hard to draw/light battery

[jimgman]

these batteries are finicky!!! my original order-one of the batteries died in 3 days along with the atomizer. just got 2 spares i ordered. one had some trouble lighting after an hours use, cleaned the threads, then it was acting a little sticky and stayed on a couple times. hoping it will just "break" in a bit. the other, i thought was doa, didnt light at all...then i drew real hard and it worked, along with a mouthful of liquid anyway, i found a solve for this....figured i'd share.... hold your thumb over the hole in the atomizer, which will give a "super vacuum" to the battery, and it will light with very little "draw". hold this a few seconds to heat up, then release the hole while continuing to draw.got great hits off it that way without straining. hoping this battery will loosen up a bit, and will prolly just keep it in the background for now as backup since it does require a little "trick" to make it work, but it does work prefectly for me when doing that...hope this helps even a few people.

[spyderuk]

I recently had some 901 batteries that were insane to draw and light up after a day or 2 and 1 that simply refused to charge. I ripped them apart ready for mods. The platinum that refused to charge was actually shorted out on the attomizer connection.

[igetcha]

ignore, posted in wrong thread!

[jimgman]

im not saying the draw is hard, i think that would come from a clogged atomizer. im saying you have to draw hard to get it to function.the opposite of an overly sensetive switch. covering the hole just forces ALL of your draw to the switch in the battery, instead of most of it going out the hole. the switch is in the battery, which should have nothing to do with the atomizer...

[igetcha]

sorry, misunderstood what you meant........i will post a seperate question in a new thread.

[katink]

Some batteries acting as you describe also come to life in a good way if you take off the atomizer so you hold just the battery; then blow and suck in turn on an end (or even on both ends) for a bit. You might see the lights starting to work much more regular then.

I have also had batteries that reacted well to this; then I could smoke well with them; but if I left them overnight or a couple of hours, they would be back to 'bad behaviour' again... so I repeated this process with the battery for a couple of days... and then they stayed good, didn't go back to finicky behaviour anymore.

Doesn't work with all... but some batteries can be brought to usefulness this way.

[jimgman]

saw someone say that blowing into an atomizer killed it, so i was afraid that could happen to a battery too, but i guess not, so maybe ill try that. i tried poking inside a bit on the sticky one, but i dont know what im poking at, and am afraid i may poke too hard, or the wrong spot, and damage it. i was hoping just normal use might wear the switch in, but maybe your method can speed that up. seems to stick about every 3-5 puffs, and stays on until the blinking shutoff thing

[spyderuk]

Blowing into the atomizer when fitted to a battery can send any juice in the atomizer into the battery. Then you will have more sticky switches to deal with.

[SuperStack]

Some batteries acting as you describe also come to life in a good way if you take off the atomizer so you hold just the battery; then blow and suck in turn on an end (or even on both ends) for a bit. You might see the lights starting to work much more regular then.

Yeah, sucking in hard on the battery directly, several times in a row, will usually correct this issue. It does "loosen" it up if done enough.

[jimgman]

thanks for the tips. i did the blow in/out on the battery, and its working great now(the hard to draw one).either that worked, or it just broke in, but im thinking blowing in the battery did it much faster if nothing else. the sticky one is still sticking though a bit, but maybe not as much as before.