Compiled Dell Battery Fire Pictures AWESOME

Let me start off by saying that I found more Apple computers with fires then Dell but none the less, there is definately an issue with these batteries.


Pictures















Articles

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550

http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops-...to-flamethrower/2006/07/28/1153816375720.html

http://cellphones.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3550

 

all i can say is wow

 

This should help you decide between s96j and e1705

 

Maybe I should stop using my Dell on my laptop. x.x;

 

If these are not shopped then I say pretty darn awesome.

 

Oh dont worry, they're not shopped, they're real. Ive seen them other places a few weeks ago, its just hillarious to see them all on the same page.

 

I was inspired to work up a avatar today.

 

that first one looks like it was just lit on fire...

 

This can happen to any laptop with certain sony batterries....

 

those are Sony batteries, not Dell lol

 

I got them off the internet so I dont believe they are photoshopped. I didnt do any way.

Yes this can happen to any laptop with sony batteries. The Apple Power book is a good example of this, as I have said earlier there were more powerbooks found on fire then Dell's.

To address the first pic, it may be possible that someone lit it on fire but I dont think they did because its an acid type fire if you look at the plastic its burning from the inside out. But I could be wrong. Still its a cool pic!

 

i def dont wanna have this laptop near me anymore. haha

 

Hmmm, I hope mine just blows up and a piece of shrapnel gets enbedded into me. That way, I can sue Dell and hopefully get a hefty payment. Lmao.

 

That first one in my opinion is 90% fake. Why?

Why is the battery out? Don't the batterys cause the fires, yet it's out of the notebook?
It's also funny it's outside, and no one put it out? They just decided to get a picture?

Wow

Edit: oops, maybe that isn't the battery. I must have over looked it. But still, it seems odd none the less.

 

it still looks like lighter fluid in the battery compartment and on the palmrest if you ask me.

 

Hmm...

For the most part they seem pretty realistic, but I agree with Nick on the 1st picture. How can the laptop be on fire if the battery has been removed unless there was some sort of lighter fluid was stuck inside it to make it flame?
And I've noticed that Dell is getting a lot more heat for this problem than other makers like Apple are getting for their faulty batteries.

 

That thing sitting outside of the computer on the first pic isnt a battery its some type of optical drive. Look at the back very carefully. Its metal wrapped on the rear and there is a wide bus connector on the back. Batteries dont have the metal or a wide connector like that. I believe this person may have removed it when it caught fire.

Still though its 50/50 fake. Cant be sure at this point.

 

wow. to be honest, i dont think any of those pics are real. some maybe but i am not sure. All that "fire effects" might not be real since a advanced photoshop geek user could do that. but oh well, its only my opinion.

 

OK the first photo is fake it was taken in march of 2005. The rest are backed up stories on the net. They are not fake. I removed the first one to end the contoversy but if you wanna see it, click here.
http://static.flickr.com/7/7127091_60f8e28dc7_b.jpg

 

funny avatar!

 

Hmmm... So that's why I have a huge, painful hole on my right thigh.

 

Yeah, i figured the first one was fake.

They used to make 2nd batterys that were able to be used in the optical drive of the notebook. So that's why at first i thought it was a battery.

But serious, who leaves there notebook on the ground outside letting it burn? lol

 

other brand notebooks are using the same explosives, I mean batteries as the ones dell is recalling, dells just in the limelight right now because of the recall, the mass recall actually makes me feel a bit better about having a dell, there have only been a few incidents, and a recall of that size probably isnt necesarry, and though sony is footing the bill for the batteries, the manpower, shipping costs and materials, is not going to be cheap, and I do expect other brands using the same batteries to issue recalls as well, if they havent already, but probably nowhere near that magnitude

 

Quick question, if its the sony batteries, why are there no sony laptops lighting on fire? Do they not use there own batteries or something? Haha, that would be sorta disconcerting if they didnt. Sony: "Hey, you guys want to buy these batteries off of us? There cheap and were not going to use them." Dell: "Umm, why? Whats wrong with them?" Sony: "CHEAP" Dell: "We'll buy all of them."

 

No I'd say it would probably go this way:

Dell: I need you to build about 5 million of these batteries for $7.50 each."

Sony: Sure.

Sony goes to their own factory in Japan and China to figure out how to make these batteries for $3.00. In process they put cheaper acid in the batteries. And for their Sony Notebook line they spend extra $0.25 for better acid, since they make huge profit off of selling Vaios.

Nice pictures by the way. It's really interesting to see all these pictures together...

 

pretty much every hardware vendor sells their parts to each other. it's nothing new.

 

YUP. My laptop was built in Malaysia, uses parts from Sony (Batteries), Samsung (RAM), Phillips (DVD-ROM), Intel (chipset, cpu), Broadcom (10/100 NIC) and parts were made in China, USA, Japan, Taiwan, Korea...

My computer has traveled around the world.

 

Just found this. MORE PICS. http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives//005359.html
It shows the actual cells that fell out of the burning mess of plastic and silicon.

 

Kudos to Dell for doing what all the other PC vendors are afraid to do. I worked in a 3rd party FA lab a few years back and we saw systems that looked just like these from just about every vendor you could name. Lithium Ion is a very unstable product and these problems will continue until a better design comes around. Dell has gotten some unwarranted bad press from this but the truth is this issue lies on the back of Sony not Dell. Dell is simply recalling a faulty Sony product and I think it will benefit them in the long run.

 

I'm glad I'm buying my Dell Laptop now rather than later, wouldn't want my laptop to a'splode....although the payment from Dell would be nice...lol

 

airforceone... would u seriously think about what you say:
"I got them off the internet so I dont believe they are photoshopped. I didnt do any way."
"The rest are backed up stories on the net. They are not fake."

Yeah, the internet... about that, its not always 100% reliable...

 

I see what your saying... it does sound bad. What I meant was that the pictures came from relialbe news sources in most cases. It could be possible that some of these are fakes and that people do it just for the attention, but there is a recall of batteries by dell. Dell admits to fires, so you would think people that had problems would take pics for legal purposes.

EDIT: Just so everyone knows this could go both ways. Search the internet and judge for yourself. I simply made this thread in lieu of the news. Peace.

 

I wonder if this HP had a Sony battery?

http://expressen.se/index.jsp?a=578852

I didnt translate the entire article but a 6 year old and some friends were surfing the web when the battery/system caught fire. The tramua terfied the girls and nearly killed the {19 year old!} family cat. It was a HP 8180 that was less than a year old.

 

Apple uses Sony batteries as well. Dell is replacing the batteries at a cost of over $200 million.

 

From the articles I have read Sony will be taking the bulk of the $200-300 million cost of this recall.

 

yeah, did't mean to come off like a douche, just wanted to make sure no one was thinking the internet was always perfect . I would imagine most of them are pretty dead on but a couple look odd...

 

And they should. If Sony were to lose their Dell contract then they would be losing much more than that.