Boeing lithium batteries

Feb 08, 2013 68 Replies

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If anything they did too much testing. There are general aviation requireme nts for lithium battery test from several organizations, electrical, mechan ical, and environmental, many called out on a per battery basis, that for y ears have been suspected of introducing inchoate defects that eventually gr ow into full blown failures. In other news, the UN is pushing through emerg ency regulation by the ICAO to limit lithium batteries carried in passenger plane cargo to 11 lbs, down from the 77 lbs they were allowed prior to the 787 fiasco.

Halon-type materials are designed to put out carbon fuel fires, such as wood, paper, hydrocarbon fuels, plastics and things like circuit boards. There are not supposed to be effective on metal fires and fires which provide their own oxygen source. But, by the time they got there, all of those other materials were probably involved in the mess.

Jon

A story supposedly leaked to CBS news was that the airframe damage was severe enough that had it occurred in flight the tail section would have broken loose of the fuselage.

Latest theory is Dendrites. I have heard of dendrites in lead acid batteries (from Eagle Picher) but not in LI-Ion.

Here's a video that shows the dendrites forming.

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I think you mean cessna never strayed from good design in the first place.

european electronics is always skethy stuff.

and the tails falling off.

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Those Chinese CE stickers they use to cover the cracks need better glue.

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They had a LiFePO4 catch fire a few years ago and FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive in 2011 ordering them to remove it and replace it with a NiCd.

They've known about dendrite formation for over a decade now.

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