Evic VTC Mini shot a ball of fire at me at 30 watts..!? New Vid Posted

[3ebmike]

I wanted something for more stealthy vaping for business trips and such and my IPV3LI with my smok TFV4 didn't cut it.. even my SMOK M80 was just a tad too big, so I purchased this. Looked like a great device, had great reviews, loved how I could recharge via USB port. From the get go I knew something was wrong because with my .5 ohm coil in it I couldn't get it past 20 watts without it burning that crap out of it.. I usually can go up to 40ish watts easily with that kind of coil. It comfortably vapes at 15-23 watts so I didn't see a reason to take it back, not to mention my vape shop excepts NO returns even with the receipt the day after purchase. I decided to throw it up to 30 watts, being a 60 watt device didn't think it would run it to the ground.. soon as I hit fire I got a blast of the dirtiest and most burnt foul smelling smoke ever, then when I tried to fire it again, literally a fireball shot out of the drip tip about an inch around. What in the hell was that that could have caused this... took it right back down to 20 watts and vapes fine. I just updated the firmware, not sure if that would help but it was scary.. had my mouth been on it.. that probably would have hurt a bit
EDIT: Below is a video of me firing it twice at 50 watts, then it just dies out on me and reads no atomizers, this is kind of like what happened the time it shot a fireball out.


<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/142097803" width="500" height="888" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="">IMG_4519</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user29513618">Mike Carey</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

 

[Robert Cromwell]

It was that Mobil 1 ejuice.

 

[3ebmike]

Yeah something high octane.


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[3ebmike]

But just our typical cinnamon and vanilla mix from vape wild. I sware by them!


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[Robert Cromwell]

with a Kanthal coil? Did not have it in TC with Kanthal did you or visa versa?

 

[3ebmike]

Using a RBA coil with kanthal pre made by them coming in at .5


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[3ebmike]

I'm positive it was in wattage mode


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[Robert Cromwell]

You got me then a short that burned open? You are not using a 510 pin air type atty are you? If not the problem had to be in the atty.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Melted the insulator in your atty?
I saw Busardo melt one down.

 

[David Wolf]

It surprises me that thing still works. Sounds like something bad for sure in that coil. If it was a short the protection should have stopped that from happening, either the protection sucks or something in the coil caught fire that's just weird man!

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I am betting on an insulator. If it melts or catches fire the resistance stays the same unless it burns all the way thru and shorts out the atty.

 

[VaPreis]

Sounds like the coil is shorting when it heats up. Try a different one.

 

[3ebmike]

I'm using the tank that comes with all the evic Vtc minis.. I've tried changing the coil twice and it happened the first time which is originally why I changed the coil. I didn't see the burst of flame that time but I felt a burst of something intense in my mouth and then the dirtiest burnt smelling smoke all at below 30watts! So I'm guessing it happened in my mouth.


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[Robert Cromwell]

Doesn't the mini come with some Nickel and or titanium coils?
Yepo comes with a TI coil installed in the tank.
Yep comes with both a nickel and a ti coil so if you were using those in watts mode....

 

[3ebmike]

I'm using an "imren" battery imr 18650 3.7v 2500 mah battery max: 40a


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[roxynoodle]

Do you have an inline volt meter? I'm guessing something is wrong with the mod and its firing much higher than it should be.

 

[3ebmike]

Do you have an inline volt meter? I'm guessing something is wrong with the mod and its firing much higher than it should be.

That was our first guess as well.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

It is not possibly in bypass mode?

 

[GeorgeS]

Do you use 'Everclear" as a vaping base much?

(ducking)

 

[3ebmike]

Why did this get deleted?

edit: Looks like its up now, got an alert that it was deleted.. still don't know the actual problem, but definitely a waste of 75 bucks!