Another mod accident but this one has me baffled

[sofarsogood]

...my fear with the fda ruling if the ban everything made after 2007 the streets will be covered with home made mech mods made from easy to get flashlights with no protection or venting built in and these storys will be all over the place and instead of admitting to there mistake of banning safer products they will just push the blame on vaping in general.

You're right. If the FDA restricts devices there will be more mechs floating around and more accidents. I wonder if they have considered that?

You are also right that may be the force was out the bottom and pushed the device towards his face. A photo of the bottom of the mod would be helpful.

 

[smacuser]

"battery way too hot". What?

 

[jazon1]

"battery way too hot". What?

if you have a sub ohm set up and are running the coils at to low of an ohm for your batterys you over tax them making them very hot,that was a solid copper device and would carry and hold the heat from the batterys very effectively so he would have defiantly felt the mod getting hot in his hands and should have known something was wrong....these things are not ticking time bombs waiting to go off batterys show signs before they go poof heat is a big indicator..

 

[crxess]

Idiots making statements like this will not help matters either.
This woman needs a Battery safety course.
Amp load is Drawn, not forced. The higher the amperage capability, the less likely to explode

"This is way too powerful to power this," Mary Grace Burns of VaporWize told Fox13.

"Way too hot of a battery. You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though," she said.

 

[jazon1]

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You're right. If the FDA restricts devices there will be more mechs floating around and more accidents. I wonder if they have considered that?

You are also right that may be the force was out the bottom and pushed the device towards his face. A photo of the bottom of the mod would be helpful."


you can see in the picture that the bottom cap is missing,that dont necessarily mean it was blown off tho it could have just as easily been removed to access the battery, what does not make since to me is that the ecig is not bulged out had it had enough compression in it to break the guys neck there would most defiantly been some bulging or cracking of the device not just the cap blowing off.

 

[jazon1]

Idiots making statements like this will not help matters either.
This woman needs a Battery safety course.
Amp load is Drawn, not forced. The higher the amperage capability, the less likely to explode

agreed, the higher the amps of the cells used the less likely it would be to vent under load not the other way around like she suggested...

unfortunately we live in a day were the media is ruled by special interest groups and only tell the masses what those groups want them to hear..i have avoided nearly 50,000 cigarets now from switching to vaping and have never felt better you think that will ever make it to main stream media?

 

[AzPlumber]

I suspect the guy had an ICR battery in the mod upside-down and a defect in the battery wrapper caused a dead short when he pushed the button.

 

[crxess]

I suspect the guy had an ICR battery in the mod upside-down and a defect in the battery wrapper caused a dead short when he pushed the button.

And then what happened..................in your opinion?

Did you look at the Photo's? If that is the Mod in Question, it did NOT Explode

The Fact the Coil is still intact says the Tank did NOT explode.

The whole thing is a Cover up of a Stupid accident that injured him and unless he fesses up I hope no one contributes a dime.

 

[jazon1]

I suspect the guy had an ICR battery in the mod upside-down and a defect in the battery wrapper caused a dead short when he pushed the button.

sounds plausible to me,unfortunately i see a lot of people totally careless with there ecigs who get them and know nothing about them and dont even try to educate themselves with there own devices,most shops will put new heatshrink on your batterys for free if you ask them to, if any of you have batterys were the isolating wrapping is coming off go get it fixed, most places do it free!

 

[AzPlumber]

And then what happened..................in your opinion?

Did you look at the Photo's? If that is the Mod in Question, it did NOT Explode

The Fact the Coil is still intact says the Tank did NOT explode.

The whole thing is a Cover up of a Stupid accident that injured him and unless he fesses up I hope no one contributes a dime.

Looks like the switch is missing. If the battery was upside-down and shorted out on the body of the mod the venting force would be directed on the switch.

 

[crxess]

Looks like the switch is missing. If the battery was upside-down and shorted out on the body of the mod the venting force would be directed on the switch.

Interesting theory. No visible damage/burn marks on the bottom. Battery removed(likely) so who is to say why the switch is not in the photo.


Honestly see no reason the Battery could not run inverted. Switch cap is insulated and Vented.

Last time my lips looked that way, a guy with a fist nearly the size of my head hit me square in the mouth.

 

[AzPlumber]

Honestly see no reason the Battery could not run inverted. Switch cap is insulated and Vented.

If the battery is in upside-down and the wrapper is damaged (battery's negative can is in contact with body of mod) and you push the button (that is positive), you cause a dead short.

 

[crxess]

If the battery is in upside-down and the wrapper is damaged (battery's negative can is in contact with body of mod) and you push the button (that is positive), you cause a dead short.

Unlike the Dude that wants us to think he blew himself up............I am aware of that. I also am aware it is not a good idea to use any battery with damaged wrapping.
If the wrapping is undamaged, there is no issue.

Again, all speculation. The Mod looks unscathed. The tank is intact, minus glass. Things just don't fit.

 

[TX Foilhead]

You guys completely missed the most interesting part of the story.

He liked working out a lot in High School, so he going to school to be a personal trainer. He's 29, where's he been since High School?

 

[mcol]

Here's the news story on the Colorado Springs station. I disabled the story link by putting 3 spaces in after headlines.
KKTV - HomePage - Headlines /Man-Recovering-from-E-Cig-Explosion--353170341.html

He uh.....he uh......lost consciousness after the explosion and fell and broke his neck.
Hmm.

 

[pbanj]

How far did he fall ffs lol

 

[Rabbit Slayer]

How far did he fall ffs lol

The human body is a fragile thing, it doesn't take much force to break.

 

[pbanj]

The human body is a fragile thing, it doesn't take much force to break.

As someone who has taken many falls from different heights and down different things without breaking anything. I can say it's not that fragile

 

[Rabbit Slayer]

As someone who has taken many falls from different heights and down different things without breaking anything. I can say it's not that fragile

Grats on being lucky

 

[AndriaD]

As someone who has taken many falls from different heights and down different things without breaking anything. I can say it's not that fragile

Same here... I've been a klutz and a half my entire life, but never broken any bones. (knock on wood) Sprained my ankles a lot though. Bumps and bruises and skinned knees and elbows... no broken bones.

Andria