Firing button getting hot

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ryanrokz

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Hey TorpMan!

I have never used the Kindred v2, but if it's getting instantly hot or shocking you, it would most likely be a short. I did a little reading and saw that this is a Mech MOD correct? I found that the spring to the button generally gives mech mods issues. Try taking out the spring for the button and replacing it with a small piece of rubber tubing or insulated springy material so that the metal spring doesn't interfere with the power connection. This also makes it so the voltage shouldn't drop when taking hits.

Hope this helped, Happy vaping!
 

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This is a sign that something is wrong with your setup, and could be potentially dangerous to you and others around you.

Do not use your mod unless you are convinced that you or someone else have solved the problem.

In a mechanical mod, hard shorts can cause a battery to go into thermal runaway. The battery becomes extremely hot, vents hot gas, and depending upon the battery chemistry can actually explode or cause the mod to explode.

What's left of an exploded mechanical mod

modexplosion.jpg
 

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This is a sign that something is wrong with your setup, and could be potentially dangerous to you and others around you.

Do not use your mod unless you are convinced that you or someone else have solved the problem.

In a mechanical mod, hard shorts can cause a battery to go into thermal runaway. The battery becomes extremely hot, vents hot gas, and depending upon the battery chemistry can actually explode or cause the mod to explode.

What's left of an exploded mechanical mod

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this was my thought as well.
 

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Cmon now, Let's not be disingenuous here,

The mod in question was modified, the switch assembly reworked and had no vent holes. And then ran at an unsafe level.

How do we really know? You see what's left of the mod in the pic. The owner took off without a trace before he could be questioned.

How about this guy's story which is told in the Batteries sub-forum here on ECF? For "visual" people" : The charging and discharging process of a Lithium Ion cell.

I don't have the time to link more episodes of failing batteries and mod parts, but there seems to be a couple new ones every month on ECF.
 
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