I've read all the info both on this site, and elsewhere around the web, which says you shouldn't ever reverse the battery. I, and I think most people, take that to mean the body of the mod should be negative.
But I'm staring at my Sigelei #8 and can't get it out of my head that if you leave the atomiser on the mod when you're not using it, it would make more sense to have the plus where the switch is - at the bottom, making the body positive.
In case anyone isn't familiar with the mod, it's a mechanical with a little switch sticking out the side near the base. The switch joins the body to the negative post, and a hot spring joins the post to the battery. Something like this in standard battery position:
Battery + --> Atomiser --> Mod body --> Switch --> Hot spring --> Battery -
So if the battery loses its wrapper, it's bypassing the switch and hot spring. You're relying on the atomiser failing to break the circuit.
Conversely, if you flip the battery, positive at the bottom, you're bypassing the atomiser. Both the switch and the hot spring are still in the circuit (edit - although the hot spring isn't in the right place for gravity to break the circuit...).
Very confused (and probably wrong, I don't understand electrical things)... any help?
Edit - or does this in fact not mean the body is positive at all? The fact that the switch is in between the body and the positive terminal? That would make more sense. If that is the case, and I'm increasingly thinking that's the only thing that can possibly make sense: it seems like something that's not obvious to a new user, and is perhaps something that should be better emphasised in the battery safety threads.
But I'm staring at my Sigelei #8 and can't get it out of my head that if you leave the atomiser on the mod when you're not using it, it would make more sense to have the plus where the switch is - at the bottom, making the body positive.
In case anyone isn't familiar with the mod, it's a mechanical with a little switch sticking out the side near the base. The switch joins the body to the negative post, and a hot spring joins the post to the battery. Something like this in standard battery position:
Battery + --> Atomiser --> Mod body --> Switch --> Hot spring --> Battery -
So if the battery loses its wrapper, it's bypassing the switch and hot spring. You're relying on the atomiser failing to break the circuit.
Conversely, if you flip the battery, positive at the bottom, you're bypassing the atomiser. Both the switch and the hot spring are still in the circuit (edit - although the hot spring isn't in the right place for gravity to break the circuit...).
Very confused (and probably wrong, I don't understand electrical things)... any help?
Edit - or does this in fact not mean the body is positive at all? The fact that the switch is in between the body and the positive terminal? That would make more sense. If that is the case, and I'm increasingly thinking that's the only thing that can possibly make sense: it seems like something that's not obvious to a new user, and is perhaps something that should be better emphasised in the battery safety threads.
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