Here we go again.....

Another piece of crap news for the masses to get all jiggy about
Young mum left with horrific eye injury after e-cig battery EXPLODES in her face - Manchester Evening News

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Looks like an Efest battery

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Again we are left with a lot of unknowns. Looks like and Efest but is it? Could be a clone. This battery thing is going to have to get nailed down or it may be the nail in our coffins. I have vented one battery. It was a Sony VTC5. It was on a mech and an odd situation. I had just built a new dual coil on a Tugboat V2 deck. The build was ohming out fine at .4 ohms. Put the deck on a KTS+ mech. Went to burn in the coils and the mod got hot really fast. Let off the fire button. Took the deck off, back on the ohm meter .4 ohms. OK. This is weird. Put back on the mech started to fire again and the mod got so hot I immediately had to drop it. No major issue as far as fire or explosions. Just hissing for a minute or too. After investigating further it turns out that the center pin of the 510 connector on the top cap of the mod had pushed through the insulator and was causing a direct short. The mod was only a week old at the time, so my assumption is that the insulator was either defective to start with or was not set properly from the factory. I had never heard of a defect like this and it took me a little while to figure it out. Could it have gone worse? I'm sure it could have. Who do we blame in this situation? The battery was not to blame, the deck or build was not to blame, I could put all the blame on the KTS+ and it defiantly had a problem but I take responsibility for the incident. Although this was a defect that was undetectable at first, I know that when dealing with a mech there is no protection built it. It is the users responsibility to make sure that the device is as safe as possible. Not putting any blame on the person involved in the above incident but when using a mech there is a higher risk involved and you need to know that you have a good battery and there are no defects in the device. Battery and device safety may not eliminate all problems but will go a long way in reducing the risks involved.

 

This was discussed on The Ideal Ohm Show Thursday but it sounds fishy... The injuries aren't consistent with the story and the guy whom I am all sure we wish well has not commented since the story broke when questioned and neither has the paper which is a tabloid known for fabricating or grossly exageratting stories to sell.

Oh while you are there please vote NO to the poll if ecigs should be banned

E-cig battery turned me into a human FIREBALL as I slept

E-cig battery turned me into a human FIREBALL as I slept - Mirror Online

 

I'm still trying to figure out the launching drip tips and top caps that seem to take place in these reports as well. I'm not a rocket scientist but there is a reason bullets and other projectiles aren't built with a big hole in the middle.

 

I went back to the scurrilous Daily Mirror article, and signed the petition, good to see that the % is seriously in our favour at the moment- 67% No to Ban, 37% (WTF) for a Ban. The comments are good to read also, not one was anti Vape.

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Batteries explode everyday....

How many ecigs accidents this year ?

- ballpoint pens kill on average one hundred people a year
- mobile phones kill 6000 drivers a year in the US alone (texting while driving)
- beds kill 450 people a year (when people fall out of them)
- vending machines kill 13 people a year
- 3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
- 9 people have died from eating batteries since 1985
- dozens of people have injured or killed from exploding mobile phone batteries.