Hi, I'd like to make this new series of videos that I'll just talk. You know I would probably do no preparation like I didn't even
clean my desk from my previous video. I may just watch my videos
and review it with you or whatever you know I know, preparation. I don't no I may call these
ElectroVLOG and vlog would stand for logarithmic voltage anyway. Let's talk about something
[no] preparation
I told you well as you might know I started working part time at my day job [seen] since January 2017
but its the end of January and I only made [one] video?
It's like I took unpaid time off to work on my family stuff
You know my parents needed help with stuff and at the same time my wife is trying to start a cake shop
So I had to help her out in managing their innovation
I had to go to her shop every night and Assemble tons of Ikea furniture
So what happened one night was that I went there?
And I have my battery-operated drill with two backup batteries anyways the batteries come with a very puny charger
And it charges the batteries in like 10 hours, so what I did was that
I took my circuit specialist power supply there to charge my battery so basically what I do I set a constant voltage of around
14 and a half volts and a constant current of 5 amps I connect the battery first if the battery voltage is low it will
Charge with constant current until it reaches close to 14 and a half volts and then the current starts dropping until it fully charges
So I was charging one of my batteries, and I notice that there is smoke coming out of it
You know these batteries are made of multiple cells inside
I notice the way my batteries fail. Is that one or more of the cells short out.
So basically the battery voltage drops now the problem was [that] because that one of the cells was shorted
My power supply was not reaching 14 and a half volts and the constant current was continuously flowing into it
so the battery was getting hot and smoke was coming out of it
So I disconnected from the power supply I plugged it into the drill and noticed that it's still working
So I said f--- it, I'll keep using it
So I used it to put some screws in and at the same time
I notice that the battery was getting warmer every time I was drilling smoke was coming out of it
So the current passing through it was still heating it up, but I kept using it. It kept smoking
Then the plastic started to melt but I kept using it. More and more smoke came out
But it still had charge. my drill was working. So I kept using it
Eventually it got so hot that there was this liquid oozing from the battery dripping on the ground and a lot smoke was coming out
So I said ah so I said, that's it. I can't use it anymore
I took it out of the drill and put it in the washroom and turned on the vent eventually it stopped smoking
At the end of the day
I took the battery home with me
But then I thought if I take him home, he's going to smell and make smoke at night and my wife is Gonna kill me
So I took him to our building dumpster and throw him into the garbage
I know you're supposed to recycle batteries
But I mean in this case it was it was just one battery it was going to stink the house
So I just drop drop it into the dropped it into the dumpster and I thought it was the end of that
Then I went to sleep at night in the middle of the night I woke up
I was scared. I was sweating. I thought oh my God. I dropped that battery into the dumpster. It's gunna short. It's gunna
It's gonna heat up and cause a fire and the entire building is Gonna
Come down. then I try to convince myself that it's fine?
You know because usually the dumpsters are filled with food waste
And I thought theyr wet eventually they're [gonna] put the fire out then I realized we live in Vancouver here
We separate the food waste from the rest so it's completely dry in the dumpster, then I started panicking more
I thought I should go there in the middle of the night and take it out
But then I realize that I throw it into a lot of garbage
And it was underneath and people throw more garbage on top
So I would never be able to find it and eventually I thought to myself you know
It's one of those problems that you that you come up with
that you come up with in the middle of the night and your brain somehow makes it bigger and bigger
I thought if I go to sleep and wake up in the morning the problem would be much smaller
So I woke up in the morning, and I thought about it, and I realize no that was really a stupid thing
I did what if the whole thing was on fire fortunately nothing was on fire
But it could be I mean have you seen that Samsung phone that just explode of course my battery was a nickel metal hydride
Those guys are less likely to explode but for example a [lithium-ion] battery can easily explode like the Samsung phone
So in general throwing the battery into garbage is quite dangerous if somebody else throw the heavy garbage on top of it and crashes the battery
it will short the cells inside and it could cause fire and it was then that I realized that we don't recycle the batteries just
for chemicals
They are actually dangerous to put in the dumpster, and they should be recycled properly so here's the message of the way
it's a message of the oop so here is the message of the day let me know if you like this type of video and
I will continue doing it
I make the links private so only my patreons at patreon.com can see but I don't know maybe eventually I make it
public have fun
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"Captions by Christian Clemente Mendez"