Battery scare!

[Mantrid9]

Howdy ya'll, so today at work I smell something odd burning and maybe thin white smoke.

So I think rly? A new provari with a new recommend battery from provape no expense spared, and is its venting in my pocket?

So I checked the battery, ICE COLD, nothing at all wrong! What a relief!

Whole room starting to fill with smoke, ah the building must be on fire, I can relax it's not me


In the end there was a battery fire! Large ancient heavy equipment battery that is as heavy as a car shorted out.

That "exploding battery" stuff can rly scare ppl off of vaping. Have any of you ever had a "battery scare"? Have you ever worried about it happening to you?


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[Margate69]

My pipe mod almost blew up on me last week. Stupid button got stuck, after just a couple seconds smoke was pouring out of the battery compartment. Big black line down the side of the battery. IMR too.

Scary, scary stuff.

 

[Mark Anthony]

Never had a battery scare and can honestly say I never want to see one!!

 

[ppcko]

Terrible thing.
Trying to stick to all the battery security rules and stuff and hopefully there will be no surprise in the future.

 

[Train2]

...ah the building must be on fire, I can relax...

LOL



tenchar

 

[Mantrid9]

It is really about taking responsibility for your actions. I believe the only batteries that explode are due to extreme neglect.

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[JustMe2]

Make sure you keep jumper cables with you!!

 

[Caridwen]

It is really about taking responsibility for your actions. I believe the only batteries that explode are due to extreme neglect.

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A battery is a battery. Any battery can malfunction through no fault of the battery owner- you just have to be careful.

I had an ego type battery malfunction. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. There are precautions you can take-

-when a battery gets old, get rid of it.
-don't leave a battery on the charger unattended. A member here was charging a battery and had the charger on a chair- chair and drapes caught on fire
-don't buy cheap batteries or chargers
-if you carry batteries with you, keep them in a case, not rolling around in your purse or pockets.

 

[mattiem]

I have the button sticking problem on one of my ego-t 1300 mah batteries. It has been that way since new. It is almost a year old now. When it sticks I just quickly loosen the juice delivery device. It breaks the connection an immediately stops firing. Scared me the first time it happened. Now I just take it in stride. I am not afraid of my batteries but I do treat them with respect.

 

[7sixtwo]

My other "hobby" is firearms. I'm used to being very aware of the condition of any equipment I'm handling and deliberate in what I'm doing with it.

"Exploding" batteries don't scare me.

 

[Myrany]

It is really about taking responsibility for your actions. I believe the only batteries that explode are due to extreme neglect.

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no this is not always true.

I have had 2 get scary hot on me and neither was neglect.

1. Brand new bolt PV. Stuck a brand new AW IMR battery in it. FIred it for the first time and smoke billowed out from around the button. The PV itself was defective. Recycled the battery to be safe.

2. A7 RDA set up for a 2.5 ohm coil on a REO grand with an AW IMR battery. Vaped beautifully for about 4 hours. Then suddenly I felt the REO get hot and the heat spring collapsed. The atty itself shorted out even though there was nothing wrong 5 minutes before and I had fiddled with nothing. TUrns out the A7 is famous for shorting issues.

No neglect in either case.

 

[Maka]

I had an aw imr send my mech mod red hot once, took it outside and left it there for a while.
Nothing happened but I threw away the battery anyway.

 

[emus]

I had 2 pocket carry hard shorts that melted batt plastic wrap.
Had a few user error button pressed events that I caught by smelling the melting drip tip smoke.
Finally got smart enough to use proper batt cases and I charge inside metal tool box.

 

[twgbonehead]

The only "battery scare" I had was at my daughter's HS graduation. I was sitting there in the auditorium, and all of a sudden smelled a little smoke, and felt a hot spot in my pocket!

As it turned out, my homemade mod (This was nearly 3 years ago) was in my pocket, and the switch was pushed closed. It wasn't the battery, it was just the atomizer, which started to heat up rather severely after about a minute of continuous on time (this was a cartomizer, strapped to a battery, with a pushbutton switch soldered to the far end. NOT Pocket-friendly, as it turned out!).

It was a "safe" battery (LiPOFe, genuine from A123) and the battery wasn't even warm. But it did scare the crap out of me, and amused my wife to no end!!! Still have that setup, and it still works, even with the original battery, but I don't really use it any more.

 

[Baditude]

I've told my story several times here, but for the benefit of all the novices I'll recount. About a year and a half ago I was using my very first mod, a mechanical. I was using a Trustfire 14500 protected battery, what was recommended by the manufacturer at the time. The mod had a collapsable hot spring as a safety feature. No vent holes, but the mod was designed for a venting battery to release its gases via the fire button.

I had developed a habit of storing my mod in a pants pocket hanging in my locker at work, and would return to my locker on breaks for a quick vape. One time I reached into the pocket and my mod was too hot to touch. I realized immediately I'm in trouble. I quickly got a wet washcloth and pulled out the mod, took it to the bathroom sink, and removed the battery.



There was a stench of burnt plastic. The shrink wrap on the battery had melted away. Both ends of the battery had exploded away from the casing during the venting process. My pants pocket had been badly scorched from the heat (flames?). The mod had vented through the fire button as designed, but the switch was ruined and had to be returned to the vendor for repair. I don't recall if the hot spring had collapsed, but I do remember replacing it.

The reason for this incident was poor battery practice on my part. My mod had a prominent fire switch, which when compressed in the pants pocket allowed the battery to over-discharge to the point that it went into thermal runaway - battery melt down. The hot spring and the protection on the battery had failed to prevent this mishap.

Some mods now have an on/off switch or a locking button. All regulated electronic mods have a shut off feature after several seconds of pressing the fire button, and also have short circuit protection to prevent this sort of accident. In hindsight, when storing or carrying a mod in a purse or pocket one should either remove the juice attachment (breaks the battery circuit) or remove the battery altogether.

If your mod has some sort of deactivation control, use it. The more layers of protection that you can use in your mechanical mod (safe chemistry battery, Vape Safe fuse, hot spring, mod vent holes, a Kick), the safer you will be. Better yet, use a regulated electronic mod which will have built-in protected circuitry in the processor.

Do not carry spare batteries in your purse or pocket where they can come into contact with coins or keys; use a plastic battery case.

Battery Basics for Mods: IMR or Protected?

Mechanical Mod Proper Usage Guide

 

[sawlight]

I went for a ride with a buddy in his Jeep, been out about an hour and back about 20 min when we heard this loud "BANG"! It was like a shotgun going off! We went and looked at the Jeep, the 12v battery had blown up! Put another battery in it, everything was fine!
I don't care what you do, how you do it, how safe you think you are, there is NO SAFE battery! They are a storage device holding a lot of energy and must be respected!

 

[Intervap]

Thankful I've never had a close call with a battery, especially using a mech.
Glad you and your mod are alright

 

[Mantrid9]

...-if you carry batteries with you, keep them in a case, not rolling around in your purse or pockets...

Glad you said that.
I been putting the extra battery in a plastic bag then pocket. I feel kinda funny but when asked about it I say "well it's not exactly a double A".

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[riseabovethestorm]

Whole room starting to fill with smoke, ah the building must be on fire, I can relax it's not me

"Well, as long as my ProVari is alright!"

 

[degnr8]

Never with my PVs but I had a car battery explode. Turned out the alternator was overcharging it. It was hot, but it was 115 degrees outside and it had just come out of a running car, so I didn't think much of it. Bumped it on a rock when I set it down and it sprayed acid everywhere. I was fine, but my Led Zeppelin tour shirt was ruined.