Had my spare battery in my pocket as usual. Had a few coins in there too.. all the sudden it was like I had an open flame in there. Was so hot I couldn't do anything but throw it. Glad I wasn't driving. Be careful!
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Yes, you learned that the hard way. I'm glad you are okay!
Lesson for everyone... Never, ever, ever carry or store a battery where it can come into contact with metal objects. Shorts can be bad news.
Lesson for everyone... Never, ever, ever carry or store a battery where it can come into contact with metal objects. Shorts can be bad news.
Use that 50 cents in your pocket to buy a plastic battery case. Could have been worse.
It's a common sense thing, but this seems to happen all the time, even to myself. I do use plastic battery cases. But one time I put a battery in my pocket because my hands were full, thinking that the pocket was empty. Lo and behold, I got the same fire in the pocket sensation within a couple of minutes. There was some loose change in the pocket. I was able to remove the battery and throw it into the sink and turn on the water. The battery could be heard hissing while it vented. Obviously it was ruined and disposed of.
The Container Store near me has these different size small plastic tubes with caps in the toiletries section that fit an 18650 and 18490 battery perfectly and also work well with 18350 batteries. You should definitely buy something like these and use them.
Even something as simple and ghetto as a ziplock bag will be enough insulation to prevent a circuit from closing. That is, unless you put your change in the bag along with the battery...
This is the case that I use for my Vamo and my k100 with all my batteries and liquid. you can pick this up at your local walmart for about $9.00
There are new people joining our ranks every day.
Vaping is still rather new and a lot more complex then smoking.
I wish some of the more popular reviewers would do some safety videos. We are taught from childhood that playing with matches and lighters is bad but who taught you how to properly handle nichotine juice and lithium batteries?
Vaping is still rather new and a lot more complex then smoking.
I wish some of the more popular reviewers would do some safety videos. We are taught from childhood that playing with matches and lighters is bad but who taught you how to properly handle nichotine juice and lithium batteries?
This was actually news to me and I'm glad I saw this thread. It's not necessarily something you think about when tossing a battery into your pocket on the go.
Not at all; carbon batteries are relatively harmless, even when shorted. It'd kill the battery, but that was a simple lesson.
Lithium cells pack a lot more power, enough to make coins glow.
Laptop and cell phone batteries usually have some kind of plastic ridges, to prevent a short, so they don't help us learn...
These cells are uncontained, unpackaged, and very much exposed.
Lithium cells pack a lot more power, enough to make coins glow.
Laptop and cell phone batteries usually have some kind of plastic ridges, to prevent a short, so they don't help us learn...These cells are uncontained, unpackaged, and very much exposed.
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Then I guess I'm just an assbrain with no common sense.... I sure didn't give it a second thought. I'm so thankful for all the Einsteins on ECF!
Don't beat yourself up! 
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I sense sarcasm, lol.
I'm glad you posted. People need to know this information. To some it seems like common sense, but if you are not familiar with what a short is and how to avoid one, you can have a terrible accident. Even if you are a battery expert, you can still have a moment of forgetfulness and make this mistake. Thanks for posting your experience. I'm sure it was a good warning for many.
Is this open batteries onlyor will my ego do something like this too? I never considered it when I threw the thing in my clutch with all kinds of things made of metal? Call me stupid I don't care, the only stupid question is the one not asked!
My Pannys 18650 2250 mAh batteries came with a case. If I'm wearing jeans I stick an extra battery in the change pocket by itself seems to work well. Most people don't seem to know this for some reason. Good to see a post like this to warn others.
No the ego is a little different, you should be ok.
No the ego is a little different, you should be ok.
Count your blessings that is was in your pants pocket where you could actually feel the heat right away!!! Just imagine if it were, let's say, in a jacket pocket you hung up in the closet @ home or placed out of your line of sight (there goes the house)... or you threw the jacket in the back seat of your car when you parked it (there goes the car)... or you parked the car in the garage (there goes the car and the house)... or worse yet, in the back seat of the car while you are doing 80 mph down the interstate (there goes your life as you veer into on coming traffic with a giant fireball in your back seat)...
Just saying
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I made a thread two weeks ago when the same thing happened to me. People need to be aware and thankfully both of us lost nothing more than a battery. My provari in the same pocket still has some battle wounds from the experience.
If you don't have a battery case yet and you wear jeans everyday like me, keep your spare in that little useless pocket above the right front pocket. (Watch pocket I think?) I did this until my vapeing got to the point where I needed more than 1 spare.
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