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Forum section: electronics / general

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2012, 11:52:38 pm
content: this caught my on facebook the blurb and picture, some times i surprised by how ignorant some people are spamming rubbish like thisREAD THIS!!!! IMPORTANT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HOSPITAL .....VERY SERIOUS WARNING...I do this all the time! I guess I won't be doing it ANY more !A few days ago, a person was recharging his mobile phone at home.Just at that time a call came in and he answered it with the charging Instrument still connected to the outlet.After a few seconds electricity flowed into the cell phone unrestrained and the young man was thrown to the floor with a heavy thud. As you can see, the phone actually exploded.His parents rushed to the room only to find him unconscious, with a weak heartbeat and burnt fingers.He was rushed to the nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.cell phones are a very useful modern invention.However, we must be aware that it can also be an instrument of death.Never use the cell phone while it is hooked to the electrical outlet! If you are charging the cell phone and a call comes in, unplug it from the charger and outlet.FORWARD THIS TO THE PEOPLE THAT MATTER IN YOUR LIFE!!

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 12:02:38 am
content: The ignorant will always be ignorant -- there is no stopping that.

author: RCMR
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 01:53:49 am
content: Quote from: tom66 on December 02, 2012, 12:02:38 amAnd all the clever people have already been killed by answering calls on their mobile phones while they were plugged in

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 02:08:58 am
content: On a darker note, looks like someone has taken the rather unfortunate demise of someone and formed their own opinion.My turn!Either a battery fire (the damage to the surroundings is very obvious... normal electrocution wouldn't result in any of this damage.)Or a cheap made-in-China charger takes another victim?

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 02:32:56 am
content: Quote from: tom66 on December 02, 2012, 02:08:58 amI second the charger fault.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 04:40:05 am
content: Seeing as it was in bed how likely is it that the phone was under a pillow and overheated to the point where the battery vented, and then caught fire.

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 05:10:20 am
content: Isn't the "intelligent" portion of the charge system in the phone itself and don't nearly all phone batteries have built in temp protection?

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 05:34:22 am
content: The RF section itself has no temp sensor, so it was likely just heating everything up till the battery vented. The last time I saw a temp sensor that was readable was on an old Ericsson phone, and an old Nokia cheapie.

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 05:44:48 am
content: At least my Android has a temp sensor that reads down to 0.1C

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 06:46:12 am
content: Battery explosion. Probably cheap made-in-China battery at fault...Most of them fail while being charged, so not surprising someone with less knowledge would make the false causal relation.That begs the question, if someone unplugged it to take a call and it vented right afterwards, would the story be ranting with the opposite advice?

author: Prizmatic
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 04:19:26 pm
content: Battery vent, and not the hand of a corpse. Some folks will write anything to be a hero.Is it just me ,or does that plug look like its wrapped in electrical tape?

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 04:39:05 pm
content: Quote from: Prizmatic on December 02, 2012, 04:19:26 pmElectrical tape ... now THAT's the person's fault

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 04:40:09 pm
content: Another hypothesis and far more likely, the person went to bed with a phone and a lighted cigarette or cigar, fell asleep and set fire to the bed, the phone just happened to be on the bed and became a victim as well. Look at the position of the burns on the hand in the picture.

author: Prizmatic
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2012, 04:46:26 pm
content: Hehe..http://www.hoax-slayer.com/cell-phone-charging.html