{"id":21612,"date":"2022-09-30T07:58:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T06:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/?p=21612"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:21:14","slug":"blown-lithium-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/2022\/09\/30\/blown-lithium-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Blown lithium battery"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of buzz on the interwebs about Samsung mobile phone batteries. Whilst Samsung devices do seem particularly<\/em> problematic, it can be an issue with lithium polymer batteries generally – especially the super skinny type. They really don’t like getting hot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I confess I documented this repair rather badly but I did remember to capture a few snaps, fortunately. A few months ago, we noticed the back was bursting off my wife’s Clevo N141ZU skinny GNU\/Linux laptop. When I removed the back casing, this is what I found…<\/p>\n

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Severely blown lithium ion laptop battery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So I removed the battery immediately. It proved a somewhat fiddly job to get it out – I lost count of the tiny screws that needed to be removed. And it was out-of-warranty, of course. Red ellipse shows where the battery goes…<\/p>\n

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Old battery removed, ready for replacement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I found a replacement on Ali Express for fifty quid including VAT – just over a third of the price that it would have cost from a European distributor. Which of course meant that she had to run it on mains power for a few weeks.<\/p>\n