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I just learned ... 
In Response To: Ouch, bad news about those switches... ()
...the local scuttlebutt is that the fire started in the boats lithium iron batteries.
Too bad. I'd never have them on my boat...Not with the number of boats lost to them in the past few years...
Bruce
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- And yet one more boat gone, this time in RI
- Looked to me like an oldish woodish boat
- Equus -- a W46
- It is always sad to see....
- When a boat burns and sinks, how do you solve the mystery?
- Here's a W46.
- I follow every cable on our boat...
- Ouch, bad news about those switches...
- I just learned ...
- That's the first I've heard of a Li- battery fire
- What did the Boeing Dreamliners use?
- http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2012-02-01/cargo-carriage-lithium-batteries-suspected
- There have been several recalls of lithium ion batteries in laptops
- One casual report said they were motorsailing.
- What did the Boeing Dreamliners use?
- That's the first I've heard of a Li- battery fire
- Got rid of both my AB switches this year.
- I just learned ...
- Ouch, bad news about those switches...
- Here's a W46.
- It is always sad to see....
- Equus -- a W46
- Looked to me like an oldish woodish boat