I was watching TV footage of this story and they were showing what appeared to be burnt out 18650 battery packs. I wonder what is causing these fires. Bad quality cells? Overcharged/overdischarged cells?
Combo of both. I heard the balance charger was crap on these, couple that with cheap junk cells and you have the potential for catastrophic fires.
what balancing?
i have seen several packs from these rolling incendiary grenades which have no balance taps or protection board inside.
10s 18650 with no protection.not even a fuse where it plugs into the board.blatant disregard for user safety or maybe a terrorist act?
Quote:
"Note: At the request of the Commission, Alibaba Group has taken voluntary action to require certifications from testing agencies for hoverboards listed by third-parties on the AliExpress.com and Alibaba.com online marketplaces. Consumers are urged to immediately stop using hoverboards which do not comply with applicable safety standards and dispose of them in accordance with local and state regulations. "
Really? Well, I think we all know pretty much how this will go. Now we will start to see how really differently things are done between our two countries. Fast forward one year. Uhm, so the 100,000 units you shipped into the our country were supposed to be certified yet we are still getting reports of deaths, damages and injuries on all of them. "we put pass certification paper in all units, they're still not good still?" "Maybe paper no good?" "Will print more paper, free."
sounds like “we sold you dangerous crap.now throw it away before it kills you”
I think everyone knows now why I didn’t jump into the hoverboard bandwagon…