{"id":80093,"date":"2023-11-22T05:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=80093"},"modified":"2023-11-22T06:11:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:41:10","slug":"lg-battery-recall-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lg-battery-recall-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Battery Recall: 6000 Batteries Yet To Be Located"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lg-battery-recall-saga.jpg\" alt=\"burnt out lg resu battery\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lg-battery-recall-saga.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lg-battery-recall-saga-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lg-battery-recall-saga-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lg-battery-recall-saga-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LG\u2019s battery recall saga rolls on, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recommending to Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones that he issue a national product safety notice for the solar storage units.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accc.gov.au\/media-release\/consumers-urged-to-immediately-check-for-recalled-lg-solar-batteries-after-government-safety-warning-notice\">the ACCC\u2019s announcement,<\/a> around 8000 batteries remain in homes, and 6000 haven\u2019t been located.<\/p>\n<p>The at-risk units include batteries branded LG or SolaX, but the batteries could also be inside unbranded systems, which consumers are urged to check to avoid the risk of a fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.productsafety.gov.au\/system\/files\/lg-battery-storage-safety-notice.pdf\">product safety notice (pdf)<\/a>, \u201cThe batteries can catch on fire at any time, without warning \u2026 Additionally, batteries in thermal runaway can release toxic, flammable gasses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The notice gives the full list of known brands including,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LG RESU<\/li>\n<li>SolaX Power Station,<\/li>\n<li>SolaX X-Cabinet,<\/li>\n<li>Opal Storage,<\/li>\n<li>Redback SH5000,<\/li>\n<li>Red Earth Sunrise,<\/li>\n<li>Red Earth Drop Bear,<\/li>\n<li>Varta<\/li>\n<li>Eguana<\/li>\n<li>plus some unbranded systems with LG packs inside.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lg-resu.png\" alt=\"lg resu batteries\" width=\"420\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lg-resu.png 420w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/lg-resu-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/opal-storage.png\" alt=\"opal storage\" width=\"329\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/opal-storage.png 329w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/opal-storage-165x300.png 165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/solax1.png\" alt=\"solax cabinet\" width=\"287\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/solax1.png 287w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/solax1-176x300.png 176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/solax2.png\" alt=\"solax battery\" width=\"297\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/solax2.png 297w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/solax2-278x300.png 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LG has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgessbattery.com\/au\/home-battery\/checkSN.lg\">serial number checker<\/a> to help consumers identify at-risk systems.<\/p>\n<p>The recall was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lg-chem-resu-recall-mb1896\/\">first announced in 2021<\/a> in Australia, following a 2020 recall in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s stayed in the news ever since: in 2022, the original belief that it affected \u201chundreds\u201d of batteries in Australia was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lg-battery-recall-mb2636\/\">expanded to thousands<\/a>, the first time the ACCC mentioned that there were more than 6400 units in the field.<\/p>\n<p>When LG Energy Solution Australia&#8217;s Phillip Crotty addressed the Smart Energy Conference last November, he said 82% of the batteries had been addressed, although they had not all yet been replaced.<\/p>\n<p>LG\u2019s solutions remain the same as they have been for some time: replacement of some batteries and, in other cases, providing diagnostic software to shut down batteries at risk of overheating.<\/p>\n<p>If you are worried about your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/comparison-table\/\">solar battery<\/a>, call LG on 1300 677 273.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG\u2019s battery recall saga rolls on, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recommending to Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones that he issue a national product safety notice for the solar storage units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium 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