If it looks like a mech mod, acts like a mech mod, isnt it a mech mod?

[ubergeek922]

On the subject of the backwards battery placement, it's really not a good idea. As was mentioned by someone else, the body of the battery is negative. With the battery in place positive side up, the body of the mod is the negative as well. If there is any sort of tear in the battery's wrapping, and it touches the wall of the mod, it won't be a big deal. It will simply complete the circuit (bypassing the switch) and power the coil just like you are pressing the button.

If you have the battery reversed, the body of the PV becomes positive, but the body of the battery is still negative. If there is a tear in the wrapping, and it touches the wall of the mod, you will have a hard short. It will connect the negative body of the battery, to the positive body of the PV. This will be far worse than the previous scenario.

Before a tear just resulted in bypassing the switch, this time a tear results in hard shorting the battery. Because the short is directly between the wall of the mod, and the body of the battery, there is nothing else to stop or break the circuit. Unless you catch this almost instantly you'll overheat and vent your battery.

We're all adults here and I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do, but it's a really bad idea to put the battery in backwards.

Just to clarify, we were discussing bottom button devices. All bottom button mods that I am familiar with isolate the bottom of the battery and when depressed, make contact completing the circuit. There is an unbroken connection from the top + end of the battery to the switch housing. The bottom of the battery is typically isolated by a delrin washer or o-ring. These are the devices which, IMO, should be "upside down".

 

[UncleChuck]

Just to clarify, we were discussing bottom button devices. All bottom button mods that I am familiar with isolate the bottom of the battery and when depressed, make contact completing the circuit. There is an unbroken connection from the top + end of the battery to the switch housing. The bottom of the battery is typically isolated by a delrin washer or o-ring. These are the devices which, IMO, should be "upside down".

Indeed, I failed to mention that an upside down configuring (positive terminal down) will only hard short when the button is pressed. I just commented similarly in another thread, but both ways have their risks. Positive up, and a tear can result in an device that fires on its own, although it will only experience the same level of load as normal. With the positive down, a tear could result in a hard short with incredibly high load, although this will only happen when the button is pressed.

Personally a hard short scares me more than a device that is firing on its own, although I can completely understand how people could feel otherwise.

 

[Ryedan]

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This point was already made.

 

[vaptamist]

I'm not going to get into it too much, but vapers using 0.5 ohm coils that don't understand the ins and outs of mechanical mods and batteries worry me. I don't mean this as an insult at all, I just regret that everyone is pushing so hard about how awesome sub-ohm vaping is to new vapers that they don't properly learn how to protect their PV, their battery and their face and/or loved ones.