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[1] e.g. BT earbuds where one side randomly stopped working after a few months, got a replacement after just a few minutes of explanation/verification hassle.
For some reason I received a recall notice for one of these from Amazon but I don't recognize it and could not find any purchases in my order history. I vaguely recall my wife might have bought something like this years ago as a gift for some one else but our accounts aren't linked.
if the accounts are not linked, how did you receive the recall and not her?
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> But it’s hard to deny scale: the US is a populous country. But there are more than ONE BILLION more people in China. This is true for the US alone, but US+Canada+EU is on the same order of magnitude, all of which prefer a more-than-zero-trust situation.
Which is also very spread out, with an ocean bisecting. Not exactly "skilled workers right across the street" for most of that land.
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The scary thing is you can't put the fire out with water. Your only option is to run.
You can't put the lithium itself out with water, but presumably water would still keep everything around it from burning?
There's actually very little lithium by weight in li-ion batteries.
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Which is also very spread out, with an ocean bisecting. Not exactly "skilled workers right across the street" for most of that land.
not just an ocean, the various governments and visas make it hard to move people you need
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Batteries where "uninteresting" so their production was outsourced to Asia. Chinese invested in battery science, engineering and manufacturing. Fast forward a few decades, and here we are. Now with EVs and energy storage batteries are super interesting, and battery factories are being built in west too - by Asian companies (CATL, LG, Panasonic). Even Tesla doesn't make their own cells, Panasonic does. Tesla's promise…
How does that work out in practice? Panasonic owns the machines, do they employee and manage their own set of workers in the Tesla factory in Reno? and then Tesla pays Panasonic who pays them, even though they're working right alongside the Tesla employees? How distinct is it, really, when they're in the same factory working side by side?
Basically, a specialized vendor for a given component is setting up their own production/assembly in your facilities - in some instances even along your assembly line.
The workers operating these machines are usually trained and employed by the supplier.
This setup does have some benefits, like less potential for supply chain disruptions as well as guaranteed capacity. But it is extremely personell intensive and generally requires enormous upfront investments.
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I wish more devices took field-replaceable cylindrical Li-ion cells. They're pretty common in flashlights and rare in other products where they would be advantageous.
I agree, but specifically LFP cells rather then NMC. Less likely to get angry. (My laptop uses these and I appreciate it all the time.)
Should be 710,000, right?
First off, I love Luma Field. Always incredible to see what's going on inside things. Even just fun to scroll through their Twitter. Second, Anker is one of the few companies I actually have a very high trust for. A few years back I bought a wall charger[0] from them, it has 2 USB-C and a Type A. A month in, one of the Type-C ports wouldn't charge if the other port was being used. If you send a support ticket they an…
I've had my share of spicy pillows ranging from iPad to power bank from upstart company which became spicy after using it for just 3 times[1]. I've been overly cautious of batteries for several years now, I charge my devices with 1A charger and keep it between 40% to 80% . I now carry a single 18650 cell power bank instead of those 10,000 mAh, 20,000mAh power banks. I don't sleep with phone, tablet or kindle on bed a…