2 dead batteries :-(

[tramca]

This is more of a rant than anything :-(

I bought my riva 510 last year, November I think, and did well for 6 weeks before succumbing to analogues again. So since then I've switched between vaping and smoking.
4 weeks ago I decided to try again. I bought a nice new tank and some tobacco flavour juice and off I went.
I decided to buy strawberry too and another tank, so I could switch when I liked.
So I'd used the tank for a few weeks and decided it was due to have its head rinsed, like the guy had told me to do every so often.

I rinsed, dried, assembled. When I thried to vape, nothing. I switched batteries. Nothing. I figured id broken the head.
No biggy, I still had another tank.

So anyway, long story short, over the course of Saturday into Sunday, both my batteries have died on me and will not work at all.

So I had to buy a looky likey e-cig from my local shop (£7.99 by the way). It works fine, but no use to me once dead/dry as I am supposed to buy charger and ner carties separately.
So I came to work this morning at 10am, and am here until 9pm tomorrow, so have no way of getting out to buy a new battery for mu tanks. The shop near work doesn't sell e-cigs so I ended up buying 20 anologues. I'm so mad at myself! I will use the lookey likey one tomorrow and hopefully get into town on my day off for a new battery.

At £15.00 per battery, I'm fuming that I spent money on a stupid cig-a-like and analogues, when I could of bought a battery for that :-(

Sorry for long useless post, but I'm so mad at myself :-(

 

[Myrany]

Backups for your backups is my rule.

I have no clue what british law is like about where you can order from but you can get some rally good deals on multiple battery kits with chargers from Fasttech.

You really need at LEAST 2 of everything battery, charger and clearo. You are in the worse case scenario atm with nothing working.

Don't beat yourself up about the cigs you do smoke. Focus on the ones you didn't and how to get yourself back on the vaping with lessons learned.

 

[tramca]

I debated buying a charger and spare filter for the e-lites cig I bought yesterday, but for the money I spend I could buy two 510 batteries.

I thought I was clever having a backup lol clearly not clever enough!

 

[stormwench]

The vapers motto is a backup for your backups and maybe even for your backups but that never helps when you end up in your situation and I know of very few people who did not realize this before it happened.

Hubby uses a 510. I did for a very short time, until I decide looking like a cig was not an important part for me, long before it developed any issues. Hubby has 'dead batteries' often and about 3/4 of the time its due to juice leaking out onto the battery connector and then I guess it shorts the current do the atomizer won't heat up. Once he got in the habit of swapping out his connections regularly and keeping the center of the atomizer open he has had few problems. When he can get it to work at all, its usually not the battery (as long as it takes a charge so that he can take it off the charger and put it back on and its green again in a minute he decides it taken the charge and is okay) but the atomizer itself, so he always keeps a couple of extra around. They are certainly less costly than the battery. He really never gets more than about 16 weeks out of atomiser unless he really works at it and I have read where others expect to get much less life from them.

Honestly, though, I am of the opinion (because he has had to replace his batteries twice and I have not yet lost one) that the 510 batteries just don't last like an ego type does. The only reason he uses the 510 (he has a 510 and a 510 T) is for looks basically. He does not want to sit around his office looking as he says "odd as " I do (love the guy really) and he wants something that feels cigarette like. I am different and don't mind the odd 'look' because I don't want people to immediately assume I am smoking and I did not need the 'feel' of a cigarette to take to vaping. He does think, though, that as the 510 gets a great deal warmer more often and for longer periods of time then my egos, and stay warm and not cool down very fast that they do 'wear out/burn out' faster. He has replaced his 510 twice and his 510 T once in a year and I have not had any of my egos (or my rechargeable batteries) need to be replaced in almost 2.

If you don't care if its a 510, or at least at home you don't (and use the 510 in public) consider trying a different battery set up even if it does not look/feel like a cigarette. It might give you less hassles and problems and then you can use the 510 less frequently.

Very few of us, if any at all (unless they were started off by another vaper) knew about always have backups for everything and until we realized it often had to resort to analogs during time we were getting started and getting supplies up to a level where analogs were not backups and/or we were convinced that vaping vaping was more fun/better/replaced the analog. And just remember, until your battery problem, of all the analogs you did not have.

 

[djsvapour]

I debated buying a charger and spare filter for the e-lites cig I bought yesterday, but for the money I spend I could buy two 510 batteries.

I thought I was clever having a backup lol clearly not clever enough!

I bought a lot of E-Lites back-up stuff. Now THAT was a bad move.