After-market video game device may have contributed to burning of Farmington Hills bo

Charging while in your pocket sounds very odd.

I'm not really familiar with the li-Ion cells in the PSP or what sort of safety measures they have , but I know LiPo batteries and the way they will sometimes blow up like a balloon and pop when overcharged or you try to draw too many amps (too large a prop. on a model plane, etc).
From that I would assume the danger is while either pushing or drawing too much power through the thing, so a short would make the most sense for a battery just sitting in the PSP in a kids pocket.

Can overcharging somehow leave the battery in a dangerous state where it may pop later (that doesn't sound right but I'm really not that knowledgeable on the topic)?
Or could this be an issue of dodgy batteries like the cargo plane and those laptops that kept blowing up a while back rather than a bad charger.



Real perdy fireworks..... :)

prolly he went to the beach for a dip earlier.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MZeroEW2

and fastload a game controls it? are you kidding me. games are software. a charging circut is hardware. again the battery and the charger control this.

---

Sorry for my bad english, not "a" game but "the" game, in my mind, game=console not "Need for speed" as you think I was implying.

I'm not an idiot thinking that a software takes care of charging since it can be done when the game, ooops..sorry, the console is off.

What I was saying is the AC adapter as nothing to do with overcharging, when the PSP (read: charging circuit) sense that the battery is full, it cuts the power to it, if you test the voltage on the AC adapter still plugged in at that momment, you'll notice that the power is still there.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Art

The Sony smart batteries have the charger built in.
The PSP "charger" isn't a charger, it's a regulated 5 Volt power supply.
It's the PSP that decides when to stop charging, and the battery that decides what
temperature it is, not any external charger.
That's why you can charge from car lighter sockets, and other external batteries,
as long as the external power source provides regulated 5 Volts at the PSP power socket.

And I've read at least one.

---

That is exactly what I said, in other terms and a bad english.

Fastload: Yes, his post was very similar to yours in terms of technical content. It also expanded on the concept with more detail and (IMO) therefore was a perfectly valid post.
This site is frequented by many who have a less thorough understanding of the issue than yourself, additional detail is not something to be frowned upon.

The fact you felt the need to post again, proclaiming the superiority of your post based on punctuality alone and criticising another's despite the fact he clearly expanded on 'your idea' displays nothing but your arrogance.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by bah

Fastload: Yes, his post was very similar to yours in terms of technical content. It also expanded on the concept with more detail and (IMO) therefore was a perfectly valid post.
This site is frequented by many who have a less thorough understanding of the issue than yourself, additional detail is not something to be frowned upon.

The fact you felt the need to post again, proclaiming the superiority of your post based on punctuality alone and criticising another's despite the fact he clearly expanded on 'your idea' displays nothing but your arrogance.

---

Dont get me wrong, my last reply was ment to be read by MZeroEW2, not for proclaiming (still looking for a proclamation here) my "superiority", It's sad that you interpreted it that way. I should have added a smiley, my bad. ;)

/Flame suit on

I maybe a n00b here but that doesnt give the right to anyone to call BS on what I said and yet insinuing that a "proclaim" myself as superior.

/Flame suit off

I was calling BS on the "concept" in the article, Not at anyone. :rolleyes:

A Lot of misunderstanding I think...
My post was to sort of flame Mr John Vattic for being an ignorant asshole,
and provide a bit of backup for Fastload actually ;)

I was referring to this post:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Art

The Sony smart batteries have the charger built in.
The PSP "charger" isn't a charger, it's a regulated 5 Volt power supply.
It's the PSP that decides when to stop charging, and the battery that decides what
temperature it is, not any external charger.
That's why you can charge from car lighter sockets, and other external batteries,
as long as the external power source provides regulated 5 Volts at the PSP power socket.

And I've read at least one.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Fastload

That is exactly what I said, in other terms and a bad English.

---

---

Proclaim: to indicate or make known publicly or openly.

How is that post intended for MZeroEW2?
I didn't call BS on anything you said regarding the battery issue. I called arrogance on you for choosing to 'indicate or make known publicly or openly' (post) that you felt Art's comment was bad somehow because it was similar to yours and was in supposedly bad English.

I just disagree and cannot see any other way to interpret that one sentence post.


Art: That's why I didn't like Fastload's last post.

I think Fastload was saying his post had bad English, so basically quoting Art saying "that's what I meant to say, but didn't manage to very well".

Fair enough if that's true, my mistake and I apologise.

Seems strange to make a post saying 'that is exactly what I said, only in better English' as a means of thanks....