Cooking my batteries???

[Avid]

In 3 weeks I have lost 1 atty and 1 battery for my dse901. Since I have 2 more of each as spares, I figure I'm good until the next batch comes in (about a week).

Anyway, batteries are charged as always, I put a fresh atty on and it starts what I believe must be a cleaning cycle - except this thing gets HOT!!! I'd read on one of the threads that I should avoid this, so I unscrew the battery and use the other battery. And it does the same thing. I left it alone for a couple hours and put the atty on the battery and it still wants to do the cleaning cycle.

Then I think maybe I should just let it do it's cleaning thingy and be done with it... which it does for about 5 minutes (really REALLY hot now). And afterwards, the battery needs charging. I use the other battery and another atty and that one wants to clean, too!

Now I have 2 seemingly dead batteries, though, according to charger light (which I tend to disregard as they are rarely accurate on my chargers), they *are* charged. But neither of them will light up even when I directly draw just on the battery. I'm not even sure now if my atty's are ruined, too, since I have no battery to test them with.

Did they cook themselves??? What did I do wrong? I don't want this to happen to the next batch!

 

[taz3cat]

I had some battery do that, they are just bad batterys and probably have a bad switchs that shorted out or something. I got several at at one time, so they can come in bad batchs.

 

[Avid]

I had some battery do that, they are just bad batterys and probably have a bad switchs that shorted out or something. I got several at at one time, so they can come in bad batchs.

Thanks for your reply. Well I certainly hope I don't get another batch like that!

Disconnecting the battery when it starts the cleaning cycle didn't work - even after letting it sit for a couple hours when I connected it again, it resumed the cycle. Any way of avoiding that?

 

[taz3cat]

That is not a cleaning cycle.

The switch is stuck on and I have fixed one or two by using a paper clip in the battery hole and wiggly it. You still have a bad battery even if you get it to work right because then you have to watch the battery or it will do it again. They still come in batches and you have 2 of that batch.

 

[Ramblin]

Sorry to thread hijack.

I have 5 batteries (white with red leds) for my 901 from bestecig.com that the light comes on just from sliding them out of the box. The batteries are sensitive to the point of being ridiculous. Screwing an atomizer on them makes them light up. I'd be terrified to leave these assembled with an atomizer unless it was in a sound proofed room and they were in a covered case.

Think i should return them? I think they work OK, but still.

 

[Avid]

That is not a cleaning cycle.

The switch is stuck on and I have fixed one or two by using a paper clip in the battery hole and wiggly it. You still have a bad battery even if you get it to work right because then you have to watch the battery or it will do it again. They still come in batches and you have 2 of that batch.

Thank you Next time I'll know what it is and possibly stop it before it goes on that long/gets that hot. As for these batteries, I think they're both toasted. Hopefully the ones I have coming in won't do this!