broken laptop battery

[ali_72313]

i opened my laptop in order to clean the fans and i saw that the battery is a little puffy. is it broken? is it safe to use the laptop? battery looks like this : https://ibb.co/dQXtMC3 ,https://ibb.co/zGyQZ52

 

[USAFRet]

A battery that has swelled is absolutely not OK to continue using.

At this point, it may explode, catch on fire, or otherwise kill the rest of the laptop.
Really.

 

[geofelt]

I had a similar situation to the extent that the swelling cracked the case.
It all worked, but a replacement battery fixed all.

It is not hard to fix.

 

[USAFRet]

I had a similar situation to the extent that the swelling cracked the case.
It all worked, but a replacement battery fixed all.

It is not hard to fix.

I had a swelled battery almost kill my Fuji X-T1 camera. No inexpensive.

Nice 3rd party battery, great reviews.
Had been using it for a year.
Went to swap it out....wouldn't quite slide in.
The space is quite tight, no deviations.

This 3rd party battery had swelled a little bit. Maybe a millimeter.
But if it had been in the camera as it swelled...that might haven meant a trip to Fuji to get it out.