Electric Shocks Mechanical Clone

[NightSky]

Setup:

Stingray x clone by infinite
magma rda clone
nichrome 0.19 ohm dual parallel coil using cotton
fresh 4.2v batteries


Whenever I try and fire this build I get various places on the tube of my mod that get immediately incredibly hot, and feel like I'm getting shocked. If I happen to have my mouth on the drip tip I can feel an electric current flowing through that too.

Someone suggested before that it might be that the resistance of the build is lower than the resistance of the mods switch, and therefore its making a circuit with my hand instead? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Matthew Shelbourn]

Ugh, not good. I've had this happen to me before. Couple of things to do...

1.) Inspect your atomizer's insulator. If the insulator (delrin/teflon/peek) is degraded then your atomizer could be shorting out, causing it to heat up and shock you.

2.) Rebuild your atomizer to ensure that it isn't a rogue wire making contact with part of the housing that it shouldn't.

3.) Disassemble and clean your mod. Sometimes a bad connection within the device can cause issues like this. If you take the whole thing apart, clean all the components, then reassemble it, any connection problems within the device should be fixed.

4.) Inspect the device's insulators. Make sure that the insulators within the device itself are intact. Any electrical current going through metal that it shouldn't could be causing your problem.

And if none of these work and you can't find a remedy then you might want to consider buying a new mod. Clones are notorious for being constructed from inferior materials and your problem could just be because your mod is worn out.

Hopefully one of these works. Good luck!

 

[classwife]

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[Mark in Florida]

I have a couple of mods that I can't build below .5. I was looking for a home for a fused clapton coil recently that was running at .18... I was getting slight shocks and hot buttons on a couple of my mods. It runs fine on my Nemesis, Panzer and Titan. My Deus Prism didn't seem to like it at all...

 

[Ryedan]

Well, it's a week later, but FWIW ...

I've been shocked by my mod and I fixed it by tightening mod tubes. I suspect because the parts were loose resistance between them was high.

That's all I've got. Vape on

 

[Froth]

I own the exact same clone, it's currently built to .09 and has never once shocked me. Question, are you using the stock top cap or the hybrid adapter? From my personal testing I found I got .15v to .17v less voltage drop while using the hybrid adapter instead of the top cap. Now that that is out of the way, are all of your tube threads very clean? They're copper so they can surface tarnish and cause a jump in resistance at the threading which can cause the issues you're dealing with, clean all of the tube threads and the entire switch, also clean the 510 threads and atomizer threads and see how things go.

I got tired of messing with the threads on all of the tube adapters with the Infinite clone so I decided to buy the 18650 Kepler clone which is a solid single piece main tube so it has less to clean, as a nice surprise it also has less voltage drop than even the authentic! This is one of those rare instances where a clone outperforms the authentic and offers something it does not.

 

[Kaiju]

This can happen with multi part tubes like a stingray if the sections are not completely screwed together, especially if the threads, connections or contacts are loose or need cleaning. Try cleaning and tightening everything .

 

[SunshinePete]

The symptom suggests back EMF from the coil, yet it's hard to believe a couple of turns would have sufficient inductance.

 

[Ryedan]

The symptom suggests back EMF from the coil, yet it's hard to believe a couple of turns would have sufficient inductance.

What would cause induction? This is not a motor