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Would an engineer really make a consumer design where a sliding contact failing open led to a safety incident?

Every laptop since the 90's has the balancing and protection circuitry inside the battery, not inside the laptop.

>>london+(OP)
Indeed, at worst you'll get a "no battery installed" and the laptop might not even try to discharge it.

The comment you're replying to is just paranoic FUD. Which removable laptop battery has external balancing contacts!?!? They're all +/-/data.

>>userbi+Lv
I'm a corporate firefighter assistant. If there's one thing people should not be messing around with, it's Li-Ion batteries. These things are dangerous enough even without people messing around with their control and management systems.