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Will the FAA Ban Laptop Batteries?

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 22 February 2008 - 06:20 PM

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#2 RNR19952

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 12:43 PM

I thought they only blew up when charging?
How can discharging make them blow up?

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 02:51 PM

Charging does not make them blow up.
Discharging does not make them blow up.

They only blow up if they get too hot.

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 03:33 PM

Not just laptop batteries, but any battery of this type. It's also playing havoc with traveling videographers as they too need lots of batteries to power the cameras and lights. I can unfortunately see rental businesses starting to pop up.

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 04:21 PM

Since the airlines are into DVD screens, and in flight cellular, why not provide a jack for in-flight laptop power? I would imagine for the major laptop brands it wouldn't be hard to come up with a blank that would fool the laptop into thinking a battery was there. It would probably require an adaptor, but we all carry a zillion of those anyway, what's one more?

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 04:34 PM

I don't know about you, but my Dell I used a few years ago would run just fine with or without a battery in it. I'd test the one I'm using now, but the power jack is unreliable at the moment and I don't want to risk an abrupt power loss. I'm pretty sure this one (a Gateway) is the same way, though.

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Posted 23 February 2008 - 04:46 PM

I think that if you take your laptop with you when you go on a trip, your laptop and your battery will be fine.

I seem to remember that a few years ago you used to have to take your battery out of your laptop, before you put your laptop through the XRay machine. I wonder if you still have to do that... ?????