Bad battery or bad tanks?

[DCer]

I bought an Aspire CD VV 650 battery, an Aspire EST BDC tank for my favorite flavor and a set of iClear 16s for variety.

The battery works and charges fine, but...

Two of the iClear tanks won't produce anything with my battery. They will produce just fine with other batteries (I took them into the shop and the owner checked them on two different kinds of batts, and they worked). There just seems to be a connection that's not quite being made. Is this likely to be slightly defective tanks, or is it possible that something in the battery is not machined perfectly?

The Aspire EST BDC gurgles pretty bad. I tried the same juice in the iClear and had no problems. The shop owner showed me how to burn out the juice from the coil, but the problem comes back within three or four puffs. I know these tanks have some fans and some not so much, but it made me wondering if it might not be the connection with the battery that's causing the problem? Or is the tank maybe just bad? Maybe I should try draining it and replacing the coil to see if that's the problem.

I will do some more trouble-shooting with the shop owner when I can get back there, but I was curious if anyone has any theories?

Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.

 

[classwife]

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[Danbrooks2k]

Look up in the bottom of the iclear... at the metal post that is poking out... if this does not make contact with the battery it wont vape...

Try to pull the post out a tad with tweezers and try to carefully attach the tank to the battery.

This was common with the MVP battery that had a kind of deep well. It didnt work well with a few ego connection tanks and clearos.

 

[DCer]

Look up in the bottom of the iclear... at the metal post that is poking out... if this does not make contact with the battery it wont vape...

Try to pull the post out a tad with tweezers and try to carefully attach the tank to the battery.

This was common with the MVP battery that had a kind of deep well. It didnt work well with a few ego connection tanks and clearos.

Thanks for the suggestion. Will pulling the post out too much cause a leak risk?

 

[Rsunderl]

It might - you need to do it gently, and moving it just a little bit is often the solution. You can also try doing it to the battery post. just use a small screwdriver, go around the post and GENTLY pry upwards. make sure the post is centereed when you finish.

As for gurgling, that's usually a sign of too much juice being pulled into the coil portion. If you are drawing on it like a cigarette, you might be drawing too hard. These things get the juice to the coils through vacuum. Try drawing a bit more gently and longer and see if that helps.

 

[DCer]

Thanks Rsunderl. I will try to pull the posts a tiny bit and see what happens. I am a bit more leery about tinkering with the battery post, since it's more expensive.

 

[Susan~S]

Here is the fix for the center pin of the battery not making a connection with the atomizer of the clearomizer/tank. This usually occurs from over-tightening the tank onto the battery connector. Just make sure that if you use something conductive (metal) to pry up on the center pin that you do NOT hit the fire button while you are working on the battery. Or better yet, turn off the battery.

Center Pin Issue - Fixing a non firing eGo battery

If you continue to have problems, buy a few spacers from MadVapes. They solve all connectivity problems. Just drop one into the 510 well of your battery and you're good to go! You can thank ECF member GinnyTx for this little tidbit!

 

[HecticEnergy]

I've also heard not so good things about the iClear - not sure about your particular variety, but maybe check some reviews online.
Flooding the coil: draw lighter, or open the airflow (assuming the tank has adjustable airflow). also, switching to a lower resistance coil may help (if your on a 2.2 ohm go to a 2.0 ohm, 2.0-1.8 etc) as a lower resistance heats up quicker and burns a bit hotter.
There are two ways to clear juice from a flooded head:
1) take the tank apart, put the head and tank base on the battery and burn up the excess juice
2) for bottom coil clearomisers, point the bottom of the tank toward the ceiling, put a rag or some vapor towel in front of the air hole (don't plug it, air should still be able to escape), let the juice in the tank run to the top (now upside down) then blow the excess juice out of the head through the air hole.

If you have a vv device, you can also try cranking up the voltage a bit to vaporize the liquid faster.

hth