Any E-cig batteries that aren't nasty to clean?

[MJTP]

I was on the Volt site and saw the video where the woman cleans the battery - EW! I didn't know there was anything that nasty/hard to clean in an e-cig. You'd think the battery would just power the atomizer without getting anything near the battery (and Volt claims their batteries are sealed so... idk). But anyway, the Volt batteries seemed very difficult to clean and seemed like a daily process ... are there any e-cigs that are known for not having this type of upkeep? (I'd rather let something soak at the very most...)

Thanks!!!

 

[sailorman]

Anything with a sealed 510 connector can be cleaned with a q-tip and a bit of alcohol, or just wiped down with a corner of tissue and really cleaned just occasionally. Any juice that gets in the connector is leaking from the carto or atty and has nothing to do with the battery itself. No battery is immune to a leaking atomizer or cartomizer. All they can do is keep it out of the internals. Some larger (not mini-cigs) e-cigs have a juice well to trap juice that leaks from an atty, and they should be wiped down or cleaned now and then. Nothing is going to be totally "clean free", but no battery is difficult to clean. Atty's and cartos are much, much harder to clean.

 

[Oneida]

Metal oxidation is just a fact of life and so battery connections on any PV need cleaning every once in a while to ensure good electrical conductivity. Like Sailorman described, it's an extremely simple task - just dip a q-tip in alcohol and swab around the center post and threads. You should also occasionally clean the contact on your charger (unplug it first, though .

 

[Reidus]

Btw, folks: what do we do with the batteries once they die? I know that I can take my 14650s to be recycled as they are regular batteries.

 

[sailorman]

Btw, folks: what do we do with the batteries once they die? I know that I can take my 14650s to be recycled as they are regular batteries.

Well, if you want to be totally eco-conscious about it, you can send them to the recyclers as well. At the least they'll be able to send them to a proper waste site. Really though, lithiums aren't nearly as environmentally unfriendly as the old NiCads are. It's pretty much o.k. just to toss them into the trash. If you have a day or place where they collect old toxic stuff like paint or pesticides, that would probably be better, but they'd get picked out of recycle bin and sent there anyway.

In my RC days, we used to soak old LiPo batteries overnight in salt water and throw them in the trash. The saltwater neutralizes them completely and prevents any chance of them exploding in an incinerator or the back of the garbage truck. I guess that would work with sealed eGo batteries as well.

 

[amonHU]

I have no dead battery right now, I only had some regular batteries (18650, 18350), which are landed in the proper can where the battery factories collect them and disassemble and neutralize them. If my eGos will die, I'll disassemble them and I put the batteries into the same can. The tube, the switch, the electronic parts will be reused maybe as a mod or on other way.
I do not throw any batteries into the communal trash.