🟦 🆘 Battleborn Battery Danger?
Is an overheating positive terminal on a Lithium battery a Design Failure or a Safety Feature?
Failure or safety feature?
Will Prowse recently posted two very interesting videos about an apparent design flaw in Battleborn Lithium batteries.
The first video is an overview of an apparent problem with the positive terminal of a Battleborn Lithium battery overheating. Watch this 3-minute video from Will Prowse below.
Battleborn Responds
Here’s Will’s in-depth follow up video with Battleborn’s response.
Please watch both videos and post your comments below, along with any type of overheating problems you’ve had with ANY brand Lithium batteries. I’ll post my own comments on Monday, and we can then discuss what this all means.
Let’s play safe out there… Mike
My main point of focus is how BB tech support responded to the potential design flaw. Note that I said "potential" design flaw since I don't have a BB test battery to experiment on. But I have a few field engineeering contacts at BB that I'm going to query, so I'll know more soon.
I have two 5 year old 100ah BB batteries in the golf cart configuration and have had no problems. I just looked at them and the epoxy is still bright red and there is no heat discoloration of the terminals or surrounding area. The terminals are still mounted firmly to the battery case.
BUT…That response from BB is disappointing in the extreme.
ALSO…I bought the BB brand because Will Prowse recommended them highly at the time.