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TOTAL teardown of a lithium phone battery.

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Repair, teardowns & right to repairRenewables, batteries & storageElectronics & circuit design

What it is

Big Clive does a complete teardown of a lithium phone battery, taking apart the protection circuit, case and the cell itself. He notes it was risky because the cell was not discharged first.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it in battery-fire threads as a rare look at what is inside a Li-ion cell and how dangerous disassembly really is.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Big Clive does a really amazing (and dangerous) tear down of what's inside a Lithium Ion cell”

    Shows what the parts of a Li-ion cell look like

    djsumdog, 2017-01 · Recommendation · in “Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: lithium-ion, teardown, battery safety, electronics, big clive

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