about a month ago my battery exploded and i'm still unsure of why it happened. I've searched the forums for explanation and come up empty.
I was using a mechanical mod and a verified authentic efest 2800mAh 35A battery. I had built dual vertical coils at 0.76ohm's. when i dry fired the coils to squish them together they didn't heat, the mod's button got warm and the battery shot out of the mod like a bullet. there are scorch marks on my ceiling from the atomizer, the battery casing and the metal inside the battery. the battery was still glowing red hot when it landed on my flood and caught the floor on fire. The pressure that built up was so great that it stripped the rather large thick threads of my mod. the kick from the battery firing caused me to punch my leg so hard that i broke the skin and had a bruise about 6in across. Other than that i'm fine, but if i had been hitting it i would have likely died.
Lets skip the obvious suggestion. I'm never using a mech mod again, and to those who do please use protected batteries.
the battery i used had several chips in the casing that i had repaired with nail polish. i had also over drained the battery several times. It was my first time using a mech mod and i hadn't gotten a rhythm with it yet
The mod was also suspect, it wold have a fully charged new battery in it an not fire all of the time. this is why earlier that day i had purchased an ipv d2 mod. I was only using the mech mod to bild new coils on the new chinese triple coil rampage dripper i had just gotten in the mail. the mod may also have been a clone, i'm not sure because it was given to me.
I am fairly certain that the legs of my coils were not touching each other to cause a short. I feel this way because i had deliberatly bent them out of the way so that they weren't.
I also feel that the atomizer wan't at fault because i had built coils on it once before but i didn't like them so after i dried the cotton once i discarded them.
I had given up on figuring out what exactly happened until i was talking with a physist at my new job. They told me that coils create an electromagnetic field that could have caused them to short even though they wern't touching. He said that i definitely did something very wrong when building them. That the over draining of the battery would actually make the amperage of the battery increase. He also said that if i had the coils positioned with the top going into the + on both of them, or wrapped in opposite directions it could have caused a short even if they weren't physically touching. (I think i'm remembering that correctly, point is there might be a wrong way to put them in). I've been building coils for a while and always wrap them the same way.
So any thoughts? I'm mostly curiose at this point because i'm getting another rampage in the mail and want to build vertical coils.
I was using a mechanical mod and a verified authentic efest 2800mAh 35A battery. I had built dual vertical coils at 0.76ohm's. when i dry fired the coils to squish them together they didn't heat, the mod's button got warm and the battery shot out of the mod like a bullet. there are scorch marks on my ceiling from the atomizer, the battery casing and the metal inside the battery. the battery was still glowing red hot when it landed on my flood and caught the floor on fire. The pressure that built up was so great that it stripped the rather large thick threads of my mod. the kick from the battery firing caused me to punch my leg so hard that i broke the skin and had a bruise about 6in across. Other than that i'm fine, but if i had been hitting it i would have likely died.
Lets skip the obvious suggestion. I'm never using a mech mod again, and to those who do please use protected batteries.
the battery i used had several chips in the casing that i had repaired with nail polish. i had also over drained the battery several times. It was my first time using a mech mod and i hadn't gotten a rhythm with it yet
The mod was also suspect, it wold have a fully charged new battery in it an not fire all of the time. this is why earlier that day i had purchased an ipv d2 mod. I was only using the mech mod to bild new coils on the new chinese triple coil rampage dripper i had just gotten in the mail. the mod may also have been a clone, i'm not sure because it was given to me.
I am fairly certain that the legs of my coils were not touching each other to cause a short. I feel this way because i had deliberatly bent them out of the way so that they weren't.
I also feel that the atomizer wan't at fault because i had built coils on it once before but i didn't like them so after i dried the cotton once i discarded them.
I had given up on figuring out what exactly happened until i was talking with a physist at my new job. They told me that coils create an electromagnetic field that could have caused them to short even though they wern't touching. He said that i definitely did something very wrong when building them. That the over draining of the battery would actually make the amperage of the battery increase. He also said that if i had the coils positioned with the top going into the + on both of them, or wrapped in opposite directions it could have caused a short even if they weren't physically touching. (I think i'm remembering that correctly, point is there might be a wrong way to put them in). I've been building coils for a while and always wrap them the same way.
So any thoughts? I'm mostly curiose at this point because i'm getting another rampage in the mail and want to build vertical coils.