After reading all the recent news about exploding and burning Li-Ion laptop batteries and this story today about Dell's new effort to try to buoy it's reputation, I decided to give this story a home online. Just to inform, not to bash anyone (my first Dell was a 286-12 back in 1988). It was sent to me on July 6th, 2006 by a fellow Amateur Radio operator in the local area."Building D of Novell in Provo was evacuated at about 1:30 PM today because of fire alarms set off by a Dell D600 battery "venting with flame" under normal use/charging conditions. It took the laptop out with it, of course.
Yesterday, he sent some pictures and I thought I'd share. Here's a sample:
The rest of the images can be found on my public FotoTime site.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Dell Laptop battery trouble at Novell; aka "Venting With Flame"
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Looks like a C600, not a D600. D series latitudes are silver, not gray.
Actually, looks like a Latitude CP/I to me...but they used the same chassis for a lot of models.
Guess I should be glad all my batteries for that thing are dead. I just use the AC adapter :)
Guess you are safer without the battery but they had AC adapter problems also;
https://www.delladapterprogram.com/Main.aspx
Follow-up info is in this entry. Or you can always check my current posts.
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