leaving mod in the hot car.

[bullet08]

i started vaping in nov.. meaning, it was autumn down here. through winter and spring, my rta did great in the car. today, the temp went up to 88 C. my rta which is fine in my house was leaking really bad. when i came home, i cleaned it up, and it stopped leaking.

took it out again for another errand. started leaking again. when i came home and let it rest at home temp.. no more leak.

is RTA tend have this issue in hot car? i'm using tfgt II clone on penny clone.

 

[Cullin Kin]

Well in the heat, juice becomes super thin. Then it comes down to your wicking.

I would be more worried about your battery in the hot car.

 

[WindyCityJoe]

Yes a change in temperature/pressure will make your atty leak and like Cullin mentioned, heat is very bad for batteries.

 

[schatz]

Yes, am in AZ always take them with you if you can, also use taifuns. Have had worse luck with other RTAs.

 

[Jugband]

I remember when I was new to vapeing. I was using an Ego battery and Vivi Nova tank. I went to a lunch date and left my setup in the glovebox. This was summer, very hot out. When I got back to my car I found my tank was empty, my glovebox full. I learned the hard way what was stated here, high temps thin your liquid. Don't leave your vape in a hot car

 

[WonderDude32]

I use a Nautilus on a istick 30 or 50 when I go out and it fits nicely in a pocket. If you might need to vape while out, look into a travel setup til you can get home. Maybe an eGo one mini?

 

[Steamix]

Physics 101 ... Rise in temperature causes matter to expand.
Sure, on something that small it may need an electron microscope to measure it. Add to it the thinning liquid and it gets messy.
I keep the bulky stuff at home. For work it's mostly 900mAh. Left one in the car in the sun myself by mistake. Got almost too hot to touch.
Still works but charge drains faster. Figure that the heat upset the chemistry in the battery some. Not gonna forget them again.
Not intent on finding out if battery can cook off when left in a hot car too long...

 

[OcalaFlGuy]

I saw there answer to this in another post.

Store the mod/tank upside down in the car. Rightside up, the vent holes are covered by liquid with air above that. The air gets heated, with no escape and pushes the juice out the center post/seals.

Upside down however, the air can escaped out the vents as it expands.

You may get a bit-o-seepage, but not much.

I put the iS30 upside down in a large Styrofoam cup, against the forward firewall of the passenger's floorboard. Cooler down there.

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

 

[sc12]

hmm maybe a small cooler with an ice pack in the car.

 

[ZCAR1]

I'm surprised that no-one else caught it, but at 88C pretty much everything in the car would melt.

 

[redrebel821]

I cut off about 4" of a cheapo pool noodle to use in the cup holder in my truck, and put one of those little frozen packs that look like a hockey puck on the bottom

 

[meleemark]

I'm surprised that no-one else caught it, but at 88C pretty much everything in the car would melt.

Well, technically it nothing would be melting, but give it another 12 degrees and things would start boiling!

 

[bullet08]

well.. i stopped carrying RTA in the car. back to RDA for trips and RTA stays home for now. found out with RTA, i'm puffing non-stop.. so RDA sort of save me on the juice too.

 

[bman1977]

I just got a kbox sub tank kit. I notice that after being in work in the a/c then going out to my hot car it'll start leaking. I'm not even leaving it in the car and im getting leaks. Doesn;t leak otherwise. It is pretty warm here, 90 today. But the weird thing is this doesn't happen with my Aerotanks.

 

[vapero]

a tank might leak a little no biggie, but I would be worried about the battery. If I don't want to carry another mod with me I take out the battery and take it , just leave the mod behind

 

[skel_98]

Picked up a new 30 ml bottle of juice this morning, threw it on the dash and forgot it. This afternoon, I went out to get it, and it had landed with cap down. Only had about 5 ml left in bottle. And knew better, just forgot.

 

[Shel]

I carry an empty, child proof pill bottle with me when it's hot outside, or simply leave it in the car. The brown/yellow ones with the screw on tops?

They're air tight. If you grab one that's tall enough for your tank and drip tip to fit, simply put your tank in the empty pill bottle, and screw the top on. Now you can leave it in the car, no problem.

The problem is air pressure... when it gets hot, the air and juice expands in your tank, and finds it's way out. Same thing happens if you take a tank on a pressurized plane... your juice will expand, and find it's way out, and all over the friggin place!

Stick the tank in an air tight pill box... problem solved! I've NEVER had a tank leak when I've done this, and I've left tanks in very hot cars, stored in an empty pill box.

 

[Traijan]

This happened to me the first summer in the desert where the temperature might get to be 121°f during the day and only down to 105°f overnight. But... While my Kanger AeroTank leaks like a sieve if I leave it in the car, my Nautilus 5ml tank does not. I can't explain that as I've seen plenty of people tell me that their Nautilus tank floods and leaks at the drop of a hat where as mine has sat in the hot car in the summer in the desert when visiting my brother at the hospital for 4 to 5 hours at a time.

I just found out that my new KangerTech SubTank also exhibits this leaking as well from sitting even if it's just a warm car for a few hours. I won't do that again! Fortunately it was in the cupholder so it caught any liquid that leaked out and down the backside (thankfully it was the backside so it didn't get into the firing button on my eLeaf 50w) in the cupholder instead of all over my carpets or my seats.

 

[Sean Mack]

I would be more worried about the batteries going bOOm then leakage.. Juice you can clean up, if the battery explodes you gotta whole mess of problems to deal with. . Personally I would never leave a mod in the car on a hot day... I actually think every company's warranty states do NOT leave devices in high temperature

 

[Mooch]

While battery life can be badly affected by high temperatures, you would have to bring the cell temperature over 120°C (or higher) for it to vent. And then on to over 230°C for it to go into thermal runaway. At those temperatures, I think a cell in thermal runaway could be the least of your troubles.