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Why Lithium Battery Jump Starter Get Fire OR Explosion?

2018-08-16

Lithium battery jump starter is widely used by drivers due to its convenience to jumpstart car battery if car can't start on the road, and most of wholesaler, distributor, sellers like to sell car jump starter. However, lithium battery inside jump starter is easy to get fire and explosion. This problem make people worried about their life and property. So more and more businessmen draw back to portable jump starter market. 

Why lithium battery get fire or even explosion? Most people want to know the answer. Here are some factors to reveal it.


1. Bad Design
there is not enough space for anode and catnode, once they get together, The chemicals inside the battery begin to heat up. or if the plastic insulator fail causing anode and catnode touched,and short circuit.

2. Manufacturing Defects

Quality control isn't kept tight enough,especially battery, if badly made or poor insulator, the jump starter will short or heat up inside.


3. High Temperature
Leave jump starter in the car or the building exploring to the sun,especially in summer, in this condition, the inside will get hot, the jump starter can’t bear more than 140°F, otherwise it will be swollen, or ignited nearly the items.

4. Improper operation
A Charged Battery pack is used to jump start a vehicle and then accidentally left connected with the motor running and alternator charging normally. car jumper should be disconnected from car battery in 30 seconds after jumpstarting vehicles.

Use battery pack to jump start vehicles many times in a certain minutes, it will instantly draw high current and heat it up. Normally  it is suggest to  jump start 4 time in 2 minutes. 


Improper operation problem above is easy to be solved by advanced protection technology. CARKU jump starter has short circuit,over-voltage, over-current, over-charge, over-discharge,over-temperature, reverse-charge, reverse polarity protection function.




CARKU is a global leader in auto jump starter for car, motocycle, SUV , truck, lawn mower. Over 50 engineers in R&D team develop new products with every year to enter into market to help clients gain great competition against their competitors.  The top important principle is to keep it stable and safe when users use lithium-ion battery portable jump starter to restart their vehicles or recharge other USB devices, 12V automotive devices, or laptops. Now CARKU is well recognized by the world due to  stable quality and high end design.


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