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Yes, it's safe.
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It requires VERY diligent care of your batteries. Your mod now becomes the positive and if any part of the battery besides the tiny positive terminal touches your mod, you'll have a hard short. Rewrap a battery at the first sign of wear or tear.
I was thinking that, so for some reason I sat it on a metal table and the switch touched the table too boom fire or explosion lol I am not too concerned with venting since every battery I own is legit and I have done testing with them (rapid discharge) I should be fine. I will try it, no metal tables so not an issue there
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I often wondered the same thing. And to confuse things even more, for example on my Kennedy Roundhouse, the bottom switch has a big ass plus engraved. One could assume that isn't a plus but just place to put coins/driver to remove the battery. But the vent holes are toward the bottom as well.
Roundhouse/Ruby are specifically made for positive down
Hearing that makes me feel better but where is it documented? I'm not disagreeing just saying it would be nice to see that printed somewhere. And the same goes for other mods.
It's on the instruction pamphlet in the pouch
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It's good that metal table doesn't complete a circuit with the battery there, Chief. The danger is your battery, not a metal table.
Documentation from SOI specifically states it.
You can run pretty much any single battery mech with the battery down. For safety reasons, it has always been recommended to do it positive up.
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For the visual learners.
This graphic is a couple years old and says not to run batteries positive down at all. You CAN, just be aware you need to be much more careful about the condition of your batteries when you do.
Electrically it will work either way but mechanically most mechs are designed to have the battery facing upwards.
If a battery is just venting the fumes will find their way from the top to the vent holes on the bottom.
It is a good thing to have the vent holes facing away from your face.
In the case a battery is about to explode it may swell up and cut the air flow to the bottom, but at that point it doesn't really matter where the vent holes are.
If a battery is just venting the fumes will find their way from the top to the vent holes on the bottom.
It is a good thing to have the vent holes facing away from your face.
In the case a battery is about to explode it may swell up and cut the air flow to the bottom, but at that point it doesn't really matter where the vent holes are.
If it swells the fumes cannot travel down the sides and out the holes therefor instead you are sucking on a pipe bomb.
For example some mech mods are machines so tight the battery has no rattle, but has bottom vent holes, yet battery is to be facing up. Tsk tsk
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Instead of worrying about what could happen IF your battery vents, try learning how to vape safely with a mech
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Easy way to prevent battery venting... is to NOT use a coil that will draw more AMPS than available.
If your really worried
The drill a hole in the top of the mod.... that's safer that running the battery backwards.
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