How many of you have had a battery go bad?

[Ubehebe]

Haven’t been around here in a dog’s age. Good to see that many here are still fighting the good fight.

Yes, I had a real genuine li-ion battery explosion. The sordid details are here:

My 14500 battery explosion, with pictures

I was commenting in another thread about battery explosions. I was just going to add this to that thread, but I thought everyone might want to see the pics of my fun-filled 14500 battery explosion, about 6 months ago, so I started this new thread. The battery was a 14500 gray Ultrafire which had been working just fine for 10-11 charges. Until it decided to blow up. I would like to believe that the cheapy charger just decided to deliver too many volts at some point and the fault didn’t lay in the…