401 manual button stuck on by itself

[Ragman]

Wife got home from work and said.."it that supposed to be on?"

I looked over at the counter she pointed at and there was my 401 with a manual button and the light was on.

I said "no" and quickly grabbed it and the cart slid off and I could see vapor coming off the atty....I quickly unscrewed the atty, which was piping hot and tried to get the battery to "turn off"

This happened before but the button was crooked and I "unstuck" it.

This time the button presses down and makes a "click" like normal but the battery doesnt shut off. The light is still on as it sits on the counter behind me.

I tried putting it into the charger which did no good.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is this battery toast? Its worked great for me for awhile now (bout 2 months)

Any ideas?

 

[Turbo]

There's a recent thread here about this. I've had mine a little less than a month. No problem so far. Hopefully mine don't do the same as yours and apparently others have... Where did you get them from?

 

[Sludge Van Diesel]

Which brand of 401 is it?

 

[Kelemvor]

i find it really strange that in the last few weeks more and more manual batteries semem to do this, i heard of at least 4 510 owners in a short timeframe (2-3 weeks) in germany.

family and me have at least 12 manual joye510 in use, and never they did this
for me it looks like its coming from some no-joye devices.

i have a new KR808d-1 that does the same from time to time.
on that one i know its build by Kanger, and since only a short time they now have 510.

coincidence ?
stuck auto batteries are more or less common, but stuck manual switches ? on relatively new devices is new imho.

 

[Wench]

I lost one of my manual 401 Dragon batt's this way, I had it about a month.
The other one is still ok *knock on wood*
I even popped the rubber button out and it still stayed on, so it wasn't that it wasn't sitting right or slightly stuck. Guessing something to do with the internal switches themselves.

 

[Slea]

Hmm... this has happened to 2 of mine as well.

 

[Ragman]

Well I just hope the "Suppliers" here see this thread and complain to their sources about this problem.

I 'loved' my manual battery...'sniff'