Fwd: [ltp] battery trouble

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008, Micha wrote:
> battery for 80$ so it was not worth the risk. You don't want to puncture the
> battery (acid, nasty burns) or reverse the polarity or apply too much current

Punturing a Li-ION cell can be a LOT more hazardous than just the acid leak
you'd get from a lead-acid battery.  But it is NOT easy to puncture a Li-ION
cells, they are armored.

Still, don't mess with them, unless you really know what you're doing.  A
short circuit or polarity reversal can happen easily, and that can be very,
very dangerous.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh