Don't most laptops use lithium-ion batteries, not lithium metal batteries?
::off to google::
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
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tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 12:55:14 pm PST #9750 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Dec 29, 2007 12:56:34 pm PST #9751 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In the laptop it's OK, but you can't bring a spare? Apparently.
So I totally wasted the entire rest of the day after my modicum of productivity early. At least I've made excellent progress on getting all of the snacky food out of my apartment....
tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 12:58:57 pm PST #9752 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK:
# Under the new rules, you can bring batteries with up to 8-gram equivalent lithium content. All lithium ion batteries in cell phones are below 8 gram equivalent lithium content. Nearly all laptop computers also are below this quantity threshold.
# You can also bring up to two spare batteries with an aggregate equivalent lithium content of up to 25 grams, in addition to any batteries that fall below the 8-gram threshold. Examples of two types of lithium ion batteries with equivalent lithium content over 8 grams but below 25 are shown below.
# For a lithium metal battery, whether installed in a device or carried as a spare, the limit on lithium content is 2 grams of lithium metal per battery.
# Almost all consumer-type lithium metal batteries are below 2 grams of lithium metal. But if you are unsure, contact the manufacturer!
So I guess we can still fly with most lithium batteries....
sarameg - Dec 29, 2007 1:01:31 pm PST #9753 of 10001
I have no faith in the actual enforcement of this. I foresee security folk with a lack of real info (the table isn't at all clear) confiscating left and right, letting the real targeted stuff through....
tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 1:03:44 pm PST #9754 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
They'll probably end up confiscating CDs with Nirvana's "Lithium" on them....
Jessica - Dec 29, 2007 1:04:34 pm PST #9755 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I have no faith in the actual enforcement of this. I foresee security folk with a lack of real info (the table isn't at all clear) confiscating left and right, letting the real targeted stuff through....
Yeah. Given how paranoid some TSA agents are about *hand lotion*, I can only imagine how they're going to behave around batteries...
Jesse - Dec 29, 2007 1:05:25 pm PST #9756 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
They'll probably end up confiscating CDs with Nirvana's "Lithium" on them....
Heh.
Vortex - Dec 29, 2007 1:06:05 pm PST #9757 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
You can always look innocently at the person and say "oh, it doesn't run on batteries, it runs on electricity" and hope that they go for it.
tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 1:09:50 pm PST #9758 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What's weird is it's not the total weight of the battery, it's the weight of the lithium metal in the battery. How is the average TSA security person supposed to figure that?
NoiseDesign - Dec 29, 2007 1:10:08 pm PST #9759 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Just means packing spares in checked baggage. Thankfully I typically don't travel with spare laptop batteries. I'll have to check on the spare batteries for my video camera and still camera and move them to checked baggage when I travel.