BATTERY CHARGING
EXPLOSION DANGER
WELLINGTON, May 2G,
A warning to all owners of radio sets who charge their batteries at home of the danger of a serious explosion was given yesterday by Mr A. B. McDonagh, secretary of the New Zealand Shortwave Radio Club. In an interview with “The Dominion” Mr McDonagh said: “Many people., in order to -see if the battery is being charged, have a habit of touching a wire from the charger on to the battery terminal to see whether there are sparks. The following report from a member in the M.anawatu district might show the danger. A battery was being charged, and the attendant took a wire off and ‘sparked’ it. Immediately the gas being given off from the newly-charged acid ign.it. ed. There wife ;a violent explosion, and the case was shattered to fragments around within a radius of twenty feet, doing a. great d e al of damage. Fortunately the attendant was not blinded.”
Mr McDonagh said that naked light should never be held near wet batteries.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1932, Page 3
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