I Got A Short - HOT BUTTON & BATTERY!

[The Yeti]

Last night, on my new SSGGTS, all of a sudden the button got really hot - I mean REALLY HOT! I immediately stopped pressing and threw the GG to the ground. I was a bit afraid of a battery explosion. After a few seconds, I picked up the GG and the whole thing was pretty warm. Took out the battery and it was pretty hot as well.

After immediately coming here and searching the threads, I determined it was a shorted carto (probably from over-tightening the GG on my part ). I checked the spring, and it is kind of black and kind of flat now. I tried to pull it back in to shape as best I could, put in a new carto and everything seemed to be fine.

This morning, the exact same thing happened with the new carto (I still hadn't realized by this point that I was over-tightening the battery).

Anyway, the 'shorted' carto will work fine on my Provari, but not on the GG - I assume this is just because of the different contacts on each device - the Provari doesn't push on the center post of the carto like the GG does. Lesson learned - I will not be over-tightening the GG anymore!

I've ordered up a couple replacement springs from Bruce at COV, but my question is: is it ok for now to use the GG with the damaged spring, or even without the spring? I am currently using unprotected batteries.

 

[MrKrinkle]

I run my GG without the spring but I only use AW IMR Batts the Energy LifePO4 will also be OK without a spring but no matter what you use always check your batteries with a multimeter before use and you won't lose any fingers....

 

[Para]

I wouldn't use that battery again and wouldn't use unprotected batteries and wouldn't use that spring again. My health and safety mean more to me than a few bucks for batteries and springs; but that's just me.

 

[The Yeti]

I run my GG without the spring but I only use AW IMR Batts the Energy LifePO4 will also be OK without a spring but no matter what you use always check your batteries with a multimeter before use and you won't lose any fingers....

Those AW IMRs are the bats I'm using - was I mistaken and these ARE protected? They don't say so on the battery itself. They're the red ones.

 

[Dik]

Those AW IMRs are the bats I'm using - was I mistaken and these ARE protected? They don't say so on the battery itself. They're the red ones.

They are safe chemistry so protection is not needed

 

[MrKrinkle]

AW IMR is safe chemistry so no spring needed but always check with a multimeter before use if they are giving more than 4.2v after a fresh charge they have gone bad.....

 

[Moshmarr]

Also, Once that battery spring collapses on you, I've found it will do so again pretty easily. Good that you got some new ones.
If you keep getting shorts in the future and the ggts isn't too tight, try taking the button apart and cleaning the spring/button insides well too.
This solved a short issue for me awhile back...I use AW IMR's and AW LiFePO4's and enjoy them

 

[jkoppk]

I had the same thing happen to me today.I don't use the spring and was using a AW IMR 18650 and all was fine.Then I took a vape and in about 2 seconds the button got so hot it put a blister on the tip of my pinky.I dropped it(lucky I was on carpet)and let it cool.I looked at my GG and it seems the button had come loose a bit and caused a short,I cleaned up the contacts and switch and tightened everything and now it works as new.The IMR's sure dump a lot of current real quick LOL.