mod heating up?????

[tjgiants12]

Hey. Can someone tell me how bad it is for my mod heating up? I have a mechanical tube mod and it is getting hot on the button mostly but also up the tube. I pulled out my battery and it isn't even warm. Idk what this means. Could it be simply because its a crappy cheap mod?

 

[fxRich]

The spring on the button could be acting as a coil. I don't really know but that would be one thing to check especially if you are using sub ohm coils.

 

[Ou2mame]

Sounds like a short to me. I had problems with a cheap mod.. The coil shorted out on my tank and melted the power button innards

 

[rse1]

Heat means resistance - the only thing getting hot should be your coil. Speaking of which, you don't mention the resistance of your coil. If you're sub-ohming you could be exceeding the power rating of your switch (never a good idea). The heat of your tube is probably just it acting as a heat-sink for your switch since solid metal tubes rarely have enough resistance to get hot directly from typical power flow in a vaping device (and you would probably have battery problems long before the tube would get hot).

This is definitely something I would take care of immediately.

The statement that your switch gets hot means it isn't a good switch (it has too much resistance and may be getting ready to fail). If a switch fails with a short it could cause a catastrophic event (ie pain and/or damage). If your battery isn't getting hot then its probably not a shorted switch now, but heat is still a problem. Remember that your Li-ion batteries are vulnerable to heat and if they get too hot they vent hot gasses - no one wants to play hot-potato with a device held next to their face that generates thousands of degrees of plasma. I am super careful with my vaping equipment.

I changed to variable wattage devices from mech mods to get another layer of safety. I also changed to IMR batteries from ICR. Lithium manganese chemistry is safer than lithium cobalt - lower resistance and thus lower heat generated when used (charged/discharged).

 

[roxynoodle]

Some mods really aren't made for subohm vaping. Now, a beefier spring or magnets might solve that. So might using an RBA with higher resistance.

Right now though, stop using it until you get it squared away. A venting battery is dangerous.

 

[lordofthedreaf]

I used to love mechanicals but I do feel safer with a regulated device and protection embeded now.

Can you give us more information on your device and battery models?

 

[Baditude]

A venting battery is dangerous.

Agreed!

 

[Susan~S]

Did you purchase an ohm reader? Last I read you were not using one to measure your builds.