Yeowch!

[GregoTX]

So I'm at the bar last night and I feel my leg getting hot. Reach into my pocket and my Protank is burning up! Unscrewed it from my Provari and let it cool down and it's been fine ever since. The battery and mod didn't get hot at all. Anyone ever experience this? ...?

 

[Baditude]

The only reason a delivery attachment should get hot is if the battery device is supplying power to it. Apparently the Provari's power switch got compressed in your pocket.

Kind of surprised that the Provari would fire the Protank long enough to get hot. Pretty sure it has a built-in protection using a timed auto shutoff. You can also turn the power off on the Provari in the mode selector.

I had this happen in a mechanical mod with no on-off selector for the fire button. Button got compressed for too long, the battery hard-shorted and went into thermal runaway. Fried the battery and the mod. Consider yourself lucky nothing worse happened to you?

 

[NoleintheNati]

Tanks or areas near the connection will also get hot if there is some liquid on the contact while it's being fired...make sure you keep your pin dry from occasional leaks.

 

[GregoTX]

Yeah the ProVari has an automatic cutoff and the head is fine (no burnt taste, etc) so seems to me like some kind of short or something between the mod and tank. I dunno...