Ask HN: Is my collection of mobile devices a fire hazard? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is my collection of mobile devices a fire hazard?

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Post by tomcam » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 5:55 PM UTC

dryark wrote: post #8

quadral wrote: post #5

Can't you use browserstack for testing? Surely that's more convenient to use.

This comment amuses me as my company is a browserstack competitor and thus my company and our clients have large numbers of devices. When you are the cloud host, you have to worry about this and monitor devices for battery damage / swelling. In our case though the battery temperature can be monitored and this partly lets you know when the battery is going bad before it actually gets to that point and risks catastroph…

Potential customer here. Is dryark up and running yet? On my iPhone it’s a blank page.

Re: Ask HN: Is my collection of mobile devices a fire hazard?

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Post by AHOHA » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 6:20 PM UTC

tomcam wrote: post #20

AHOHA wrote: post #2

To have your smartphone batteries buldge? Maybe, especially Samsung, to have these batteries suddenly explode? Unlikely especially for laptops, phones/tables is still probable. If I were you and want to just make sure all is safe, you can buy some of these li-ion bags/containers that are fireproof, and store the batteries inside, and label them with their devices. I do that in addition to drones batteries, some of th…

> drones batteries, some of them are 6kg each Holy crap your drone could be a drug mule

>drug mule

More like a moose mule!

>https://files.catbox.moe/vtyjud.jpeg

I actually wish one day to fly the above drone, but for other smaller heavy-lift drones, you can easily have a pair of these giant batteries (2 for redundancy) that can go more than that, for example this 12S that I used yesterday in one of the heavy-lift drone, the pair is around 9kg, obviously, when you do a BVLOS operation, you would need at least 6 pairs, and the logistics of these are quite something, including the protection against external damage.

>https://genstattu.com/ta-plus1-0-15c-16000-12s1p-c-xt90.html

Edit: the 6kg mentioned above is this if you’re interested: https://genstattu.com/tattu-pro-22000mah-44-4v-25c-12s-1p-li...

Re: Ask HN: Is my collection of mobile devices a fire hazard?

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Post by tomcam » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 10:34 PM UTC

AHOHA wrote: post #22

tomcam wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> drones batteries, some of them are 6kg each Holy crap your drone could be a drug mule

>drug mule More like a moose mule! > https://files.catbox.moe/vtyjud.jpeg I actually wish one day to fly the above drone, but for other smaller heavy-lift drones, you can easily have a pair of these giant batteries (2 for redundancy) that can go more than that, for example this 12S that I used yesterday in one of the heavy-lift drone, the pair is around 9kg, obviously, when you do a BVLOS operation, you would need at…

You are teaching me way too much about an expensive hobby I am afraid I’m about to acquire.