A word of safety to all mechanical users

[regal55]

I've had a nemesis clone do this to me, I only use kanger clearomizers @2 ohms on them. After that I decided to switch to brand name V/V & V/W vaporizers. Sucks cause I have 4 nemesis's but safety comes first and nemesis clones aren't safe IMO.

I mean what could have happened is I wouldn't have noticed the thing getting warm, set it down in my wooden atty stand and caught the house on fire. Worst part isn't the house its my 4TB+clone music collection that's close by.

 

[Ryedan]

I've had a nemesis clone do this to me, I only use kanger clearomizers @2 ohms on them. After that I decided to switch to brand name V/V & V/W vaporizers. Sucks cause I have 4 nemesis's but safety comes first and nemesis clones aren't safe IMO.

I mean what could have happened is I wouldn't have noticed the thing getting warm, set it down in my wooden atty stand and caught the house on fire. Worst part isn't the house its my 4TB+clone music collection that's close by.

Having a short in the top end of a mod is not going to cause it to fire by itself, which is what I think you're talking about regal. That actually happened to me with a regulated mod. Luckily I heard the atty crackling and took the battery out.

 

[Kyi]

Ugh the idea of having my mod explode in my face scares me a lot. Yet, I recently decided to dive into mechs. No problems yet but I've been trying to be safe. Still, I worry that something will happen on accident.

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[MrPlink]

Oh goody, this never comes up here for discussion.

 

[crxess]

Any of you new Mech users heard of a 2 cent fuse?
If you are not Sub ohm vaping they work great at protecting you, your Mod and your battery.
Good ones are auto reset and all pay for themselves the first time they do their job.

No Mod is 100% Safe from Failure whether Mechanical or Regulated - NONE!
Wear, Tear and Failure is the way of things.

 

[icemanistheking]

Wear, Tear and Failure is the way of things.

Wise words for the world in general

 

[USMCotaku]

Interesting what you say, because I have a good dozen mods here, ranging from cheap eGo's to expensive bottom feeders, and not one of them has failed on me because of the eletronics. The only failures I've had were mechanical (buttons, topper threads... that sort of things) due to shoddy Chinese workmanship. Similarly, I don't know any regulated mod user who's ever seen the electronics in their devices fail. Have you?

On the other hand, I hear of a lot of people melting springs and damaging batteries in mechs...

I have seen the photos of someone's VV mod melt down from electric failure, all those fancy safety features failed to keep it from catching on fire

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[Ryedan]

Any of you new Mech users heard of a 2 cent fuse?
If you are not Sub ohm vaping they work great at protecting you, your Mod and your battery.
Good ones are auto reset and all pay for themselves the first time they do their job.

Actually, I think all the 2 cent fuses are at least 5A, which 0.8 ohms. I think I saw one once that was good to 7A which is 0.6 ohms. MIght not be advisable to push them to the limit all the time, just wanted to point out you can go a bit sub ohm and still use one

No Mod is 100% Safe from Failure whether Mechanical or Regulated - NONE!
Wear, Tear and Failure is the way of things.

This is so true. The only mod I've ever had an electrical problem with was regulated. It started firing by itself one day. It had been dropped a few times and the circuit board moved far enough to make this happen a few days later.

Now I turn off regulated mods when I'm not using them and I unscrew the battery compartment far enough so the battery can't make contact in mechanical mods.

 

[TBCAmor]

I obsessively check my coils after building, and after filling, and then fire first on my mvp 2, then check ohms again. Then I will go to a mech. I really should start checking ohms daily at least. Takes 5 seconds, and might save me from at the least a dangerous situation.

 

[inanitydefined]

When you guys say "hard short", you are saying basically the 510 connection shorted out against the mod topcap, right?

OP, did you not try and isolate the cause before you disposed of the atty, as far as what was wrong with the atty itself?

If I was to hazard a guess, I think the positive post shifted and grounded itself on the side of the coil threads. I didn't bother dissecting it, it no longer served its purpose so in the trash it went.

 

[Kr3wsk8er]

I have a dream, that one day mech users, and regulated users can get along. That we may lay down our differences and respect one each other and our preferred delivery method and remember we are all hear to abstain from an unhealthy lifestyle. Not post biased opinions and act as if another is inferior. Until then M3ch5 @ll t43 w@y br@... Cl0ud$ 4 lyf3. :rollseyes:

 

[regal55]

Well, let me answer you with another question: as someone who knows a little something about electricity, would you have a house without circuit breakers?

If you're an electronics engineer, I'm appalled that you should find it an acceptable risk to use a high-amp current source without one, let alone 8.

The reason people take the risk of a mechanical is the smooth voltage no ultrasonic PWM chopping things up (I know EE's don't believe this is perceptible). Safest bet is to buy a Provari. An electrical engineer can afford it. (joke from a ChE.)

 

[Chelonian]

The reason people take the risk of a mechanical is the smooth voltage no ultrasonic PWM chopping things up (I know EE's don't believe this is perceptible). Safest bet is to buy a Provari. An electrical engineer can afford it. (joke from a ChE.)

Nicely put.

And I have two Provaris, one for me and one for the wife. Bought another for my mom.
The two we have in the house look nice when lined up next to the eight mechs I have

And guess what?

I have yet to see my mechs gang up and beat on my Provaris. They just kick back and vape together, whilst listening to a certain Lionel Richie song.

 

[TheSystemHasFailed]

Mechs rule.

That's Gospel.

 

[Tepid]

My Nemesis, Vamo v2.5 and v3 along with my Provari, and a little help from my Ego Twists,
will beat all of your Mechs, VV, VW, Kicks whatever else you got to dust.
Then lay them out on a cloud of vapor and drop them in a 6 foot deep whole, while my tanks, RDA's and RBA's drown them in juice
I'll come along shortly and cover the remains with dirt.

BooYah.

My stuff gets along just fine and work as a team.


BTW, OP thank you for the info.

 

[Chelonian]

Well, now, my ELA will lay a vapor of mass destruction over your second rate miltia of volts, then whatever is left standing will be humiliated by my 16mm Spheroid.
Then the mop up operation will be conducted by a team of genesis operators, followed up by an iron rule by an elite class of cigalikes from China.

 

[Tepid]

Nice hahaha

 

[B1sh0p]

I've made it to early retirement age and life is good. If my mod shorts (and it has several times) I want it to notify me with a simple message. No hot liquid and gas emissions, please! And no fireworks ... I've seen the pictures of those who ate an exploding tube.

I'd love to see pictures, otherwise, I call total Bull.....

Misinformation and paranoia. Never change ECF, never change.

 

[Chelonian]

The only pic I saw was the idiot that was subohming with stacked batteries ripped from a laptop

 

[Kyi]

Can someone describe what actually happens when you fire a mod with an atomizer short on a mech? I've been paranoid about this for a while, sometimes when my mod doesn't fire immediately I'll get a pang of fear like something is wrong or shorted and I have only moments to escape the ticking time bomb in my hand. But in reality, is it really so dramatic? Can you stop it in time if you feel your mod get hot very quickly? I just don't know what to actually expect to happen should that happen to me.

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