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isn't it dangerous to pack a plane full of lithium ion batteries? it didn't go so well for UPS 006.
No. They're all contained with protection circuitry. Unprotected cells have different requirements.
This person works in the battery industry. Hello fellow battery expert!
I used to work in portable electronics. We had a battery vendor who wanted to overnight us some samples (like 100mAh cells).
To get them on the plane, they just bought a My Neighbor Totoro night light, popped it open, and shoved the battery inside. They didn't even tell us they were going to do that.
Sometimes it's a lot easier to skirt laws than explain why they're wrong.
Yeah plus, y'know... free night light.
hrm, that makes sense. I wonder if you could transport a bunch of batteries by shipping an Uninterruptible Power Supply with a huge array of Li-Ion batteries inside. they'd have protection circuitry and they'd be contained within the chassis, so seems like you should?
"What, are you scared of my widdle duffel bag full of assorted raw lithium cells I scavenged from old laptops?"
I actually used to have a box of 500 18650 cells that I recovered from old laptops, and that box terrified me. They were all inspected for damage and were nearly stacked in little plastic compartments,but if one had decided to go off, it would have burned my house down.
Check out www.batteryhookup.com for a good time. I bought a few dozen unused modem backup batteries there for $50 and shucked enough 18650s out of them to build a new ebike battery.
It’s totally fine in the US. Almost every passenger on the plane comes equipped with their own batteries in their pocket to take out any bad batteries should the need arise. One could say that domestic flights are only safe these days because everyone carries a battery or two with them.