Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation as a Menace

Re:Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation ... by vertex-four on Thursday November 03, 2016 @04:09PM (#12867488)

> You can engineer circuits around this problem in a variety of ways, but the cavemun solution is just to give the battery time to discharge the heat by transferring the charge to an intermediate element

Of course, most people use regulated mods which do just that.

As someone who vapes, I wouldn't be opposed to banning the sale of mechanical mods (i.e. mods which are literally just a battery, a button and a resistance element in a circuit). They're dangerous. On the other hand, people would just build them themselves, they're not difficult.

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Re:Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation ... by lightedman on Thursday November 03, 2016 @06:34PM (#12868662)

Mechanical mods are only dangerous if you're using a volatile power supply - e.g. a lithium cell. NiMH (what's used in the mechanical MFLB) doesn't do this, those tend to burst/leak rather than go up in an incendiary ball.

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