a button cell battery fell into the heating vent should we be worried?
by admin on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 | 4 Comments
One of those little silver round batteries that came in my book light slipped out as I was fussing with it and plop, fell right into our heating vent. We tried fishing it out with a fly swatter (I guess it wasn’t long enough), I tried the vacuum (not enough reach), and we took pictures to see if we could even see the battery (nope, nothing but silver air ducts). Should we be worried about having the battery sitting in our vents with the heat?
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Nope!
Forced air in the ducts doesn’t get hot enough to bother it.
no it does not contain enough chemical to hurt any thing if you had say a thousand in there you might need to be worried but not this go on with your life
Only if the battery corrodes and eats through the heat duct, but it wouldn’t be much of a hole from such a small battery. Try getting a magnet down there, taped to the flyswatter or coathanger something. No rush, it isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
I wouldn’t be too worried about it until you see a lot of bright sparks, fire and smoke coming out of the vent. Also be aware of the extremely toxic gasses. If you wait for all this to take place you will live a very long life.