Just had a battery vent!!!

[Cavere]

So I went golfing with some buddies today and as usual emptied my pockets in the front cubby of the golf cart. Which I forgot but included an 18490 battery as a backup for my provari. After the round out everything back in my pocket and started walking back to the car. On the outside of my shorts I felt something very hot and initially thought my provari was about to blow! I threw everything out of my pocket and saw the battery on the ground and thankfully realized I was ok and that my provari was too. Minus some burns that are on the bottom cap mostly.

If anyone does not think twice about batteries the coins and keys in the same pocket were too hot to pick up a couple minutes later still. I was negligent and stupid frankly in my carelessness. But just a warning to others not to leave your batteries exposed to not just sunlight but heat as well.

 

[erictho]

also to keep them in a case as it happens quite often that those having battery issues are usually carrying them in a pocket with other metal objects.

 

[Crash Moses]

Just the other day a friend had one go off in his pocket due to loose change. RTD vapor (and a few other sites) have plastic cases to carry your spares around in. When my batteries aren't in my mod or the charger they're in a case.

I'm glad the only thing hurt was your pride.

 

[E_DeCastro]

why don't you have a case for your batteries?

 

[BlueMoods]

Good point, and the reason I have a little nylon pouch (originally sold to keep a roll of doggy doo-doo clean up bags in) to put my spare battery in when I'm going out. Keeps it form accidentally making contact with keys, coins and the like. As for my Provari, I use protanks so, it has a belt holster to keep it safe.

 

[DoogieTony]

Sounds like you made a connection to the positive and negative with your keys/change which shorted your battery.

It was the loose battery that vented, correct?

I always keep spare batteries in a plastic battery case so this can't happen.

 

[WarHawk-AVG]

I'm beginning to think there is a very large batch of bad batteries coming out of China...it's not like they don't have a track record of things like this...hmmm

 

[Blix]

I'm beginning to think there is a very large batch of bad batteries coming out of China...it's not like they don't have a track record of things like this...hmmm

This thread has nothing to do about bad batteries, only careless storage.

 

[VV_James]

This is pretty much all batteries, not just the ones we use for vaping.
When I was a kid I had a 9v Duracell short across some keys and burn the crap out of my leg once.

 

[Baditude]

Above is a pic of a Trustfire 14500 protected battery that "vented" in a BB mechanical mod, as shown in the second pic. Note the protruding horn-style power button on the BB's. The power button became compressed in a pants pocket of a pair of shorts hanging in my locker at work. The continuous firing of the battery caused it to hard short in thermal runaway.

When I went to my locker to pull out my mod, it was too hot to touch. I quickly got a wet wash cloth to protect my fingers and removed the mod from the pants pocket and carefully removed the battery. At this point I could see that both ends of the battery had been blown out and the plastic casing had melted. I could also detect a strong burning/chemical smell. The cloth of the pocket had been singed black from the heat. The mod performed as it was designed to; it has no vent holes but it did vent the hot gasses produced via the power switch (which had to be replaced) and the hot spring had collapsed.

In hindsight, if I chose to carry the mod in a pocket, I needed to either remove the battery or to remove the juice delivery device so there could be no continuation of battery current which could lead to a short circuited battery.

In addition, a Vape Safe mod fuse likely would have prevented this mishap from occuring - http://www.thevapesafe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=163

 

[Rickajho]

PSA: Batteries, ANY batteries, + "loose metal stuff" = accident waiting to happen!

Geez guys - cases please!

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

Glad to hear that your moment of absentmindedness didn't result in any injury or damage.

There's a guy in Panama City, FL who will likely be permanently disfigured for life because of a battery venting in a mod with no weak points and no place for the gases to escape. Lost part of his jaw and some of his teeth.

 

[SissySpike]

Whew pretty close to the family Jules! Lesson learned hu? Im glad nothing was lost except a battery and your ok.
here is a nice little European style battery case, Its not a Purse!!!;-) Battery Cases : Nylon Battery Case w/ Carabiner

Thanks for posting this mishap so other might learn from your mistake. You get a big atta boy for that!

 

[SissySpike]

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[BigBen2k]

Never use a Lithium battery, if it's not contained / encased.

It should always have a fuse, to prevent it from exceeding its designated maximum current.

Not rocket science.

 

[SissySpike]

never use a lithium battery, if it's not contained / encased.

It should always have a fuse, to prevent it from exceeding its designated maximum current.

Not rocket science.

hu? .......

 

[Moogle]

5th pocket

 

[volume control]

Batteries should just come with cases if they are rechargeable. Really hate hearing about this stuff, i NEVER carry loose batteries, and im still always a little worried something will happen to me

 

[FloydianSlip]

I'm glad to hear the OP is ok and not hurt and this is a good reminder about safely carrying batteries but I want to know...

Did he shoot par for the course or not?

 

[Cavere]

I believe now it was loose change in my pocket. I rarely carry loose change so that was probably the catalyst thinking it over.

There seems to be a little confusion. This was a loose battery not in a mod. And this whole incident took about thirty seconds to get to this point.