Something that just came to mind.

H4X0R46 · Nov 1, 2016

Is it unheard of for a regulated mod's board to fail and be dangerous? I was just thinking, the board is responsible for regulating the wattage and amp draw, it has a very important and crucial job, has anyone ever heard of one failing and causing a hazard?

cvcrcr99 · Nov 1, 2016

Nope. My understanding that they will fail safe. Interested in hearing what others chime in with.

H4X0R46 · Nov 1, 2016

cvcrcr99 said:
Nope. My understanding that they will fail safe. Interested in hearing what others chime in with.

This came to mind while vaping on my RX200S. This board is responsible for A LOT of power! It'd be good if it just one day didn't work lol

UncleRJ · Nov 1, 2016

My thinking is that if the board should be that damaged the whole thing would stop working. Period.

Or it could take out an entire city block

H4X0R46 · Nov 1, 2016

UncleRJ said:
My thinking is that if the board should be that damaged the whole thing would stop working. Period.

Or it could take out an entire city block

Man I would hope so! A triple 18650 mod could do some damage!

robot zombie · Nov 4, 2016

I've never heard of one failing catastrophically. All of the components are sensitive enough to one another that they stop working. At worst the board fries and eventually breaks the circuit (which happened a lot back when reverse polarity protection wasn't standard.) The only instances I recall involve integrated lipo pack mods... ...generally either due to the use of poorly secured soft packs (lipo packs can short when they're structurally compromised,) or a poorly implemented charging circuit. Honestly the only thing I wouldn't trust on any mod is the dinky little usb charger built in.

SirRichardRear · Nov 4, 2016

well i have to say from experience OP is correct. I had a mod that I dropped in water. dried it off and cleaned everything put it back together and it kept firing on its own randomly. i let it sit for 2 days to dry out more and ever since it worked perfectly even to this day still. but based on that i do see it as a possibility. i doubt many people will drop theirs in water, but if a tank dumped in juice into your mod i see it possibly causing the board to fire on it's own. Outside of that not really sure as most components would just fail before putting out more power

H4X0R46 · Nov 5, 2016

robot zombie said:
I've never heard of one failing catastrophically. All of the components are sensitive enough to one another that they stop working. At worst the board fries and eventually breaks the circuit (which happened a lot back when reverse polarity protection wasn't standard.) The only instances I recall involve integrated lipo pack mods... ...generally either due to the use of poorly secured soft packs (lipo packs can short when they're structurally compromised,) or a poorly implemented charging circuit. Honestly the only thing I wouldn't trust on any mod is the dinky little usb charger built in.

I honestly don't trust the usb charger either, I see what you mean! I charge mine in an external charger. Well it's good to know that the general consensus is that the board would just stop working, the price of a new mod is much much cheaper than a hospital bill lol

H4X0R46 · Nov 5, 2016

SirRichardRear said:
well i have to say from experience OP is correct. I had a mod that I dropped in water. dried it off and cleaned everything put it back together and it kept firing on its own randomly. i let it sit for 2 days to dry out more and ever since it worked perfectly even to this day still. but based on that i do see it as a possibility. i doubt many people will drop theirs in water, but if a tank dumped in juice into your mod i see it possibly causing the board to fire on it's own. Outside of that not really sure as most components would just fail before putting out more power

With your batteries in it as well!? If I dropped batteries in water, I'd just say they're done with their duty and get new cells haha sounds too dangerous to me.

nightshard · Nov 5, 2016

The chip regulates the voltage and may limit the amp draw based on it's own limit but has no way of measuring the battery(s) amp rating, so it may potentially draw more then the battery can supply.

H4X0R46 · Nov 5, 2016

nightshard said:
The chip regulates the voltage and may limit the amp draw based on it's own limit but has no way of measuring the battery(s) amp rating, so it may potentially draw more then the battery can supply.

Yea that's what I was afraid of when I made this thread. What if the chip glitched and just pushed a full 250w on say, some 20A batteries? That could be bad.

nightshard · Nov 5, 2016

Any electrical device or power source can potentially fail.

250W with 20A batteries? I assume you mean DNA250 with 3X18650

So depending on the specific mod V cutoff, lets say 3V

(250/3/3)/97% = 28.6A

Now one of those Chinese 220W 2 battery devices would be much worst

(220/3.2/2)/90% = 38.19A

SirRichardRear · Nov 5, 2016

H4X0R46 said:
With your batteries in it as well!? If I dropped batteries in water, I'd just say they're done with their duty and get new cells haha sounds too dangerous to me.

Yup batteries and all. They still work as well.

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