OMG!!!! My battery justn now EXPLODED
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Glad you're okay Fisheeboy
Be more careful now you hear?
Thank you Dale, I will be, I promise. No more shortcuts
I thought other people might not know... glad it helped.
I just saw this article that also talks about battery safety..... probably something we rarely think about when we dispose of batteries.
http://themotherlist.com/fire-safety-video-must-watch/
You said it was a KGO 1100, correct?
That battery is meant to only be charged from the mini usb port on the bottom end.
If you used an ego style charger that screws onto the other end, you screwed up!
Use the usb cord that came with the battery.
That battery is meant to only be charged from the mini usb port on the bottom end.
If you used an ego style charger that screws onto the other end, you screwed up!
Use the usb cord that came with the battery.
Wow...very scary. Hope you can calm your jangled nerves! So glad that you are safe and sound and nothing in your home was destroyed other than the battery. This is really a cautionary tale for everyone. Stay safe. 
You should be okay charging. You will need to replace the ruined battery and charger. Buy the replacements at the same place and make sure it states that the charger is for that specific battery. Only charge when you are awake and never overnight. I always just took charging things for granted myself. Then I discovered vaping and ECF.
I know better now!
I was going to post just this. Sounds like a classic case of mismatched battery to charger and a battery that may have shorted out one too many times in the past, ruining the protection circuit and opening up the possibility for thermal runaway. Ego batteries are NOT IMR. They are the OTHER type of battery that we discourage people from using here on ECF.
The reason the eGo battery manufacturers get away with using the explosive type of battery is that they put protection circuits in each n every eGo. But the problem is that a protection circuit is only rated to work for 1 year. & we've got people using eGo batteries till they die, whether that be 1 year or 2 years into the use of the battery. When the battery's internal voltage begins sagging, the risk of a short is heightened. The battery also begins running hotter internally after 5-6 months or so. When this begins to happen, your going to start using the protection circuit a lot more than you would with a brand new battery. & the more your protection circuit cuts off the voltage to the atty, the more chances it has to stop working indefinitely. As soon as your protection circuit stops working indefinitely, there are two things that can happen: 1. Your eGo will stop firing forever 2. The next time you overcharge or short circuit your eGo battery, its going to experience thermal runaway and/or explosion.
Its possible that the little 510 charger you were using has a circuit in it that tells it when it's done charging a little cig-alike battery. Since your Kgo is regulated voltage, you didn't notice that it wasn't charging your battery fully. So each time you charged your Kgo, you were only charging it so far... And then you might of used it as if it was charged fully.. Did you ever allow it to die before charging it rather than putting it on the charger prior to it dying? This also weakens the protection of the battery. So it sounds like you were really stressing this little regulated voltage Kgo battery out pretty hard from all different angles. & if you were using low resistance coils on top of all of this, I can see why it got so stressed out it decided to jump off the office roof, so to speak.
OP: Im glad it was just a scare and your'e OK.
A question (for anyone who might know) has poped in my head...
Dont these eGo eGo-type batteries have vent holes, weak spots, or some sort of safety measure in case the internal batteries go critical??? you know, so they just vent instead of exploding???
I mean, the first safety feature we all look for in our mods, is that they have vent holes!
A question (for anyone who might know) has poped in my head...
Dont these eGo eGo-type batteries have vent holes, weak spots, or some sort of safety measure in case the internal batteries go critical??? you know, so they just vent instead of exploding???
I mean, the first safety feature we all look for in our mods, is that they have vent holes!
OMG, maybe its because you friended lanceq!!!!
glad you're ok!
That sob, I never even thought to consider he may have had something to do with me making stupid decisions! Thanks sam I appreciate your concern. you're a good hobbit
Really?
The guy is just recovering from a scary accident and posted his phone doesn't take pictures. He also said that he would try to get pictures up.
Please do read my response on the page prior to this one, so it won't get lost & unread.
I use a generic eGo charger for my two eGo batteries, but I plug them into a cellphone charger's AC adaptor. I posted a thread about this a while back and I made sure that the battery geeks here on ECF approved of me doing this before I kept at it. They did approve after I posted the specs of the battery and the AC adaptor. You really have to be careful mixing AC adaptors and the little eGo or 510 charge ports. Some of them don't match up too well and this is the kind of thing that winds up happening. & then someone hungry for some attention can call their local news station and blame it on the manufacturer, which ruins the image of e-cigs all together of course.
Please read my post on the last page. Unfortunately, eGos use a type of battery that is explosive in nature. They can explode rather than vent hot gas and catch fire. They aren't IMR batteries. Most eGo/Cig-Alike manufacturers contend that since they use these explosive bats rather than IMR batteries, they use a protection circuit and that the cap will shoot off in the event of an explosion, saving your teeth/throat from a stainless steel drip tip to the uvula like a rocket to a speed bag. You cannot have an IMR battery the size of a cig-alike or an eGo and keep the mah rating as high as eGo batteries can go. IMR batteries just don't work that way. If you'd like an eGo battery with an external 14500 IMR battery, you'll have to look at the e-power series of eGo batteries, but they only have 600-700mah capacity.
I use a generic eGo charger for my two eGo batteries, but I plug them into a cellphone charger's AC adaptor. I posted a thread about this a while back and I made sure that the battery geeks here on ECF approved of me doing this before I kept at it. They did approve after I posted the specs of the battery and the AC adaptor. You really have to be careful mixing AC adaptors and the little eGo or 510 charge ports. Some of them don't match up too well and this is the kind of thing that winds up happening. & then someone hungry for some attention can call their local news station and blame it on the manufacturer, which ruins the image of e-cigs all together of course.
Please read my post on the last page. Unfortunately, eGos use a type of battery that is explosive in nature. They can explode rather than vent hot gas and catch fire. They aren't IMR batteries. Most eGo/Cig-Alike manufacturers contend that since they use these explosive bats rather than IMR batteries, they use a protection circuit and that the cap will shoot off in the event of an explosion, saving your teeth/throat from a stainless steel drip tip to the uvula like a rocket to a speed bag. You cannot have an IMR battery the size of a cig-alike or an eGo and keep the mah rating as high as eGo batteries can go. IMR batteries just don't work that way. If you'd like an eGo battery with an external 14500 IMR battery, you'll have to look at the e-power series of eGo batteries, but they only have 600-700mah capacity.
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I think I know the smell partly; had a meltdown once; started getting hot in my hand first; dropped it on the floor when it started smoking;
thats why I now use 510-eGo adapters plus eGo cone base on top of my mods for added separation between tank and power to ensure leaking liquid does NOT get down inside the battery 510 threadwell; that threadwell is not sealed, and when liquid gets down there on the electronics never know what might happen; might just die quietly or might go out with a bang.
Glad you're ok.
I have several eGo's laying around just for backup. They do not look like they have vent holes. It does look like the bottom should break away in case of something going wrong.
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Hopefully that will wash off
If that's all that happened, you're ok
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