Mech mod disfigures a e-cig user, sad.

[vapeNoob4]

Explosion just happened and messed this guy up, not sure if posted yet.

URL:

http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/e-cigarette-explodes-in-bentonville-mans-face

Link: E-Cigarette Explodes in Bentonville Man's Face

1:28 timemark shows the mod all jacked up. Figured someone might know the models perhaps. Looks like the mechanical mod peeled apart possibly. Sucks for this guy.

 

[puffon]

Looks like another issue of using a "hybrid" mech, with a subtank (Lemo?)

 

[Hans Wermhat]

Re-wrapped battery+mech mod+sub-ohm tank+ignorance=this. I call BS on the whole "I saw flames shooting out of the garage" bit. It's ironic that a guy in Arkansas got hurt by an ecig though. They have some of the toughest laws in the US. Goes to show that legislation is ineffective. If he had been able to walk into a vape shop and get the knowledge he needed to vape safely, this might not have happened.

 

[Hans Wermhat]

That's a Fuchai and a TFV4 I think.

 

[sonicbomb]

Subohm tank with flaky pre-made coils possibly, unknown battery which appears to have vented in a mech with no venting it would appear? I cannot identify any of the components.

"We've heard reports of this happening all across the country..."

 

[MattyTny]

The article reads its the Sigelei Fuchai, and the pictures show that. It is not a hybrid. The tank looks like the Smok TFV4.

The battery obvious went under thermal runaway. You can see the negative contact, or the button, took damage. It doesn't look like anything from the battery got on the button, but it's dented, weird. What's interesting is that the tank looks fine and although we don't get a good shot of it, the top cap of the device looks to be intact.

You would expect to see more damage to the device and tank itself if it hurt his face. Regardless, it's obvious the user doesn't know how to operate the device. Prebuilt or screw in coils scream danger on mechanical devices. I'm not sure about this one.

 

[Boden]

Fu Chai doesn't have top venting.

 

[sonicbomb]

I really want a Fu Chai, is that wrong? Too soon?

 

[Visus]

You would expect to see more damage to the device and tank itself if it hurt his face.

It possibly flared out in the space between the 510 and to of the mech like a mushroom. The temps are welding hot so I could see how it could disfigure him in an instant..

 

[MattyTny]

I really want a Fu Chai, is that wrong? Too soon?

It's not a bad device considering it's copper on the inside regardless of what finish you get. It has the screw adjustments for the 510 and battery rattle as opposed to a floating pin. Insulated negative switch too.

What Boden pointed out is important, it's vent holes are near the bottom, which makes this case kind of odd considering his face was hurt and not his hand.

The article pointed fault toward the battery, but since Sigelei was mentioned I wonder if that will cause any issues for them.

 

[Boden]

It's not a bad device considering it's copper on the inside regardless of what finish you get. It has the screw adjustments for the 510 and battery rattle as opposed to a floating pin. Insulated negative switch too.

What Boden pointed out is important, it's vent holes are near the bottom, which makes this case kind of odd considering his face was hurt and not his hand.

The article pointed fault toward the battery, but since Sigelei was mentioned I wonder if that will cause any issues for them.

Its not odd, batteries swell before they vent from the top making bottom venting useless.

By my math pressure built up inside the mod until the top cap threading failed and blew off with about 800 to 1000 pounds of force. Thus busted face.

 

[MattyTny]

Its not odd, batteries swell before they vent from the top making bottom venting useless.

Thanks for correcting me, I did not know.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Looks like another issue of using a "hybrid" mech, with a subtank (Lemo?)

Fu Chai is not a hybrid topcap has adjustable pins...

 

[sonicbomb]

I have drilled out most of my mech mods with addition 2mm holes, aesthetics be damned.

 

[Belhade]

Still less dangerous than burning down the house with a cigarette/match.

 

[Boden]

Batteries vent between the negative casing and the positive pole. They swell like a balloon first.

 

[Bad Ninja]

I've said it before.

1. Premade coil heads and mechanical mods are a disaster waiting to happen.
(That's a TVF4 tank with a triple coil head )
2. Not everyone should use mechanical mods. Know your limitations. Mechanicals are for advanced users who understand he risks and how they work.


This was an example of a novice vaper incorrectly using the wrong gear, and paying for his carelessness.

Education is the way to vape safe.
Know your gear.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Re-wrapped battery+mech mod+sub-ohm tank+ignorance=this. I call BS on the whole "I saw flames shooting out of the garage" bit. It's ironic that a guy in Arkansas got hurt by an ecig though. They have some of the toughest laws in the US. Goes to show that legislation is ineffective. If he had been able to walk into a vape shop and get the knowledge he needed to vape safely, this might not have happened.

Bentonville has several Vape shops. It does not say where he bought it.
Online or in a vape shop.

 

[Bacong]

"We're all just guinea pigs. Until we speak up and try to share with other people that these are dangerous and they can happen to you, then people aren't going to know," Cindy said.

 

[Visus]

Batteries vent between the negative casing and the positive pole. They swell like a balloon first.

View attachment 506622

In that picture the top pole supposedly positive where the arrow is pointing to on any battery is also negative casing. Positive is only the small center of the topcap.

That top negative portion is used by engineers to make soldered power packs where every bit of space is utilized efficiently....