Originally Posted by
AlexanderLS
Li-ion batteries are li-ion batteries. I've no doubt that someone somewhere had their bike light battery catch fire. It was probably small and handled privately. Not all times a battery catches fire does it make the news. If Samsung/Sony/Apple/etc. have released products that have caught fire, you can be damn sure a generic battery that doesn't go through the QA and extra safety circuitry can catch fire.
https://www.singletracks.com/blog/mt...-riders-house/
Ultimately it's up to the individual if they want to risk their home and life for a few dollars savings. If you buy from a reputable brand it's considerably less likely you will have a fire and if you do, you have a company that will likely compensate you.
Samsung is a reputable company and their phone caught fire. I suspect that Boeing used reputable companies to source their batteries. In both cases (and the one above), the end user made mistakes. Boeing and Samsung didn't program their charge/recharge protocols correctly and the guy in the scenario above allowed his battery to be charge where the heat could build up.
All Li-ion batteries have a chance of risk if they are not cared for properly and most people have no idea if they are doing it right or not.