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?
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
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
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