Pocket fire fun

[Steam Turbine]

Up your ohm's just a smudge. Those little 18350 batteries weren't designed for subohm'ing. We just don't want you to get hurt...nuf said.

I did the same thing only with an ego battery. Slid it down inside a wrist splint and forgot to turn it off. Ouch.

As far as I know, no batteries were designed for vaping... period.

As long as you don't go over the amp limit of your batteries, you're fine.

 

[FringeChief68]

So I'm sitting at my desk at work when I start to smell wick... How many times has this happened to you?

I guess the safety ring is there for a reason. When I reached into my jacket pocket I found a little metal brand smoking away in there. I neglected to set the safety on my 18350 mod and my sub-ohm dual coils were melting my pocket. I had to use a bundle of paper (meeting notes) to get the mod out of my pocket it was so hot. I'm pooping pellets, waiting to hear the battery explode, hoping I don't FEEL the battery explode. At that point I wasn't convinced it would stop heating.

Turns out the mod is okay. No melted springs. My wick is burnt up. It looks like a coat hanger wrapped around a tootsie roll. I admit I tasted it and I like to puke, it tasted horrible. Thankfully, ten minutes of Radiator Pluid on my back-up cleaned out my sniffer.

The take-away: Use the safety, carry a backup.

You can never have to many Back ups! Sorry to hear about your small fire

 

[AttyPops]

Something alot of people playing with dual coils with out really understanding theory. The resistance of a single coil say 1.8ohms will be cut in half when connected in parallel with another coil of 1.8ohms resistance giving you a .9ohm coil. If one coil burnt and lost connection, the battery would see 1.8ohms.

So before you go trying to build a sub ohm coil... you need to do a bit of research.

Not trying to be a wise-...... just hope no one gets hurt.

Yes people need to understand dual coils but if they check the ohms first, with a meter, they'd be in good shape. It's the coil-breaks-then-shorts thing that's a problem. Since one coil would go from, say, 1.8 ohms to near zero ohms depending on the short location. It would probably melt again in short order but maybe not before the battery got too hot. These guys play with 28 and 26 ga wire.

 

[AttyPops]

As far as I know, no batteries were designed for vaping... period.

As long as you don't go over the amp limit of your batteries, you're fine.

That wasn't the point as I understood hairball. Basically it was a discussion of the lower amp limits on an 18350 so upping the ohms was recommended.

Really depends on the exact specs for that make/model battery. 350's would seldom, if ever, be my choice for a battery.

 

[MrStik]

That wasn't the point as I understood hairball. Basically it was a discussion of the lower amp limits on an 18350 so upping the ohms was recommended.

Really depends on the exact specs for that make/model battery. 350's would seldom, if ever, be my choice for a battery.

When I sub-ohmed (I do micro coils now) I would run my mod in 18490 mode. A few times I had to throw in a 18350 battery and that sucker gets drained and "unusable" after about 20 mins of vaping. I do like the shortness of the 18350 batteries and now that I coil at a "safer" resistance with micro coiling, I get more out of the 18350 batteries.