Exactly, before I bought my first mechanical mod and RDA I researched using the search button and using google, until I felt comfortable enough to make the jump.
No it's not your job to chase and advise every new user about safety. But, it's not anyone's else's job either on ECF, unless they are being paid to do so. If asked if a mech is safe by anyone on ECF or out in real life, I will always tell them it's only as safe as you are and how you make, and some people I know I tell them you're not even close to ready for one.
Well I have read all this, of course; but my mind just does not retain things of this nature -- I can play Jeopardy with the best of 'em, but math? Complete ....... (I suspect this is part of my inability to retain any understanding of football.) If the letters corresponded to the actual words we use, I could retain it better, as a mnemonic, but with the letters having no instant correlation to the words, it just won't stick. So if I want to know a given figure in that equation, I just use my steam-engine calculator, supply the values I know, and let it figure out the others for me. I understand the *concepts* -- more or less -- just not the actual math. At my current age of 53, I doubt my grasp of math will ever improve; my brain grasps words and language almost instinctively, but numbers, equations... not so much. I'm really good at arithmetic and budgeting, though.
Andria
With my intro to electronics, we didn't worry all that much about volts and amps, but Oh-man, that RF was a killer! (there is a 1kw linear in there)
I haven't seen a beast like that since the late 80s.
Reminds of the old Yaesu FL-2100b HF
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My grandfather had one of these things in his ham shack (garage) and I remember he used to heat that garage with no problem anytime he turned on his rig.
Are you a HAM also? If so cordial 73s, KC2VMK over and out.
The whole explosion thing getting back on topic... it could have went two ways. It could have exploded or it could have had multiple failures. There is the possibility of an initial switch fail and then followed by a vent fail which lead it from thermal runaway to becoming an absolute pipe bomb with it being unable to vent. Some say venting is scary, well having even a non-combusting IMR or similar battery technology in an enclosed container and letting it vent with no escape... I'd say that's even scarier.
FT-897D, FT-7900R, VX-7R & a VX-6R between the shack & the car. I don't post my call sign with non-hams having too easy of access to the databases, but let's just say it starts with an A in 7 land. 73.That's exactly how I found ECF, but only because I was so absolutely repulsed with drugstore cigalikes, I figured there must be *something* online about something better -- boy was that an understatement.
Even for those who just want to lurk -- which I completely do NOT understand! -- there is all kinds of info here, all you have to do is read. Granted, it's a huge forum, but there *is* a search feature, limited as that may be. That limitation in the search feature, though, is why I don't understand the "lurking;" it would have taken me a month or more to figure out that the eRoll was the best starter for me, but simply by asking questions in the new members' forum, I was able to ascertain that within a few days. I was even warned about its limitations, but stuck fast as I was with the idea that the cigarette form-factor was necessary, it really was the best one for me, because it enabled me to see very quickly both the limitations of that particular device, and the possibilities of so many others.
And once I did become interested in mechs, and started asking questions about those, I was directed almost immediately to the Battery Safety article in the library, which clued me in to my own general ignorance, and that it would be very dangerous to proceed with something that potentially dangerous without first remedying the ignorance. No one drives a racecar when they don't yet even have a drivers' license!
Andria
Generalities are not meant to apply to each and every person, that is why they are generalities.
If I ever start sub-ohming (which I won't) then you'll be seeing a poster with over 18,000 posts asking extremely basic questions.
If you mean retailers, like a B&M there are some great one's I been to that advice safety and things like that, the one I went to and got my first mech and setup told me almost everything I learned first from ECF members and doing my research, but there are many one's that is brought up in new threads pretty often.
It is the responsibility of the manufacturers and the retailers to make sure people are at least AWARE that there are dangers involved.
That's straight bs to me. I don't speak or read Chinese, so even if they did inform me I wouldn't know. It's my responsibility to be aware of safety. As is it each person vaping individualy responsible to be aware of the safety concerns and precautions.
