Whats the biggest mistake you made whilst you have vaped?

[andipandi]

Wow thats crazy for a regulated mod to go up to 240W with 2 batteries! That is demanding over 43A per battery assuming 90% efficiency of the board!

Fairly certain it was 240w, might have been 220w though. The worst dry hit I ever had was on a iJOY Limitless rdta (circa 2016), because there was no heat, as a warning, unlike the Unity. The ijoy was the biggest pile of junk atty I've ever owned, the V1 had a plastic top cap, it melted it, with no user error, within 48 hours. I spent nearly £30 on a Signature Tips Chameleon Cap, the Limitless was still crap so I sold the whole lot to a mate, for 15 quid. Good to see some things have come down in price though

 

[Mutley1]

Same as @LordOdin I was using a profile with mesh at 55w took one draw was fine, the second one there was flames coming from the driptip as I had the dry hit from hell, only happened once but that was enough

 

[conanthewarrior]

Fairly certain it was 240w, might have been 220w though. The worst dry hit I ever had was on a iJOY Limitless rdta (circa 2016), because there was no heat, as a warning, unlike the Unity. The ijoy was the biggest pile of junk atty I've ever owned, the V1 had a plastic top cap, it melted it, with no user error, within 48 hours. I spent nearly £30 on a Signature Tips Chameleon Cap, the Limitless was still crap so I sold the whole lot to a mate, for 15 quid. Good to see some things have come down in price though

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Thats strange, if I remember correctly the Limitless RDTA was getting rave reviews on here around that time. That is a really shitty design that the topcap was plastic and melted. Maybe it was the V2 or something that got good reviews.

And yeah its good to see that is has came down in price haha, I doubt I would spend £30 on a topcap myself. Then again I do own clones of almost everything from that era, granted I might also own the authentic and got the clone to compare.

Long story short- I always found the clones to be exactly the same as the real deal. I even suspect the factories the genuine article were made in were also making extras to sell for themselves at clone money. I once bought a Kanger subtank clone from fasttech, it had the scratch off code to check if it was genuine so I did, and apparently my clone was genuine lol.

 

[Arch stanton]

Wow, thats one of the first things regarding carrying batteries when it comes to battery safety. Where you could use it after I personally would not have, it could have reached a temperature that was within its safe rating but if it went higher the battery could have been damaged.

It wasn't my proudest moment. This was a long time ago now but yeah I kept using it. I used to be really reckless. I used to keep using swollen batteries as well. I had a few batteries where the little button underneath the contact had went all the way up. I just used to force it back down (with a knife blade!) let the gas escape and keep using them as well.

Never had a battery explode on me despite it being pretty obvious a piece of my brain is clearly floating around in a porcelain dish somewhere.

 

[conanthewarrior]

It wasn't my proudest moment. This was a long time ago now but yeah I kept using it. I used to be really reckless. I used to keep using swollen batteries as well. I had a few batteries where the little button underneath the contact had went all the way up. I just used to force it back down (with a knife blade!) let the gas escape and keep using them as well.

Never had a battery explode on me despite it being pretty obvious a piece of my brain is clearly floating around in a porcelain dish somewhere.

Wow mate, I am surprised you never had a thermal runaway happen!

I did something dangerous myself though, this was with my old Macbook pro. The logic board failed but I still wanted my data off the SSD, and one day I noticed that the trackpad was bulging upwards.

I opened up the computer, and out of the five mobile phone style Li-po's one of the bigger ones in the middle had swollen. Instead of removing the whole battery, I just cut out the swollen one with scissors.

I still have the macbook sitting in an alcove in my music studio, as I have not yet taken the SSD out to get my music projects and other things off of the SSD yet.

So even with all the knowledge, we can still do stupid things.

 

[andipandi]

Still for sale, maybe I should buy one it's the v2, with a metal top cap

https://bearsvapes.co.uk/products/ijoy-limitless-plus-rdta

 

[Arch stanton]

Wow mate, I am surprised you never had a thermal runaway happen!

I did something dangerous myself though, this was with my old Macbook pro. The logic board failed but I still wanted my data off the SSD, and one day I noticed that the trackpad was bulging upwards.

I opened up the computer, and out of the five mobile phone style Li-po's one of the bigger ones in the middle had swollen. Instead of removing the whole battery, I just cut out the swollen one with scissors.

I still have the macbook sitting in an alcove in my music studio, as I have not yet taken the SSD out to get my music projects and other things off of the SSD yet.

So even with all the knowledge, we can still do stupid things.

Yeah it is pretty frightening when I think about it now. I don't even charge batteries in the mod now, always use a charger but back then...

 

[conanthewarrior]

Still for sale, maybe I should buy one it's the v2, with a metal top cap

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https://bearsvapes.co.uk/products/ijoy-limitless-plus-rdta

I reckon for £7.95 for an RDTA you can't go wrong mate- I love my Aromamisers and paid full price for those.

The only thing is it is 25MM so a bit larger, you might have to build according to this to get the vape that you expect.

 

[andipandi]

I reckon for £7.95 for an RDTA you can't go wrong mate- I love my Aromamisers and paid full price for those.

The only thing is it is 25MM so a bit larger, you might have to build according to this to get the vape that you expect.

Got enough atties as it is, some stonking one's, it's not that I don't rate them, it's that I only use Mesh strip atties these days, because I no longer like a hot vape. Weight wise I probably have about at least 2-3KGs worth knocking about. As for pod systems and the like, probably a few hundred quid's worth, including all the stock coils I have for them. I'm too lazy to even get them out the draws and cupboards. I dont do it these days but everything I used to buy I bought at least two - just in case.

 

[animal.]

You did the same as me then, did the batteries immediately short like mine did or was it not until you pressed the fire button?

Please tell me you had set that by mistake lol, what mod was you using that could reach 240W?


I have luckily never done the one where you take the topcap off of your RDA and tried to puff it- there is still time though lol


Wow, thats one of the first things regarding carrying batteries when it comes to battery safety. Where you could use it after I personally would not have, it could have reached a temperature that was within its safe rating but if it went higher the battery could have been damaged.


Add me to the list, I used to be the go too guy here when it came to batteries and battery safety, not currently up on the latest cells used for vaping but will be soon

So you put the batteries in series by mistake and it shorted like I did? Luckily mine didn't go bang, it just vented the batteries and melted the wraps off of both cells. It was lucky you threw it in time.

I gather you had forgot to use the locking ring on the M16 for this to happen, it was lucky you caught it in time before the battery exploded! I feel bad for you with the table though!

No was a weird one. It was a series box mod. The one with a colour screen. Closed bat door. Had a vape. Let go of flirting button. Mod wouldn't stop firing. Then instantly got hot and began the old hiss of a thermal run away.

Can only assume a hard short on the board or something. Strange because you would of thought the short and 10 sec firing protections would of kicked in.