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Bob Villa writes:
On Aug 24, 4:53*am, "john hamilton" wrote:
I'm replacing a small button battery (CR 2032) with two AAA batteries, I'm
intending to leave the old discharged button battery in its place and solder
the leads from the AAA batteries directly on to the button battery.

Is the heat that I would need to apply to the button battery with the
soldering iron to solder to it, likely to make the battery prone to
'leakage' in the future? Or perhaps cause it to go bang at the time of
soldering? * Thanks for advice.
There are warnings about charging lithiums and having them explode. I
have never heard of it happening and have seen applications where they
were being charged and nothing happened. (they must be very toxic-you
need a label when shipping them)

Li polymer batteries are worse, but you can find exploding button
cells on Youtube if you look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3oRB9rv8E
In the comments, someone said they had one explode whilst soldering it.

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