On 11/28/23 17:15, Cor van de Water via EV wrote:
I always regard that PSA as bollocks, monitor my smoke alarms and when they
beep or stop blinking the red light once a minute, *then* I replace the
battery. Happens maybe every 5 years, so I am not trashing cells that are
more than 90% capacit
Lithium batteries are no joke. I personally have had more than one
accident and many close calls despite being well aware of the danger and
being very careful.
My story involves a Nissan Leaf module. I had sat one upright against
one of the steel compression plates and a table leg while assem
Thanks Phil
I grew up similarly as a kid with a huge junk pile in the basement of old parts
from TVs and radios that I took apart and categorized that were donated from
customers that were beyond repair. A fair amount of HeathKits and Edmund
Scientific too.
Following that to EV conversions, I
I use Primary Lithiums in them, much longer life, less hassle.
This is also what the wifi Nest smoke detectors come with:
https://amzn.to/3Glx8Nb
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 2:17 PM Cor van de Water via EV
wrote:
> Remember the crazy PSA to replace your (almost new, what a waste!) smoke
> alarm bat
Remember the crazy PSA to replace your (almost new, what a waste!) smoke
alarm battery every half year?
True story: one guy did that faithfully, collected all those nearly-new
batteries for recycling in a baggie and... set his house on fire. Note that
this were the puny 9v cells!
I always regard th
When I was a kid, my hobby was mostly electronics, (big surprise, right?)
and I had a perpetually messy room (lab) that drove my Mother crazy.
(Again, big surprise?) She constantly threatened to "go in there, clean it
up and throw it all in the trash". One pre-teen day while I was at
school, she
