Is it possible to short a button spring?

[house mouse]

My stealth was acting up on me last night and the button started to get a bit warm. I could have sworn I saw a small spark from the head/pin assembly side of the button, but my eyes are old and it could have been a trick of light. However, after that I had no springiness left in the button at all. I took it apart and the spring was very small and compressed compared with a new spring. I replaced it with a new spring, checked all my connections and the atomizer and everything has been running smoothly since. So is it possible I shorted it out in some way or was it simply compressed down like that from me using it continually chain vaping on it for a few weeks?

And the next question. Is it ok to just pull the old spring back into shape or should I not use that one again?

 

[Ariel_MX]

My stealth was acting up on me last night and the button started to get a bit warm. I could have sworn I saw a small spark from the head/pin assembly side of the button, but my eyes are old and it could have been a trick of light. However, after that I had no springiness left in the button at all. I took it apart and the spring was very small and compressed compared with a new spring. I replaced it with a new spring, checked all my connections and the atomizer and everything has been running smoothly since. So is it possible I shorted it out in some way or was it simply compressed down like that from me using it continually chain vaping on it for a few weeks?

And the next question. Is it ok to just pull the old spring back into shape or should I not use that one again?

IMPO, No, the button can't cause a short, but as it is the part tha closes the circuit, if there is another part causing the shor circuit, you will notice when pressing the button, but the button itself can't be in "short circuit" position.

For sure there was a short elsewhere and when you pressed the button to close the circuit, the spring in it received part of the big current, heating it, probably changing its physical properties.

You can pull the old spring back into shape and meassure the electrical resistance of it and maybe reuse it, but better use a new spring, but prior to that, check all the parts, as the atomizer setup, stealth cap isolator, etc. to find out which one was causing the short circuit, ¿what atomizer were you using?

 

[house mouse]

I'm using an Ithaka @ 1.4 ohms. I've pulled the stealth all apart and everything is ok on it. The plastics aren't melted or warped. There was some oxidation on the pin head and post that I cleaned off last night and it has been running fine since then.

 

[imeothanasis]

maybe ithaka's mouthpiece touched a wire because you didnt put the positive one inside ceramic house.

Be sure that on GG battery holders, its always the atomizer that cause a short because GGs cant be shorted

 

[house mouse]

maybe ithaka's mouthpiece touched a wire because you didnt put the positive one inside ceramic house.

Be sure that on GG battery holders, its always the atomizer that cause a short because GGs cant be shorted

I've had that happen with the Ithaka before (mouthpiece touching a wire) but I'm using the Ithaka update now and the mouthpiece isn't hitting the wire. I replaced the spring last night and am still using the same atomizer without any issues. It was just a head scratcher because I couldn't figure out what I had done. I was curious if I could have just worn the spring out from overuse. I've been chain vaping on the stealth daily for about 6 weeks or so now.

 

[imeothanasis]

yes, strange. Maybe you havent screw a lot the rebuildable part in place so when you totally closed mouthpiece, it touched the poles?