LED's am I missing something

[degnr8]

I don't quite get why all the PVs seem to have LED's. I can see why you might want a red one with an analog look alike, but other than making them look more like an analog (or less with blue/purple etc) do they actually serve any kind of purpose? I know a friend of mine got the m401 & has a red LED for when he's outside vaping & doesn't want to answer a million questions & a blue one for when he's places where smoking is forbidden. Wouldn't it be simpler to just do away with them altogether?

[HaploVoss]

They do make batteries without LEDs in them if you look for them.

[Robert]

They seemed very cool to me at first- I liked the glowing red end- reminded me of smoking. The Widow sells 510 bats with no LED.

Now I'm going trying to figure out if I want to shove an LED into my MOD. I'm thinking a huge Red LED would be awesome at the end. It is kinda dumb though.. Waste power. Still I'm gonna do it.

[HaploVoss]

Hell if you're gonna do it - do it right... put a whoppin strobe on it!!

[Robert]

Exactly I'm think flashing Red

[Valkerie]

I'm just glad it indicates time to recharge the battery by flashing.

It would be just too strange if it beeped instead.

[Sad Society]

Well about led's..some people find that led's (for manual batteries especially) are helpful to know that the battery is working. I can puff until the led starts to flash and then I know it's time to recharge. For automatic batteries the led may flash to alert you of the cut off time. Don't want to keep dragging on something that's not giving vapor.

[thewomenfolk]

Valkerie is right on. When the LED flashes, it means time to recharge. Works great for me.

[Kent C]

I don't quite get why all the PVs seem to have LED's. I can see why you might want a red one with an analog look alike, but other than making them look more like an analog (or less with blue/purple etc) do they actually serve any kind of purpose? I know a friend of mine got the m401 & has a red LED for when he's outside vaping & doesn't want to answer a million questions & a blue one for when he's places where smoking is forbidden. Wouldn't it be simpler to just do away with them altogether?

LED just drains power from the battery... the Widow has no LED 510's. Also the Dura C doesn't have an LED. There may be more vendors that carry them - cignot, it seems.

[EasyDraw]

Sounds like there are two schools of thought on the LED represented in this thread: One is that they draw power from the battery and/or are unnecessary, the other is they are a necessary indicator of battery life/operation. I like novelty of them. Although a battery/cooldown indicator seems to be the practical functionality of them, I tend to be more of the "hey, look at my cool toy" type of personality, and thus will always have an LED on the end of my PV =)
Sucks that I got a 901 that was advertised as having an Icy Blue LED and got stuck with the "dirty" red LED, but this is only my first e-cig. Going top order another one right now!

Bob