Hi, I was just burned by a lithium battery in my Nest protect. The device was chirping for me to replace the batteries, so I opened it up and started to remove the existing/old batteries - and one of them was so hot it burned my finger. I don’t mean it was warm, I mean it actually burned and blistered my skin.
These were all Energizer lithium batteries last replaced about 2 years ago; the Nest protect was in a room temperature location not exposed to direct sunlight. This should not have happened; If burn risk isn’t bad enough, this seems like a clear fire risk to me.
There are other posts on this forum about this issue and it seems it is alarmingly common with these units, but those posts do not ever go on to say how the issue was resolved. I do not feel very comfortable that something hot enough to burn my skin is attached to my ceiling.
Has anyone had this issue and been able to come to a resolution (with Google or otherwise)? I have 6 of these units in my house so it’s a lot of $$$ to just throw them out and replace with dumb smoke alarms. Any advice would be helpful.
thanks!!
