Battery Fires

[lenny]

Charging Ebike battery fire from three days ago (July 19) in Hanwell west London.
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'Overcharged' e-bike battery causes devastating flats fire
"London Fire Brigade confirmed no injuries were reported, but said the blaze started after an e-bike battery was overcharged with an incorrect charger. "

'Overcharged' e-bike battery causes devastating flats fire

A new warning has been issued following the fire

www.nottinghampost.com

 

[portals]

When will they start to prosecute diks for negligence? If he was fcking with the gass supply or fiddling the leccy and caused a similar fire the cops would do him, but his gaffa tape ebike electrical system and dodgy charger isn't an issue? So he gets off scott free? Nuts.

 

[portals]

That dude who's ebike fire killed his wife and two kids, tragic as it is, after his bike was nicked he knew he was buying cheap crap but had to get back to work and the result was....

Now if he had an issue with the gas boiler, bought a crappy spare part internet and blew the block up he's going to jail for a stretch... Or tried to fix the distribution box with wrong breakers or guage of wire...he's doing a stretch.

Manslaughter through ignorance isn't an excuse...right?

 

[AntonyC]

What if he was tired (I haven't read the article) and just picked up the wrong charger - jail time?

The problem is that some batteries don't have adequate protection built in, if they did a wrong charger would hardly matter. The notion of a 'wrong charger' is being kept alive in the hope of them being regulated in our favour.