Cart causing a short in battery?

[kathy11515]

I've been using the Vapor King for about 6 months now and never saw this happen til today....I was on break at work and wanted to switch flavors so I changed the cart-and it wasn't working. I was confused because I could see it light-but it only stayed on for a minute. Again confusion because this battery should have lasted another 4 hours. I thought maybe this battery is no good anymore. So I put this cart on my spare battery, which I KNOW is fully charged, and I get 3 quick blinks of the light. At first I was freaking out because it was only 11, I had to work the rest of the day with 2 dead batteries?!?!

So I put my original cart on, and it works no problem. On both batteries. I got home and tried a bunch, but this one cart causes my long battery to just light for a second, and my short battery to blink 3 times and go off.

Very strange. This ever happen to anyone else?

 

[toad]

Yep I have run into a few Wowboy and Wow Peppermint carts that do this to my XL manual batteries. The led will flash 3 or 4 times, but the battery does not activate.

I have found that loosening the offending carto just a bit seems to solve this problem for me. Usually 1/8 turn or so does the trick.

 

[kathy11515]

Thanks Toad-that did the trick! BTW, it was also Wow-Vanilla.

 

[Adrenalynn]

If the switch isn't on, no current can pass through the cartomizer, regardless of the cartomizer itself. No switch on, no circuit. So I'm not sure I understand the question?

 

[toad]

This is interesting. I have narrowed the issue down to 2 of my XL manual batteries, and only when combined with the Wowboy and Wow Peppermint carts I am using. These same 2 batteries work as expected with my other Premium carts, and the Wow filled carts are fine on my other XL manual batteries. All batteries are the latest design from v4l.

So it would appear to be a battery issue, although I am not sure what is causing it. Fortunately it is an easy fix.

 

[K24A3]

I received a bad Pear Cartomizer (Premium I think) that cut out the Battery after only 1 second, so it seems like the Battery's chip can detect a short or very low resistance and cut out.

Have you tried cleaning those two batteries? Perhaps there is low electrical flow and the chip thinks there is no cart attached when a cart with lower than normal resistance is attached.

 

[Adrenalynn]

No, it doesn't "sense" it. If there's a short condition it can overheat the FET and cause the FET to enter thermal runaway which will cause the circuit to shutdown for a period - at the cost of substantially shortened lifespan of the device itself.

 

[toad]

I believe it's the threading on the battery causing this in my case. Battery on the left will not activate when a Premium carto is tightened all the way down (led blinks 4 times). Battery on the right does not have this problem.

As you can see, the problem battery seems to have an extra row of threading present. Either a defect during manufacturing, or an alternate design perhaps?

It's not really an issue for me, as loosening the carto a bit does solve the problem.

 

[Ravens Rose]

I just had this happen to me with a WOW Peppermint on a manual XL battery too... Glad I found the thread. Just loosening it up a tiny bit did the trick! Thank you!!!