Local NW Floridian with severe injuries from exploding ecig battery

[MrJonesJr]

I'm glad that your ok and nothing major happened.

What device where you using?
Did you check the battery volt after taken it out of the charger?
What type of charger do you use?
How old are the batteries?

Just want to make sure you don't have a faulty charger. This could lead to more failures.

I was using an Omega with AW IMR 18650 battery. The battery was less than a week old.

I did not have a multimeter, but I do now.

I have a Trustfire Multifunctional TR-001 (couple years old) and a Tenergy Multifunctional TN270 from PureSmoker (month old)....I'm not sure which one I used with the battery that vented.

I did post about it after it happened but only got a couple of responses.

I have been vaping for close to 3 years and never had a problem. After 2 reports in the last month of mods knocking teeth out...I am questioning everything.

 

[deach]

Not quite the insight I had in mind

In all honestly, if it's a failure of the battery (s) that's the only one that will matter. The rest has nothing to do with helping during a honest "battery failure). To "HELP" prevent failures, use the proper batteries, chargers, and NEVER over charge or over drain the batts. (that's at least a start)

 

[redgirl]

I like the "J" feature


OK, sorry about the joke.


Do you think the "vented" endcap is the weaker end?
That's probably the most important safety feature to protect you.
Will mess up the mod if it blows.

Honestly, I don't know. It is a very thin metal end cap that screws into the mod with a spring and the atty connection SEEMS solid, but they are both metal - who knows which would go first?

 

[SonnyCrack]

Also something overlooked.. They said they found a lot of CR-123's on the scene.. And we all assumed they were for a MOD.. However, if you didn't notice, he's a professional photographer.. The #1 battery for pro-cameras is the CR-123...

Just a headsup..

 

[Uncle Willie]

No matter the tech, there will always be isolated instances of issues like this .. it is unfortunate the person has to suffer thru this, but until the perfect, failsafe tech comes along, there will always be a degree of risk factor .. based on what the current e-cig user base is / vs. incidents of this type, I would guess the chance of it happening is very, very low .. but there is always going to be a chance ..

That said, it's another indication that the industry needs to develop standards, testing, consumer education and self-regulate .. although this might not completely prevent an incident of this type, at least it would further minimize the possibility .. especially if this individual was not using the hardware in the proper fashion ..

 

[mikeinbc]

I'm really surprised that there are not more comments suggesting a magnetic end cap on these mods. It makes sense. Under pressure the battery will escape towards the end of LEAST RESISTANCE. A magnetic end cap could be employed to be released at whatever PSI is required to allow a safe escape of the battery.

 

[casualuser]

Sounds to me like you had a short. This has happened to me and the spring also collapsed which is a safety feature to break the connection so that the battery won't overheat. I replaced the spring and sent the battery to be tested underload - it tested just fine. In my case it was the atty that caused the short.

A couple of weeks ago I took my AW IMR 18650 off the charger, put it in my device with a 1.7 carto and it wouldn't fire. A bunch of smoke started coming out of the bottom 2 vent holes. I took the battery out and it was hot and smelled. The spring was also collapsed in the device. Scary stuff.

How close was I to something really bad happening?

 

[Flying W]

Ok, fair enough. I should not have mentioned the Bombshell by name. What I was saying is not specific to the Bombshell. It just happens to be next to me and I had just got done reading the big post about tube mods and rcr123a batteries and the name Bombshell seemed very apropos.

So what I should have said is that I am not going to use any tube mod with a tiny vent hole and stacked batteries because that is what I choose based on the post I read here by the community manager. Others have read the same thing and can make their own decisions.

I have five epipemods here that I feel are probably safer based on what Ive read. The battery in the pipe aims positive end down which points to the ground and the spring on the cap is designed to collapse when things heat up. The top is on by a magnet. If I only had the bombshell I would still use it but I would put the 18650 back in it. Others can do what they choose.

But that said, you are correct, it was a mistake for me to name the Bombshell, it has done nothing wrong. I dont want to damage the person producing them. I apologize for that. Its been a good quality device for me.

I understand and no harm done.I feel the same as you do.Kind of funny...I said it was sitting here with themStacked,but.....I find myself reaching for my Du Bocage the last couple of days and yes ,I just threw away 2 123's that had dimples in the bottom from stacking . I have been using my 18650's again and cant stop thinking how lucky I am that this hasnt happened to me . And I sure hope we find out how this happened.

 

[Bostonsnboxers]

I feel really bad for this guy and his family.
I'm really glad to have learned so much about these battery types (I had no idea, really).
I love vaping...my kgos, go-gos, and have a pipe mod in the mail on its' way to me, which I am still excited about.

Worrying about this sort of thing happening to me (while using common sense of course) would be like worrying about going outside because I heard some guy got struck by lightning on a sunny day....

 

[Penny02]

Just received this email from Vaporhawk. I'm just passing it on, I have no knowledge of its validity in naming the product:


This is an important message to users who have the prodigy v3 electronic cigarette.

