arcaxis
Well-known member
I usually remove batteries from guitar pedals and other gear that I know I'm not going to use for a while because of possible leakage, but now I have another reason, one that's likely pretty rare. The battery pictured below was one I use in a bass pedal and it was removed and on a shelf sitting next to the pedal. A few weeks ago I had heard a loud pop that sounded like a firecracker and smelled a slight odor. Looked all around the room for obvious electrical things that might have done it, but found nothing until cleaning the shelf today where the bass pedal was and I found this Duracell with its end blown out. Probably internally shorted somehow. Wondering what it might have done if it was in the pedal where the bottom had no place to blow out