Another mod accident but this one has me baffled

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mcol

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Here is the pic the Colo. Springs station is using:
 

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An employee at VaporWize, a smoke shop in Memphis, immediately noticed something hazardous when FOX13 showed her the picture of Caples' combusted e-cigarette.

"This is way too powerful to power this," Mary Grace Burns said as she described the pieces Caples used for his vaporizer. "Way too hot of a battery. You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though."

Good grief ... You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though. :facepalm::facepalm:

1) Can not form a comprehensible sentence.
2) Knows little to nothing about batteries and vaping.
3) All the above.
 

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An employee at VaporWize, a smoke shop in Memphis, immediately noticed something hazardous when FOX13 showed her the picture of Caples' combusted e-cigarette.

"This is way too powerful to power this," Mary Grace Burns said as she described the pieces Caples used for his vaporizer. "Way too hot of a battery. You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though."

Good grief ... You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though. :facepalm::facepalm:

1) Can not form a comprehensible sentence.
2) Knows little to nothing about batteries and vaping.
3) All the above.
I laughed at her taking a shot at online sellers
 

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Looks like the tank got energized, the liquid heated then pressurized the tank, pressure built till it blew out the the glass, with nothing to hold the entire top section in place it took off at his teeth like a bottle rocket spraying him with boiling juice.

Question is why the hell are people putting subtank nano's with factory coils that only vape well in certain ranges on a mech mod when they are built for a regulated mod?

User error is user error...

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I figgered out what happened....

He was crossing the street outta the crosswalk and got hit by a car...the last thing he remembers is hitting the vape...then...BAM.. He gets hit by car, breaking the glass on his tank.
Blew a cloud, didn't see the car coming ^__^
 

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Looks like the tank got energized, the liquid heated then pressurized the tank, pressure built till it blew out the the glass, with nothing to hold the entire top section in place it took off at his teeth like a bottle rocket spraying him with boiling juice.

Question is why the hell are people putting subtank nano's with factory coils that only vape well in certain ranges on a mech mod when they are built for a regulated mod?

User error is user error...

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Sound good but would be pretty hard to build that much pressure in the tank, what with the air holes & all.
 

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The only way a vape rig can release a lot of energy in a short time is if the battery fails and starts to vent. Then lets say there is enough free space around the mods center pin for gas to pass through or may be there are vent holes on top facing up? How does the gas get through the bottom of the atomizer? What is the exact path of the gas from the mod into the atomizer?
 

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An employee at VaporWize, a smoke shop in Memphis, immediately noticed something hazardous when FOX13 showed her the picture of Caples' combusted e-cigarette.

"This is way too powerful to power this," Mary Grace Burns said as she described the pieces Caples used for his vaporizer. "Way too hot of a battery. You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though."

Good grief ... You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though. :facepalm::facepalm:

1) Can not form a comprehensible sentence.
2) Knows little to nothing about batteries and vaping.
3) All the above.


Yeah, with people like that advising customers in B&M's its no surprise bad things end up happening.
 

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An employee at VaporWize, a smoke shop in Memphis, immediately noticed something hazardous when FOX13 showed her the picture of Caples' combusted e-cigarette.

"This is way too powerful to power this," Mary Grace Burns said as she described the pieces Caples used for his vaporizer. "Way too hot of a battery. You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though."

Good grief ... You can have a way-too-high amped battery in there or something like that could easily misfire and cause something like that. It's operator error though. :facepalm::facepalm:

1) Can not form a comprehensible sentence.
2) Knows little to nothing about batteries and vaping.
3) All the above.

Being unable to form a comprehensible sentence is absolutely epidemic these days. What we need to ban are teachers that aren't teaching, just babysitting.

Andria
 

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Looks like the tank got energized, the liquid heated then pressurized the tank, pressure built till it blew out the the glass, with nothing to hold the entire top section in place it took off at his teeth like a bottle rocket spraying him with boiling juice.

Question is why the hell are people putting subtank nano's with factory coils that only vape well in certain ranges on a mech mod when they are built for a regulated mod?

User error is user error...

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I don't think the tank had any pressurization, the glass probably broke when it was dropped. It actually looks like the venting went right out the bottom, so was he looking at the button when it blew? If this is real he had a short or too low battery (amp wise), unless he was using the .2 ohm coils. I doubt it was a short, either wrong battery or wrong coil, .2 is too low for a mech using an 18650 it would be over 21 amps, so again user error. I just see no way to have facial damage but everything on the top end looks good minus glass, which again probably broke when it hit the ground.

I don't see any extender, just pieces of the battery.
 
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sofarsogood

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I you put high proof alcohol in a tank and chain vape it... Boom! There had to be something combustible in the tank. It's the only thing damaged and I don't see any signs the battery vented. Also call BS on the neck injuries. No way.
Your flamable liquid theory is a good one. I have a sub mini. I don't see how the battery gas gets into the tank unless the pressure was so great it pushed the center pins through the 510 connector and somehow the atomizer and mod are still threaded together?

I would like to know what happened in detail for the sake of everyones' safety. The news folks seem more interested in propaganda points than safety.
 
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Being unable to form a comprehensible sentence is absolutely epidemic these days. What we need to ban are teachers that aren't teaching, just babysitting.
No child left behind... It ties the hand of the teachers who actually care and forces them to pass student who refuse to try.
 
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