it’s just kinda a messy drawer of batteries/screwdrivers/IKEA assembly tools/etc. We’ve had it for like 15 years and it’s never been an issue but I saw a tiktok video of a lithium battery exploding and it made me realize, there’s a lot of potential energy in one drawer and idk if I’m taking the necessary safety precautions 😅
idk a lot about how batteries work, but like are they at risk of turning into a pillow and fireball like lithium ion ones?
It’s fine. Even if they were lithium batteries —still fine. See battery manufacturers actually design batteries specifically so that they don’t fail catastrophically (🤯 crazy right?) but it’s true. Turns out they have whole-ass warehouses full of them.
Obviously it’s possible for lithium batteries to fail catastrophically, but this isn’t a typical failure mode. Generally catastrophic failures happen when a battery is damaged and or under load.
Typical household batteries are not as energy dense as EV batteries. And are not packed as densely such that a single cell puffing won’t cause a cascading failure.
I do recommend keeping them in bags to contain leaks, coin cells are generally already well packed, but it can’t hurt. It’s also not a terrible idea to write the date you bought them on the bags and properly dispose of them after ~5 years.
I’m not a chemist or ‘battery scientist,’ but I understand that Li+ ion cells can indeed be heavily damaged without showing any outward traces of such. That is, internal filaments can build up over time, and a damaged cell can be at risk when charging (as you note above, I believe).
That said, there may be associated swelling that tends to indicate such damage, but I’m not sure that’s always true. A cell with a cheaply-made casing would be a combined risk.
damn your preemptive hyphen preventing me from reading it as ass-warehouses and chuckling to myself
I mean… there’s that company big ass fans, I feel like they definitely refer to it as such ;-)
You are a free person. Do not let hyphens impede you from doing the things you want!