SDS100/SDS200: 2nd swollen SDS100 battery in 1 year

n1chu · Jul 10, 2023

The SDS200 is a good scanner but it doesn’t fit into my pants pockets, so…

tvengr · Jul 11, 2023

n1chu said:
The SDS200 is a good scanner but it doesn’t fit into my pants pockets, so…

Neither does the automobile battery for it.

n1chu · Jul 11, 2023

tvengr said:
Neither does the automobile battery for it.

Ha! Yea, true. I guess I’ll just have to buy trousers with bigger pockets! A pair of cargo pants should do the trick! LOL

n1chu · Jul 11, 2023

One thing for sure, when you stick it in your back pocket you won’t forget it’s there when you try and sit down!

emtbucky1 · Sep 13, 2023

W5ATX said:
Last update on the swollen battery, it opened up so much that I can confirm now that this is a 3S lipo, these are actually pretty dangerous more dangerous than I thought . I checked the voltage on all 3 terminals and it's reading 0, but that doesn't mean there's not a broken connection inside and there's still some juice in these packs. It will remain in the fire pit and if it wants to explode it'll do so outside.

As for the new battery , it sat in the garage for one month with no signs of swelling at a full charge, I am now discharging it down to nominal voltage i.e. storage voltage and will let sit for another month to see if it begins to swell. These lipos are something else, if you're not familiar with the hazards of these batteries Just type in lipo fire on YouTube, it'll make you want to sell your sds100.
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Anyone else look at those swollen things and think...man. I bet there's candy in there. So odd. very weird. DANGIT, now I'm hungry. Thanks, Uniden for almost starting a fire and killing us and making us hungry too!

belvdr · Sep 13, 2023

emtbucky1 said:
Anyone else look at those swollen things and think...man. I bet there's candy in there. So odd. very weird. DANGIT, now I'm hungry. Thanks, Uniden for almost starting a fire and killing us and making us hungry too!

Who had the Uniden battery that almost caught fire or killed someone?

emtbucky1 · Sep 13, 2023

KevinC said:
Sue for what?

Sue for what?

We mock what we don't understand.

Oh! So it is because of the batteries in their scanners. They give us no options for AA batteries or alternatives. Force us to purchase 80-dollar replacements. And tell us to suck a stick when their batteries explode in our homes. With our families. Wow, KevinC. You must be new and or not paying attention.

belvdr · Sep 13, 2023

emtbucky1 said:
Sue for what?

We mock what we don't understand.

Oh! So it is because of the batteries in their scanners. They give us no options for AA batteries or alternatives. Force us to purchase 80-dollar replacements. And tell us to suck a stick when their batteries explode in our homes. With our families. Wow, KevinC. You must be new and or not paying attention.

Wait, a Uniden battery exploded?

KevinC · Sep 13, 2023

emtbucky1 said:
Sue for what?

We mock what we don't understand.

Oh! So it is because of the batteries in their scanners. They give us no options for AA batteries or alternatives. Force us to purchase 80-dollar replacements. And tell us to suck a stick when their batteries explode in our homes. With our families. Wow, KevinC. You must be new and or not paying attention.

Ok.

bradenmikael · Sep 13, 2023

That’s precisely why I didn’t go with that model Uniden scanner. Proprietary battery packs constitute getting economically “soaked” when it’s time to replace the battery pack, counting on Uniden to continue offering that battery pack until they decide they don’t want to anymore; forcing the consumer to “upgrade” to a newer model because the battery packs are not interchangeable. I work in I.T., and I’ve seen a -lot-of laptop lithium-ion batteries swell due to the cheap engineering/manufactures cranking these batteries out (China). Not just mild swelling, either; I’m talking about batteries swelling so much the laptop touch pad literally pops out from the keyboard deck and the bottom cover/top chassis of the laptop severely separate. We have special sealable buckets designed to contain these dangerous batteries while waiting for proper disposal.

I don’t know what the solution is other than many of these corporations need to stop penny pinching in terms of who they outsource component/part/battery manufacturing to.

emtbucky1 · Sep 13, 2023

belvdr said:
Wait, a Uniden battery exploded?

Yes.

emtbucky1 · Sep 13, 2023

belvdr said:
Who had the Uniden battery that almost caught fire or killed someone?

Me.
On this post, there are many pics - Any of those pics of the swelling could also leak, blev, pop, boom, fire etc etc etc. - Or did you just think those cute batteries in your scanner or iPad or phone are harmless??

