18350 bat doesn't work with my Vamo

[patkin]

I posted this on another thread but decided to start a new one in case anyone else is having this issue:

I just got a new Vamo and have found it won't fire nor stay on with a single18350 battey. New and fully charged Trustfire 3.7v nippled. It comes on very shortly but won't fire and turns off evidently... nothing lights. Loosing the cap works briefly the same way. Breaking battery contact and reinserting... same thing. Its in there tight... no rattling even when the cap is loosened. But it works fine with the same brand 18650 battery. I have contacted the vendor and will update if they have a solution or they replace it.

Since posting this I went and watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clzX6_BIsSQ

Since she likes 7.0 watts I decided to put it there and the 18350 now works. I don't know if that did it or if I have a slightly off center battery nipple or not an even surface... dunno... and it just got placed differently reinserting. I took that sucker out and reinserted at least 10 times earlier today with no dice so odds are its the wattage setting that did the trick.

 

[kiwivap]

I posted this on another thread but decided to start a new one in case anyone else is having this issue:

I just got a new Vamo and have found it won't fire nor stay on with a single18350 battey. New and fully charged Trustfire 3.7v nippled.

Are those Trustfire batteries IMRs? If they aren't then that's where the problem will be. If they are protected then the protection circuit is probabaly getting tripped. You need IMR batteries with variable voltage/wattage devices.
This post lists IMR batteries that work in the Vamo:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/vamo/376482-vamo-battery-question.html#post8521341

 

[daPorkchop]

I haven't looked over these threads in a while, but seeing as how I am interested in getting a vamo, I have done some research. If I'm not mistaken, its not the fact that the protected cells are the problem, it's when the protected cells have a current cutoff below 5amps. So, if you have a protected cell that has a cutoff above 5amps or at 5amps you are good to go.

 

[patkin]

I haven't looked over these threads in a while, but seeing as how I am interested in getting a vamo, I have done some research. If I'm not mistaken, its not the fact that the protected cells are the problem, it's when the protected cells have a current cutoff below 5amps. So, if you have a protected cell that has a cutoff above 5amps or at 5amps you are good to go.

How do you find that out? The 18650 works but the 18350 doesn't. Both are the same brandTrustfire protected, from the same vendor and purchased on the same day. The vendor has all over the site to only use "protected" batteries so that's what I picked. The 18650 is, I think, 3000 mah and the 18350 is 1200mah and both are 3.7v and that's all they say. Do you know if I've ruined the 18350 protection trying to make it work so many times... ie: does "tripping" the protection in it ruin the protection? I was going to save it and get a gripper to use it in but now I'm afraid of it. It did work one time after 6 or 7 attempts ... fired, screen stayed on to set watts and voltage, everything worked and with the same carto, until I turned it off and then next try went right back to the same way it acted the first times I put it in... momentary screen flash and then out. It won't hurt to get efest IMRs but I'm leery of using either battery I've had in the Vamo now.

 

[quickload187]

Any battery with a fire in it is not recommended from all the research I've done. I have successfully tested 18350 ultrafires, they actually worked fairly well but stopped using them because IMR is the preferred battery. Efest 18350 IMRs or AW 18350 IMRs are the two safest 18350 batteries. The Panasonic cgr18650ch are the preferred big battery along with AW and Efest 18650s, with Panasonic taking the crown. Get those pannys now because they are being discontinued.

 

[BlueSnake]

In these kinds of mods you definitely want to be using IMR batteries, regardless of what the dealer says. If you stick with AW, Efest, or Panasonics you won't have a problem. I have never or will never own any Trust Fire batteries.

 

[Kemosabe]

+1 on that. stick with IMR batts.
the 18350, being a smaller cell, cannot handle as many amps as the larger 18650 can. thats why the 18350 wouldnt work. to determine how many amps your battery can handle, first determine the C-rating of the batt. C-rating will determine max amperage. IMR batts have a higher c-rating than protected batts. IMR is what you need for this application.

 

[SlimXero]

I have the same issue with an ICR18350. Problem is, i no longer own the mod I had at the time i purchased the battery. Is now useless to me, as all i own are a vamo and v1 lavatube.