My niece's new Dell Laptop caught on fire while charging in the house at normal temperatures.........it didn't become a news item though.......I guess it had nothing to do with e-cigs.
The lady who caught on fire
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Hmmmmm. Maybe I can sue the cigarette companies (gumbo smoker) for all the times I burned my bangs and then the ohhhhhhh trauma of cutting my bangs stripping me of my feminity! I cannot handle another pair of scissors or smoke another cigarette! I think I still have scars on my thighs from burning cherries getting knocked off in my lap!
She didn't leave it unattended. She was a passenger in the car, which was driving, and the ecig was charging.
There is nothing wrong with doing that - ecigs are commonly marketed as being able to be charged in cars.
She wasn't in Arizona either. She was in California.
Here is the news article:
CORONA: Couple sues over exploding e-cigarette battery | Corona, Norco, Eastvale News | PE.com - Press-Enterprise
As a comment on some responses I've been reading - blaming the person doesn't help us as vapers when the person has not done anything wrong. Ecigs are routinely marketed as being rechargeable in cars. She did not leave the ecig unattended while charging.
I am inclined to think suing the vendor is not the way to go, and I don't like the way the article makes it look like its a cause for FDA regulation.
But she didn't do anything wrong with charging the pv in the car while they were driving either.
There is also nothing to suggest she bought a hookah vaporizer. Vapcigs sell ego size ecig pvs for vaping too.
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Apparently we are talking about two different incidents. The #2 post linked to an article describing a battery explosion in AZ where the battery was left unattended.
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Yes - the poster who provided the link to the Arizona one thought it might be the incident the OP was talking about - but it isn't. This is the incident, in California:
CORONA: Couple sues over exploding e-cigarette battery | Corona, Norco, Eastvale News | PE.com - Press-Enterprise
for the record, b&m's in my area area absolutely against people charging ecigs in their cars for this exact reason. anyone ever notice that if they charge their phone in the car, the charge lasts like 1/2 as long as out of a wall or computer? the cig lighter in a car puts out wayyyy to much voltage to charge anything safely. acceleration worsens this even more so. that vendor sells car chargers on their site without dc-ac converters to regulate voltage. that is unsafe, therefore i blame the vendor.
I kind of feel bad for the vendor. Been thumbing through their site and blog and they have been sharing with their members a lot of the call to arms that have been going around and generally making their customers aware of the attempts to ban and regulate eCigs unfairly. And shifting through their inventory their prices aren't horribad like I've seen with other sites like 'em.
It is also negative press for eCigs. I can see the logic train of the uniformed: "If these have the risk of exploding they all do."
Not disagreeing but how can you tell?
It is also negative press for eCigs. I can see the logic train of the uniformed: "If these have the risk of exploding they all do."
Not disagreeing but how can you tell?
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If I buy a hot beverage I DO expect it to be drinkable.
Recently, I bought some coffee and when I put it to my lips to drink from it, it wasn't hot, it was scalding.
I'm talking having the skin of my lips burned off.
So, yes, there are situations where liquids SHOULD be at a temperature that is meant to be injested by a human being, without that human being having a type of involuntary lip biopsy or 2nd degree burns to their mouth. I don't carry a thermometer to place into my warm beverage before I go to sip it. LOL
If this were hot chocolate, ordered for one's child, I could see the WISDOM in correcting and monitoring the temperature of said beverage, couldn't you? I know of no parent who would not be upset if their child had to have plastic surgery because they sipped some hot chocolate.
through personal experience of both mine and many others close to me having phone batteries ruined because of charging in a car. if a car will bypass the circuitry in a $600 phone and ruin the battery, id imagine a cheap, poorly made ego bat rated to be charged at relatively the same rate as my phone wouldnt fair too well either. also, 2 customers now have exploded their batteries using the wrong chargers.
that's because she tried to put off the fire with her ... lol /jk
I've seen a bic lighter blow out a windshield. The bottom line is............use common sense. Just my 
They weren't using the wrong chargers. They were using the sort of chargers vendors sell worldwide as ecig car chargers. And the chargers themselves shouldn't be an issue - they should have a output rate that limits the charge anyway. I don't think there's a need to blame either the woman or the vendor - at least not with the info we have. It could have been a faulty battery or a faulty charger - we don't know which.
They are "supposed to". However, why does everyone tell you NOT to charge your batteries overnight unattended? Electronics fail, and lesser quality generic products manufactured in China especially should not be trusted when the safety of your home or car is concerned.
Yes. Of course we don't know that it was the charger that was faulty - it may have been a problem internally with the battery.
Wow, I am thankful I received good advice in the beginning - only AW IMR batteries and matching charger. I'd rather spend a few extra dollars on extra quality rechargeables than have this problem.
Anyone learning anything from all this!?!
As incidences of this nature happen our knowledge base grows. We learn what's safe to do, and what's not. Also products evolve and become safer.
For example, when was the last time you saw a thread on this forum about stacking unprotected CR123 batteries? It was a common practice just a couple of years ago ......... up until some fool blew his damn head off.
Did you happen to pay attention to the brand names involved? The type and quality of the products? The way they were used?
As incidences of this nature happen our knowledge base grows. We learn what's safe to do, and what's not. Also products evolve and become safer.
For example, when was the last time you saw a thread on this forum about stacking unprotected CR123 batteries? It was a common practice just a couple of years ago ......... up until some fool blew his damn head off.
Did you happen to pay attention to the brand names involved? The type and quality of the products? The way they were used?
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