Exploding hoverboards

spud17

After Echo Foxtrot for neatness it should be Golf Hotel.:)

Oblivion

Foxtrot Oscar might be more appropriate.

Strider590

The authorities are clamping down on these because they can't tax them, I think it proves they don't give a damn about the environment and only care about money.

The media (BBC included) are just puppets, playing along and doing as instructed as usual.

Plenty of cheap electrical goods come out of China with those rather dangerous plugs, this no different to any of those.

spud17

Oblivion wrote: »

Foxtrot Oscar might be more appropriate.

It did cross my mind.

ohreally

SailorSam wrote: »

Well hover boards suggest they must hover, like a hovercraft.

It says Persil on the rear of a bus but that doesn't take the washing in.

shaun_from_Africa

pappa_golf wrote: »

who said (categorically) that the charging circuit is faulty , even in that Australian link (that gives caution) , it does not say the circuit is faulty?

Common sense says that either the charging circuit, protection circuits (if any fitted) or the batteries themselves are faulty. If all of the mentioned component were built and fitted to a suitably safe standard then there would only be a very small risk of a fire occurring.

kwikbreaks

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Common sense.

I think that was the missing component....

George_Michael

pappa_golf wrote: »

and , would not a suitable fuse assist in this matter? , the OP has stated that they ARE going to use this item , and queried the plug fitted as standard , advice has been given to "attempt" to make the item safer

If the problem is being caused by a charger that is failing to cut off when the cells are fully charged which is leading to them overheating and catching fire, then no, having a correctly fused input lead would make no difference at all as it's the charger output that is the problem and not the unfused input.


There have been loads of reports about these things catching fire when on charge, reports from the USA, Australia and the UK (that I know of) and these 3 countries all use different mains plugs so the only common factor is the hoverboard charger and battery.

George_Michael

ohreally wrote: »

It says Persil on the rear of a bus but that doesn't take the washing in.

And try getting a decent chicken madras here:

SailorSam

Amazon have stopped selling Hoverboards and they're writing to all their customers who have bought one suggesting they should be thrown away.
You would have thought the faulty ones would have only come from the likes of 'boot sales' not reputable dealers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35109728