3 lights on an ego

[tidegirl]

Anyone know what 3 blinks means on an ego? You would think if they built these features into a batt, they would put an explaination in the user manual. But I tracked that down on the joyetech site, and of course nothing.

I was trying to use it earlier with 2 different vivis, and with both of them I press the buton, it lights up for a fraction of a second, then goes out. When I begin to unscrew the vivi- no matter how long I wait it only happens when I remove it- I get 3 flashing lights. It will fire my Phoenix clearo just fine. Both Vivis are testing at 2.6 ohms and work fine on my I pro. TIA

 

[llamainmypocket]

Sounds like the safety shut-off. When you screw it into a charger it will blink rapidly to engage the safety so it doesn't get pinned with the button down. I think it disengages when its unscrewed from the charger. If you ever need to carry it in your pocket you can click the button 5 or 6 times to engage it.

 

[The Ocelot]

Hi if you Google ego battery 3 blinks (or something similar) a lot of results come up, mostly ecf threads. Google works better than the ecf search function since it was "updated."

 

[Ken_A]

3 blinks mean a short. you may have rebuilt the coil and left the wire in the middle a bit long so it touches the main body when screwed in.

 

[tidegirl]

3 blinks mean a short. you may have rebuilt the coil and left the wire in the middle a bit long so it touches the main body when screwed in.

[Sigh] I can't cut it any closer. The cutters won't get any closer. LOL I guess I will have to use the twist until it breaks method from now on. Thanks for your help, Ken and everyone else.

 

[AttyPops]

[Sigh] I can't cut it any closer. The cutters won't get any closer. LOL I guess I will have to use the twist until it breaks method from now on. Thanks for your help, Ken and everyone else.

Use a nail clipper. Or go to R.Shack and get a pair of wire-cutters for small electronic use.

 

[Ken_A]

I use these. Fiskars. I got mine at Home Depot but you can order from amazon if you cannot find them anywhere else.

Amazon.com: Fiskars 9921 Softouch Micro-Tip Pruning Snip: Home & Kitchen

 

[Heavyrocker]

3 blinks means the batt is low.

 

[supermarket]

3 blinks means the batt is low.

I hate to sound silly, and I'm sure I probably will - but 3 blinks on mine means the battery is low as well.

Are you SURE it is fully charged?

 

[Ken_A]

Strange. On both my twist and my spinner, 5 blinks is off too long (10 or 8 seconds) followed by 15 (I think) for low battery and it won't work until charged... 3 is a short... Which type of ego device do you guys have?

 

[jSquared]

Strange. On both my twist and my spinner, 5 blinks is off too long (10 or 8 seconds) followed by 15 (I think) for low battery and it won't work until charged... 3 is a short... Which type of ego device do you guys have?

Same on every genuine Joyetech eGo battery I've ever owned (and there have been many). Mine also blink three times when you turn them on/off, but I'm assuming that's taken as read. I've encountered the 3 blinks during normal vaping several times: for me it's always been due to an old, flooded carto dumping liquid on the center pin and creating a short.

JJ

 

[tidegirl]

No it is fully charged. It will work with other devices. Mine has never blinked 3 times for a low battery. It works until the battery dies, and then it blinks a lot more than 3 times and will not fire again.

It has to be a short. It isn't much of a short which is why it was difficult to diagnose. The ohms are testing fine, it will fire on another device, but has destroyed 4 sets of batteries. I guess from now on I need to test my coils on my overly sensitive ego before I use them on my mod.

Same on every genuine Joyetech eGo battery I've ever owned (and there have been many). Mine also blink three times when you turn them on/off, but I'm assuming that's taken as read. I've encountered the 3 blinks during normal vaping several times: for me it's always been due to an old, flooded carto dumping liquid on the center pin and creating a short.

JJ

Mine too. I just tested it, and it is 3 blinks for on/off and 3 blinks for 10 sec shut off. But this was it will not fire and 3 blinks, not held too long or shut down.

 

[Unforeseen]

Moved to Model Specific Discussion - ego Type Models

 

[Kent C]

I've had this happen on two of my Joye eGo-c batts using various Vision clearos - stardusts, CE4's and 5's - and perhaps only certain individual Vision or cloned vision products. I've had a fully charged battery turn off after screwing on the clearos - three blinks and turn off and I've 'started it up' by two methods - putting it back on the charger for about a minute, until it goes back to green on the charger OR do a 5 click off and on. In both cases the batt started up again - like a 'reboot'. In one case the 5 click fix didn't work but putting it back on the charger for a minute or so, did. However, after that happened a few more times on that batt - I marked it - it died. (I also metered the clearo at 2.2ohms - nothing that would give me reason to believe it was a 'below 1.0 ohm type short' - which will kill eGo's and Rivas - many cases reported on this.. )

My take on it was that the short protection was blown and with repeated tries with that same clearo and with that same batt - without the short protection, it eventually killed that batt. It's the only eGo-c that I've had die and it took a few times to kill it - after 2 incidents - it became an 'experiment' ;-) I had one other battery where the same thing happened but not since I've stopped using vision products and am Kanger T3, baby T3 and a few Evods all the time. Never had any incidents with either Kanger tech products or the original eGo-c atty/tanks system. So I have one battery now that has had the short protection blown but it continues fine as long as I'm using the Tabac BCC/Kanger T3.

Earlier Joye eGos and early eGo-ts (except for the eGo-t "upgrade" batt - which has some improved short protection now) don't have that short protection and will die immediately. No tricks to revive.