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lipo+battery+explosion

belvdr · Sep 13, 2023

emtbucky1 said:
Yes.

Provide the evidence.

emtbucky1 said:
Me.
On this post, there are many pics - Any of those pics of the swelling could also leak, blev, pop, boom, fire etc etc etc. - Or did you just think those cute batteries in your scanner or iPad or phone are harmless??

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lipo+battery+explosion

Swelling is not the same as "almost caught fire", "killing someone", or "exploding".

The Uniden batteries aren't LiPo. Neither are the ones in your phone, iPad, or other scanners. It's rare for Li-Ion batteries, the kind in the devices you mention, to even smolder, unless damaged. There are cases, but there are many more cases where they swelled and no further incident occurred. Anecdotally, out of the thousands of machines that my company uses with Li-Ion batteries, only a handful have swelled batteries over the last decade.

KevinC · Sep 13, 2023

belvdr said:
Provide the evidence.

Swelling is not the same as "almost caught fire" and is hardly close to "killing someone". The Uniden batteries aren't LiPo. Neither are the ones in your phone, iPad, or other scanners.

Stop clouding the issue with facts.

emtbucky1 · Sep 13, 2023

belvdr said:
Provide the evidence.
no becasue you didnt ask nice. so rude.

Swelling is not the same as "almost caught fire", "killing someone", or "exploding".

OH so you want to wait until something bad happens. got it. wait - be honest you work for Uniden huh? send me a replacement battery and door then.

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emtbucky1 · Sep 13, 2023

KevinC said:
Stop clouding the issue with facts.

Super helpful comment from a Super Moderator!

belvdr · Sep 13, 2023

emtbucky1 said:
OH so you want to wait until something bad happens. got it. wait - be honest you work for Uniden huh? send me a replacement battery and door then.

You can make claims that those things could happen, but you can't say those things actually happened and insist it's true, though.

No, I don't work for Uniden. 2 points for trying though - 1 for the door request and 1 for the battery request.

emtbucky1 · Sep 13, 2023

belvdr said:
You can make claims that those things could happen, but you can't say those things actually happened and insist it's true, though.

Who are you to be telling people what to say? What facts are and are not... My comment had a solution to the issue. You bring nothing to the table—just rude demands.

Reported.

RandyKuff · Sep 13, 2023

belvdr said:
Provide the evidence.

Swelling is not the same as "almost caught fire", "killing someone", or "exploding".

The Uniden batteries aren't LiPo. Neither are the ones in your phone, iPad, or other scanners. It's rare for Li-Ion batteries, the kind in the devices you mention, to even smolder, unless damaged. There are cases, but there are many more cases where they swelled and no further incident occurred. Anecdotally, out of the thousands of machines that my company uses with Li-Ion batteries, only a handful have swelled batteries over the last decade.

Starting in 2017...

Lithium Polymer Battery Phones List

Lithium Polymer Battery Phones List As of July 2017, the following phones use lithium polymer batteries:

Apple iPhone 7 and 7 Plus;
Google Pixel and Pixel XL -HTC 10 -LG G5;
Motorola Moto Z Droid Edition and Moto Z Force Droid Edition;
Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 edge, S8, S8+, Note 8;
Sony Xperia XZ Premium, Xperia XZ1, and Xperia XZ1 Compact;

My Iphone13 PRO and Ipad Mini booth have LiPo batterys in them...

belvdr · Sep 13, 2023

RandyKuff said:
Starting in 2017...

Lithium Polymer Battery Phones List
Lithium Polymer Battery Phones List As of July 2017, the following phones use lithium polymer batteries:

Apple iPhone 7 and 7 Plus;

Google Pixel and Pixel XL -HTC 10 -LG G5;

Motorola Moto Z Droid Edition and Moto Z Force Droid Edition;

Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 edge, S8, S8+, Note 8;

Sony Xperia XZ Premium, Xperia XZ1, and Xperia XZ1 Compact;

My Iphone13 PRO and Ipad Mini booth have LiPo batterys in them...

Not sure where your data is from, but doing some spot-checking, the following have Li-Ion batteries (sources cited in parentheses - searching for "battery" will take you close to the data):

iPhone 13 Pro ( Apple )
Samsung Note8 ( GSM Arena )
Sony Xperia ( GSM Arena )
Google Pixel ( GSM Arena )

The only one I found with LiPo is the current iPad Mini.

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