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    What is up with swollen batteries these days?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by link626, Jun 26, 2018.

  1. link626

    link626 Asus GL502VM, Lenovo Y580, Asus K53TA

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    Dell XPS is famous for it. Macbooks had it.

    I just discovered my GL502vm , which i have had for 16 months now, always plugged in, also has a swollen battery.

    Seems more common these days than 10 years ago.

    I never had swollen batteries on my old laptops under 2 years old.
     
    link626, Jun 26, 2018
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  2. rlk

    rlk Notebook Evangelist

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    Swollen batteries scare me. That just plain isn't supposed to happen, and I'm scared it's going to spring a leak/catch on fire/what have you.
     
    Last edited: Jun 27, 2018
    rlk, Jun 26, 2018
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  3. Falkentyne

    Falkentyne Notebook Prophet

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    Shouldn't mess with swollen batteries. Stuff like that can legitly kill a person.
     
    Falkentyne, Jun 26, 2018
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  4. jeffmd

    jeffmd Notebook Evangelist

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    These swollen batteries.. are they the flat packed flexible type or round cell type? Thankfully I haven't had any lithium round cell batteries that have bloated up on me yet, they die into uselessness before anything catastrophic happens.
     
    jeffmd, Jul 1, 2018
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