It is NOT sold on the Vaporhawk site.
However, as we have many people on our list that might have purchased this electronic cigarette from another vendor,
we feel it is our duty to let it be known that there is an issue with this product
.
There may be at least one of you in possession of the faulty product, so please DO NOT USE IT until you can be sure it is safe!!!

It is the product that caused serious injuries to the man in Florida you may have heard about.

Please see this thread on the topic.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/puresmoker/196065-why-no-vents-v3-1-a-3.html


Again, we have not sold this product on the site, however, if some of you have the prodigy v3
There is an issue with the product and you should not use it until more is known.

All the best

The Vaporhawk Admin

 

[Semiretired]

Just received this email from Vaporhawk. I'm just passing it on, I have no knowledge of its validity in naming the product:


This is an important message to users who have the prodigy v3 electronic cigarette.

It is NOT sold on the Vaporhawk site.
However, as we have many people on our list that might have purchased this electronic cigarette from another vendor,
we feel it is our duty to let it be known that there is an issue with this product
.
There may be at least one of you in possession of the faulty product, so please DO NOT USE IT until you can be sure it is safe!!!

It is the product that caused serious injuries to the man in Florida you may have heard about.

Please see this thread on the topic.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/puresmoker/196065-why-no-vents-v3-1-a-3.html


Again, we have not sold this product on the site, however, if some of you have the prodigy v3
There is an issue with the product and you should not use it until more is known.

All the best

The Vaporhawk Admin

This is from the incident that happened last month not this one.

 

[MrJonesJr]

Just received this email from Vaporhawk. I'm just passing it on, I have no knowledge of its validity in naming the product:


This is an important message to users who have the prodigy v3 electronic cigarette.

It is NOT sold on the Vaporhawk site.
However, as we have many people on our list that might have purchased this electronic cigarette from another vendor,
we feel it is our duty to let it be known that there is an issue with this product
.
There may be at least one of you in possession of the faulty product, so please DO NOT USE IT until you can be sure it is safe!!!

It is the product that caused serious injuries to the man in Florida you may have heard about.

Please see this thread on the topic.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/puresmoker/196065-why-no-vents-v3-1-a-3.html


Again, we have not sold this product on the site, however, if some of you have the prodigy v3
There is an issue with the product and you should not use it until more is known.

All the best

The Vaporhawk Admin

I think that is wrong. The alleged explosion with a V3 happened a month ago in Colorado. The one this week in Florida...no one knows what was used.

 

[Penny02]

Sorry, I didn't know both incidents were in Florida and just got this email a few minutes ago. Guess they weren't too concerned to wait a month to send emails about it

 

[Traver]

My manager at work today told me she saw the exploding e-cig story on the news yesterday.. I explained to her that it was a mod, and that what I'm using has a battery that is intended for what I'm using it for. She understood what I meant, but it still annoyed me that the news isn't giving the full story. Or at the very least, mentioning that millions of people use e-cig's on a daily basis, and that this is a VERY rare incident that happened.

It doesn't help that some of these stories have a picture of the type of e-cigs you would get at a convenience store.

 

[MrJonesJr]

Yep, I was told it was probably a short with the cartomizer. I threw the battery out right away so I couldn't test it. Not that I would ever use it again after blowing smoke out of the bottom of my pv and vibrating.

Sounds to me like you had a short. This has happened to me and the spring also collapsed which is a safety feature to break the connection so that the battery won't overheat. I replaced the spring and sent the battery to be tested underload - it tested just fine. In my case it was the atty that caused the short.

 

[four2109]

Does anyone have a link to the "month ago story"? I haven't been able to find anything on it. TIA.

 

[sandybeach]

I found the "right" batteries on RTD Vapor's site. He has the AW IMR AW Batteries
He also has a lot of chargers, including the Pila. Battery Chargers Randy was really nice, too, when I contacted him to ask a question, and got back to me right away.

 

[MrJonesJr]

Does anyone have a link to the "month ago story"? I haven't been able to find anything on it. TIA.

Read through the link a couple of posts ago.

 

[Pav]

It doesn't help that some of these stories have a picture of the type of e-cigs you would get at a convenience store.

Most of the stories I've seen (which are just rehashes of the AP story or the actual AP story) have a picture of a typical 510 type ecig. Like this one.

Electronic cigarette explodes in man's mouth, causes serious injuries - HealthPop - CBS News

Oh, and I apologize if I missed it somewhere, but it seems many are still assuming this man was using some sort of Mod, and as far as I know, we aren't even certain of that.

Yes. I keep hearing people mention that it was a mod, but I can't find definitive proof of this anywhere. Read this whole thread too.

 

[Calypso53]

What about that email on this thread a page or so back, from "Vaporhawk" stating that the "man in Florida" used a Prodigy, whatever that is. Can't someone here verify this information with Vaporhawk since they are obviously a supplier???