User error/recklessness and blaming the manufacturer s

[certus11]

So I have been sick for the last few days,have been sleeping a lot, and have just awoke from a 4 hours sleep. I was very surprised when I saw that my 1300mah battery is still charging, it never took more than 3 hours to charge even when depleted.

I knew something is wrong so I removed the battery from the charger and immediately proceed to feeling the charger end to see if it's warm because my battery felt just normal. Well the charger end was slightly warm which is not A-OK because it never felt warm before.

Took a look at my battery's connection pin and oh wow it was was very very dirty. It looked as if there was a layer of dried dirt which I just removed by cleaning.

The battery is fine (just tested with volt meter) and is charging the way it should now and my charger is fine too.

In this case I am the one to blame but guess what would have happened if the darn thing exploded. Yes I would have blamed the manufacturer and I would have seriously believed that it was their fault because the evidence of user error (layer of dirt) would have been gone with the explosion.

Your turn with your avoided calamity, user errors, and recklessness. Or just comment.

P.S. I believe the layer of dirt came from my Aqua. Just got one yesterday, and although I thought I did a good job with cleaning. There was probably still a layer of machining chemical oil on the connector.

 

[Tugg n chase]

I do plenty of stupid things, and had a very similar experience with one of my egos when i started. But I now clean and inspect all of my gear religiously

 

[dripdaze]

Congrats to you for having a multimeter to check your batteries with. A large amount of dangerous guesswork can be avoided with a simple digital multimeter.

 

[TheReign]

You put an Aqua ontop of a ego? Wow, I'd like to see a a pic of that haha. Never had that kind of problem with an Ego battery Despite hearing of some blowing up or poopin on themselves. Sounds like you need something better to throw that aqua on Lol

 

[certus11]

You put an Aqua ontop of a ego? Wow, I'd like to see a a pic of that haha. Never had that kind of problem with an Ego battery Despite hearing of some blowing up or poopin on themselves. Sounds like you need something better to throw that aqua on Lol

Waiting on the origin hehe. I bought both from FT but FT just keep on moving delivery date further down. So I went to get one from B&M for 50 bucks (figured the 30 extra bucks are worth it if i just use my aqua for 1 hour a day for 30 days [the time I would have to wait on FT] but then I find myself using it all day now) , my origin should be here sometime this week.

Mucho kudoooosss for the Aqua, highly recommended. I find myself puffing on it just for the sake of puffing on it because I enjoy its performance so much

shown with the fat/short 1300 from FT

 

[Zealous]

This is interesting & I don't know what I think about it. I got an Inferno kit when I first started vaping a couple years ago. One of the batteries shorted out while dry burning a coil. I'd had it for a short time so I contacted Volcano for a replacement since I hadn't had it more than a couple months. They informed me that I had voided my warranty by using it to dry burn a coil so it would not be replaced. I did not buy anything else from them.

Instead I bought a Joyetech Ego to replace that battery. I have used that battery (and all others I've gotten since then) to dry burn coils & have never had one short out the way that Inferno one did. Now, maybe I'm very lucky & that's all it boils down to. However, I can't help but think that in the case with the Inferno battery they wanted to claim it as user error because they did not want to make their battery better quality. Incidentally, the 2nd of the 2 batteries that came in my pack pulled apart just a short time after the first fried out. I've never had any of my Joyetech Ego batteries or twists fail & I've had them for 1-2 years now.

So, for me it's harder to know if things are user error or manufacterer error. Sometimes it's more obvious but not always.