How common are thermal runaways/ battery venting?

[Niamh]

You could always use a vape Safe Fuse, making your IMR high drain battery "protected".

I just finished reading your Deeper Understanding of mod batteries, re Vape Safe you say: "If you are using a mechanical mod and you can fit one with your battery, I would suggest you add one or two to your setup". Do you mean two fuses are better than one?

 

[Niamh]

well it was adapted from the other guy, but you get what I mean

 

[AttyPops]

You'd only need 1 fuse per PV.

I like the fuse idea. It at least catches shorts. You have to do the amp calculations to make sure you know the proper ohms for your coils. That would be based on max top-off charge, not nominal voltage. Some "fuses" are resettable, others are toss-when-blown.

 

[Baditude]

You are correct, I adapted that blog article from another writer. The idea of the original author was to have a couple of vape safe fuses on hand in case one should blow or to have one for each PV that you own. As AttyPops said, there are two models to choose from: a less expensive one time fuse and a more expensive multiple use (self-resetting) fuse.

Vape Safe Fuse

Multiple Use Vape Safe Fuse

 

[Niamh]

Reckon I'll get the resetting one. Thanks.

 

[emus]

You are correct, I adapted that blog article from another writer. The idea of the original author was to have a couple of vape safe fuses on hand in case one should blow or to have one for each PV that you own. As AttyPops said, there are two models to choose from: a less expensive one time fuse and a more expensive multiple use (self-resetting) fuse.

Vape Safe Fuse

Multiple Use Vape Safe Fuse


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Do you know which coin fuse has the highest amp rating?

 

[Thrasher]

I know the bug from atmizone is 7 amps and the vape safe2 has a trip current of 6 amps but is only rated at 3.5 continuous (more then 6-7 seconds)