Post in their box stating your concern. Another of my pet peves is hardly any of the youtube DIYrs put on rubber gloves or safety glasses. I feel that if your going to make your self public you should teach safety threw example.
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You mean it won't kill me in a mushroomy cloud of doominess if I use a mech mod and get a short!? No jokes, serious question, kinda lol. I know there's no mushromy cloud of doominess, but I'm rather scared of using a mech for that reason. I know how to wrap a decent coil, but I'm scared(largely in part to all the talk of exploding batteries) that if something were to happen I'd likely end up covered from head to toe in green acidy goo screaming about my face melting off as I run down the street.
I don't know about you but once I wrap a few coils with a specific sized kanthal then I get to the point that I kind of know what the resistance will be even before measuring it and build them without measuring, but, if you are guiding others who presumably don't know, then you should feel obligated to point out the potential problems and risks that exist and also give the required basic knowledge needed, just because you know enough that it becomes safe for you to assume, doesn't mean the person you are teaching does know anything at all about it and just showing how to twist a coil without giving the background info also necessary is negligent and a bad teacher...
understanding ohms and resistance and the hows and whys of what affect it has is required knowledge to be able to build coils imho
understanding ohms and resistance and the hows and whys of what affect it has is required knowledge to be able to build coils imho
Dude whats with all of the negative vibes lately? Im giving you an assignment you have to make two positive threads for every rant;-) try this for 15 min every evening empty your mind and repeat ohmmmmmm.......ohmmmmmmm...........ohmmmmmmmm
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I bet you guys are one of the first to click on his videos when he posts them just so you can tell the empty room you're in everything he does wrong.
Seriously, there are so many options out there in the vaping community, it never occurred to me to make posts on stuff I hate. I don't care for the "tooting" but he is probably a pretty cool dude which this world is in short supply of. And the person attacking him for the notion that he is a hipster or whatever - I'll judge you by your post and say you are probably an annoying stick in the mud.
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Seriously, there are so many options out there in the vaping community, it never occurred to me to make posts on stuff I hate. I don't care for the "tooting" but he is probably a pretty cool dude which this world is in short supply of. And the person attacking him for the notion that he is a hipster or whatever - I'll judge you by your post and say you are probably an annoying stick in the mud.
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All of my youtube Videos are 100% correct information unless I did not know what I was talking about at the time;-)
All of my youtube videos were taken by someone else while I was drunk.
I'm stilling laughing about how you called out GG. The one thing that really bugs me is when he vapes in his vids.. Mmmmm. Mmhm. Mhm mhm mmmhm.
Lol. I usually cross refer to vids when trying something for the first time.
GG's vids at least helpe stay up to date with current events. I give him props for that.
Lol. I usually cross refer to vids when trying something for the first time.
GG's vids at least helpe stay up to date with current events. I give him props for that.
Yes. Very much yes. As in fire and explosion kind of danger, if you are way too low and running a mechanical mod.
ALWAYS check your coils resistance. Always know the C rating of your battery and how to calculate the maximum amps continuous discharge. (Helpful hint, if you are not a nincompoop, you will aim for 50% of this maximum value.) Know how to use Ohm's law.
Small rant: There are too many idiots building sub-ohm coils that have no idea what they are doing. The margins for error get very tight when you are in the sub-ohm realm. As another poster pointed out in another thread a few days ago, "If you you have a drop of .1 or .2 ohms on a 2.4 ohm coil, you are plenty safe. If you have a .2 ohm drop on a .5 ohm coil, you probably are in a danger zone."
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So far, the only really horrible accidents have been with people stacking batteries. (NEVER do this!) But the dangers of batteries are very real, a little healthy fear is in order:
Exploding Mods Update - February 2012
Even smaller rant if you were shooting for .5 and ended up with .3 ,a drop of .2 ohms as you stated. You would be pulling 14 amps. If you are using MNKE or Sony batteries you are well with in the safe working limits of your batteries.
Thats beside the point my mini rant is there are to many idiots calling people idiots
The problem is that on-camera talent and brains do not always ... some might say rarely do ... exist in the same package. Some of the most knowledgeable people I know would be terrible on camera, not the least reason for which is they would explain things in terms most people wouldn't follow, or they would explain them so fully the video would be too long and complex.
Smarter people tend to enjoy anonymity more as well, in my experience heh
Smarter people tend to enjoy anonymity more as well, in my experience heh
Still waiting to see one of your videos to critique 
ECF just full of whine lately
ECF just full of whine lately
Buzz - I never said it couldn't be done with an appropriate margin of safety. My rant is that too many people hear about sub-ohms, decide to do it, and have no idea what the safe working limit of their batteries might be. My general experience is that far too many people (obviously not all of them) simply have no idea that that big red battery in their mod has the power of a small hand grenade if things fail catastrophically.
I have no issue with the well informed and well educated person who has a full understanding of their gear and risks (and proper risk mitigation) vaping sub-ohm. But when I hear about people not testing their coils, or not understanding that a hard short can stress a battery to failure, I worry.
ETA: I would certainly think that those who vape sub-ohm and DO understand these things would also worry. If not simply for the safety of others, then because of the real possibility that if someone does some foolish thing and ends up killing themselves, it will be a hell of a lot harder to find nice mechanical mods.
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I know what you mean I should of not got short with you I apologize. What you were saying is very valid its just that any noob or inexperienced person reading your post most likely would of quit reading at Idiot. Its my crusade to help these kids do it right I get frustrated at the negative posts.
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