Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has had radios catch fire before?
We use the Motorola Mag One radios. About a month ago I had one catch fire sitting on my work bench at home. The radios were not on the charger and the charging bases were not plugged in. They were sitting as they are in the pictures that I have attached. These radios use Ni-cad batteries, not the Lithium Ion type batteries. The radios had been sitting in the same position for at least 3-4 hrs before the fire started. The radios were roughly 2-3 months old. There was nothing around them and as far as I know they had not been damaged in any way.
Has anyone heard of this happening before?
When this happened I spoke to the manufacture and they told me they had never had this happen. Then a few days ago I had one of our accounts call me and tell me that the cleaning crew noticed that one of our radios was smoking while charging.
My concern now is we have a few hundred of the exact same radios being used at a number of accounts and most are unattended over night. I am considering purchasing some sort of box to keep them in that would hopefully contain a fire if it were to start while no one was around. From what I have found fire proof boxes are pretty expensive so I don’t know if it something we can actually do.
That brings me to my next question.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to try to minimize the chance that a fire starts from one of these radios and burns down a building that we provide security for?