902 Battery problem (Ruh Roh?!?)

[auTONYmous]

So, I believe I overfilled a cart (got carried away with Nu-Port mixed with Red Bull...YUMMY!), and I'm pretty sure I left the cart/atty/auto battery assembled and laying on my desk.

Didn't seem to bother it much. I realized it when I got a mouthful of juice later. Cleaned the atty, wicked a bit off the top of the cart/foam, reassembled, good to go. The next day, I start noticing a gurgling sound from that atty/batt combo.

Blew out/dried the atty real good. Swapped the atty to another batt. No gurgle. Tried my other atty on this batt: gurgle. So I got juice in the batt. FARK!

Well, I take it upon myself to start sucking on the batt (the threaded end) in an attempt to get as much of the fluid out without major surgery. Seems good, gurgle is gone. So what's my problem, you say?

That batt is now hyper-sensitive. You can be literally breathing normally 1 foot away from the side of it (not pointed at you, either top or bottom), and it registers. Lightly shaking registers. Blowing lightly anywhere near it registers.

Did I kill it, or is there some way to save this batt? Still charges and holds a charge fine, its just too sensitive to use.

 

[auTONYmous]

Update: I *think* I fixed it. Seems that either in my haste to figure it out, or some unfortunate mishap, I somehow got the LED cap to pop off, and it wasn't very tight after that.

I re-glued it with some rubber cement, and took a few more pulls on the atty end to clear any leftover juice still in there, charged it up fully, and no more hyper-sensitive. Works fine now! (still has a minor whistle, I'm sure there's still a tiny bit of juice in it)

*breathes sigh of relief, then breathes about 20 huge vape clouds from fixed battery to celebrate*