was sitting on the couch vaping away last night with a mini nova on my natural in 18350 mode. nova was just about out of juice, so i put on another one that was full, put on the 18650 extension, and popped a fresh 18650 panasonic in. the battery and tank have been used many times on this natural without any issues except massive amounts of vapor production!
took a few pulls and wasn't getting any vapor, but the button was getting extremely hot. not "vaping for 10 minutes straight" hot, but "if i hold this any longer i'm going to burn my hand" hot. so i dropped the battery out, unscrewed the tank, and disassembled the mod.
waited about a 1/2 hour and reassembled, making sure the button/rod weren't depressed to the point that they were in constant contact with the battery contact, and threw an 18350 ifest emr in, and had the exact same issue.
let both batteries cool down overnight on brick steps, and they were cool and looked totally normal. no burning or leaking, and the labels were still immaculate.
common sense tells me to ditch those batteries, but i don't want to toast any additional ones.
any advice on what caused this, and what i can do to the natural before putting another battery in and frying it?
(both fried batteries were less than a month old, and the 18650 probably had less than 10 total hours of use on it.
took a few pulls and wasn't getting any vapor, but the button was getting extremely hot. not "vaping for 10 minutes straight" hot, but "if i hold this any longer i'm going to burn my hand" hot. so i dropped the battery out, unscrewed the tank, and disassembled the mod.
waited about a 1/2 hour and reassembled, making sure the button/rod weren't depressed to the point that they were in constant contact with the battery contact, and threw an 18350 ifest emr in, and had the exact same issue.
let both batteries cool down overnight on brick steps, and they were cool and looked totally normal. no burning or leaking, and the labels were still immaculate.
common sense tells me to ditch those batteries, but i don't want to toast any additional ones.
any advice on what caused this, and what i can do to the natural before putting another battery in and frying it?
(both fried batteries were less than a month old, and the 18650 probably had less than 10 total hours of use on it.
