Battery Led Color?

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LudaCura

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I kind of prefer the orange LEDs - I have five batteries, and just one of them have an orange one, all the others are blue or green. I only vape the orange one out in public (i.e. when I'm walking on the street), since I get enough stares already from my silver battery. I think a blue or other non-orange light would look too rave-ish or techno-y for me, kind of like a glow stick. I'm going to be requesting orange LEDs from now on, so I'm kinda glad that it seems like everyone else prefers the more "unique" colors :)

I would love, love, love to have an LED-free battery. I can't see it anyway while I'm vaping, so it's only for other peoples' benefit - and I'm not looking to give anyone a reason to stare.
 

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Me too, I want red or orange only. I don't want to think I'm smoking a drug-device, and I don't want people to think that either. The more it looks like the old cigarettes used to look, the better. That is why I bought it and why it works and why it's still widely acceptable to use, because it's experientiallly a cigarette and it mimics them very well, but the strange ligths mess it up and can easily contribute to some people thinking of them as drug delivery devices from Mars or something that would need stringent decontamination and government scrutiny.
 
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I would love, love, love to have an LED-free battery. I can't see it anyway while I'm vaping, so it's only for other peoples' benefit - and I'm not looking to give anyone a reason to stare.

If you really really don't want an LED at all why not just cover it up? All you have to do is pry the clear cap off the end of the battery to expose the LED, then you can cover the diode and replace the cap. A small piece of electrical tape would be fine, non-conductive paint should also work well.
 

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Me too, I want red or orange only. I don't want to think I'm smoking a drug-device, and I don't want people to think that either. The more it looks like the old cigarettes used to look, the better. That is why I bought it and why it works and why it's still widely acceptable to use, because it's experientiallly a cigarette and it mimics them very well, but the strange ligths mess it up and can easily contribute to some people thinking of them as drug delivery devices from Mars or something that would need stringent decontamination and government scrutiny.

I have yet to see any "drug smoking device" that has an LED on it, so c'mon now, really? :rolleyes: It is possible to grow ......... using LED lights themselves, but really, never have i seen a pipe, .... etc, with an active LED on it. :yawn: Not only that, but when was the last time you saw ANYONE using "drugs" in a openly public location? I NEVER HAVE. Concerts are a different story, general public city areas, nope, and i've been through downtown Detroit/Chicago/Denver enough to see it if i was going to.

I understand people wanting orange, yellow or red LEDs for public "vaping". Blue, green, and pink glowing lights in front of ones face certainly tends to draw some attention.
 

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If you really really don't want an LED at all why not just cover it up? All you have to do is pry the clear cap off the end of the battery to expose the LED, then you can cover the diode and replace the cap. A small piece of electrical tape would be fine, non-conductive paint should also work well.


A black sharpie on the end cap works pretty well, although it's a bit thin. One of the more serious ink markers works very well, like the "magnum" markers.
 

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thanks for the sharpie advice... I've tried it on the outside already, but the LED shines right through - I have to try the both-sides advice... I was also thinking of getting black enamel paint (like you would use for model cars) and painting with that. Really, really dumb question now... once the enamel dries, I would hope that I wouldn't be somehow inhaling enamel fumes from vaping with the battery? Air isn't drawn through the LED portion, just the carto connection point, right? Anyway, I don't think it would be any worse than sharpie fumes if there are any, and if it dries off it's not being drawn in by breathing, I can't imagine. I'll post a pic if I get around to it.
 

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See, the thing is it's not so much for me, obviously I have managed to do fine. But when I try to share the wonders of vaping to other smokers, they're definitely interested and supportive, but to this day they have not ordered, much less switched.

If I can lend them my batteries and give them cartos for about 24 hours each, they would be gald to try it, but the strange lights (and flavors too, btw) do not appeal to them. If I proceed and tell them that they need to order them and then take a sharpie and color them, or cut some rubber to put on it, and tamper with them it just stops whatever little progress there was. Many people I know have been smoking for plenty decades and ...well, right now it's important to increase the e-cig awareness and get them to as many smokers as possible and most importantly as quickly as possible. It's possible that there is a wide public perception that these things are new but soon they will be ubiquitous and they can just wait it out so that they don't have to order on line and deal with tampering them, etc. But they don't know that at the federal level, the battle just began not long ago, with an appeal. And various national associations are gaining cohesion and focusing on NY at the moment, they will not stop there, and will continue to ruin everything state by state.

So, to make a long story short, the more it mimics a cigarette in 'everything' (except in the harm of the old cigarettes, of course), the easier for smokers to get the final impetus needed to switch to the new cigarettes (the electronic cigarettes). Once having switched it is indeed a good thing that there are various flavors to discover, and lights for different occasions, but first they need to get them in the first place, and my concern is that I cannot easily order plain red and orange lights, not so much for me, as for the countless smokers that I know.

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>> well, right now it's important to increase the e-cig awareness and get them to as many smokers as possible and most importantly as quickly as possible.

I disagree. If they can't handle the flavor (you will never duplicate the flavor of thousands of burning chemicals without burning them) or the LED, they'll never be able to handle all the other BS that goes into this.

The market is just not ready for the general idiot to jump in. Wait a few years and see how things shake out.
 

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>> well, right now it's important to increase the e-cig awareness and get them to as many smokers as possible and most importantly as quickly as possible.

I disagree. If they can't handle the flavor (you will never duplicate the flavor of thousands of burning chemicals without burning them) or the LED, they'll never be able to handle all the other BS that goes into this.

The market is just not ready for the general idiot to jump in. Wait a few years and see how things shake out.


The flavors are fine, the problem there, is I just don't have the actual bottles, I would have to order 3 or 4 but the flavors are fine, what I meant is I have grape and menthol only at the moment, and the somkers that are close to switching smoke virginia lights, misty lights, and virginia menthol, and marlboro lights. All are easily available, (my menthol was too strong for the virginia menthol smoker).

But you do have a point, I guess less see how things shake out. That is also a valid point.
 
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