Man Severely Injured After eCigarette Blows Up In His Face
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This question needs it's own thread with detailed pichers.
Either that or you can waistfully throw away anything with a battery in it every time you ding it.
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Pretty sure it's the same hospital photo.
Damn sure it's the same mod and battery photo.
But there's always that chance I'm a little off.
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I think I remember that story too, if I'm not mistaken the guy was vaping in bed when it happened. Because someone asked who vapes in bed, and a ton of us replied that it was the best place to vape. Same exact topper and possibly the same photos. The last three stories I have seen like this have been a mech with a tank, the easiest way for someone to use a mech and have no idea what they're doing.
I remember the Facebook thing but this was another guy I was thinking about.
You don't want a lipo above 110 deg F.
So hot I had to put it down has to be above 140.
You're playing with fire. More specifically a road flare in your hand that you have no idea which end is the business end.
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I was always under the impression that a regulated mod would not allow the battery to be pushed beyond the amp limits
Can't wait to get my first unregulated mod that's in the mail w/o mosfed dual 26650 parallel 50amp batts I only build around .1-.2 buy the battery drain calculator it's safe
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Was it this guy? I thought that turned out to be hoax.
I saw this article when it was really hot, and a lot of different people (including vapers and non-vapers) replied. There were quite a few suggestions that he may have tried to take his life with either a starters pistol, or using a blank in a small handgun. To suggest that the drip-tip shot up off the mod with such force, and heat sounds VERY unlikely to me.
[RANT] Either way, media, and other uneducated/unwilling people will ALWAYS use a tragedy to push their own agenda with no empathy towards the victim, or their families. [/RANT]
I know,first thing i saw before even morning coffee,some say i am grumpy,snappy,whatever,lol before my coffee. I feel better now,thinking a little more clearly.
I have dropped it but there is no damage i can see. It is nerving though. I wish they gave more info on how this kind of thing happens so we can avoid what we can. I stay below 12watts at all times...so far.
If everything is spec'd out with the right safety margins, regulation should keep the battery safe.
Unless there's a short
Or a bad connection
Or a bad cell
Or a cell that doesn't meet specs that got by QC
Or the board fails at regulating in one of a myriad of ways
Electronics fail.
Doesn't matter how good they are, there's always going to be a bad one.
I have a provari that failed in less than 2 weeks.
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The Way I understand it is unregulated is safe so long as you're not stupid and don't go past the capacity of the amps of the battery
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So you're supposed to use flat top batts with it? Isn't that every device? I've even heard box mods saying to use flat tops
Can unregulated be just as save with proper education and battery safety
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Ueah that good ol SMPL mod that does not even have an insulator in the top. So if no topper and you hit the fire button direct short. Or same thing if the topper comes unscrewed some during use.
Sure helps to know what you are doing with unregulated.... Most accidents can be avoided with proper knowledge and prevention but no high wattage device is safe even a regulated one due to the high currents involved. But, if a mod is going to have a bad battery in it then I certainly would rather have it in a regulated device than a mech.
Not unless they have a fuse or some form of overcurrent protection in them.
Why can't you use an atlantis on a hybrid device? I'm confused and needless to say I'll never buy a hybrid top lol. But I would expect the person to do some research first or god forbid a shop sold it to him and didn't tell him about the safety issues. This is tragic tho. And not complete ignorance. It was an accidentWell, I am not sure I like to "rely" on some cheap chinese "chip" to keep me safe. I mean, electronics do have failure points.
I guess it really depends, for me, who make the chip and if the device the chip goes into is also a reliable manufacturer.
I am very much against all this constant "blame the user" though, because, as I indicated in another topic similar to this one, I've vaped for 3 years and I would not intuitively know that I couldn't use certain atties with something like the SMPL mod and other stuff. Don't kid yourself, there are people on this board who have vaped a while and don't know stuff......people may be less willing to admit that than I am.
However, ANY battery (esp. if you don't buy good ones to begin with and don't have a good charger) can do weird things. That is why after people have failures of some sort, and you always see them coming on here and saying "can I still use the battery?" and mostly we tell them ..........don't.
Spend another $10 or so and get a new battery.
And these people aren't idiots. They are people who vape every day, and participate on vaping forums.
Besides, the blame game, in the face of an accident (ANY accident whether vaping or not) just always seems extremely convenient, and somewhat distateful. The longer I live the longer I realize that ..... every time I step outside to do something, in the wrong shoes, etc. or when my 75 pound retriever gets a little too frisky with me.
Accidents happen and people don't *deserve* to be hurt, ya know? We are all absent-minded sometimes, or are not consciously "focussed" at every moment of every day even though we kinda need to be.
There but for the grace of god go I.........
(A few years ago I visited a small child on the burn unit and it happens in "blink of an eye" how fast a toddler can move and there was something on stove boiling.....he had good parents, caring parents, not bad parents. I would have punched out anyone who made any kind of remark about this.....in the face of so much human suffering, it is just distateful to me
yeah you get a direct short in a mech and it's sort of like having a hand grenade sitting in your hand. With a regulated device that is working properly, then it will shut down.
It looked familiar to us too.
I remember making the same comment on janky pre-made coils and mechanicals being a bad idea.
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