Swelling batteries not limited to samsung phones.

[The Price is Rice]

Here I thought only samsung devices would suffer from swelling/exploding batteries. Here we have a pilots EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) with a battery that swelled so much it cracked the screen. Doh!!!! 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Of course, these haven't been banned from planes yet, have they?

[SansVarnic]

I suppose it would be bound to happen sooner or later.

[APasz]

Batteries swell, the trick is for the engineers to build in enough space. It's the same reason why the footpath is in squareish sections.

[Enderman]

Pretty much any LiPO battery can swell.

[Zodiark1593]

In other news, grass is green, ai will take over the world, and California is perpetually on fire.

[BingoFishy]

Batteries swell all the time.

[Arika]

TIL people think only Samsung batteries swell

[William Payne]

Lithium batteries swell as part of their way of failing. The difference is the old ones used to be in a big plastic case that contained the swelling. Now they just expand and push everything out of the way. 

[Drak3]

Just about every model of phone that has ever used a Li-Ion battery has had at least a few units swell.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Battery swelling is a failure mode of lithium batteries, it's nothing unique to Samsung.

[corsairian]

All batteries swell. Not just Samsung batteries. The batteries on Airplanes can swell and cause a fire.  I remember hearing a story about a planes batteries catching fire.

[mr moose]

On 12/8/2017 at 12:44 PM, APasz said:

Batteries swell, the trick is for the engineers to build in enough space. It's the same reason why the footpath is in squareish sections.

 

On 12/8/2017 at 12:45 PM, Enderman said:

Pretty much any LiPO battery can swell.

 

On 12/8/2017 at 12:59 PM, BingoFishy said:

Batteries swell all the time.

 

On 12/8/2017 at 2:11 PM, William Payne said:

Lithium batteries swell as part of their way of failing. The difference is the old ones used to be in a big plastic case that contained the swelling. Now they just expand and push everything out of the way. 

 

On 12/8/2017 at 2:13 PM, Drak3 said:

Just about every model of phone that has ever used a Li-Ion battery has had at least a few units swell.

 

12 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Battery swelling is a failure mode of lithium batteries, it's nothing unique to Samsung.

 

11 hours ago, corsairian said:

All batteries swell. Not just Samsung batteries. The batteries on Airplanes can swell and cause a fire.  I remember hearing a story about a planes batteries catching fire.

 

I'm getting the impression everyone thinkks LiPO swells...

 

How do you know the device didn't just get smaller?   I grew up in the 80's and all electronics got smaller then, I see no reason why it can't happen again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[William Payne]

Old battery housings used to be big enough to contain the swelling, now they just push every component out of the way. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, mr moose said:

How do you know the device didn't just get smaller?   I grew up in the 80's and all electronics got smaller then, I see no reason why it can't happen again.

Obviously Samsung tuned the shrink ray too far.