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 AA battery fun!
#944892
05/12/09 09:27 PM
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Yesterday I had an extra set of AA's in my pocket for my digital camera along with some spare change. I reached in and was greeted by a burning hot Quarter. Quickly tossed the contents of my pocket to the ground, and the 2 AA's had flipped opposite directions, and apparently with the help of the hot quarter completing the circut, had melted down and fused themselves together! It's a good thing the kindergardener's who I was chaperoning on the trip were on the other side of the park at the time, or they may have gone home from the field trip with a whole new vocabulary <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />
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Re: AA battery fun!
[Re: Chris72]
#944893
05/13/09 02:48 AM
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Joined: Nov 2002
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LOL cool! No pics? At least you didn't have a pocket fire. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />
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Re: AA battery fun!
[Re: stony-man]
#944894
05/13/09 03:22 AM
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Nope, no pics, I was digging for the for the spare batteries, camera was dead <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />
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Re: AA battery fun!
[Re: Chris72]
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05/13/09 01:39 PM
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Joined: May 2001
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Were they lithium? I hear those can e-x-p-l-o-d-e
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Re: AA battery fun!
[Re: Brian894X4]
#944896
05/13/09 02:34 PM
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Joined: Aug 2002
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Now isn't there a warning on the package about this exact thing? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Richard <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />
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Re: AA battery fun!
[Re: Brian894X4]
#944897
05/13/09 02:46 PM
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Nope, fortunately they were just plain Akaline Copper Tops. I hadn't used the camera in awhile, and all my recharchables were dead. Thing is, this 'method' of carrying the spares is something I've done a hundred times before, but believe me, won't be doing again!
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Re: AA battery fun!
[Re: Chris72]
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05/13/09 04:24 PM
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Joined: Jan 2001
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I've done that before! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> I think it was a 9v battery though!
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Re: AA battery fun!
[Re: Brian894X4]
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05/13/09 04:29 PM
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Joined: Apr 2006
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Body Damage is Cool
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Were they lithium? I hear those can e-x-p-l-o-d-e You are thinking Lithium Polymer. They don't so much explode as violently combust in a chain reaction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3o_2mwRPdw
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Re: AA battery fun!
[Re: redbull]
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05/14/09 04:10 AM
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SHIZA!!! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> That's not something you'd want happening in a pouch hanging beside your junk.
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Re: AA battery fun!
[Re: stony-man]
#944901
05/14/09 08:59 AM
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Joined: May 2001
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I know the 3 volt lithum batteries like you use in the Surefire flashlights can have issues, even just you two different batteries, where one is just discharged more than the other. They sometimes spontanously combust.
Speaking of lithum camera batteries, I use the lithum AA batteries and while they are expensive, they are the best thing ever. They're light and they last FOREVER!! Hundreds more shots than any standard or rechargable battery and I just dug an old AA camera out of the drawer that I haven't looked at in at least 2 or 3 years and the thing still works with the original lithum batteries inside. Amazing stuff.
Anyway, I've gone completely away from rechargables and to the lithiums, but I keep them in plastic storage containers that are designed the store each battery seperately.
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