Re:Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering
by lazide on Friday April 18, 2025 @04:00AM
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The manuals have always told people to charge outside, for this reason.
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Re:Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering
by xnzakg on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:04AM
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Not when the charger says "for home and office use only"
Re:Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering
by sidewndr46 on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:33AM
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There's probably some weird clause in the usage guidelines saying you need to have the charger attended all times it is plugged in or something like that.
It's not just a clause. People will claim that this is the only safe way to charge them.
Personally, I think we need a cultural-architectural accommodation - we used to have coal chutes, milkman boxes, ice doors. For well-regulated but large batteries like an EV, a detached garage. For raw cells, a grill sitting on the driveway.
I have only had one "Spicy Pillow" from consumer devices (a phone-charger power bank), but with raw LIPOs in RC hobby gear it was an eventuality.