Is this dangerous (electrics)?
4I need to charge my camera battery, but I have no idea where the cable is. It uses one of those funky-shaped cords, and I’d rather not buy one just for it. I have a charger that I bought for charging my phone battery which always worked well for that purpose.
This battery has a third terminal type that isn’t on the charger (T) so I ignored it and just put the pins on the + and -. It was also too small, so I jammed some old bread in there.
Safe? Not safe? Should I go home and unplug it?
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I wouldn’t leave it unattended.
Lithium ion batteries are particular when it comes to charging. Too much current, and it overheats – but with no temperature terminal, the charger has no idea it’s putting out too much current.
@narfcake is 3-4 hours too long to leave it? I can say that it’s probably low amps, since it took 8+ hours to charge my galaxy s3 battery. Cheap wireless charger I got to replace it charges it in about 2 hours.
@Pantheist I don’t know. What is the battery capacity?
The S3 has a 2.1a battery, so this puts out about 250ma.
@narfcake Just saw your edit, charger claims 4.35V/600mA. Could easily be less than that since other reviews seem consistent with my experience.
Having trouble finding the exact battery I have (EN-EL19), but replacements seem to be 3.7V, 700mAh
@narfcake goin home, dont worry
What a random item. Lol
@RiotDemon I thought the T was for “toast”
It depends, what kind of bread was that?
@Nuurgle wry
Just check the bread for crispness. Lightly toasted denotes the battery is charging correctly.
@15fwheeler It’s stale- am I screwed?
Worst Panini maker ever.
@ACraigL
Hope he doesnt get French Toast Virtuelle out of this.
Battery needs to be recharged.
If that thing overheats, your battery is toast.
Update: made it home, battery was cool to the touch. On the flip side, the charger said it was 3/4 of the way charged, camera says 100%. Either way, better safe than sorry- thanks @narfcake for the explanation
@Pantheist No prob – you’re welcome. And better safe than sorry, definitely.
Monitored, I wouldn’t worry too much given the size at play here. Unattended, I wouldn’t risk it.
@narfcake had fun watching the images. Hows this one (yikes)
/image lithium ion battery on fire
@Pantheist Better than the pics I found! – which I since deleted.
T might be a thermocouple connection?
Awesome ingenuity. I’d have done everything you did except think to use old bread and leave the house with it going. Glad it worked out!
@djslack Sounds right to me, and thanks
There’s a fine line between toast and kindling.
@huja Eh, if the battery went up the stale bread would have been the least of my worries.
@Pantheist I don’t actually read posts. I just look at pictures. And judging from that image I though the subject matter was “How do I toast bread without a kitchen?”
That bread is toast. Did you just jam it in there?
@El_Oel Actually he was hoping to preserve it.
You’ll be fine engineers always stick extra stuff on things that you can ignore and it’ll be fine.
At first I didn’t read the whole topic. I was like “is that a human bone he used?” I was kinda disappointed it was old bread - is that wrong?
@mfladd Strange abridged story: My mom used to take bones and paint them to make them look like strange animals. She also had a paperweight with a slice of a human brain inside.
@Pantheist Was your mom a pathologist or maybe a witch?
@Kidsandliz she calls herself a “smokin bu-jew”. More than that idsnt public
Great “there I fixed it” solution with the bread (whole wheat (?) was a nice touch) Never mind… just realized you said it was ‘wry’.
yeah, that’s the problem with so many batteries and especially the damn tool companies. I have some ‘greenworks’ tools that have exactly the same slots as the ‘new’ generation batteries, but won’t allow you to switch between different style tools due to plastic tabs that keep the batteries from sliding into place. Ended up using dremel tool, razor knife and a piece of aluminum foil to get the battery from my chainsaw on a pole (woot purchase) to work in my hedge trimmer (bare tool). Only problem is it will only run about 15 seconds then turns off and you have to release the trigger to start it back up again. PITA but still can be used at least.
This is one reason all my most used tools are from Ryobi (drills, circular saw, reciprocating saws, flashlight, fan, weed eater…). ALL of them use the same LiOn type battery that they still make and all have been running for years. Some were even NiCad tools when I bought them, but they were smart enough (or customer friendly enough) to design the LiOns to match the old tools. I have one recip saw that is dedicated to use to cut off 40 ft tall bamboo (with a 12 inch blade) so I can keep the obnoxious crap from shooting up all over the place. It gets plunged into the dirt on a regular basis, but still keeps on keepin’ on. I cut it at ground level so I can run the mower over it without hitting the ‘stumps’ with the mower deck.
@chienfou it was whole wheat. I said wry as a pun. I appreciate your troubles though. I have had many similar issues.