Is this battery dangerous?

[Katy]

I have a number of eGo batteries... some manual and a few automatic. Today I had one of the automatics in my hand when I went through my bedroom dressing area. That area has no windows and was pretty dark. I took a toot on my eGo cartomizer and battery and then saw a "red glow" coming from the area where the battery attaches to the cartomizer. I've never seen that before and it scared me. I immediately took the cartomizer off and switched to one of the manual batteries.

What I wonder is, could that "red glow" always be there and I never noticed before or is it a sign that something is wrong with the battery? It is a bit scary for me and I'd appreciate any information.

 

[boog]

maybe a reflection of some kind?
if it was red hot, you would've felt it

 

[mynameisrob]

Was the cartomizer clear?

 

[whitepony]

hmm well take pics

 

[Wadey McVapie]

Why don't you take another one of your automatics with the same carto setup and see if you see the same thing. Just a thought. Weird though! Very weird!

 

[Katy]

Why don't you take another one of your automatics with the same carto setup and see if you see the same thing. Just a thought. Weird though! Very weird!

You've solved the mystery by your suggestion. I took the cartomizer I was using and tried it on another "automatic" eGo battery. There is a very tiny hole where the button would be if it were a mechanical eGo. That is where the red light is coming from and it must be the battery firing up somehow. Even with a completely different cartomizer, all the auto's show a red glow through that little hole. I never noticed it before but there it is. Thus, the battery must be OK and that is just part of the make-up of the automatic batteries.

 

[Playa_hamm420]

The red glow you see is from the Coils inside the atomizer heating up .. they turn orange/Red when heated.

If you have an atomizer with the bridge built in you can fire it up and look down under the bridge and actully see the orange/red coils heating up..