Lucky escape with a regulated mod and cell?

[sonicbomb]

Input volts from the battery are read to provide the information for the battery meter.
Not sure about amps

 

[DaveP]

Why do they do this, though? Wouldn't it be just as easy for them to show the other side of the page (they have to know the battery voltage already, in order to get the wattage right in the first place, yeah? And then like you said all it takes is some simple maths) and show the input volts/amps coming off the battery instead of the output values off the board?

The battery voltage is of no consequence as long as its voltage is enough to run the electronics. The battery just powers the electronics so that the electronics can operate to control the vape level. What we want to see is the power delivered to the coil. That's on the output side.

It's a way increase power and add the automatic calculation for changing resistance of coils. The user gets a variable setting to suit his or her vaping style. It doesn't really matter what the battery voltage is. The electronics do the work of powering the coil as well as providing variable power and wattage settings to the user.

As battery voltage drops gradually, the electronics respond accordingly to keep the vape the same. When battery voltage drops to about 3 to 3.2 volts, the electronics call for a battery change because it can no longer provide the designed vape range.

That's why battery voltage doesn't matter until the battery is declared to be too low to continue. The alternative is a mech mod with decreasing vape quality as the battery dies.

 

[DaveP]

I had an IPV5 that autofired. It still shut off after 10-12 seconds, would wait a little while then fire again. I would just leave it in the menu, and it would cycle through the options slowly and not fire. I just returned it and the vendor (101vape) replaced it for free. The replacement died a few months later.

I've accumulated about 15 various mods for future vape security. I've used all of them for a short period when they come in and so far haven't gotten a dud. I sometimes wonder how many of them will last more than a year when put into use.

I'm hoping that when Congress gets back to work after 7 July they'll attack the health bill and the Hunter or the Cole-Bishop vape bills and get them in order. Deeming needs to be changed to 2016 for hardware and ejuice.

 

[sofarsogood]

I recently had a rather unnerving experience and I'm still not quite sure of the root cause, maybe I never will be... First, the set up I was using

IPV D2 regulated mod with an Aspire Triton 2 tank, 0.5ohm coil. I was using a set of Aspire 2600 ICR batteries, which claim to be 20A, but I rarely vape over 30W so only ever pushed them to about 10A or so. I charge my batteries on a Nitrecore Digicharger.

Recently while walking home, with my mod in my bag at my side, I noticed a burning smell, a quite distinctive and nasty chemical smell - not something I've ever really smelt before. This went on for about 5 or 10 minutes and I was wondering what could be on fire, never did I imagine that the smell was coming from my bag. Only when I got home and put my hand in my bag to be greeted by a scorching heat did I realise what was going on. My mod was incredibly hot, I could hold it briefly, but only for less than a second. Thankfully the IPV D2 has a very easy to open magnetic battery casing and I ripped the battery out as fast as I could, it was on a glass topped table and I decided to leave the room for 20 minutes before even going near it again. When it cooled down enough to hold I moved it outside and put it on a flat surface in a closed BBQ. The smell (which I'm assuming was battery venting) lingered in my bag for quite some time after that - I'm pretty sure it wasn't burnt juice, it's not a smell I've ever come across before.

I'm not sure what happened here. It's possible that I didn't switch the mod off before putting it my bag, although I always turn it off, who knows, maybe this one time I forgot.... But even then I would have thought the mod's protections should have kicked in. I've had the mod for nearly two years and it's had a couple of bumps and falls over time so I guess it could have been defective. I've since inspected the battery and there is a very small tear in the wrap, right up near the edge of the wrap on the top contact that I didn't notice before, could this have caused a short?

The whole thing got me quite unnerved about vaping, I can't help thinking I was seconds or minutes away from becoming the next news headline.

I've ditched both the battery and the mod and replaced the mod with an eVic Primo Mini (my cash is less important to me than my face or limbs) and I've picked up some LG HE2 INR batteries. It's made me super cautious though, I won't even carry my mod in my bag with the battery inserted anymore.

Most of the horror stories out there seem to be from user error on mech mods or from using bad chargers, I've not come across this before. Any other possible causes for this to happen? I'd like to avoid such scares in the future!

This could have been a rare occaision where somebody got a scare and we could get to the bottom of it. Diid you take photos of the mod or battery? Based only on what you wrote the plausible explanation is the tear in the wrapper did short the battery and it survived the abuse, a credit to the brand. FYI the entire metal case of these batteries is the negative post so if the wrapper is damaged near the positive post it can easily be shorted.

 

[pfaber11]

Yes a narrow escape. Glad you're ok. The idea of my mod exploded in my face is pretty scary. Anyway vape on and keep an eye on your wraps .