Can an atomizer kill a battery?

[VaporNebula]

Ok, I have been searching and haven't found an answer. I recently had an atty die leaving me only 2 left, so i ordered more. While waiting for the new ones(still waiting), I was using one of my last 2 atty's. Well one of them died leaving me only one. I started using that one while waiting on my order, when all of a sudden my battery is dead. I charge it over night, nothing. Try another charger, nothing. The led lights up but no power. I verified this with a meter.

Using my other 2 batteries for a few days and another one dies. This time it when I push the button it just flashes 4 times and no power. At this point I am now ordering batteries. Then last night.... my last battery after pulling it off of the charger, screw on the atty get about 5 hits on it and then nothing. put it on my other charger no LED flash and no red light on the charger. So it seems I am left with no batteries and one homicidal atomizer.

Does anyone know what may cause this, or has anyone has similar experiences?

Batteries: 2 of them are genuine 750Mah Ego batteries and the other one is a 1000 Mah Tornado battery

Atty: JoyE LR reading at 1.4 ohms

Chargers: One is th original with the kit and a second one identical to the first.

Any help is greatly appreciated.


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[madjack]

...the short answer is YES...that low a resistance atty puts LOTSSA strain on the electronics of proprietary batts..........
madjack

 

[donnah]

I have used a 1.7 smoktech on an ego but that's as low as I'd go. Your attys are too low resistance for the ego. As long as you keep using them you'll keep killing your ego batts.

 

[Youmadbrah]

I had 6 dead Nimh batteries in 1 week. They suck. Get Li-ion batteries mods , they are cheap and last much longer.

 

[sobero4]

With all due respect, perhaps you got a bad batch. I have owned NIMH 4.8v 400 mah batteries and had them cycle at least 200x on my mako maksi before noticing shortened life spans. I also own the NIMH 4.8 600 mah batteries, which I've easily cycled 70-80x on my megalodon and my silver bullet with no noticable drop in run times as of yet. Where did you buy these NIMH batteries? I got mine from electronicstix.com as well as the charger that fits both of the NIMH battery sizes that I own.

 

[Bozzlite]

Exactly what Madjack said. That 1.4 ohm atty is killing your battery MOSFET. The electronics. Ego type batteries are not really meant to be used with that low resistance. If you stay around 2.0, you should be ok.

 

[pyro13g]

And blind trust that something is xxOhms, playing with that little margin for hardware failure has the potential to get costly. Find a cheap Ohm meter to test the carto/atty first and get's it's true resistance in ohms. I have a 2.4ohm that measured 1.9 ohm out of the box.

 

[stephpd]

And if any atty or carto is shorted out it'll blow almost all protected circuits.

They all have limits on the amount of current they can draw. Go over that and the mosfet board burns up.

 

[VaporNebula]

It was definitely the atty. After i resoldered the switch on my roughstack and tried it, it fried one of my 18650's. But on the up side i do have 2 18650's left and now a working roughstack and i found some unused cartos that i had forgotten about. So.... vaping again and better than ever.

Kind of wierd about the 1.4 ohm atty killing all of my ego batts. I have been using that 5 pack for about a year. and they all were 1.4-1.5 ohm.

Thanks for all of the responses. Good info to have.

 

[VaporNebula]

And blind trust that something is xxOhms, playing with that little margin for hardware failure has the potential to get costly. Find a cheap Ohm meter to test the carto/atty first and get's it's true resistance in ohms. I have a 2.4ohm that measured 1.9 ohm out of the box.

I test all atty's out of the box before use. I just had no idea that 1.4 was to low for an Ego Battery

 

[humpty]

I've had bad atties go from 1.5 ohm all the way down to 0.3 - 0.7 ohm. Can't figure out how/why they do this and they don't pop either.