I keep thinking about what would've happened if it had blown up on the (presumably crowded) street car. SMH...
Well, my mechanical mod went BOOM.
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Whatever dude. I guess I'm just not as cynical as you. It sounds like the shop owner stands by the products he sells and if OP is a regular customer who has a good relationship with the shop, I find nothing suspect about the owner offering to replace his device for free. To each his own.
Toronto street cars are always crowed. Some one would of gotten hurt, hopefully just the op (I am glad you didn't but if someone got hurt it wouldn't really be fair for it to be a little kid or something and not you [edited])
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Thank god it ruptured out of public view... would have been a Toronto 100% ecig ban tomorrow if it had gone off on a streetcar and even frightened a child...
That's all it's really going to come down to... then the news will just blow it a million times out of proportion.
That's all it's really going to come down to... then the news will just blow it a million times out of proportion.
... and that story is a great illustration of how discharge ratings aren't everything. No discharge rating was ever made with the intended use being to heat the metal tubing that contains your battery. Which is essentially what we're doing... only in such short intervals the heat can dissipate.
It wasn't the shop owners fault. It was operator error. I'm close friends with the owner of the shop I frequent and he wouldn't replace a mod that I vented a battery in. I wouldn't expect him to either. I probably wouldn't even tell him. If I did, I would go in with my head down low and being the person that I am, I would refuse to allow him to replace it for free. My mistake. Not his.
.... be more careful!!
How did a syringray blow up???? There's plenty venting on topcap hybrid mode or not, also the button has plenty venting.
There is three threads on this page alone where someone has shorted, vented or exploded a battery because of operator negligence. UNACCEPTABLE!!
⤴ this!!! If ya don't know what your doing, don't mess with it,period
I'm not entirely sure this is negligence.....
This particular mod has history.
I live in a glass house too so I refrain from rock slinging....
And that is my official suggestion.
I was thinking not so close to an exit,... restaurant, movie theater, concert, airport...
This should be a sticky in the New Members thread.
Yea man, I didn't even think about that because I was raging and just trying to calm down with a soothing vape lol. Man oh man how true that is. I can see the Star and Sun headlines now "E Cig, More Like Pipe Bomb-Frightened Children Dive for Cover as E Cig Explodes on Crowed Street Car"
Can you explain to me how a mod can continuously fire in your pocket until it generates enough heat to start venting when the firing button is locked?
I can't. Tells me the button wasn't locked.
Someone please correct me if I wrong, but the batts in our devices are LiIon chemistry correct? While I don't have a lot of experience with LiIon I am intimately familiar with LiPo, which is very similar, but just slightly less stable. Through my other hobby I have approximately 80-90 LiPo batts ranging from single cell 3.7 volts to six cell, 22.2 volts 5,000 mAH. If not treated well, these batts can be very nasty - charge incorrectly, severe shock/damage, discharge too quickly (faster that the "C" rating), shorting - can all end in a catastrophic failure. I always store my LiPo's in a fire proof container when I'm not using them, I never charge them unattended and I would certainly never keep them on charge when I'm not at home. I believe that LiIon are more stable and "less" dangerous, but they still demand healthy respect.
I'm really happy that you came away unscathed from this incident. The fire and heat produced by a batt failure, although relatively short lived, can be very furious and hot. Quick thinking on your part to get off the streetcar. The scary thought is that what if this failure was random and sudden (where it simply occurred and was not the result of misuse by you) and this happened at home, while you were away
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Yep that about sums it up. riots at town hall to ban the things then province follows suit and the rest of the country has a precedent. BT smiles and offers us all a pack on the house.
Reading back, I see that I implied that it was a faulty device which was not my intent. I was only trying to make the point that the shop owner's willingness to give the OP a new device constituted good customer service in my book, regardless of whether it was user error or due to a faulty device.
Sorry for the confusion.
I skipped a few pages, so excuse me if I missed something.
This sounds more like a switch failure than a battery failure, and is why so many regulated mods limit the length of time they can be fired.
You can make a 2 ohm cartomizer do the same thing on a mechanical if allowed to auto fire for a prolonged length of time. (just ask Baditude)
This sounds more like a switch failure than a battery failure, and is why so many regulated mods limit the length of time they can be fired.
You can make a 2 ohm cartomizer do the same thing on a mechanical if allowed to auto fire for a prolonged length of time. (just ask Baditude)
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