Explosion at Vape Blast
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an intense build up of pressure inside of a closed object (a pipe with end caps or a mech mod without venting) is a bomb. a battery is obviously not as destructive as gunpowder and a duffle bag of nails, but a mech mod exploding can certainly put someone in the hospital or worse. just wait...
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I thought it was just us eGo battery-using people w/Li-On batteries that were causing trouble.
Is there anyone reading this who was there? What did the people there say or do? I bet the contestant with the malfunction was mortified. I don't sub ohm and don't pretend to know the 1st thing about it. I know many feel it can be done safely if you know what you are doing. That is kind of what my opinion was/is. My opinion was/is admittedly based on the assumption that people know enough about what their batteries can handle and stay within those limits. I am just curious if he was using what sub ohmers consider safe practice or not. If he wasn't then it still probably is safe if done correctly. I would never have the guts to try it but I am a to each their own thinker so if others do that's up to them. Who am I to judge? One thing I do know is that anyone and everyone should be sure their vent holes are there and large enough before using any mod. That's just common sense. I can easily see someone who gets new gear often accidentally overlooking something like that though. I am one of those people who once forgot their baby in the car and went in the store though, so I would think that. Just curious if he was using what others sub ohming would consider safe minus the unvented mod.
Look guys, another nail in the coffin.
You just can't prevent these things from happening once vaping got as big as it is today though. There will always be that idiot treading that line.
You just can't prevent these things from happening once vaping got as big as it is today though. There will always be that idiot treading that line.
There are a lot more incidents with egos but they aren't as much fun to call bombs.
Given the number of recent posts about those building coils for mechs who have no idea what they are doing, it seems a lot of cloud chasers don't have a clue, and there will be many incidents like this and injuries...
Yes, but this was a contest put on, and I assume approved by vape blast. It appears the idiocy is coming from the top down.
What's the Old Say'n...
"If something goes Wrong at the Circus, Don't Yell at the Clowns. Yell at the Ring Leader."
Love how good Ole' AmeraVape and their lackeys were all over the instagram comments saying this is what happens when you use clones.... No, This is what happens when a mod explodes due to a battery failure....Kinda like what Todd was sayin' in the first frickin place.
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Eyewitnesses posting over on reddit apparently. Phil Busardo found his way over there and was taking pictures as well.
The only accounts I've read is the idiot walked away very quickly and shady like. Draw your own conclusions. I say he ran away out of embarrassment. It's probably good that he did scurry away, because like I mentioned earlier, his rig blowing up in a crowd like that means he could find himself in quite the litigious pickle.
Obviously he wasn't. The mod most likely auto-fired in his pocket, or the switch got stuck, or the battery wrapper was compromised and shorted. Either way the mod experienced a continuous fire, and whatever coil he had built was drawing too much current from the battery. This is why "pulse" firing is a farce.
He obviously wasn't using a safe chemistry IMR battery, because thermal runaway, fire, and explosion ensued.... This type of explosion happens pretty much exclusively with ICR batteries. IMR's vent, get extremely hot, but really never go BOOM when they go into thermal runaway. However, ICR batteries in thermal runaway... hide your kids, hide your wife.
From what I've read it was a copper Mutant 26650 that blew up. Snagged this screen grab off of the OP's instagram account link, the remains of the tube:
My money is betting he was using a very high mAh (> 6000mAh) ICR 26650, and not the 3000mAh-3500mAh IMR ones on the market that are okay for e-cig use. Couple that with his idiotic build, a malfunction or him simply pocketing it in his pants the wrong way causing a continuous firing, and there you have it.
Correct, if you know what you are doing. Which IMO, does not include the people claiming they know what they are doing when following "pulse" discharge ratings and vaping < .1Ω
Grrrr...
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