510 battery fail, did i react properly?

[macenzy]

my 510 manual supermini failed on me, all i remember was me over dripping on an old atty and some problems with the battery firing without the button pressed or the light on (very old battery). so i see smoke come out and assume its firing stupidly again, then i notice a horrible burning smell. the smoke is thick and coming out of the airspace between the button and battery, i chuck it out of my second story bedroom window and run downstairs to save the cat who seems very interested in the battery i believe is about to explode, i have a mod coming what should i do if this ever happens again? my bedroom smells like lithium ion.

 

[redbucket]

I would have pooped myself. So you reacted better than I would have.

 

[macenzy]

small battery, assumed at worst i would lose a couple fingers and some eyebrow hair.

 

[USAGeorge]

Things go bad.Dispose of it and be done with it..I would have done the same thing. Hope you enjoy the new device..

 

[macenzy]

yup its gone, button melted into the battery, scary stuff

 

[redbucket]

Do you want to share the supplier, model, etc? Obviously, we all hope this doesn't happen to us. Exploding batteries are scary.

 

[kwalka]

my 510 manual supermini failed on me, all i remember was me over dripping on an old atty and some problems with the battery firing without the button pressed or the light on (very old battery). so i see smoke come out and assume its firing stupidly again, then i notice a horrible burning smell. the smoke is thick and coming out of the airspace between the button and battery, i chuck it out of my second story bedroom window and run downstairs to save the cat who seems very interested in the battery i believe is about to explode, i have a mod coming what should i do if this ever happens again? my bedroom smells like lithium ion.

You def reacted properly with the initial response. But after something like this occurs, you MUST take pics and report it to the admin staff here. These incidents must be well documented. The history of the batt, the charger , the way the batt was acting leading up to the incident, how old the batt and charger are, is it the charger meant for that batt. Our safety is #1, and the more info we have to work w the better the chances are of preventing it from happening. People are getting severly hurt, and we are running the risk of getting completely shut down. So, please, send a PM to one of the moderators and try to answer as many of the questions I put out there as you can.
I am very glad you are ok.

What APV/mod did you buy?

 

[macenzy]

hmm any photos would only show a slightly melted battery i disposed of it already, i think i overdriped on a center post that had been warped by some ce3's, or got juice in the button causing the error, either way the battery was a [Revolver Gemini 2 special edition stainless steel manual battery] and it was almost a 4 month old batt

 

[kwalka]

Thanks for that. Did you Pm one of the mods? Please do not take this the wrong way, but , a lot of folks around here take the position of " pics or it never happened". We, of course, have no reason to believe you wouldn't be telling the truth. This is like the 3rd or 4th thread in as many days that contain this kind of content. If all of them are true we have some serious batt issues going on.
This whole pics or nothing theory is not my idea. I have just come to see it in action, and nobody can argue w photos.
I would like to give you some info for your new mod/APV (advanced personal vaporizer). Which one did you pick?

 

[four2109]

Before you get your "APV", read up on battery safety.

 

[macenzy]

i did a lot of research and ordered a buzz pro a couple days before the battery failure. seemed like good protection and a good track record should be here in 4 or 5 days and i have read all the necessary battery care stickies. if this ever happens again i will take photos thanks for lookin out,vape on

 

[DaveP]

Something probably shorted the battery inside the casing and the electronics weren't able to shut down and fried. You probably didn't get juice inside the case. The center post goes through to the inside, but the bottom connection is soldered to the electronics and it's suspended in a silicone ring to insulate it from the ground connection.

All you can do when a battery goes into meltdown is throw it outside if you can. A metal can is a good place for one of those to spend it's last minutes. The bad part is that you don't have time to think in those situations. We all should think it through and decide what we'd do before it happens and panic sets in. Li-ion fumes are not good to breathe or allow to touch your skin, so we need a place to quickly secure a bad battery before it starts to flame.

Did it finally explode or just burn out? Pictures would be nice so that we could see the aftermath.

 

[macenzy]

no real aftermath, bad smelling fumy room, button just melted abit. i think juice got in through the button slot, look into a battery bag, those fireproof sealed ones those might work. just burnt itself out i should have chucked it when it first started firing without pressing the button