Black Diamond Equipment, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of about 1,000 Soliras Headlamp Lithium Ion Batteries. The headlamp battery may overheat, posing a burn or fire hazard to users. No incidents or injuries have been reported.
The recalled batteries are found in Black Diamond Soliras headlamps. The batteries has the following dates which can be found on the battery label: 0703, 0803, 0903, 1003, 1103, 1203, 0104, 0204, 0304, 0404, and 0504. The black headlamp has the words and symbol for the company on the light. The headlamps were sold for about $150 at authorized dealers nationwide from March 2004 through May 2004.
“BD was notified by the manufacturer of the Lithium Ion battery cells that
they had experienced a 1 in a million failure rate when the battery is used
in a high-current draw application. While our lamp does not fall into the
category of “high current draw”, the possibility of failure is NOT ZERO,”
explains Peter Metcalf, CEO of Black Diamond, who continues “As we are
acutely sensitive to eliminating the possibility of failure, we chose to
join the recall, along with many other major OEM manufacturers such as Apple
computers.”
Consumers have been told to stop using the headlamps immediately and return the battery to the nearest authorized Black Diamond dealer for a free replacement.
