ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
Here is where Dick and I disagree, not a big deal but I tend to forget things, like right away. I also tend to read a lot so I hook up the charger so it is right next to me and put my battery in the safe pot then charge while I'm reading. If the charger is too far away I can't hear the 10 little beeps. Most the time I can't hear them with the charger right next to me. So far I haven't even had a battery come off the charger at anything I would even call warm, always feel like room temp. I have one old friend that didn't have his in a safe pot and was charging it in his shop and forgot it. It burnt down most of his shop but the house was saved. Nuff said!!!!
You pays your money and you takes your chances!!!
I've never had one go bad either. I did have one that got really puffed up during a charge, got kinda warm, but never went kaboom. I found it next to the charger about 30 minutes after I put it on the charger, all puffed up and warm... not hot. I disconnected it and left it there for about two days. I still have that thing somewhere in the back room... [X(]
Dick.