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Hi Gary
Wow - how many "engineers" do you need to fix a battery problem!
(Or for that matter to change a light bulb!).
The original battery for my HP Mini notebook (which is about 5 years old)
is a "genuine" Hewlett Packard battery which says on the pack "cell origin China further processed in China" whatever that means.
As well as the Samsung problem I was reading that large li-ion batteries installed in Boeing Dreamliner aircraft have caught fire on at least two occasions. Boeing now encases these batteries in a fireproof container with direct venting to the outside of the aircraft in case of another fire.
The good old "belt and braces" fix.
I think that a large part of the problem is the race to produce batteries of high capacity and small size for the use in cars, homes, portable appliances etc. This perhaps has led to untried technology and manufacturing techniques. You can bet that the separating insulators etc inside such batteries are reduced to the bare minimum to save weight and space. Also I guess such internal parts would need to be of the highest quality and purity.
Meanwhile, I will continue my search for an external battery pack - at least if it is destroyed it will not take my notebook with it (hopefully I will also survive!).
Cheers Peter
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