Turns out that the ac wall adapter was for another device as the output is 5.1 volts. I interchange these adapters all the time with a lot of my electronic gadgets and never thought there was this much danger...lesson learned the hard way!
*********** My Unfortunate Story***********
I had just purchased a sweet little mini ego from a local brick and mortar store on Friday and all was fine the first day, then...
Saturday late evening I plugged the mini into what I thought was an adequate ac charger...turns out not so much. About 20 minutes later I hear a hissing noise and thought my air bed was leaking.Lol
About a minute later BOOM...flames & sparks! Caught a silk tree on fire and damaged a laptop bag and neck pillow I had in the vicinity ...put a hole right through the neck pillow.
Well I got the fire put out and no one was hurt thank goodness and I then proceeded to clean up all the debris although shaking and balling my eyes out...Was so SCARY!!!
I have been vaping for three years now and thought I was fairly educated...but apparently not.
I have been reading up and trying to get a better handle on what I need to know concerning these lithium batteries.
My husband and I built a charging container yesterday for charging the ecig batteries in a contained unit that is easily accessible but will contain a blast. We modded our container out of a fire box purchased yesterday from Wal-Mart. This thing is very heavy and while not intended to contain a blast... I feel pretty confident with it.
*** Just for clarification; If I am using the correct ego charger for my devices does the ac wall adapter have any overcharge protection?
My steps to prevent another disaster:
I will no longer charge the batteries unattended as I had often done previously.
I also made a little charging area with a large surge protector for all my other small gadgets that I can easily switch off when I go to bed or leave the house.
I am going to purchase a couple lithium charging bags for mobile charging today.
I need a little better understand on mobile charging though.
I notice a lot of ecig vendors selling usb car adapters...how can I know these still the correct output or overcharge protection?
I have a Verizon car charger that has an extra usb connection but there is no information regarding the output.
A couple days before this incident I was watching a video on testing voltage and ohm. I decided to follow along and try this out using my husband's volt meter and I must have did something wrong because I killed a brand new k-go battery. So obviously I need some more study or pointers here.Lol
Thank you
Sent from my N7
*********** My Unfortunate Story***********
I had just purchased a sweet little mini ego from a local brick and mortar store on Friday and all was fine the first day, then...
Saturday late evening I plugged the mini into what I thought was an adequate ac charger...turns out not so much. About 20 minutes later I hear a hissing noise and thought my air bed was leaking.Lol
About a minute later BOOM...flames & sparks! Caught a silk tree on fire and damaged a laptop bag and neck pillow I had in the vicinity ...put a hole right through the neck pillow.
Well I got the fire put out and no one was hurt thank goodness and I then proceeded to clean up all the debris although shaking and balling my eyes out...Was so SCARY!!!
I have been vaping for three years now and thought I was fairly educated...but apparently not.
I have been reading up and trying to get a better handle on what I need to know concerning these lithium batteries.
My husband and I built a charging container yesterday for charging the ecig batteries in a contained unit that is easily accessible but will contain a blast. We modded our container out of a fire box purchased yesterday from Wal-Mart. This thing is very heavy and while not intended to contain a blast... I feel pretty confident with it.
*** Just for clarification; If I am using the correct ego charger for my devices does the ac wall adapter have any overcharge protection?
My steps to prevent another disaster:
I will no longer charge the batteries unattended as I had often done previously.
I also made a little charging area with a large surge protector for all my other small gadgets that I can easily switch off when I go to bed or leave the house.
I am going to purchase a couple lithium charging bags for mobile charging today.
I need a little better understand on mobile charging though.
I notice a lot of ecig vendors selling usb car adapters...how can I know these still the correct output or overcharge protection?
I have a Verizon car charger that has an extra usb connection but there is no information regarding the output.
A couple days before this incident I was watching a video on testing voltage and ohm. I decided to follow along and try this out using my husband's volt meter and I must have did something wrong because I killed a brand new k-go battery. So obviously I need some more study or pointers here.Lol
Thank you
Sent from my N7
