When you put a battery in a flashlight the flashlight shouldn't start burning. One my son brought home from a birthday party did.
It came from Target -- three for $1 in a package marketing them for Halloween. I dropped in a new Energizer battery, screwed on the top and the flashlight got warm right away. I shut off the flashlight and placed it on the kitchen table. A few minutes later a sizzling sound could be heard that we couldn't identify. The burning smell quickly led us to the flashlight, which was now smoking and melting from the heat. I grabbed an oven mitt, grabbed the flashlight and went out on the balcony and shoved it into a pot of dirt.
My 4 year old was given a small flashlight from a local autoparts chain. A week later my son turned it on and off while I was driving and informed me it was on fire in his hand. It was spewing a sizeable cloud of smoke and caused a near accident as I tried to get it away from him and out of the car. About 25% melted. I now stay away from any unknown electronics.
woodveery wrote: > My 4 year old was given a small flashlight from a local autoparts > chain. A week later my son turned it on and off while I was driving > and informed me it was on fire in his hand. It was spewing a sizeable > cloud of smoke and caused a near accident as I tried to get it away > from him and out of the car. About 25% melted. I now stay away from > any unknown electronics.
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In article <hc4k1j$ei...@news.eternal-september.org>, RickMerrill wrote: >I'll bet it is a hallogen bulb: they can get VERY hot very quickly.
>That's how...
It was said earlier in this thread that these are extremely cheap flashlights, 3 for a dollar IIRC. I doubt flashlights that cheap have halogen bulbs. It sounds to me like a short.
>> I'll bet it is a halogen bulb: they can get VERY hot very quickly.
>> That's how...
> MUCH more likely it just shorted the battery.
Certainly possible but I do have a halogen bulb in a BIG lantern and even it gets pretty durn hot. Obviously something in the OP's lamp was flamable, so the question is what-the-heck would the put in a flashlight that could ignite and at what temperature would it flash?
> Rod Speed wrote >> RickMerrill wrote >>> I'll bet it is a halogen bulb: they can get VERY hot very quickly. >>> That's how... >> MUCH more likely it just shorted the battery. > Certainly possible
In fact much more likely given that it was a very cheap torch.
> but I do have a halogen bulb in a BIG lantern and even it gets pretty durn hot.
You dont even know that his torch has a halogen bulb.
In fact its unlikely that it does given that its a very cheap torch.
> Obviously something in the OP's lamp was flamable, so the question is what-the-heck would the put in a flashlight that > could ignite
> Rod Speed wrote >> RickMerrill wrote >>> Rod Speed wrote >>>> RickMerrill wrote >>>>> I'll bet it is a halogen bulb: they can get VERY hot very quickly. >>>>> That's how... >>>> MUCH more likely it just shorted the battery. >>> Certainly possible >> In fact much more likely given that it was a very cheap torch. >>> but I do have a halogen bulb in a BIG lantern and even it gets pretty durn hot. >> You dont even know that his torch has a halogen bulb. >> In fact its unlikely that it does given that its a very cheap torch. >>> Obviously something in the OP's lamp was flamable, so the question >>> is what-the-heck would the put in a flashlight that could ignite >> You havent established that it did ignite. >>> and at what temperature would it flash? >> You havent established that it did flash. > Would you settle for "catches fire"?
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