My original posting regarding this incident and issue is located here (http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ego-type-models/293403-echo-thread-part-2-a-66.html). As you can imagine, being in the room when the battery's innards blew out onto my bedroom floor and caught fire next to one of my bedroom dressers was a pretty darn frightening experience. I am just glad I was in the room when the incident occurred, for as for all I know the house could have otherwise eventually caught on fire and burned down to the ground. I am currently in touch with the domestic U.S. retail supplier I received the battery and charger from, Cropduster901 eCigs, Vaporizers and Supplies, and with the original Chinese manufacturer, Hangsen - The leading electronic cigarette and E-liquid manufacturer. Contact Us in order to get the issue reported, and to also see if any corrective measures can be taken from the manufacturer regarding damages from the incident.
I will keep members posted on updates here and on the original thread. Essentially, I just want to make sure users of these devices are aware I had this incident occur, and to take appropriate care when using ECHO batteries and charges from the manufacturer, Hangsen. Likely, the battery, or possibly the charger (or possibly even both?) were defective - though they did work perfectly fine for at least two weeks prior to the explosion and fire. As far as I know at this time, this could possibly happen to anyone that uses ECHO batteries at anytime, even with equipment you've had for awhile. The ECHO battery that blew up and caught fire was a later model black 650mah unit. One of the newer models that doesn't have an LED on the end, but instead has a very small blue LED on the battery body, near the tip where a larger LED would otherwise normally be. The USB charger and USB charger wall plugin unit were also late model.
I had only just fairly recently started using the ECHO e-cigarette, and had been in the process of switching over from using my old m402 e-cigarette gear. The m402 stuff has worked perfectly fine (or well enough at least) without any issues of this nature for over the last 2 years I've been using m402 equipment. I am very disappointed and concerned, as you can well imagine. I really liked the ECHO e-cigarette gear, and up until just now had just recently been highly praising it to others as very nice equipment. Up until now I thought the ECHO is probably the greatest fat battery automatic that there is currently available out there, and in the 650mah size it really isn't all that big. My wife, who is expecting a baby several months down the road, will be very upset. She will likely try to get me to quit using e-cigarettes altogether, which I am currently unwilling to do. The scorched and melted carpet damage done by the exploding and flaming battery innards is not something that can be cleaned up. I've tried. Some other, more permanent solution will have to be found. I think I have some carpet remnants somewhere in the garage that can be used for the repair job. I have no idea how much that will cost. Wonderful, as if I don't have enough new expenses to deal with already, eh?
I just want any other users of current ECHO model e-cigarette batteries to be forewarned that this could be a serious issue they need to be aware of. I have no idea what exactly you should do, other than always be around when these batteries are charging, and take the battery off of the charger once charging is completed. That used to be what people often did back in the early days of e-cigarette devices, though supposedly modern batteries and chargers no longer require so much user attention anymore. I am even a bit scared to use and charge my older m402 e-cigarettes, but for now I will just have to, at least until I hear back from Hangsen. Regardless, I may never go back to using the ECHO e-cigarette at all. I'm not sure how I could ever justify doing so, to myself or to my wife. I just hope she'll be happy I'm alive, that the house didn't burn down, and that the damage is relatively minimal and repairable compared to what might have otherwise happened if I wasn't around.
There are some pictures of the self-destructed battery and the fire damage at the original posting (link listed above at the start of this thread). I will not bother to post them again here, as that just seems like an unnecessary waste of ECF server resources. They are pretty scary pictures in terms of imagining that happening at your home while you are away, unable to respond immediately to the potential fire damage. Once again, this is a safety warning about a possible issue all ECHO e-cigarette users should be concerned with. Be careful when charging these things. Be around when they are charging. Remove them after they are charged. Or, you could just not use these ECHO e-cigarette batteries at all, but I haven't heard of this happening before, so I really have no idea, and cannot say for a certainty to not use them at all anymore.
