Can e-cigarette explode ?
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the only news I heard of it exploding when a man actually tried lighting it up with a lighter (i guess he was drunk at that time) LOL
I looked into it a little. He stacked some cheap lithium ion batteries I think. The mod didnt have a vent hole and the guy got his teeth blown out. Pretty horrible. Play it safe, don't stack batteries. Buy only imr batteries. Spend extra money on a good battery charger and you should be totally fine. I've never heard of 510 or egos blowing up.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...73146-ego-t-battery-exploded.html#post5430954
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ego-type-models/217880-exploding-ego-t-battery-13.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ego-type-models/274928-my-husbands-ego-exploded.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ego-type-models/298656-ego-t-blew-up.html#post6153678
Yeah, they explode, and melt, and vent--but most of the time it's user error. People use wrong chargers, for instance. Also, new eGo batteries have much improved circuitry. However, please be safe and sensible--use only those chargers that came with your kit, don't leave batteries on the charger overnight or when you're not around, or use charging bags. There are no 100% safe batteries.
Lipo charging bags:
https://www.supertmanufacturing.com/chargers2.html#lipo
Anything with a battery has the chance to explode. Cell phone, flashlight (less likely), car, whatever. Batteries are stored energy, if anything releases that stored energy in the wrong way, stored energy releasing fast is an explosion.
That said, mistreatment of batteries or bad storage is the main cause of any battery related explosions. Take care of your vape, and it will take care of you (barring that one in a many million manufacturing defect that you can sue for a lot for
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That said, mistreatment of batteries or bad storage is the main cause of any battery related explosions. Take care of your vape, and it will take care of you (barring that one in a many million manufacturing defect that you can sue for a lot for
)Most e-cigs use lithium batteries. Lithium is highly reactive to oxygen, and will become combustible if exposed to the air. With any lithium battery, care must be taken to not short it out, over charge it, puncture it, or over discharge it. You also must NEVER EVER use a stacked battery configuration in a mod. I don't care what anyone tells you, or what anyone tries to sell you. There are a lot of vendors out there selling stacked battery mods (using two lithium batteries in the chamber). When you stack batteries, there is a potential for one cell to try and drain the charge from the other one to equalize the voltage which can cause one cell to drop below the voltage cutoff below 3 volts. When the cell voltage drops below 3 volts, the lithium becomes highly unstable and can cause it to explode.
In 2 1/2 years I have had two Ego batteries overheat, one bad enough to melt the drip tip to the atomizer. No explosions though. The sealed batteries are designed with a weaker bottom piece so that if they were to explode it would (hopefully) be pointed away from you. I agree that any battery has a risk. I do use a Lipo bag for battery charging. Also if you are storing batteries for a mod make sure to use a case so that they don't come into contact with anything metal. I think as with most things if you use some caution you are fine.
I've read that batteries are more likely to explode if you use them stacked.
I don't have a device that I can use a stackable battery with so I have no personal experience.
There is a particular method to charging and using them that should be followed if using stacked batts.
I don't have a device that I can use a stackable battery with so I have no personal experience.
There is a particular method to charging and using them that should be followed if using stacked batts.
PV batteries are no less susceptible to exploding and/ or melting down than other rechargeable batteries.
any battery can explode. just ask any auto mechanic. more often than not, it is because of user error, or not using the device as the manufacturer intended. when people start stacking batteries, using "kicks", and generally screwing around, this is when accidents happen. another biggie is leaving the battery on a charger after it is fully charged. you should never do that, or risk burning your house down. can't imagine how many cigs i would smoke if that happened. common sense, and a basic knowledge of electricity always helps.
I had a protected Trustfire 14500 battery go into thermal runaway and vent (explode?). It was most certainly because of my user error. My battery device had a protruding fire button and got compressed while it was put away not in use but in tight quarters. The battery became shorted out because of the continuous pressing on the button. It was a mechanical mod with only a hot spring and the fire switch designed to vent the hot gasses that resulted.
One should take particular care with batteries in mechanical mods that generally have limited safety features. The more modern mods that have microprocessors such as variable voltage/variable wattage have built-in electronic safety features that will sense a dangerous situation with a shorted battery and shut down to prevent a thermal runaway. Some of these devices are actually designed to use stacked batteries, however I'm definitely not a proponent of using stacked batteries in a mechanical, non-electronic PV, especially if they don't know what they are doing or the proper way to do it.
I do not recommend using un-branded or uncommon brand name batteries. I only recommend batteries branded by AW, Panasonic, Efest, and Sanyo. Use only the type of battery recommended for use by the PV's manufacturer - ICR protected batteries or IMR safe chemistry, high drain batteries. Never use magnets either in a charger or a PV in order to allow them to work in either. Only use name brand and recommended chargers such as Pila, X-tar, or Nitecore.
Be aware that there are fake name-brand batteries on the market, too. I personally buy only from a trusted battery vendor such as RTD Vapor AW Batteries.
One should take particular care with batteries in mechanical mods that generally have limited safety features. The more modern mods that have microprocessors such as variable voltage/variable wattage have built-in electronic safety features that will sense a dangerous situation with a shorted battery and shut down to prevent a thermal runaway. Some of these devices are actually designed to use stacked batteries, however I'm definitely not a proponent of using stacked batteries in a mechanical, non-electronic PV, especially if they don't know what they are doing or the proper way to do it.
I do not recommend using un-branded or uncommon brand name batteries. I only recommend batteries branded by AW, Panasonic, Efest, and Sanyo. Use only the type of battery recommended for use by the PV's manufacturer - ICR protected batteries or IMR safe chemistry, high drain batteries. Never use magnets either in a charger or a PV in order to allow them to work in either. Only use name brand and recommended chargers such as Pila, X-tar, or Nitecore.
Be aware that there are fake name-brand batteries on the market, too. I personally buy only from a trusted battery vendor such as RTD Vapor AW Batteries.
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There is virtually nothing dangerous about stacking batteries!!! Thousands (probably more) of us have been doing it for years. Just because one guy was an idiot doesn't mean using a PV with two batteries is dangerous. Just have more common sense than a 5 year old. Modern battery and PV protection circuits combined with common sense provides more protection than most activities we all do in a typical month, like driving a car to name just one. Saying "never stack batteries" is a scare tactic with no statistical foundation.
How many flashlights use stacked batteries?? Any one suggesting not to use those flashlights???
Haven't heard of this, but I did once have an e-cig battery explode when charging. Nearly started a fire.
in order for one to explode first it would have to be 100% sealed around the battery and second the battery would have to be seriously misused to the point it would vent,sealed ecigs are a thing of the past to my knowledge they are all vented now and most use protected or safe chemical battery's.
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