Carto shorting out Riva battery???

[GlindaW]

I have been using three Riva batteries for the last couple of months with low resistance cartomizers. They have been great. This morning I put a fresh LR carto on a freshly charged Riva battery and it started blinking. I thought that was funny, but maybe that battery wasn't charged...so I put it on another battery and the same thing happened. I did not try it on my last battery! I did try other cartos on those batteries and they now appear to be dead. Could that cartomizer have been wired wrong and cause the batteries to short out? I am seriously bummed!

 

[Jim211]

I just had a couple LR 1.7 ohm cartomizers do the same thing. I even put them on the meter and it read an internal short. Fortunately I build my mods and just lost a protection circuit.

 

[Pamster]

We're talking about LR atty's killing batteries on Ego's and Riva's here:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...w-resistance-specific-batteries-new-post.html

I think ppl need to be aware that this can happen, it must be really frustrating. Hubby has never had a LR carto or atty, so he won't know what he's missing if he starts on regular 510's on the new riva we're gonna get him soon. Sorry you lost two batteries GlindaW.

 

[foggy1]

Pamster, thank you for pointing out the link to the discussion on batteries
just read the entire thread and learned alot..head hurts...
I'll be keeping my multimeter close and test all atty's & cartos on arrival
Hope more people see these posts and not use LR stuff on weak batts. !