HP recalls 70,000 lithium-ion batteries
FOLLOWING COMPLAINTS from two punters whose laptops caught fire, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Hewlett-Packard is voluntarily recalling about 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several models of its HP and Compaq laptops.
Nine models of HP Pavilions, nine models of Compaq Presarios, two HP laptop models, and one HP Compaq laptop model sold between August 2007 and March 2008 all shipped with the dodgy battery.
According to a CPSC statement there were two reports of batteries that "overheated and ruptured, resulting in flames/fire that caused minor property damage" but no injuries.
HP said that owners of the affected laptop models should pull the battery out of the machine and give it a ring so it can ship a free replacement. µ
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Are sony still making exploding batteries?
Once again I see blame being tossed at battery manufacturers. Is it the battery or are the demands of the hardware causing them to fail in a most spectacular way. Think about it.
Disk drives, DVD burners, Dual core CPU, 4 different wireless options running from WiFi to infared, Mid to high end graphics and an LCD monitor.
All sucking juice off a tiny little battery pack.
Remember it's the CPU and such that're supposed to get warm while in use NOT the battery. Draw enough current off the little bastid, and sooner or later the heat/cool cycles are going to cause one of the internal connections to fail. In this case shorting out the cells and letting the magic smoke/flames out.
IMHO most of the newer notebooks come equipped with a battery pack that is just too darn small to properly power the unit. Why? simply so the maker can claim how thin and light the thing is. (That and the smaller pack is cheaper.)
My recommendation. Buy the extended (larger) battery for your notebook. Especially if you notice the current battery getting hot during normal use.
Also to help you get more life out of your battery, if your notebook spends most of it's time hooked to the mains, remove the battery. Cause even tho they can build us a machine that can calculate the trajectory to mars in less than 5 seconds, they still haven't figured out how to turn off the charging circuit once the battery is topped off.
If you can't remove the battery from the unit, or can't buy a proper sized one, DON'T buy the machine! (Apple is gonna hate me for that bit)
Yea, I know the extended batteries are not cheap. But along with reducing the risk of your notebook going up in flames, there's also the plus of added run time that comes with the larger pack.
LoCatus
Looks more like 203,000 worldwide.
I went to the website and I called them up and it said both places my battery was not covered under the replacement. Yet my battery has one of the recalled numbers, but I bought the dv6000 in March 07 which is just before the Aug07-Jan08 period. Don't know what is going on here.
How would running too much off the same battery make it catch fire? Do you think your AA cell will burst and catch fire if you attach too many LED's to it? Battery capacity only dictates how long it will sustain your running machine.
Interesting thought. If it was a 'potentially stock price numbing graphics recall'...
...could you just 'pay your biggest customer to pretend that it was really a battery issue/ ?
@duke in the same boat as you but with a DV6355ea and a one of the listed batteries , i think we should ring up saying our houses/flats have burnt down because of it , but relay it makes you think what there playing at