Three workers at an assisted living facility in Georgia are in trouble after recording a Snapchat video of a woman who just suffered a stroke. While the older woman was suffering a stroke, the three women recorded a video of themselves cussing, making fun of her, and vaping while waiting for help to arrive. They … Read more
Did you hear about that vape manufacturing company that was evacuated with 31 people being treated at the hospital with breathing problems and nausea and one person suffering a seizure? The company is called Thermal Circuits out of Salem, Massachusetts who manufactures various heaters and assemblies. But the thing is, they don’t make any parts … Read more
An airplane co-pilot on an Air China flight caused a plane to go into an emergency descent due to his poor decision to vape on the plane. The co-pilot was vaping on the plane and he turned off the air circulation fans so that the vapor wouldn’t go into the cabin. Well, it turns out … Read more
Here we go again with the media reporting a story without understanding how vape technology works and how some products are safer than others.
So what the media is reporting right now is that a woman came into a store called “The Vapor Shop” located on Harlem Road in Machesney Park in Chicago complaining that the battery in her “vape pen” was malfunctioning, so the vape shop changed the battery for her.
There is now a voluntary safety recall on the Vuse Vibe vape pen. This was initiated directly by R.J. Reynolds Vapor Company after they received complaints of malfunctioning batteries. Supposedly whatever is malfunctioning is causing the power units to overheat, which could be a fire hazard. R.J. Reynolds has had 10 complaints reported so far … Read more
You might have heard the news recently about Tallmadge Wakeman D’Elia, a 38-year-old man in St. Petersburg Florida who died as the result of an exploding vape pen on May 5th, 2018. The police department received a call for the fire at 9:42 in the morning. Initially, all that was known was that the vape … Read more
DotMod is known for their luxurious high-end products. A lot of people say their mods are the Macbook of the vape world because they are so visually appealing. But unfortunately, their devices are also known for their lackluster performance due to the proprietary chip they use (their older products use the much better DNA chip). The Dotbox 300 has been out for a while now, since at least January 2017, so nearly a year, but just recently, owners are reporting that the LiPo battery inside has started to get puffy and will not hold a charge.
See, now this is why it’s so good to have someone like Mooch in the vaping community testing batteries for us. Originally, the Aspire 18650 was rated fairly highly by Mooch. At some point, Aspire started wrapping lower quality cells. They have new wraps that no longer have current ratings, which is ridiculous because now … Read more
Back in April of this year, 2017, Mooch ran some tests on the iJoy 40a 20700 battery. He found that while it was overrated at 40amps, it does seem to be a good battery at 30a and is accurately rated at 3000mAh. The market for 20700 batteries is small, so there aren’t a lot of … Read more
The London Fire Brigade just recently published a blog post announcing that they welcome Public Health England’s support for electronic cigarettes as a method to help smokers quit smoking and to help prevent smoking-related fire deaths.