Dead battery? Nope.

[AshHole]

I think I read this somewhere, and it luckily stuck in a brain cell.

Yesterday I left my ecig on a counter at a gas station, and of course when I went back to retireve it - it was gone.

So I got home, pulled out another used atty and battery and got it all set up. I just pulled that battery off of the charger.

I dripped, and started to vape (I exhaust pipe it) and the atty got REAL hot (it vaped well otherwise). So I decided to give it a good cleaning. Dried it out and started vaping. Poof! The battery dies after 10 min. Swap batteries. Vaping again. Poof - dead battery in 10 min.

Now - I know my batts are getting old and I was worried that I had reached EOL on some of them. Hm. I charge up these "bad" ones - and for a test - use another atty. Everything is fine.

Put the other atty on, and in about 8 min the battery is dead.

Ok - time for the heavy duty fireworks. I pull one of my Mega batts off the charger and killed my megabat in under 15 min also.

So I throw the atty in my bad part pile, and get a fresh atty. Everything is fine vaping at full steam again.

So - I have come to the conclusion that a bad atomizer can make a battery look like it is going bad.

Am I correct in the fact that

1. this is true and
2. I did read this somewhere and thus my 50 year old brain isnt totally gone?

[Kent C]

Originally Posted by AshHole

I think I read this somewhere, and it luckily stuck in a brain cell.

Yesterday I left my ecig on a counter at a gas station, and of course when I went back to retireve it - it was gone.

So I got home, pulled out another used atty and battery and got it all set up. I just pulled that battery off of the charger.

I dripped, and started to vape (I exhaust pipe it) and the atty got REAL hot (it vaped well otherwise). So I decided to give it a good cleaning. Dried it out and started vaping. Poof! The battery dies after 10 min. Swap batteries. Vaping again. Poof - dead battery in 10 min.

Now - I know my batts are getting old and I was worried that I had reached EOL on some of them. Hm. I charge up these "bad" ones - and for a test - use another atty. Everything is fine.

Put the other atty on, and in about 8 min the battery is dead.

Ok - time for the heavy duty fireworks. I pull one of my Mega batts off the charger and killed my megabat in under 15 min also.

So I throw the atty in my bad part pile, and get a fresh atty. Everything is fine vaping at full steam again.

So - I have come to the conclusion that a bad atomizer can make a battery look like it is going bad.


Am I correct in the fact that

1. this is true and
2. I did read this somewhere and thus my 50 year old brain isnt totally gone?

What model (auto/manual?) are you using and do the batts have leds? If the last, the atty should not affect whether or not the leds light up and if they light up then of course it's not the battery. If you had an atty on it's last legs I suppose that all what you mentioned could happen or the atty wasn't making good contact - which means you needed to clean the threads and since you tailpipe you are either dipping or dripping so that could very well be the cause. OR you need to try a staple mod with that particular atty to get better contact.

[AshHole]

Sorry ... this is a 510 manual.

I should clarify - it isnt "killing" the battery.

It is just discharging it at an unbelieveable rate.

After 10 min of vaping the LED blinks as if it were discharged - a multimeter shows this is true.

This is also one of my oldest attys.

[Kent C]

AshHole:I should clarify - it isnt "killing" the battery.

It is just discharging it at an unbelieveable rate.

Oh.. yeah, that's different ;-)

After 10 min of vaping the LED blinks as if it were discharged - a multimeter shows this is true.

Never heard of that one. Although some say their batts deteriorate to 30minutes - which I've never experienced after 5 months.

This is also one of my oldest attys.

Sounds defective ;-) Is the center disc where it should be - not using a staple mod right? Probably just time to retire ( or try all the of the atty cleaning fixes one right after another :-) <-joke.

BTW, did you see my 'note' to you? :-)

Throat hit..Atty or Batty?

[Antebellum]

Somewhere in my junk pile is an atty that reads 152 ohms across the coil. I was determined to kill it, but it was getting my batteries too hot! Yes, an atty can build up enough of a resistance to make using a huge heat-sink like my Prodigy uncomfortable, so I imagine it can make short work of a standard battery.

[Webby]

Originally Posted by AshHole

So - I have come to the conclusion that a bad atomizer can make a battery look like it is going bad.

I had a customer using the tea bag mod in his 302 and kept asking for a replacement atty. After three were sent, it was concluded that somehow the overstuffed tea bag had shorted the atty. Now, I'm not convinced on this theory, but once the atty had been removed (and placed in the corner to sit and think about what it did) a fresh one was used and the batts all "came back to life."

[tribalmasters]

Sounds like just another day in the life of the 510/DSE901/penstyle

They do some weird things!

[Kent C]

Originally Posted by Webby

I had a customer using the tea bag mod in his 302 and kept asking for a replacement atty. After three were sent, it was concluded that somehow the overstuffed tea bag had shorted the atty. Now, I'm not convinced on this theory, but once the atty had been removed (and placed in the corner to sit and think about what it did) a fresh one was used and the batts all "came back to life."

Wow.... something to keep stored in the corner of one's mind for a 'just in case...' scenario.