nickydrinks
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- Oct 19, 2014
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I've just had something that has never happened with any other device I've owned (I use regulated devices, collected a few mech mods over the years but all just cheap rubbish from fasttech that look nice but I'd never put an actual battery near).
The Steam Crave Mini Robot Kit has been pretty great for me, I only really use it for random nic salt liquids as MTL isn't my thing and I really liked how compact it was, I've had no problems with it until just now. I was sitting browsing RDAs I'll never be able to afford when suddenly it was just firing. As far as I understand it the mod part of the Robot kit is just a fairly simple control board with an LED and mosfet or something similar to allow the limited control over voltage and the fire button. I was able to grab it and unscrew the battery fast enough to stop it but surely the fact that this happened defeats the purpose of it not just being a straight mech mod?
I didn't have any unusual coil build in it, just a prebuilt Coilology MTL clapton, if I don't have any I'll usually stick something quick like a 2.5mm 28 guage kanthal of 4 or 5 wraps aiming for about 1 ohm or so. I've put the actual Mini Robot tank as it is now on my BPM tab and it reads it at 0.43 ohms, then using the monitor on the DNA250C the reading hovers between .453 and .455.
The Coilology MTL coils are listed as 0.7ohm so this is not far off half of that which seems a bit of a drop even taking into account the leg length or adjusting the coil for the deck. Even If it was the coil shorting then surely it should have just cut power shouldn't it? I'm just trying to work out what actually caused it as I wasn't using the device at the time, but if I can't trust the safety on the thing then there's no way I'm using it again because that could have happened when I wasn't in the house and if it's going to just fire randomly then the only protection left would be the 10 second cut-off (I think, I'm not familiar enough with the boards that can be used in mechs)
Shame as it was a very handy little mod to carry about and looked great with things like the Pandora V2 on it but I'm not about to risk a battery venting randomly, I've never had it happen and it's not something I really need to see either! I'll probably just dismantle it to get a look at the board and see if there's anything obviously wrong, not worried about causing any damage to it because it's definitely not getting a second chance not to become a pipe bomb..
The Steam Crave Mini Robot Kit has been pretty great for me, I only really use it for random nic salt liquids as MTL isn't my thing and I really liked how compact it was, I've had no problems with it until just now. I was sitting browsing RDAs I'll never be able to afford when suddenly it was just firing. As far as I understand it the mod part of the Robot kit is just a fairly simple control board with an LED and mosfet or something similar to allow the limited control over voltage and the fire button. I was able to grab it and unscrew the battery fast enough to stop it but surely the fact that this happened defeats the purpose of it not just being a straight mech mod?
I didn't have any unusual coil build in it, just a prebuilt Coilology MTL clapton, if I don't have any I'll usually stick something quick like a 2.5mm 28 guage kanthal of 4 or 5 wraps aiming for about 1 ohm or so. I've put the actual Mini Robot tank as it is now on my BPM tab and it reads it at 0.43 ohms, then using the monitor on the DNA250C the reading hovers between .453 and .455.
The Coilology MTL coils are listed as 0.7ohm so this is not far off half of that which seems a bit of a drop even taking into account the leg length or adjusting the coil for the deck. Even If it was the coil shorting then surely it should have just cut power shouldn't it? I'm just trying to work out what actually caused it as I wasn't using the device at the time, but if I can't trust the safety on the thing then there's no way I'm using it again because that could have happened when I wasn't in the house and if it's going to just fire randomly then the only protection left would be the 10 second cut-off (I think, I'm not familiar enough with the boards that can be used in mechs)
Shame as it was a very handy little mod to carry about and looked great with things like the Pandora V2 on it but I'm not about to risk a battery venting randomly, I've never had it happen and it's not something I really need to see either! I'll probably just dismantle it to get a look at the board and see if there's anything obviously wrong, not worried about causing any damage to it because it's definitely not getting a second chance not to become a pipe bomb..