Disabling the Battery cleaning cycle

[mikeallison]

There's nothing worse than that supernova aftertaste. Any electrical engineers out there who have figured out how to kill the cycle? Specifically, this would be for a 901/rn4075 battery

 

[Skad]

I'm fairly certain it's impossible, as it's all controlled by the microchip in the battery. Best way around it would be to use a mod of some type.

 

[hoodala]

Do you clean your atomizers any other way? Grain alcohol? I know mine get pretty gummed up after a few months use.

 

[Houdini]

If you try to kill that you will probably also kill the blinking when the battery needs charging. Personally I don't think the cleaning cycle will hurt the atomizers. It only happens every 1500 puffs. I put a stress test on one with my SD and let it burn for 5 minutes until the battery started to get weak. It didn't burn out or taste bad and it's still working 2 weeks later.

 

[Fox3]

I've just learned to live with it. Getting into the micro requires a bit of an investment and some time. Just not worth it.

I took an 801 battery apart to make a USB passthrough and was interested in what chip they used. Only marking on it was on the bottom which is either a date code or a custom part number :-(. Thought it might be a Motorola 68HC908QY4 (has the capabilities and the package) , but without the hardware to get at it and a development kit, I'll leave it at that . After looking at the circuitry, it wouldn't be impossible to write code to get something like an AVR to do it, but, again, hell of a lot of effort for very little return IMO.