Day of a cloud comp, local shop is hosting three comps one of which is a .1 Tube Class. A few hours before the comp is scheduled to begin a customer in the shop asks an employee for help. His mod won't fire.
Employee takes the Rig w/ roughneck and disassembles it to remove battery and check the atomizer ohms. Clapton that reads at a .17 without any issues. Receives new battery from the customer(half-wrap MXJO) and assembles mod to check for connection and firing issues.
Employee pressed the button and the mod explodes near instantaneously(a few seconds without firing while he was checking for the coil to heat up) shooting the button out of the bottom and through part of his hand.
So, that night and for the following few days the entire community starts bashing this individual online, for having a build below what they say is the max cont. amp limits of this battery. They scream that it was just too low and everyone should be building higher! A .21 would've been safe! (Regardless of the fact it wasn't his) Which caused it to explode like that. People bring up shorts and mechanical failures and are covered in memes and .... talking until they leave the group.
People try to address that this incident is suddenly being used to fuel someone else's passion for raising limits and promoting mass hysteria not teaching safety.
Shops begin changing their build limits to base everything off 20A limits. People continue to cry and say comps need to be done with forever. Any discussion not between those of a like mind with this side is immediately turned abusive and screaming if "IT WAS BUILT TOO LOW" drowns out what I believe to be the real issue here.
So here I am, asking for outside opinions. I've tried posting and people are so locked into their side of the argument nobody cares what really happened or why.
What are your thoughts?
Feel free to ask questions and I will explain further or elaborate as required.
*note: the employee is alive and well, he may have some small nerve damage on the pink side of his hand*
