Battery usage question

Have you cleaned your firing pin contact?

 

Sounds like it could be the batteries going. I really can't tell as I haven't had batteries go south on me yet.

 

It sounds unlikely that three batteries sharing cycling duties would go bad that quickly. A battery being used one out of every three days for 6 months is like 60 charge cycles, they should last 4 times that amount. I'd look into the charger... Or a dirty firing pin is causing wasted and inefficient discharge of the battery when firing.

 

Get new ones and see if it helps ?
For the cost of battery's and the savings they give us ,it's a cheep fix if that's what it is.
I'm still using my 6 month old ego's in a three way rotation and they are still giving me a full day each .

 

Most every site I've ever looked up info specs on the AW IMR claim it should last > 500 cycles. 240 is a super conservative realistic expectation I would give it considering non-ideal storage, manufacturers over state specs etc.

180 is unacceptable, something is wrong. It may be your charger. Do you remove the batteries after they are fully charged? Do you "fast charge" them? Does your charger "trickle charge"?

 

Just to add to this discussion. If a battery is 1/4 discharged and placed in a charger that counts as 1/4 charge cycle not as a complete charge cycle. Lithium batteries will age over time even when they are not used. I've heard 2 to 3 years but I have no hard evidence or reference at this time to back this up. Its important to buy batteries from a vendor that has not had batteries in stock for a protracted amount of time. I suspect that many batteries degrade not from use but from age. My IMR AW 1600s are over 2 years old and still working quite well. I rotate 3 of them. I don't mean this to imply that your batteries are degraded but just as another part of the whole discussion.

 

I'm at a loss, but will keeping an eye on this for future reference. Thanks for bringing this up. Hope it gets resolved soon.

 

All other factors being equal a battery that, dissipates it charge, drops voltage, faster is going. Use it until the useful length of charge becomes a problem.

If the battery has reached this condition too early then it's probably from being over charged or discharged to low. I had one charger that was charging to 4.32 volts

 

Is this your charger? http://www.nitecore.com/productDetail.aspx?id=18

I dunno about that intelligent shenanigans. According to the site a microprocessor automatically detects the batteries status and selects the appropriate charge mode (CC, CV, or Trickle Charge).

Seeing as the Reo has so little that could go wrong and cause this problem, it's either the charger or itrainers suggestion that maybe, just maybe the three batteries you bought (did you get them at the same time?) were old as heck stock coming to you in the first place.

The problem with not knowing if it is the charger or not is; if you buy new batteries and the charger was to blame, your just ruining another set of batteries.

I just use an el'-cheap-o Trust Fire 500mA and pull 'em out when the light turns green. It works fine for me because I know it doesn't charge too fast, it cuts off at 4.2V, and if it busts no big loss. My older pair of AW's are at least past 300 cycles at this point. Maybe the same perks of a Reo being a mechanical slightly apply to the battery charging world? Throw in a microprocessor, automation and bells and whistles and things may go wrong...

 

Do your batteries charge in a shorter time than they used to? If so, that would indicate a loss of capacity. How many hours does your charger take to charge your batteries?

 

RTD has a decent amount of occasions where their batteries run out of stock, so we can probably rule out NOS. What are the chances you received three bad batteries from a trusted vendor? Pretty unlikely. If you agree with me, we can probably conclude that it is the charger, because at 180 cycles something is definitely going wrong.

I'd consider adding good ol' el-cheapo to your cart if you order from RTD again. No microprocessors, no fancy displays, just red and green lights. Xtar WP2 II - Battery Chargers

-B

 

When was the last time you rebuilt your coil? I know that coils will drop in resistance over time, so if you've been running this coil for a long time, it's quite possible that the resistance has dropped to 1.0-1.1, meaning you'd go through batteries more quickly.

ALSO - you mentioned that you clean the firing pin. Have you also cleaned the contacts on your batteries and cleaned the spring on the reo? When I give mine a bath, I tend to noalox the battery on positive and negative just to make sure i get plenty on the spring and firing pin also. A dirty spring can give the same effect as a dirty firing pin.

One final thing: Have you ever turned your RM2 into the hole so tight that it might have been done by Orcs? Because it's also possible that the insulator on the contact is causing a small short and draining your batteries quickly (though I'm not sure this is likely, because it would probably short so hard the batteries would fail).

 

Not to get off subject but how do you like your XC-132 wicks? I use the exact same setup only with 7wraps of 30 awg. 1.2 ohm
I get close to 4hrs on my mini with 14500 batteries. Good for about 2/3 bottle with 3mg bottle.

 

Changing the charger for those batteries isn't going to save them. If they come off at 4.2 and don't last the full mAh they are toast. I was suggesting that along with your new batteries you not use that charger. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I like your style of vaping! I too take 5-10 second puffs.. tho it is actually a bunch of puffs off of one button press. Mouth to lung and out the nose three or four times followed by a mouth to lung/direct hit to top it off with a nice plumy exhale. yummy.

-B