A Dell spokesman said the batteries were made by Sony Corp.

Haha, Sony is getting crucified in the media right now.
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Sony, which affirmed today that its batteries were responsible, said it was “financially supporting” Dell in the recall.

A member of Mr. Lear’s staff, who happened to be in Japan at the time of the notebook fire, retrieved the remains. It was taken to a Los Angeles area lab of Exponent, a failure analysis firm, for examination.

The unit worked when it was plugged in to the power cord, despite the fire, which told the investigators that the problem was not with any circuitry or microchips. An X-ray of the battery pack told them the fire was not caused by an overcharged battery because a safety device was still intact.

Rather, Dell said the cause of the fire was a short circuit in one of the fuel cells. It was caused by microscopic metal particles that contaminated the electrolyte, a porous insulator. Dell thinks that the particles were released when the case of the cell was crimped near the end of Sony’s manufacturing process. It was the same problem associated with the 22,000 notebooks that Dell recalled in December.

Sony technicians, who took part in the examination at the Exponent lab, provided additional data on all its batteries, not just those sold to Dell, that suggested that a broader problem in the manufacturing process. “As events trickled in, they seemed to reinforce a conclusion that these Sony cells had an issue,” Mr. Gruzen said. “They don’t show a predictable pattern, which is why we wanted to get them out of the marketplace.”

So what?

The news was released to the WTJ and NYT earlier in the day. Yes, you opened the thread but venom could have got his news elsewhere. It's not a big deal.

Its a crap load thats for sure , and I posted this and the news but someone gave the news post to VenomXT on front page I submitted it when I opened this thread.

Heads up I read lots of news from a lot of places. Before I post I normally check the front page but don’t always check the forums. I didn’t steal your thunder I just saw it too and posted it. To be honest I don’t check news submissions normally. I probably should, but I submit enough I figure someone else will handle it..... but as your time stamp here is important I went and gave you credit . Cheers.

PS next time just send me a PM that way its not made into a big deal. There is no need to post in the forum and in the comment section.



Now back to topic.

Anyone contact dell yet? I have 40 laptops that need the new batt's but I am scared to call now. With a 4.1 million recall I have a feeling the wait time is not worth a few engineers losing there shorts if one catches on fire.

https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com

That's where you can check if your battery needs to be replaced. Mine does. The site says it should arrive in 20 business days. That's about a month. Well, it hasn't blown up yet

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