Just had a viewer email me this article:
And they blame the fire on this:
I do not buy that excuse for a second. And any battery that was using a cobalt based chemistry would have a totally different voltage range and would run at too low of a voltage to have any usable capacity (assuming 3S configuration).
I really would love to find out who in the "battery industry" told him that. I open batteries every day and I have never seen that before. Seems like a ridiculous excuse in my honest opinion.
Has anyone here heard of or seen cells wrapped as LiFePO4? The voltage alone would be a dead giveaway. And what caused the cells to combust? There really is no actual explanation here.
The Fire That Destroyed Everything - Truck Camper Magazine
Mike Brandl woke up to a loud noise and bright yellow light. He thought a spaceship might be landing in his yard.
www.truckcampermagazine.com
And they blame the fire on this:
My security cameras recorded the entire fire incident. Watching the security footage, the battery compartment exploded at 4:20am. Ten seconds later you can hear the smoke detector going off in the camper. That indicates that there was no fire in the camper that could have caused the battery to explode.
I later spoke with a few battery companies. They all said lithium phosphate does not explode like that, but lithium ion does. I was also told that there have been rumors of an overseas company rewrapping lithium-ion batteries and selling them as lithium phosphate. While I have no absolute proof due to the level of devastation, I believe that’s what happened.
I do not buy that excuse for a second. And any battery that was using a cobalt based chemistry would have a totally different voltage range and would run at too low of a voltage to have any usable capacity (assuming 3S configuration).
I really would love to find out who in the "battery industry" told him that. I open batteries every day and I have never seen that before. Seems like a ridiculous excuse in my honest opinion.
Has anyone here heard of or seen cells wrapped as LiFePO4? The voltage alone would be a dead giveaway. And what caused the cells to combust? There really is no actual explanation here.