 

markdi

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Re: A Little Accident. Enjoy.

I do not enjoy any thing exploding in a cpf'ers home

now I am a little leary of carrying any thing with a lith battery in my pocket.
 
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