Battery Problem

[bakabomb]

I have a 17670 1800mAh 3.7 batt that reads proper voltage using DMM but it will not work in PV (atty not firing). Just curious, does this make sense? I only have one right now.(17670 batt).. so I can't test another one yet. If I put 2 cr123 3.0 in same will work on same PV with everything else the same. Does a battery that reads proper voltage with meter neccessarily mean it should function or does putting under 3.2 ohm load cause a normal reading battery (with no load) to crap out immediately under a load? I take batt out test it wth meter and get 4.1 or so volt reading with leads of the meter on the battery.

 

[mistinthewoods]

Have you checked voltage at the atty connecter?

 

[bakabomb]

Yes, with the button depressed it reads good voltage... put any atty on...nothing happens.... put 2 3.0 volt batts everything works. I had been using this same battery for about a week... worked fine till now... I dont now alot about these batteries but this seems strange. I'll have to get some new batteries regardless but it concearns me until new 3.7's are working in my PV.

 

[mistinthewoods]

You sure your atty's not dead? Have you tried another one? If you're getting good voltage to the connecter and the atty's working and connected good ( have you tried cleaning the contacts on the atty?) then the coil should heat up. There's nothing else in the circuit. If everything is reading good to the connecter it's not the batteries.

 

[Hoosier]

Those are typical voltage readings.

If the same PV works with your CR123's, I would suspect your battery connections in the PV itself.

An 18650 is the closest in size to a stacked pair of CR123's but I have never had a 17670 in hand so I do not know the dimensions. Is it protected with a single raised button on the positive end or is it the three raised button type? Could not be making proper contact inside the unit.

Just throwing ideas out there.

 

[Drozd]

could be that the atty is not dead...but on it's way out...so it won't fire at 3.7V but will at 6V...? check your atty resistance...

 

[bakabomb]

Its protected with one raised button. Voltage readings at atty connector are good with suspect battery installed. Ohm reads 3.2 on SLB atty. Can take atty over to my 5V pass thru and works fine. I was thinking that the battery circuitry is hosed somehow... and that when you put any kind of a load on it it shuts down????? Its really bizzare to me how I can push the button on the PV and get good volt readings (at the atty connector on PV) then put a known good atty on it and nothing.... then slide the suspect 3.7 out and put the two 3.0 V's in (same atty) and vape away?????. I'll post back when I get the new 17670. Crossin my fingers... It would be a real bummer to not be able to vape at 3.7V with low reistance atty (1.5 ohm), nice combo, for clouds of vapor and not worring about the batt for at least full day before recharging with very heavy vaping.