Boom.

[Heavyrocker]

Now i have your attention with the ''boom''...i just wanna know what is a hard short is with a mech/battery...never had one,just a ''hot'' batt a few times by leaving on firing button on my table....ive looked on Utube but to no avail.

 

[Ryedan]

A hard short is when circuit resistance goes to just about zero ohms. It's like when you take a piece of wire and put one end on the positive side of a battery and the other end on the negative side.

How can that happen in a mod? Say the plastic insulator in the 510 connector deteriorates and the positive pin touches the outer, negative 510 surface. Hit the switch button and all the battery current flows from the positive battery end, through the 510 positive pin, through the 510 negative sleeve, through the mod tube, down through the switch and right back into the negative side of the battery.

Resistance will not be quite zero ohms, but 0.0001 ohms is close enough to consider it zero.

Hope this makes sense

 

[beckdg]

Spot on, Ryedan.

except your polarity. electrons travel. they're negatively charged. thus they're attracted to the positively charged protons bound in the Anode. once there's an electron for every proton in the anode, the charge state and voltage in the cell is nil.

 

[Ryedan]

Spot on, Ryedan.

except your polarity. electrons travel. they're negatively charged. thus they're attracted to the positively charged protons bound in the Anode. once there's an electron for every proton in the anode, the charge state and voltage in the cell is nil.

LOL, I always think of electricity flowing from positive to negative. Thanks for reminding me that's wrong beckdg

 

[beckdg]

LOL
it's always something, isn't it?
you're good, man. your info is always spot on.