Nobody considers the risk of them going up in flames at night. They have a temp trip safety, but there is still some risk left. Especially for cheap Chinese power blocks.
some risk left. Especially for cheap Chinese power blocks.
You can leave away the “cheap Chinese”. I have tried to find some of high quality once, and that was a super hard task. They are all the same as the cheap Chinese, whether it’s written somewhere or not.
No, it is when not charging you need to worry. When charging odds are you are there and so if it starts to burn you will smell it and take action before it starts a larger fire. When you are not charging you might not even be home and thus the fire will spread.
When things are normal the charger will not burn. When something goes wrong you have to worry. Most of the time you are not charging.
Not sure. Most time I read in the newspaper when some apartment burnt down, or this happens somewhere in my vicinity, it is something that was plugged in. It’s super rare that this happens with unplugged chargers. So I’m pretty sure there is some chance this happens, but it’s more complicated than that. For example during sleep, the human nose seems to be on standby as well, so you might not notice if your e-bike battery or your hoverboard which you’re charging during the night will catch on fire. Until it might be too late. You won’t be noticing the unplugged charger either, but it’s less likely to fail catastrophically. But you should be worried about both. Especially the hoverboard. And not being present has the downside the fire is going to spread. But as an upside you can’t die from the fire if you’re not there. But yeah, if you’re sitting next to it and act quickly, you can stop a situation from escalating.
And firemen always tell, people are surprised how quickly a fire turns from small to all the furniture and plastics stuff burns and it’s not something a regular person can extinguish or contain any longer. So you really have to be right here. One room apart might not be enough.
Unplugged vs plugged in is moving the goal posts. I agree that a device that isn’t plugged in is less likely to start a fire (while not impossible, it is very very unlikely), but that is a different situation.
Nobody considers the risk of them going up in flames at night. They have a temp trip safety, but there is still some risk left. Especially for cheap Chinese power blocks.
You can leave away the “cheap Chinese”. I have tried to find some of high quality once, and that was a super hard task. They are all the same as the cheap Chinese, whether it’s written somewhere or not.
Wouldn’t temperature be much more of a problem while charging and not while the charger is unplugged from the device it is supposed to charge?
No, it is when not charging you need to worry. When charging odds are you are there and so if it starts to burn you will smell it and take action before it starts a larger fire. When you are not charging you might not even be home and thus the fire will spread.
When things are normal the charger will not burn. When something goes wrong you have to worry. Most of the time you are not charging.
Not sure. Most time I read in the newspaper when some apartment burnt down, or this happens somewhere in my vicinity, it is something that was plugged in. It’s super rare that this happens with unplugged chargers. So I’m pretty sure there is some chance this happens, but it’s more complicated than that. For example during sleep, the human nose seems to be on standby as well, so you might not notice if your e-bike battery or your hoverboard which you’re charging during the night will catch on fire. Until it might be too late. You won’t be noticing the unplugged charger either, but it’s less likely to fail catastrophically. But you should be worried about both. Especially the hoverboard. And not being present has the downside the fire is going to spread. But as an upside you can’t die from the fire if you’re not there. But yeah, if you’re sitting next to it and act quickly, you can stop a situation from escalating.
And firemen always tell, people are surprised how quickly a fire turns from small to all the furniture and plastics stuff burns and it’s not something a regular person can extinguish or contain any longer. So you really have to be right here. One room apart might not be enough.
Unplugged vs plugged in is moving the goal posts. I agree that a device that isn’t plugged in is less likely to start a fire (while not impossible, it is very very unlikely), but that is a different situation.