FYI - top posting is the current norm in many Usenet groups, especially the
MS tech support groups where I spend most of my time. With newsreaders like
Outlook Express, some people find embedded responses can be more difficult
to read than the top posts.

"If it is legit.." was not impuning any individual report but rather the
blanket assertion that flaws and failures in use are endemic to Lightspeed,
which has been alleged, not in your post nor about this particular problem,
but rather in other threads where people have criticised Lightspeed's
quality control.

A battery pack that is hot enough to melt its casing and emit smoke is on
the verge of combustion and even if it did not ignite itself it seems to me
to present a risk that it could cause more flammable objects in contact with
it to ignite. Heck, Dell Computer recalled a batch of Nicads battery packs
for some of their laptop models a year or so ago because of nearly identical
overheating problems that had, in fact, resulted in full blown fire in
several cases.
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