stephenmadpotato
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Hi all,
The other day I was messing around with the broken tailcap on my XENON police flashlight 7.2V. I was a bit puzzled why it wouldn't turn on at all. Then I put the tailcap back on, after adjusting the spring and I felt the handle heating up, so I figured the batteries must be shorting out, I unscrewed the cap and before I knew it smoke was coming out of the back of one of the batteries and I just chucked them out of the back of the flashlight on to the street (THANK GOD I WAS OUTSIDE!!) and one of them literally bursted in flames! I really think we ought to be careful with unprotected cells folks. (I was using purple DX batteries)
Here are photos of what I was using.
(I will take a picture of decimated street later)
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Sorry for the bad focusing, I use an autofocus POS 5000 from kodak.
The other day I was messing around with the broken tailcap on my XENON police flashlight 7.2V. I was a bit puzzled why it wouldn't turn on at all. Then I put the tailcap back on, after adjusting the spring and I felt the handle heating up, so I figured the batteries must be shorting out, I unscrewed the cap and before I knew it smoke was coming out of the back of one of the batteries and I just chucked them out of the back of the flashlight on to the street (THANK GOD I WAS OUTSIDE!!) and one of them literally bursted in flames! I really think we ought to be careful with unprotected cells folks. (I was using purple DX batteries)
Here are photos of what I was using.
(I will take a picture of decimated street later)
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Sorry for the bad focusing, I use an autofocus POS 5000 from kodak.
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