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Old 15th Jan 2013, 22:17
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How did you manage to defeat the internal fusing and current limiting?
We gave it a bit of a "kick start" that's all I'll say. Let's put it this way it wasn't done under lab conditions, it was done in a pumpkin in a back garden (don't ask it was post Halloween), we managed to overload them and then with a little diethyl ether get them to combust. Obviously the ether immediately went, it was the Li polymers burning.
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