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Man dies after e-cigarette explodes in his face
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Jesus. No brand info. Really makes me wary of sharing any pen with my friends who partake. I've used one before but never thought of this possibility
Right just curious if it was a juul, by far the most popular vape pen. Also wonder what the other one that exploded was.
I've heard stories like this before. Mostly happening to cheap knockoff brands or they were imported from China, which aren't regulated. I've had a battery blow on me years ago, but it didn't explode it just popped basically and make some nasty fumes and a wretched smell.
Yeah, my coworker just came back from the states with a juul so was curious about that too.
As an aside, is it really the most popular? I was searching for where he should buy one and it seemed like they are mostly sold only in major cities
Last I read iirc that had some crazy pecent of the US market share. Just looked it up 73% market share.
Why can't old style rechargeable NiCad batteries be used for eCigs? Something like AAA eneloops. I know Lithium batteries have highest energy density, but in case of something that you're putting into your mouth, I would think that physical imopossibility of overheating and explosion would have to factor in very strongly. Are they just not strong enough?
That energy density is a requirement unless you want to carry around batteries. And if yo ucarry around batteries, you'll see more fires or explosions because people are pretty dumb and will carry them with their metal keys.
It's because they are cheap and heavily marketed as a way to get you off cigarettes.
Buy is like a 2800mah eneloop really not enough to work the coil? I would think that would be fine.
I'd prefer being able to just drop in a AA vs having to charge.
According to Reddit it was a mechanical mod.
Stick with the big names with the well known chips, people. Those are designed to not blow your jaw off.
It's not just the energy density - I forgot to mention that in my original post. I just remembered that Lithium batteries have MUCH higher maximum discharge rate, which must be important for this type of application. That's why all the most powerful flashlights use lithium batteries also.
If it wasn't for that, I think they would be able to use NiCad batteries, which could probably even be re-charged without removing them from the pen.
This is insane to me because to me juul juice tastes like ass.
Using and markten pro right now and it's okay
Well, consider this: Can a Ni-Cad deliver the same performance all the way down its energy scale? That is, as the voltage decreases, how much loss is there in effective delivery? How long do they take to charge, and how many times can they be conceivably charged?
Further, doesn't Europe ban Ni-Cad?
All it needs to do is taste better than cigarettes, and they already taste like ass, so it's not hard, at least.
You can buy other salt juices that are way better, and infinitely cheaper than juul packs. You can also easily refill the juul cartridges. I actually kind of like the juuls because I've had less problems with them than my evods, the cartridges last longer than evod tanks, and it's super compact. I also like the nicotine content being kinda nuts so I can just hit it a couple times and I'm good, but I'm a long time American spirit smoker which are fucked up as far as nicotine lol.
Holy shit he really still had a mech mod?
I had one of those things years ago and even then I was like "This is a fucking time bomb". Literally just pressing it together to heat up the coil and barely any safety features besides "don't forget to lock it before you set it down LOL". Even then I remember placing it somewhere and forgetting and it just firing for a minute straight before I noticed the smell.
The article I read there said that the store didn't sell the mech as they deemed it unsafe and even told the dude who came in looking for help.
Right? I stay FAR away from those. When I first started vaping instead of smoking I thought to look into it and was surprised to find that people didn't use any sort of regulation, just contacts. I'm not some master electrician, but I know well enough to know what that would do. Might as well light a battery on fire, it'd do the same shit when you're subohming.
Shit it sounds like the hospital may have screwed up by not getting the metal out of him.
It's crazy he'd be using that shit. The fucking mod I have has more computing power in it than the Apollo space mission, I don't buy anything unless it's from one of the long-time companies who have been perfecting this stuff for years.
Says dude was an electrician too, of course this kind of crap will just get passed around by my in-laws and the rest of the nation
When vaping started people were using little tiny batteries with 4.5V and like 10W of power. It was enough and small to look like a cig (think those Blu e-cigs, only a little bigger). You could refill the cartridges, etc.
Then people realized you could just take a metal tube, throw a big ass 18650 battery in it and get WAYYYY more power (and therefore vape). They were truly "mechanical" because all you were doing was squeezing the thing together to create a contact between the battery and the coil where the juice-soaked wick was. Literally no way to control the amount of voltage or wattage. Just "on" or "off" at full power every time you touched the connectors.
Now everyone has mods (aka batteries) that have chips in them that automatically control the wattage and voltage so you can't run them too hot or start a fire. Most any decent mod will just shut itself off if you press the fire button for more than like 8 seconds.
Ugh my wife just bought an expense ass mech mod without understanding the inherit dangers it entails.
Sounds like the guy brought in this antique and the store told him to gtfo with it and they weren't touching it. Don't blame them one bit, not their product.
Ok so the article they were reading from on the radio got it wrong then, they said he went in, bought a device (whatever they are called) and went outside into his grandmothers car and used it and it exploded.
