Lethal AA Batteries!!

Bengaboy · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:23

Wow!

My SKY remote is missing the batteries and the back is missing exposing the batteries.

Held the remote to change the channel, and I got a massive burn from it.

Turns out to be the batteries - they were boiling hot! :eek:

They wernt near nothing hot or anything , so what happened? My brother took the wrapping (the thin layer of plastic with the energizer logo on it) off the battery, dont know if that has anything to do with it?

I threw them out to the other side of the road just incase they blew up or something.

Energize · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:26

Probably the exposed metal casing caused the batteries to short.

TheCrow · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:26

Did you get a massive burn (chemical i would guess in this case) or was they just a bit hot?

Best guess would be you joined in as part of the circuit, and from aa that would be about as much as when you but 9v battery on your tongue.

Viper² · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:27

Try licking them.

Tefal · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:28

BY massive burn do you actually have blister/missing skin?

Or are we talking hot tap water hot here?

Monkeynut · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:31

Eat them.

JBuk · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:32

Tefal said:
BY massive burn do you actually have blister/missing skin?

Or are we talking hot tap water hot here?

90% burns sadly

CaptainComedy · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:33

yeah if it was a batter leak it would be something - but a burn is nothing

you'd be lucky to get a blister

vincent1989 · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:36

i had some AA batteries leak onto my desk one time, being the curious person i am (and not knowing the batteries had leaked) and having seen a pool of translucent liquid on my desk i decided the best way to find out what it was was to taste it...never again!

burnt like a ******, Darwin award here i come

mark66 · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:38

I had something similar the other day...

I was sat down surfing the net when all of a sudden my leg started getting hotter and hotter very quickly, I leapt up to find the source...I had one of those square 9v batteries in my trouser pocket and I think the two terminals must have connected with a coin also in the pocket. It really had got hot and I was left wondering if it may have popped had I not got it out in time, and what damage it would have done?!

(Does all sound a bit dodge doesn't it!)

knip · 28 Dec 2008 at 20:38

I set fire to my school shirt when I was about 14.
I had two batteries for my walkman (yes I am old!

) in the pocket with two coins and they made a circuit and burnt a big hole in my shirt before I noticed.

Tony Williams · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:28

Butcher and eat them alive!! Don't fail!

Glaucus · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:30

codec said:
yeah if it was a batter leak it would be something -

No it wouldn't it's not strong enough. I've dissembled more than enough batterys in school. Not once did I get a chemical burn.

CaptainComedy · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:31

AcidHell2 said:
No it wouldn't it's not strong enough. I've dissembled more than enough batterys in school. Not once did I get a chemical burn.

really? why is your name acid hell then?

Ben M · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:31

Bengaboy said:
My SKY remote is missing the batteries and the back is missing exposing the batteries.

what?

Glaucus · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:31

codec said:
really? why is your name acid hell then?

chemistry lessons. Where I use to mess about with acid.

thelegend · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:34

check out LiPo RC car batteries on youtube.

they go seriously wrong when they short out :eek:

scares me to charge mine lol

lee

Tony Williams · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:34

AcidHell2 said:
chemistry lessons. Where I use to mess about with acid.

Acid-Acid or Lucy in the Sky Acid?

Glaucus · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:35

Tony Williams said:
Acid-Acid or Lucy in the Sky Acid?

Just acid, don't do the sky stuff.

Ben M · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:37

Tony Williams said:
Acid-Acid or Lucy in the Sky Acid?

Synthesising LSD in a school chemistry lab would be quite an achievement :eek: