Did you say that those batteries are LEAKING?
Please, if I read-correctly, please STOP using them. Please.
These are not leaking. Previous Panasonic batteries were. Check them in my previous thread. I got rid of them now anyway. Thanks a lot for your answer and offer to help in-private.
I don't recognize the above batteries. I'm pretty up to date on the available IMR -- IMR/hybrid batteries currently available on the market, and these are not any of those. I imagine what you have here are ICR chemistry batteries, so they should NOT be used in any type of mod --- mechanical or regulated.
Those batteries were scavenged from the following laptop
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Can we get a pic of the terminal ends of those suicide batts? Im thinking they came from a laptop battery pack or something like that.
Honestly you have been told by multiple people how dangerous it is to use them. yet you keep saying your gonna have to use them untill you get some different ones... My dude, just stop. stop using them. Stop endangering yourself and everyone around you. Stop endangering my hobby of vaping...
I had a 18500 batt in my copper cartel mod. I kinda had a dumba$$ moment and built a way low build on it and it vented. the tube started heating up really quick and I tossed it out of my house window into the gravel driveway. I knew immediately what had happened... the battery went into thermal runaway and started to vent. When it vented the battery casing swelled up and basically acted like a plug or stopper not allowing the gases that were being released inside of the tube to escape out the vent holes in the bottom. the pressure built up inside it rather quickly and it went off like a pipe bomb. In my gravel driveway. 4 feet from my car. I had to replace both side windows of my car. the atty I had on it was a cheap clone of the Mad Hatter, nice heavy solid chunk of copper was found the next day in my shed where it put a decent dent in the tank of my Harley. This was about 50 yards from where it went boom. This all happened because I put a .2 build on a mech that had a battery that could NOT support the amp draw. Only difference was that I had the battery's specs. I knew it couldnt support the build I put on it. I was stupid.
What happens if they are REALLY crappy batteries and are only 10 amp or even 7.5 amp batteries and you put a 20 amp load on them... what happens if they are 15 amp batteries when manufactured, but have since degraded and now are down to 7 amps? Please for everyone including yourself, get rid of them and do NOT use them in anything vape related. Hell, give me your damn address and Ill send you a friggin sammy 25r....
ok, getting off my soapbox...
Woah, that sounds bad. Really bad. Thank you for that info. I live in a flat so I propably wouldn't be fast enough to open a window and throw it out. None of my batteries went even warm, but still, it could be dangerous. I'm glad I stopped using that mech mod. I'm not sure if you were serious about those sammys, but that sounds awesome and thanks for that.
This is One thing that has Always made me Shake my Head when it comes to 95% of the Mech Mods I have seen.
Vent Holes at the Bottom or in the Switch.
Since a Battery is Designed to Vent at the Top, and since it is Very Unwise to put a Battery in a Mech Mod with the Positive End Down, Shouldn't the Vent Holes be at the Top of a Mech Mod?
Or Hey, here's a Rocket Science level Idea. Both.
I have NO vent's on my nemesis, not at all, which is ridiculous. Here's the one I have, with just a different color.
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Dude, bro, man, bear, pig... Hears the deal: The batteries you've got are crap. They're unknown. They're a mystery to you and to all of us, and w'ere experts, we've been on this forum for 8 years, and we know what we're talking about. Have you ever seen a picture of the aftermath from one of our APV vapers, having a mod up to their mouth when/while their battery failed? Dude, it punches your teeth out! One minute, you're vaping on your PV all-smiles, the next second, you're missing a front tooth and gasping for air as your favorite stainless-steel drip-tip dislodges from your throat & makes it's way down your esophagus. NOT a pretty picture, my friend - NOT a pretty picture at all. Is that what you wanna experience, or do you want to err on the safe-side, and AVOID dental-damage & a missing-tooth!?
My advice to you, is to put those batteries in a box, and either A. Bring them to your local battery recycling facility, or B. Keep them in that box until you've got a better/safer use for them. IE: If you ever wind-up with a regulated device that uses rechargeable batteries, you'll have them, ready to go!
I am using a regulated device. Wismec Reuleaux RX200, which actually doesn't detect it's voltage properly, but since it uses 3 of them it puts smaller load on them, so it is
a bit safer, isn't it? I've got LG HG2's on the way, they should arrive within the following days, hopefully this week.
What happened today was a bit awkward. I had my Wismec Reuleaux RX200 loaded with 3 of those batteries, all charged and working well and after I went to sleep for about 11 hours I woke up to a dead batteries. I mean they discharged by themselves while I haven't touched it at all and they were working pretty good before I went to sleep.
The batteries that I have on the first picture are scavenged from the following battery pack.
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They take ages to fully charge and discharge pretty quickly. Another thing I found out is that Wismec doesn't detect their voltage as it should.
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On the picture above the left column is battery levels detected by wismec and on the right column is the actual voltage measured by my multimeter. All double checked both in wismec and multimeter. I'm wondering if the same stuff will happen if I get the HG2's.
If you guys want I'll keep you updated.
Thanks everyone for your valuable, massively helpful and useful replies. I've previously been posting to my local, Polish vaping board, which is one of the most popular boards in my country and there's NO way I could get THAT amount of useful, quick and reasonable replies. I'll stick with you guys and abandon that other board. You guys are like heaven compared to the other board hell, where moderators are idiots and users are cheeky.
Huge thank you to everyone that was/is helping me here.
By the way, if any of you guys here have any issues or things that you want in your
android phone then PM me. I do have some skills that might prove useful to you.