They'll probably end up confiscating CDs with Nirvana's "Lithium" on them....

Heh.

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.

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?

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.

Nah, certain spare batteries can't be checked either.

The only ones that are forbidden are Lithium Metal batteries and those are almost never found in consumer goods. Those are used in things like high end Anton Bauer battery packs for production and broadcast video cameras. It's really not going to change much.

Also just re-read the chart and had my columns backwards. You can still carry almost every thing on. It's really only Lithium Metal that is going to have a big impact.

Just means packing spares in checked baggage

You'd think that, but:

# You may not pack a spare lithium battery in your checked baggage

I just read through the whole safe travel with batteries things and it's all stuff that should be pretty common sense and that is pretty much what all the manufacturers write up anyway. Plastic bags is one option for spares, but the other perfectly reasonable one is to just put a piece of tape over the contacts. This is something you should do with loose li-ion batteries anyway. They can short and when they do they spark, it isn't pretty, trust me on this. Something like a coin in your bag can make them short and spark.

Hubby had a pair of batteries spark on him in his coat pocket. If he hadn't smelled something weird, his whole coat might have gone up with him still in it.

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