Battery stuffed

[yesitsme]

Hi

My son (a vaper for over 2 years) was teaching me how to coil an AGA T, the earlier type with nuts rather than the thumb screw on the more recent ones, and during trying to cure the hot spots the battery started playing up. It was a VV adjusted on the fire button with the battery life shown on a segment scale at the bottom of the battery. Everything was flashing with the atty connected, unscrew the atty it it stopped flashing but the battery was dead.

Was this a one off or can you stuff batteries curing hot spots? The battery was quite new. I am thinking of investing in a coil station to protect vaping gear. I have enough e-cig bits now to consider building one. 

[Chrissie]

yesitsme again, this isn't a blog, so I'm moving it to general vaping board

[Ron]

I do not know but it sounds like it was a protected battery and it triggered its safety circuit

[giles]

I think the answer is that you shouldn't be able to ruin a battery that way, but it does put more strain on the battery than an ordinary vape, so maybe you did. Advice is usually to pulse the battery when you are making the coil red hot, rather than just holding it down, but I don't think you should actually need to do that except on a mech mod.

I don't think you need a coil station for protection if you have a decent vv or vw mod (my Vamo and SVD & LT all manage fine). And recoiling is easier anyway with something that will tell you the resistance.