found a swollen battery in a controller 😬 it's stuck w/a foam pad but the adhesive doesn't seem very strong, would it be safe to wiggle it to try and unstick it? or could that risk damaging it? would I be better trying to get something plastic under the pad on the PCB side and unstick it that way?
btw this is a proprietary wireless controller from a famiclone & the console is pretty much useless without it so i would like to replace the battery. of course the cost of one single battery from a UK seller is more than the famiclone is worth
@lion I think it being discharged makes it a bit safer? should be fine to just leave it until you can take it to somewhere to dispose of it properly
@Rib I would still like to get it out of the controller ideally though so I can replace it, it's a proprietary wireless one for a famiclone so the whole console is pretty useless without it
@lion glad you got there! Yeah I was gonna say I’d treat the foam as sacrificial here
@lion Best to get something plastic underneath it to gently lever or wiggle it away. if it's discharrged then the risk of fire if it tears is low.
It's quite small, only 150mah and probably fully discharged, I accidentally left the controller switched on in storage so that's probably what fucked it. So I don't think it's full of like maximum explosivity but IDK these things make me anxious