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Article: Moisture Causes Lithium-Ion Battery Bloat.
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- Design News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Karen Field
Soon after reading my editorial on a pregnant iPod in the April issue of Design News , reader Richard Sheryll came across his old Palm m500 in a pile of discarded devices. "The front casing was ripped off," he wrote, "and the lithium-ion battery looked just as bloated as the one in your article."
Well at least it didn't catch fire!
Glenn Gauvin had a similar experience recently when he went to swap out the battery in his 17-inch MacBook Pro. Digging into his briefcase, he pulled out the battery (shown below, right) -- amazed to see it had a newly acquired paunch. "My bag was not mishandled, mistreated, or exposed to extreme heat or ...