901 battery mass death

[cyberwolf]

Just for future reference...
I pulled one of these batteries apart tonight, unhooked the black wire and found that I got 3.6 volts from black wire to negative terminal of the battery. I pulled the whole switch apart and it was not the pressure switch. Something else in that tiny little board is shorted. I hooked positive and negative terminals up to an atty, though, and vaped away. So the battery itself is good, but the board's shot. Next will be a tiny manual switch...

I'm wondering now, though, whether hooking the battery directly to a charger is a good idea, or is the charge controlled by the board in the battery?

 

[tokarev]

Just for future reference...
I pulled one of these batteries apart tonight, unhooked the black wire and found that I got 3.6 volts from black wire to negative terminal of the battery. I pulled the whole switch apart and it was not the pressure switch. Something else in that tiny little board is shorted. I hooked positive and negative terminals up to an atty, though, and vaped away. So the battery itself is good, but the board's shot. Next will be a tiny manual switch...

I'm wondering now, though, whether hooking the battery directly to a charger is a good idea, or is the charge controlled by the board in the battery?

Good find, cyberwolf. It's interesting that it wasn't the switch that failed. I suspect you're right about the circuit board being the battery protection circuit. I don't think I'd leave it on the factory charger unattended (insert mental image of exploding battery here). You might be able to modify a protected charger from Dealextreme to charge them, but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort.

TT33

 

[vaportiger]

Mine started doing this on a 901 but they work on the RN4075. Whats up?

 

[tokarev]

Mine started doing this on a 901 but they work on the RN4075. Whats up?

Do you mean your batteries work on the 4075 atomizer but not on the DSE901 atomizer? I'm not sure what you are asking. You need to provide a little more detail.

TT33

 

[mikelangesr]

I am new to E-Cigarettes, my son bought me a kit from Smoking Everywhere. After charging both batteries one would not do any thing but blink when I tried to use it. The other worked fine for 3 days and then quit the same way. I am sure I followed all instructions when charging. My charger has a red led that should turn green at full charge but no matter how long I have the batt on charge it stays red. They say first charge is 8 hours and 3-4 hours after that. When I called Tech support they were not much help but did say they have had some trouble with the chargers. They are going to replace my kit but I have to send it back to them on my dime. I would like to use this product for health and savings but right now a little worried about reliable units and service. Can anyone tell me if this is a relieable product normally or is there a better product out there. Thanks

 

[SSRob]

Glad I found this thread. I have sold quite a few batteries and not had one complaint but I've had 7 (count em, SEVEN) of my own personal 801 batteries go KAPUT on me in the last 3 days.

I use about 8 chargers to keep all my batteries juiced up and today I've finally narrowed it down to a charger that seems to be killing them for some reason. It puts out 4.25vDC as it should but something else is going on. All of these batteries are leaking some amount of voltage (.7~1.3vDC) at the connector at "idle" but will not put out full power when sucked on. Also some of them light up when sucked on and some don't. SLB will be getting them all back, including the "murdering" charger.

Any electronics gurus here that might know why the charger is killing batteries when apparently it isn't over powering them?

 

[SSRob]

I am new to E-Cigarettes, my son bought me a kit from Smoking Everywhere. ... Can anyone tell me if this is a relieable product normally or is there a better product out there. Thanks

Mike, the SE kits are actually fairly decent (in my experience with them), just overpriced. If he bought it from a mall kiosk generally those guys will exchange bad kits without much fuss.

 

[cyberwolf]

Add one more battery to my list. Experience now points to one non-SLB atomizer that came with a mic-style battery kit that can intermittently kill pressure-style SLB batteries. None of the mic-style batteries are affected. That atty is now clearly labeled! I am resigned to the fact that the batteries are toast, but does anyone have an explanation to offer?