Battle Born batteries caught out for designing deliberately defective unsafe Lithium Ion battery products

Multiple outlets have now covered this. Will Prowse has the most extensive testing and coverage. Stached Training has now covered it as well.

Battle Born Batteries are just one of the many companies jumping on the bandwagon of creating Lithium Ion chemisty based batteries to replace standard size automotive batteries so just like Deep Cycle Systems in Australia who tried to silence Stephan Fischer and lost, Battle Born will get taken to the cleaners too, but many more junk products will follow the trend.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Would they pass product safety legislation used in so many countries though? If they cannot or will not produce safe batteries they may find their markets rather restricted.

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@ArishMell I don't know what processes products like lithium ion battery modules go through for certification and testing, but the Battle Born issue is probably worse than the DCS issue as the Battle Born batteries actually get dangerously hot, melt the housing, etc and being Li-On, it would only take one single cell inside a BB battery to go into thermal runaway to create a much bigger disaster than it's defective-by-design 'thermal disconnect' that *doesn't disconnect*!

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@zonavar68 I don't know the details for battery safety-testing either but presumably is mainly to ensure that like any other product they are safe for their intended use and operating conditions.

They can't really do much about predicting misuse or abuse by buyers, including bad disposal of scrapped items, but they would normally detect dangerously sloppy design (for cheapness) as appears the case for certain of Battle Born's products.

Li-ion batteries are delicate by nature, but safe if designed and made properly, charged and used properly and disposed of properly. Remove the adverb from any one of those and they are a recipe for fires.

In Britain we have had fires in refuse-lorries from batteries, especially Li-ion ones, thrown into household rubbish. Also from people using the wrong chargers, or ones that are nominally suitable but poorly-made, in which case they should not have been available for sale. Unfortunately the power of on-line, US and Chinese-owned box-shifters like Amazon and Temu is making it harder to keep dangerous rubbish out of the country.

I thought partly from its peculiar brand name, that Battle Born is some Chinese outfit, but no. Its own web-site reveals it is an American battery manufacturer, making them in the USA. That surprised me: the USA has a reputation for low health and safety standards in some areas but I thought its engineering product standards are similar to those of Australia and most European countries, including the UK. Maybe not!

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