Venting Video

[snork]

In case you hadn't seen this, here is a video where batteries are shorted within a mod to see what happens.
The video shows what these particular batteries do in this particular mod and surely wouldn't cover all scenarios, but it is somewhat eye-opening when you compare it to the catastrophic results in which we've been conditioned to believe.

 

[forcedfuel50]

Thanks for sharing that Snork. Back in the day, the worst failures used to occur with 2 stacked batteries, especially those CR2's.

 

[Riverboat]

Thanks for sharing that Snork. Back in the day, the worst failures used to occur with 2 stacked batteries, especially those CR2's.

Those were the days a stacked CR2's...... A ticking time bomb....

 

[iamthevoice]

It can go both ways....:

 

[snork]

Yes, it can. Obviously awareness is paramount. Certainly we must use good and genuine batteries.

 

[Killjoy1]

Thanks for sharing that Snork. Back in the day, the worst failures used to occur with 2 stacked batteries, especially those CR2's.

I shudder when I think of those days . . . I was a user of (and still have them kicking around, though not in use) those CR2s. They were my primary battery choice for my GG stuff back in the day, often with a 1.5 ohm atty in my UFS or a similar resistance coil in Ody around the time when that first came out. I never had any failure events, but they did get pretty dang hot

I would claim that I didn't know any better, but the truth is that I DID and just was of the mindset that "oh, I know what I'm doing so it'll never happen to me" I'm just thankful that I educated myself better before anything did go seriously wrong

 

[e30holmes]

This also shows a full short and continued full short for a long period of time. If we applied this much power through a .05 or even a .01 coil which burns out first, the coil or will it continue to "short". Anyone have real world videos of what we do with mechs?!

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[lctrc]

This also shows a full short and continued full short for a long period of time. If we applied this much power through a .05 or even a .01 coil which burns out first, the coil or will it continue to "short". Anyone have real world videos of what we do with mechs?!

No real world data or experience, but I would think a higher resistance coil would pop before a lower resistance coil. Since a low resistance coil usually consists of thicker wire and/or less wire than a higher resistance coil, it should be structurally stronger than a higher resistance coil. So a low resistance coil would have a greater likelihood of outlasting a battery than would a coil with a higher resistance. Consider also that a very low resistance coil is itself very close to a full short, and that buttons can be accidentally pressed for a long period of time (such as in a pocket).

But don't interpret that as scare-mongering over sub-ohm coils. I personally use .8 - .9 ohm. It's not a matter of "safe", it's a matter of making an informed choice of how safe you want to be.

 

[snork]

I'm very glad that thing went boom in San Antonio. Might wake a couple people up, it sure did me.