Risk of battery fire?

[Picard12]

Is there risk of battery fire during charging?

 

[xtraman122]

There’s never going to be zero risk of a battery having something go wrong, so yes, technically. Charging tends to be when batteries catch fire, although with good quality batteries and chargers it’s very uncommon.

 

[mustclime]

I mounted a smoke detector over the place where I charge my bike.

 

[Picard12]

Has anyone on the forum had a fire?

 

[Stihldog]

I mounted a smoke detector over the place where I charge my bike.

I did the same. This is the 4th smoke detector , which is battery operated, but still “speaks” with the other 3. (Nest). I’m not worried about these batteries …but you never know.

 

[xtraman122]

If your bike has an easily removable battery, one safeguard is to charge or even store it in one of those fire retardant cases/pouches. They're usually marketed as being for LiPo batteries because those are more temperamental, but they'd work just fine at housing a Li-ion pack like we use as well and prevent any fire from spreading if it were to ignite for any reason.

 

[irie]

If Israel has been anywhere near your battery ... DON'T TOUCH IT!