Can I have this many bad batteries? Protege

[LuckySevens4U]

I'm very frustrated with my batteries.........I think. I have like 10 14500 protected batteries I'm rotating. Can they ALL be bad? I just don't get this and I'm "curious" if it could be my switch. I'll put in a new battery, vape is okay for a while then it crashes within an hour or so and I have weanie vape and I have to keep putting in new batteries almost as bad as a standard 510. I know it shouldn't be this way, but it's constant. Most these batteries are really fairly new. Could this have ANYTHING to do with my switch? I just can't pop in a batty and enjoy my protege all day without constant frustration.

 

[LuckySevens4U]

PS: I have another 14500 mod coming soon and I'm going to probably KNOW my answer when I start using the battys in that mod. IF they work for several hours without problems, then I know it has to be my switch. If they do the same thing, then I guess I have total junk 10 batteries. I am getting better power and throat hits off a standard 510 batty.

 

[nevergonnaleavetn]

Could it be your charger?

 

[LuckySevens4U]

Well....it takes about 2 hours each time to charge them so it seems they are being charged. I do have a brand new spare charger as a back up that I have not tried. But it really shouldn't be like this should it? I just have such massive inconsistencies. I have had the power and good vape from it before, but it won't stay consistent, it's constant fussing.

 

[Casey@PS]

I'd try the second charger and see if that makes a difference first. Make sure your batteries are making solid contact on the charger, and that they're positive side up.

 

[LuckySevens4U]

K I will try. Yes I have positive sides up and I have the spring pulled nice and tight and I am using protected battys. I have to really push in, like I told you before, the switch and push hard too to hear a sizzle.

 

[LuckySevens4U]

One time I pushed the switch up a bit like someone said to do and it started working really well, but that was short lived.

 

[Casey@PS]

Have you tried popping the switch out and realigning the button housing on it?

 

[LuckySevens4U]

Yes, because I accidentally did it when someone said to push it up and it all came apart and I got it back together and put it back in and that is when it all started working real good again, then it all just stopped again not too soon after.

 

[doots]

sounds like the switch.

 

[LuckySevens4U]

Like right now, if I push the switch, nothing, you hear nothing. Then I have to push real HARD to get it to sizzle. So basically when I push the switch there is no activation at all. I have to push down hard then I feel like a padding and then it will make a small sizzle. I love this thing to pieces, but it has been frustrating me for a long time and I don't think it should be this way and I keep thinking it's the batteries, but something is just not right.

 

[vapn]

Yea sounds like you are not getting good contact between switch and adaptor... Maybe. Those protected batteries could be doing something weird to the spring compressing it too much and it has become weak. Therefore not pushing the switch housing against the adaptor cap. Just what I can think of. I know those protected batts are just a slight bit longer than the non-protected ones... Do you have any un-protected batts to try?

 

[LuckySevens4U]

No, I do not have any unprotected, and I don't prefer to use them.

 

[LuckySevens4U]

I can get a vape when I push down hard, just by pushing the switch, there is no sound of the atty. It's strange..

 

[lotus14]

Like right now, if I push the switch, nothing, you hear nothing. Then I have to push real HARD to get it to sizzle. So basically when I push the switch there is no activation at all. I have to push down hard then I feel like a padding and then it will make a small sizzle.

Sounds like the switch. You might want to put a small disc of thin cardboard or rubber under the button so you don't have to press so hard. I'd also disassemble everything and thoroughly clean ALL your connections. An eraser works great on the brass.

 

[vapn]

Like right now, if I push the switch, nothing, you hear nothing. Then I have to push real HARD to get it to sizzle. So basically when I push the switch there is no activation at all. I have to push down hard then I feel like a padding and then it will make a small sizzle. I love this thing to pieces, but it has been frustrating me for a long time and I don't think it should be this way and I keep thinking it's the batteries, but something is just not right.

That is exactly what mine was doing when I FIRST got it... I had to push REAL hard to get activation. You may be only getting part of the actual voltage. You should ask for a replacement. Is your switch housing plastic or delron. Plastic is kinda grey and the delron is a shiny black color. They were having troubles with the plastic starting to conduct.

 

[LuckySevens4U]

It's been doing this for a long time. It only worked right for about the first week. I then got frustrated for a long time, but didn't say anything, then I said something and someone said to push the switch up and the whole thing came apart and I put it back together and then it worked all of a sudden for a day or so then it went back to doing this again.

 

[vapn]

yea I would ask them to look at it. I am sure Steve would sort it out for you no problems. He got mine back to me lickety split. And since then NO PROBLEMS.

 

[LuckySevens4U]

That is exactly what mine was doing when I FIRST got it... I had to push REAL hard to get activation. You may be only getting part of the actual voltage. You should ask for a replacement. Is your switch housing plastic or delron. Plastic is kinda grey and the delron is a shiny black color. They were having troubles with the plastic starting to conduct.

It is shiny black so it is not the plastic.

 

[LuckySevens4U]

yea I would ask them to look at it. I am sure Steve would sort it out for you no problems. He got mine back to me lickety split. And since then NO PROBLEMS.

I guess I should....I'll wait until I get this other mod so I'm not without anything. So should it fire when you just barely push in the switch or do ya'll have to push it in and push a little further?