Another eCig Blew Up...

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DC2

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How about this, a fire proof bag and tongs hanging on the wall so a venting mod can be snagged and tossed outside. Is that an invention? (I'm gonna be RICH!)
They already have fireproof bags made for this very purpose...
LipoSack.com

I've been using them for at least 5 years now.

But if you want to invent the tongs...
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Alert the media, the 850 watt Corsair power supply caught fire this weekend. I was doing an update and dozed off. I woke aprx an hour later to a noxious smell and saw a small plume coming from the power cord attached to the power supply. Room was smokey, ( but not as much as when Im vaping :) )

I jumped up , switched the power strip off. Opened up the case and saw no active flames etc. Took the whole thing downstairs and the only item that was warm was the power supply box, and boy did it stink, acrid , horrible. Put it outside on top of some bricks , just in case it might still be active.

Checked all the other components and all looked and smelled OK. Did an online search and there is a recall on the Corsair 750 and 850 W of a certain model which of course we have.

FUnny how a small thing like 850 watts catching fire because of faulty fans can go without any news media alerts or FB or any social media warnings.

If things had gone real bad it could have burned the house down and everyone in it.

Oh well, with people hardly using computers , and computers being a "good" and necessary thing in everyone's lives and E-Cigs being evil and un-necessary the media has to put things in priority.
 

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I've now read a couple of stories of mods with built in batteries catching fire. It's time to understand what's happening. Platitudes about don't buy them or always be present during charging don't address causes. Does anyone in the forum have a technical understanding of the factors that push these batteries to fail during charging?

one thing that bothers me about the fixed battery mods with the usb charging is the question of relaxation time of the battery between charge and discharge.
The average user might not be paying attention to relaxation time, and just plugging in usb willy nilly and even making a habit of vaping while charging.
 

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E-cigs, laptops, smartphone don't cook off. It's the batteries installed within that do. Don't think the battery itself gives hoot about the type of device its squatting in when it decides to blow its top - literally.

Granted, subohming and all that - we're demanding a lot of said batteries - tweaking the odds in our disfavour ever so slightly. While runaway laptops and the like go largely unnoticed by the media, vaping is a new, a disruptive technology that is not really welcomed in many quarters...

Way back then, I reckon the horse-cart-drivers made a lot of noise over the first victom that got run over by one them darn contraptions-from-hell horseless carriages ( aka automobile ) .

Traffic fatalities number by the tens of thousands. Unless it's some real spectacular multi-car pile-up, it maybe rates a three-line in some local rag.


Hating it, regulating it --- hm. Stalling.... Eventually BT & Co will have to step aside or get ploughed under.
Genie is out of the liquid bottle for sure and cigarettes will eventually join the dinosaurs...

Maybe some director in the far future will make a movie called 'Smoker's Park' .... :)
 

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Always best not to make a judgement until you have all the information ;)

And should it be a subject you're not interested in gathering information on, don't form an opinion.

Wait, are you implying that it's unnecessary to have an opinion ( and express it ) on every issue !?

You two HAVE been on internet forums before, right?
 

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Once Big Brother completes his ultimate mission. Opinions will be Issued to all and serenity will end all strife.:facepalm:
You know, a thought occurred to me after reading your post above...

What if I just gave in, and decided to let them take care of me.
Let them offer me peace and security in exchange for taking my money and spreading it around.

Maybe if I just let go, instead of trying to hold on?

And then I realized, I'm really starting to get worn down.
They are wearing me down.
 

EBates

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You know, a thought occurred to me after reading your post above...

What if I just gave in, and decided to let them take care of me.
Let them offer me peace and security in exchange for taking my money and spreading it around.

Maybe if I just let go, instead of trying to hold on?

And then I realized, I'm really starting to get worn down.
They are wearing me down.

See there what a good job Big Brother is doing. Just a few more of us and utopia will be realized.
OMG once we get there who's gonna pay BB!
 
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Kent C

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Let them offer me peace and security in exchange for taking my money and spreading it around.

They're already offering you that. The people in San Bernardino also thought that. And many others elsewhere. And they're still taking your money and spreading it around ;- ) ...in many cases - to the people who would 'breach' your security.
 

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They're already offering you that. The people in San Bernardino also thought that. And many others elsewhere. And they're still taking your money and spreading it around ;- ) ...in many cases - to the people who would 'breach' your security.
Good point.
 
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