Wow …..sad story bro.
this is what Ville says about his batteries and VV conception.
" I don't know about the danger of our batteries, afterall they just sit
there inside their holes with the back ends of them exposed and since they
are fully sealed cells with the outer sealed shell made of steel, I would
not be too worried about them. But to make things more clear, one of the
reasons why I designed the Venus the way I did, was because I used to have
extremely difficult condition called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. That
meant that any contaminants, chemicals, gasses or allergens could very
easily trigger very uncomfortable reactions within my body. So with each
product and item I would buy I have to be careful to not get troubles, as
especially nowadays with chinese mass production for the lowest cost
possible many products are not very nice to me. And for that reason I
preferred to be very careful with materials..all very carefully thought
out. Even soldering tin we have bought the most advanced I could import
from the USA after testing them and finding out lots of differences in the
chemical composition of them. But that affects mostly the production time
healthiness as we are cleaning possible residues after working on them to
make sure there are nothing to end up in the lungs of the user. And most
soldering connections are sealed with so called vacuum socks, I don't know
the correct english word..and even those traditionally use some strong
glue but we chose some special ones that while considerably more expensive
seemed to be safest alternative. The end panels could be fixed with screws
but for the ease of manufacturing and looks, we chose to use something
else. It is not glue but something close to that, normally used in
construction business and here in Finland these things are important to
people and this particular fixation paste we use has the highest rating of
"M1 class" meaning it is tested not to put out harmful gases or chemicals
during its lifetime. But about batteries, probably most common ones in
electronics today are the lithium ion polymer batts, but those I don't
seem to be able to tolerate, they leak always some strange somewhat sweet
smell out of them but so far my experience with these A123 technologies
Lifepo cells has been a very good one, the only thing I don't like is the
fact that they are not too cheap but that's how the world works, good
things have their price
But of course the best possible product could
have more direct air path and if that's really something you'd like to
modificate, we could always send you an extra back panel…."