A Slightly Different Problem with Cartos Not Working on Batteries

[TrashcanCandy]

Sorry if this has been addressed before, but the search doesn't seem to be working so well right now...

This isn't about the usual threads not matching right, so cartos won't screw on all the way issue.

Most Premium cartos will screw all the way down on one of my XL batteries, but it's as if the middle part isn't making contact with the battery or something. If I inhale, the suction activates the battery, but the atomizer doesn't heat up and produce vapor. However, the same cartos work fine on my other XL battery (same type, ordered at the same time, just a different color). (I will also add that older cartos work just fine on the battery that doesn't work with most Premiums.) Any ideas how to fix this?

 

[Blank]

1 are the contacts clean, 2 is it every carto you try on that battery? is there anything wrong wit the treads on the batt?, if not it could be a faulty contact on the battery, if other carts work then idk what it could be

 

[bobbysox10]

Try taking a pin or paper clip and pulling up the center post of the cartomizer. It's sounds like the batter post isn't making contact with the cartomizer center post

 

[TrashcanCandy]

Wow thank you bobbysox10! That worked! I didn't even realize that center post would be movable, though I could tell that was most likely the problem.

 

[MachoKing]

I bought a lot of older V4L shorties last week and had to do this to get any of them to work. It's a good trick to know!

 

[Flowersoul]

I've been vaping for over a year and a half, and I never had this problem, that is, until yesterday.
Only one carto in all this time presented this problem.

I knew it wasn't making contact and until I read this thread,
I never even thought that center post was moveable.

Now I won't have to ditch that wonderful peanut butter carto!

Thanks, Bobbysox!

 

[dale1962]

I have had problems with some wow cartos mainly wowboy and cowboy,wowbacco with hardly no vapor I tried everything but didn't work....just tried what bobbysox said do and low and behold vapor like it should be.I have been so frustrated lately even thought about smoking again and I am almost at my 1 yr. mark.Only have tried this on a couple of carts that wouldn't work right but has worked like a charm on them.I feel kind of bad now because on a few order's awhile back I got replacements on some wowboy and wowbacco and if I would have known about this fix probably wouldn't have needed them replaced.Anyway thanks a ton bobbysox hopefully now I'll have them killer hits I had come accustomed too!

 

[WOW]

Try taking a pin or paper clip and pulling up the center post of the cartomizer. It's sounds like the batter post isn't making contact with the cartomizer center post

How do you move it down toward the batt end of the carto(so it connects to the battery itself) when that part of the carto is sealed?

 

[dale1962]

Wow you just stick a paper clip in the hole of the carto battery end and slightly pull up at a slant to make center post elevate a little...it's made a world of difference to the performance of my cartos that needed it.

 

[dale1962]

I bought a lot of older V4L shorties last week and had to do this to get any of them to work. It's a good trick to know!

I knew to do that with batteries at center post but wasn't helping my situation with cartos,never knew you could pull up center post of cart though.Feel kind of stupid but was never mechanically inclined anyway.

 

[WOW]

ok. the up is a down. gotit.

 

[Adrenalynn]

No - the up is an up. Where "up" is the direction your feet aren't supposed to be pointing.

The center rides inside a silicon o-ring that acts as an electrical insulator