This could just be a total fluke of an incident. Just be careful with these things if you use them. Very careful. That is all that I am saying for now. For those that are interested, the power plug this battery and charger were plugged into still appears to be working perfectly fine. I don't believe this had anything to do with a household electrical issue. In fact, shortly after the incident, the emptied out body of the battery was still plugged into the USB charger, plugged into the wall, with the LED lights still on for both the USB charger and the wall plugin unit the USB charger plugs into. I don't think the issue was with either of those (built to work together), or you'd think one or the other, or both, would be completely dead. However, I'm no electrician, so I simply don't know for sure. Just be very careful with these things.
I will keep members posted on updates here and on the original thread. Essentially, I just want to make sure users of these devices are aware I had this incident occur, and to take appropriate care when using ECHO batteries and charges from the manufacturer, Hangsen. Likely, the battery, or possibly the charger (or possibly even both?) were defective - though they did work perfectly fine for at least two weeks prior to the explosion and fire. As far as I know at this time, this could possibly happen to anyone that uses ECHO batteries at anytime, even with equipment you've had for awhile. The ECHO battery that blew up and caught fire was a later model black 650mah unit. One of the newer models that doesn't have an LED on the end, but instead has a very small blue LED on the battery body, near the tip where a larger LED would otherwise normally be. The USB charger and USB charger wall plugin unit were also late model.
I had only just fairly recently started using the ECHO e-cigarette, and had been in the process of switching over from using my old m402 e-cigarette gear. The m402 stuff has worked perfectly fine (or well enough at least) without any issues of this nature for over the last 2 years I've been using m402 equipment. I am very disappointed and concerned, as you can well imagine. I really liked the ECHO e-cigarette gear, and up until just now had just recently been highly praising it to others as very nice equipment. Up until now I thought the ECHO is probably the greatest fat battery automatic that there is currently available out there, and in the 650mah size it really isn't all that big. My wife, who is expecting a baby several months down the road, will be very upset. She will likely try to get me to quit using e-cigarettes altogether, which I am currently unwilling to do. The scorched and melted carpet damage done by the exploding and flaming battery innards is not something that can be cleaned up. I've tried. Some other, more permanent solution will have to be found. I think I have some carpet remnants somewhere in the garage that can be used for the repair job. I have no idea how much that will cost. Wonderful, as if I don't have enough new expenses to deal with already, eh?
I just want any other users of current ECHO model e-cigarette batteries to be forewarned that this could be a serious issue they need to be aware of. I have no idea what exactly you should do, other than always be around when these batteries are charging, and take the battery off of the charger once charging is completed. That used to be what people often did back in the early days of e-cigarette devices, though supposedly modern batteries and chargers no longer require so much user attention anymore. I am even a bit scared to use and charge my older m402 e-cigarettes, but for now I will just have to, at least until I hear back from Hangsen. Regardless, I may never go back to using the ECHO e-cigarette at all. I'm not sure how I could ever justify doing so, to myself or to my wife. I just hope she'll be happy I'm alive, that the house didn't burn down, and that the damage is relatively minimal and repairable compared to what might have otherwise happened if I wasn't around.
There are some pictures of the self-destructed battery and the fire damage at the original posting (link listed above at the start of this thread). I will not bother to post them again here, as that just seems like an unnecessary waste of ECF server resources. They are pretty scary pictures in terms of imagining that happening at your home while you are away, unable to respond immediately to the potential fire damage. Once again, this is a safety warning about a possible issue all ECHO e-cigarette users should be concerned with. Be careful when charging these things. Be around when they are charging. Remove them after they are charged. Or, you could just not use these ECHO e-cigarette batteries at all, but I haven't heard of this happening before, so I really have no idea, and cannot say for a certainty to not use them at all anymore.
This could just be a total fluke of an incident. Just be careful with these things if you use them. Very careful. That is all that I am saying for now. For those that are interested, the power plug this battery and charger were plugged into still appears to be working perfectly fine. I don't believe this had anything to do with a household electrical issue. In fact, shortly after the incident, the emptied out body of the battery was still plugged into the USB charger, plugged into the wall, with the LED lights still on for both the USB charger and the wall plugin unit the USB charger plugs into. I don't think the issue was with either of those (built to work together), or you'd think one or the other, or both, would be completely dead. However, I'm no electrician, so I simply don't know for sure. Just be very careful with these things.
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