TomBrown
Newly Enlightened
I regularly charge 18650 and 26650 batteries unattended. I'm charging several at my house right now but I'm at work.
The danger is a bit scary so I charge the cells in the middle of a concrete floor, a few feet away from anything combustible.
I'd like to move the chargers permanently to a shelf with some sort of fire containment barrier. I'm thinking of a partial enclosure of either concrete board or perhaps sheet metal. It would be open to the front for access.
Does anyone have an idea of how difficult a battery fire is to contain? Will it melt through 20ga steel?
The fires I've seen haven't been that bad.
The danger is a bit scary so I charge the cells in the middle of a concrete floor, a few feet away from anything combustible.
I'd like to move the chargers permanently to a shelf with some sort of fire containment barrier. I'm thinking of a partial enclosure of either concrete board or perhaps sheet metal. It would be open to the front for access.
Does anyone have an idea of how difficult a battery fire is to contain? Will it melt through 20ga steel?
The fires I've seen haven't been that bad.