Am I at risk?

[Lethalp]

Ok I am starting to get a bit worried. First I want to say this is all my fault and I take responsibility for my ignorance and stupidity. I bought a vv box mod from a brick and mortar shop in sept. It looks a lot like the basic lil box mod that mad vapes carries for $35, I think. I also bought 2 trust fire flame 14500 3.6v 900 mah and a cheap looking black charger that adjusts to charge different size batteries, it also had an adapter to use in the car. The first 2 weeks the mod quit working on me twice, i would charge batteries till the charger turned green, it would work for about an hour then just quit. I took the charger with me the second time and it turns out he had the charger set on the wrong setting for the batteries I was using? So he set it on 4.2 and sent me on my way. So I charged the batteries last night, unplugged it as soon as the light turned green, put them in the mod this morning and used it for a bit. I began to notice it not firing my ce2s, so I took it off and put it on my tornado batt to see if I had just fried it and it fired just fine, put it back on the mod...nothing. The lil led light lights up but no juice? After a couple hrs, I put the batteries back on the charger again and started looking at batteries. I read the whole thing in the ecf library about rechargeable batteries. sSO, my question is am I at risk of blowing my face off??? do u guys think I need new batteries? A new charger? A totally new mod? I feel real dumb for not looking up the batteries before, I just trusted this guy and bought everything he sold me and believed everything he said. After doing some poking around here I see I have been way overcharged for a lot of the things I have bought from him, and now I may have been recklessly put at risk as well. I am not dumb, just apparently a under informed woman. Any help would be greatly appreciated, cause I will NOT go back there, thanks!!!

 

[Hoosier]

Yes, I do think you need new batteries. I could know for sure if I had them and could look at and test them, but there is no reason not to err on the side of safety.

14500's should last you for many hours of vaping.

I am going to guess you're in the Kokomo area as I believe I know the place you are referring to.

 

[Kurt]

I agree with Hoosier, that getting new batteries is not a bad thing...you will need to eventually anyway.

Another possible issue here may not be the batteries, but the connector. More specifically: does the carto centerpost make good contact. I have noted that Boges with Riva/KGO batteries tend to get their center post pushed up, and will not fire the next time you put them on. Batt is fine, carto is actually fine, but center post has been pushed up. If you look at the carto's battery threaded end, the center post is the part in the center inside the black ring. I carry around a large sewing needle or safety pin for this fix:

Stick the sharp end of the pin into one of the small air holes right above the threads, and imagine you are prying something inside that hole down (the threads are "down"). The center post should start to stick out a little. Do the same with the other airhole on the opposite side. Go back and forth until the center post is sticking out about 1 mm, then screw it into the connect on the PV until you just feel resistance, and try vaping. It just might be the issue. I've had this problem with CE2s as well, and also tanks. Its the battery terminal that is the problem...its centerpost is too high, making it fine for one vape session, but take the carto off and put it back on, and now no contact.

If you look at your carto, and the centerpost is totally flush with the outer threading, this may well be the problem.

Good luck!

PS: I am originally from Terre Haute, and used to ride my bike to Kokomo when I lived there many years ago.

 

[rolygate]

Another thing is that it's very hard to diagnose problems like this without a multimeter. Ideally, you'd want to know the voltage of each battery, in the charger, when the charger light goes green. Then, the battery voltage after a few hours, to see if it holds a charge.

If there is any difference between the batteries (even if they are otherwise OK) then they should not be used in a pair, in case this is a 5 volt mod.