hi,. bought the basic joye 510 kit from cignot. had problems with the battery and charger right away. the problem was the battery would not stay charged. got mad ordered another charger and 3 more batteries. having the same damn problem with the battery's. i am going through juice like a crack fiend cause the battery doesnt last and fills the atomizer. i know the atomizers are getting close to needing to be replaced. but it is so ....ing irritating when the battery last only 2 min . oh then the cartridge ....ing melted a little bit. i have giving up on using this thing i mean every night i need to clean the atomizer cause its clogged with juice. i only use 4 drops of juice. it pisses me off knowing i spent 100 bucks and got ..... i mean i am defining the odds with the three other batteries. i am looking at getting the screwdriver next or chantix, cause this ecig .... is irritating.
Ummm, did you get the manual or automatic batteries? 'cause if they're the automatic batteries I think I know what your problem is...
"only use 4 drops of juice"? Are you dripping? If you are you don't need 4 drops. I find 2 works just fine with a 510 and 3 at the most. 4 drops WILL flood it.
If you're overfilling your cartridges it will flood the battery.
If the packing in your cartridge is compacted or gummed up then putting 4 drops in there might not get absorbed, sit on top in a puddle and then flood the battery.
Automatic batteries are not sealed at the top where they screw onto the atomizer. They have a hole there that's open to the switch so they can sense the suction. If you flood the atomizer the juice just flows down into the battery and and ruins it. If it doesn't short things out it gums up the switch.
Melting a Joye plastic cartridge is hard to do. It had to get HOT. You can get an atomizer HOT without making much vapor. If it's flooded it will more boil the juice rather than vaporize it. It still gets hot.
While it is possible that you got a bad batch of stuff it's less likely from Cignot. They sell the real Joye products. If you did get a bad batch they will surely make good on it. They've built quite a reputation around here with their customer service.