Cartos getting too hot? What the heck are you people doing?

[slim66]

ok thats why my ears are warm....
Yes my batts only last an hour and my cartos get topped of constantly to avoid bad taste so i dont know how long one could last.
So either my batts are dodgy or i take longer drags or something... dunno..

Rift: it says 1000
Slim:Thanks, I have the pcc and a generic kr8 charger. Also i have 2 510 chargers to witch i added adaptors so to charge kr8's.
My reg 280 generic batts go for about 1,5 hours. 1 abit longer. They are about 4 months old now.

I have wall adaptors from LF. Mostly charge on kr8 charger in the laptop, or the pcc.

Well then I'm stumped. I thought maybe if you were only charging them with the PCC, instead of a wall or usb charger, that the problem might be with the PCC. But if you are getting the same battery life with all your chargers, then that throws that theory out.

You probably have to use some type of converter due to the difference in electrical outlets and/or volts (Denmark's system has 230 volts, right)? I don't know enough about that stuff to know if that would make a difference; I'm just grabbing at straws at this point. I guess I'm not helping much am I? Maybe someone else will come up with an answer.

 

[MichelleDen]

Well then I'm stumped. I thought maybe if you were only charging them with the PCC, instead of a wall or usb charger, that the problem might be with the PCC. But if you are getting the same battery life with all your chargers, then that throws that theory out.

You probably have to use some type of converter due to the difference in electrical outlets and/or volts (Denmark's system has 230 volts, right)? I don't know enough about that stuff to know if that would make a difference; I'm just grabbing at straws at this point. I guess I'm not helping much am I? Maybe someone else will come up with an answer.

Ya so am I...dont get it.... And no worrie slim, its allways nice when someone tries to help.. maybe someone will read it all and know whats going on.. I thought maybe it could be that I take longer drags maybe but very rarely hit the cutoff... so shouldnt be it.. Though of getting a new one and see if its diff.. If it is, i'd make a complaint to cs about these two.
The blue one is, as mentioned before, a little blander in the TH than the red. Allways get surprices over how good the red is when just of the charger. But then the red often stops charging before time and I have to set it to charge again, and it will charge for another 30 mins- an hour.. So maybe they are a bit dodgy these? dunno. Anyone have this happen?

 

[nycsublimegirl]

do you use a wall outlet adaptor for US-Europe? cause what you were saying about finished charging and then going back for another half hour seems very off....

 

[MichelleDen]

do you use a wall outlet adaptor for US-Europe? cause what you were saying about finished charging and then going back for another half hour seems very off....

Its doing it in the pcc......It doesnt do it on a generic kr8 charger stuck in my laptop... only in the pcc.. weird huh?..

 

[slim66]

Its doing it in the pcc......It doesnt do it on a generic kr8 charger stuck in my laptop... only in the pcc.. weird huh?..

So it sounds like you don't use any chargers plugged into an electric wall outlet, is that correct? You only charge from your pcc or chargers connected to your computer usb port?

 

[MichelleDen]

Ive charged them in wall outlet to. My wall adaptors are from LF.. But mostly do it in pcc and have my reg kr8's in the wall chargers..

 

[Kembial]

Not only do I have the habit of killing conversation, I also seem to create threads whose sole fate is to fall completely off-topic...

For what it's worth, it was a VERY INTENSE 2 MINUTES for me.

 

[slim66]

Not only do I have the habit of killing conversation, I also seem to create threads whose sole fate is to fall completely off-topic...

For what it's worth, it was a VERY INTENSE 2 MINUTES for me.

Sorry, I think it my fault this thread went off-topic.

Sorry, please ignore.

 

[MichelleDen]

well afaik Im the only one that run the cartos hot( and drain batts in an hour) so maybe you made a Michelle thread by accident...
so thanks ; ) It shead some collective light on my issues...

 

[bobalex]

Hi,

I don’t know if this is applicable or not but here goes …

When I first started vaping with KR808 batteries (unBloog) I had the USB charger plugged into an unpowered USB hub connected to the computer.

The batteries charged from there would only last a half hour or so. After a day or two the battery performance dropped even more.

Then I bypassed the unpowered hub and connected the USB charger directly to the computer. Same result … the batteries wouldn’t last more than 20 minutes.

Answer? I messed up the USB charger somehow by using the unpowered USB hub. After getting a replacement USB charger, as well as another couple of batteries, and charging directly from the computer … problem solved. The new batteries performed for hours instead of minutes. But alas … the batteries that had been repeatedly charged on the USB charger/USB unpowered hub arrangement never could last longer than a half hour.

That was almost a year ago. Now I’ve got a “charging station” in the kitchen. All batteries are charged from wall chargers. I’ve been using “Fat Batts” for the last 6 months or so but after reading about the MaxxFusion I’m anxiously waiting for Bloog stock to come in so I can try out the new improved KR808 batts and cartos.

Bob

 

[MichelleDen]

whats an unpowered usb hub? I stick batt in charger and charger in pc..

 

[bobalex]

A USB hub is a device where you can plug multiple USB devices into it and the hub is connected to a USB port on the computer. A powered hub also plugs into a wall outlet ... unpowered hub doesn't.

 

[starsong]

A USB hub is a device where you can plug multiple USB devices into it and the hub is connected to a USB port on the computer. A powered hub also plugs into a wall outlet ... unpowered hub doesn't.

I don't know nuttin' but I wonder if since it has multiple ports any one of them doesn't get enuf power/voltage/whatever to charge the the battery properly... kinda like a brown-out is bad for electronics.

 

[bobalex]

All I know is that the (unpowered) hub slightly killed the USB charger. And repeated small charges on the slightly killed charger shortened battery life. When I talked to a knowledgeable electronics guy he snorted and said, "Everybody knows not to put a charger on an unpowered USB hub."

It was news to me.

Until the new batteries and charger arrived I was anchored to a laptop with the passthrough. Possibly one of the longest 3 days I've spent recently. I was not going back to cigarettes.

 

[starsong]

When I talked to a knowledgeable electronics guy he snorted and said, "Everybody knows not to put a charger on an unpowered USB hub." It was news to me.

Hate those kind of snotty replies. So when I was visiting a friend last weekend, and wanted to plug the USB charger into her laptop, she said there was a difference between 'this one' and 'that one' which I didn't quite grasp, but sounded like one you could charge off of and the other you couldn't. I have mine plugged into one of two USB ports on my Mac, not sure if there is a difference between them. Hope I'm not hurting my battery and/or iPhone (which gets the other port).

 

[MichelleDen]

Ive got 3 one gets the mouse, one charges pcc and one batts......