I'm stunned over an incident that occurred less than 10 minutes ago ... God 180 and 180 S owners take this as a serious future warning . My unit was on a fairly light coffee table, the table is sitting on a carpet which make this incident all the more remarkable.
My new and young cat is remarkably quick and likes to push against the table leg while tussleing with a toy. She suddenly pushed against the table knocking the unit to the floor ... this I now see is where the units screw on battery compartment can be a real danger .... the triple 18650's are all side by side and fairly tight in their individual slots but they do rest against each other. I havn't the slightest idea how it's possible for any of the batteries to possibly touch ends but the unit hit the floor and looked exactly like a swat team's tear gas or smoke cannister going off and this was smoke not vapor.
I could hardly hold the case to get the screws out to access the batteries and lightly burned my right palm.
As soon as the door broke free I shook the case to get the batteries to drop out and kicked them off of the rug and onto the linoleum where they sizzled and leaked out like bacon strips .... I grabbed a rag then and through all of them into a bowl of water which ended the drama pretty quickly.
The battery case contacts were pitch black, all 6 of them, the entire inner case was coated in battery oil or acid or whatever you want to call it ... the God itself stayed hot for at least 10 minutes.
Oddly, after dremyl cleaning the contacts and wiping out the compartment, I nervously put in 3 new 18650's but I used a piece of ribbon so I could shoot them out of the unit instantly .. amazingly the unit and all settings worked ! (cannot be happier about that)
But really beware a heavy jarring impact with a God because sitting here playing with these 3 new 18650's it seems totally impossible to make any of them touch ends in any possible effort, yet that
is my only opinion how all contacts could be heat blackened and all 3 batteries could have ruptured.
My new and young cat is remarkably quick and likes to push against the table leg while tussleing with a toy. She suddenly pushed against the table knocking the unit to the floor ... this I now see is where the units screw on battery compartment can be a real danger .... the triple 18650's are all side by side and fairly tight in their individual slots but they do rest against each other. I havn't the slightest idea how it's possible for any of the batteries to possibly touch ends but the unit hit the floor and looked exactly like a swat team's tear gas or smoke cannister going off and this was smoke not vapor.
I could hardly hold the case to get the screws out to access the batteries and lightly burned my right palm.
As soon as the door broke free I shook the case to get the batteries to drop out and kicked them off of the rug and onto the linoleum where they sizzled and leaked out like bacon strips .... I grabbed a rag then and through all of them into a bowl of water which ended the drama pretty quickly.
The battery case contacts were pitch black, all 6 of them, the entire inner case was coated in battery oil or acid or whatever you want to call it ... the God itself stayed hot for at least 10 minutes.
Oddly, after dremyl cleaning the contacts and wiping out the compartment, I nervously put in 3 new 18650's but I used a piece of ribbon so I could shoot them out of the unit instantly .. amazingly the unit and all settings worked ! (cannot be happier about that)
But really beware a heavy jarring impact with a God because sitting here playing with these 3 new 18650's it seems totally impossible to make any of them touch ends in any possible effort, yet that
is my only opinion how all contacts could be heat blackened and all 3 batteries could have ruptured.
