Hello,
I am new here and appreciate any help or advice that anyone has to offer.
A few weeks ago we bought a number of brand new Motorola Mag One A8 two way radios. We are a security company and some of our accounts don't have a place for us to keep our radios so the site Supervisor will take the radios home to charge. A few nights ago one of our supervisors took his 4 radios home and set them on his kitchen counter. They were not on the charger. He went to sleep and was awoken 4 or 5 hrs later to smoke alarms. He went into his kitchen and found the radios on fire. Thank god it wasn't much worse than some black soot on the wall. I know that the radios were not on the chargers because the chargers were not melted but the 4 radios were melted and stuck together. These radios use a 7.2 Nickel-Metal Hydride battery. I know the Li-ion batteries can catch on fire but not this style battery. Has anyone experienced anything like this before or have any idea what could of caused this. My concern is that we have a number of supervisors that do the same thing with their radios plus we have a number of accounts that we have 20 plus radios that sit on the chargers when not in use. I don't want to see someone home or business get burned dow or someone get hurt. Currently we have 150 of these radios that we just purchased.
Any info or experiences on something like this would be appreciated.
I am new here and appreciate any help or advice that anyone has to offer.
A few weeks ago we bought a number of brand new Motorola Mag One A8 two way radios. We are a security company and some of our accounts don't have a place for us to keep our radios so the site Supervisor will take the radios home to charge. A few nights ago one of our supervisors took his 4 radios home and set them on his kitchen counter. They were not on the charger. He went to sleep and was awoken 4 or 5 hrs later to smoke alarms. He went into his kitchen and found the radios on fire. Thank god it wasn't much worse than some black soot on the wall. I know that the radios were not on the chargers because the chargers were not melted but the 4 radios were melted and stuck together. These radios use a 7.2 Nickel-Metal Hydride battery. I know the Li-ion batteries can catch on fire but not this style battery. Has anyone experienced anything like this before or have any idea what could of caused this. My concern is that we have a number of supervisors that do the same thing with their radios plus we have a number of accounts that we have 20 plus radios that sit on the chargers when not in use. I don't want to see someone home or business get burned dow or someone get hurt. Currently we have 150 of these radios that we just purchased.
Any info or experiences on something like this would be appreciated.