Do shorts damage a short protected PV?

[generic mutant]

Hello experts!

I have an Innokin Itaste SVD, and really like it. I'm only using AW IMR 18650s from reputable suppliers. I also have a VAMO on order on the slow-boat from China, as the proverbial 'backup'.

I'm trying to learn to rebuild an AGA-T2 (I believe these are known as Genisis style atomisers), and causing a fair few dead shorts, because at this stage I'm rubbish at it. The device shuts off as designed. If I do this a few times, it will warm up slightly, though not significantly - it isn't uncomfortable to hold or anything, and quickly cools off. Also, sometimes I'll get a partial short, which can create an electric buzzing and vibration in the device.

Do these errors significantly shorten the lifespan of the device? It wasn't astronomically expensive, but I'd rather not kill it in a mere few months unnecessarily. Would I be wise to wait for my cheap VAMO to arrive before continuing?

Thanks.

 

[Hoosier]

Any safety can fail the only real safety is between your ears. If you were ever in one of my firearm training classes I would drill this into your head until you would wake up saying it every morning.

Never trust your health to a safety no matter how well it is designed or built. I used to design lifting devices at 5:1, basically the lifting device was calculated to hold 5 times the weight of the thing being lifted. Nobody was allowed to place themselves under the object being lifted. Things can go wrong and usually do at the worst possible time.

So, you know I come from the mindset to never, under no circumstances, trust a safety. You can test your coils with an Ohmmeter that measures low resistances. Touch the probes together and remember the resistance of the probe-to-probe. Touch the probes to the center post and threads of your newly built atomizer and subtract the resistance of the probe-to-probe reading from the resistance shown. You can make adjustments before you test the safety device of your unit. All safeties can fail so I don't really see a reason to keep testing a safety when a meter isn't that large of an investment compared to your health and the money in your PV's.

 

[rolygate]

^^What he said