Need advice: Lithium shipment from Japan to Europe

Hi all,

sorry but I think I've never had to check this.

I'm returning from Japan to Italy in few days.

In a checked luggage there are ~40 Superfamicom games, while another ~10 in carry on bag.

Question is, will the CR2032 battery inside pretty each cart trouble me at the airport?

I'm going in Italy so I can't really say if US restrictions apply...more, are the cart battery labeled as dangerous? few will be probably fine, but so many will be seen as a big single one?


Damn SFC...never had to think about this with the neo...

any precise comment/experience/reference would be greatly appreciated! (especially about JAL/Alitalia or Europe policy)

Thanks,

Massi

Food for thought.

USA:

http://safetravel.dot.gov/PHMSA_battery_guide.pdf,
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404351,00.asp

CR2032s are fine. It's only bigger cells like laptop batteries that are dangerous because of the cell size.

Tyranix95 said:

Food for thought.

USA:

http://safetravel.dot.gov/PHMSA_battery_guide.pdf,
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404351,00.asp

Click to expand...

does this apply to a Japan-Europe civil flight? (not courier)

plus, wikipedia reports cr2032 as lithium

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CR2032_battery#section_2

but IIRC such battery was not widely used at the time of SFC (nichel?)

So first question is: which kind of battery is inside a factory sfc cart?

I do believe as well that size matters, but I'll areange plan B (shipment from airport) just in case

Looks like a CR2032, coin cell.

http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=7742.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hTdV2s23vQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jAeySUujiE
http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/cartridge-battery-replacement/

Yep, so far

a) Superfamicom used 2032 batteries
b) nowadays cr2032 are lithium

Is it possible that 20 years ago cr2032 where made in different material?

I'm not concerned in which one is right to replace, but if all those original batteries could trigger an alert at the checkin.

In few days we will see..

According to the IEC standard the CR2032 is a Lithium coin cell battery. I can't imagine they'd use anything different, unless they used NiCad ones but then they wouldn't be cr2032's.

*OK*, I'm back home and everything went ~smooth~

I'm incline to say SFC carts are not a problem for luggage,.but I learned there is always a little luck involved in this kind of situation, so next time I'll try anyway to manage things differently...

Anyway, thanks a lot everybody!