[volt-nuts] A Fluke 732A: Return it or keep it?

[Robert Atkinson]

Hi David,
Our posts crossed. Note that the laptop battery has been independently safety tested. Or at least it should have been. Also you are no longer allowed to put batteries in you checked airline luggage, only carry-on and there are limits on the Lithium content (now expressed in WH to make it easier). This is pure safety addressing a very real hazard. The krytron restriction is ITAR (google it) as they are used to fire slapper detonators in nuclear weapons (that probably got a ping on a monitoring service;-).

Robert G8RPI.




________________________________
 From: David C. Partridge <david.partridge at perdrix.co.uk>
To: 'Discussion of precise voltage measurement' <volt-nuts at febo.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2014, 22:04
Subject: Re: [volt-nuts] A Fluke 732A: Return it or keep it?
 

You can ship a Li-Ion or Li-Po battery inside a laptop no problem, but not
on its own. 

No it doesn't make sense except to the postal/shipping/airline safety types.
Probably the same logic that applies to exporting krytrons (even though Made
in China applies to these too).anymore).

Regards,
David Partridge 
-----Original Message-----
From: volt-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:volt-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Chuck Harris

Sent: 08 March 2014 21:36
To: Discussion of precise voltage measurement
Subject: Re: [volt-nuts] A Fluke 732A: Return it or keep it?

Surely that isn't true... otherwise laptop computers and cell phones
wouldn't be allowed on board passenger aircraft.  A laptop computer's
battery would greatly exceed the power in the original 732A battery pack.

-Chuck Harris

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