eGo battery dead after 18days??

[lrd3]

theres a few threads out there that say "ego vrs lr" dont use LRs on your egos and ur ego will last forever.
i bought several kitts from cignot and any problem they were rite on top off it.
unfortunatly its a sad fact that LR kills egos ........

 

[vapeguy123]

I had that problem too, just take a tissue and wipe the thread on the charger all the black gunk will come off and it should work. Be sure to do this regularly.

 

[robertpri]

I'm sort of glad to see that I'm not the only one, not that it helps. I have a standard 501 batty and the larger Ego that cannot be charged. I know they are low, but I've tried all five ports on my gang charger. It never goes to red for charging. I did try my new USB charger and that worked for a while, but it no longer works. This is not a batty issue or a charger issue, but methinks the contact points on the batty get pushed into the barrell from all the 'screwing on/off'.

I managed to pry one contact out with a tiny screw driver, kinda working it back and forth, and that worked! Charged fine, but after about ten times, it no longer makes contact. You can't get in there with any kind of needled nose pliers, so rocking the contact point back and forth helps some times.

 

[thefreak48324]

I have a ego battery doing the exact same thing. The battery was fully charged. I was using it then poof, dead. I put it back on the charger and it blinks three times, light stays green. The battery was 5 months old, so I just bought a new one. Figured it was time anyway. I did clean the connectors, of course that didn't work either.

For 5 months it was a strong solid battery. So I didn't mind replacing it. Sucks yours died in 18 days. Maybe you got a used one to begin with. ??

 

[robertpri]

I now have two that won't charge, and one that will only charge on my USB charger. I am confident the batts are good because as they begin to show signs that they won't charge [LED's don't change] I put them into another socket on the multi-charger.

There is no doubt the contacts have been pushed just enough they cannot make contact. I slowly screw them until the LEDs blink and no more. I do not over tighten

 

[robertpri]

there are so many threads on battys, but this one appears in my email. Interesting development. I have a charger made for the slimmer battys and bought two small extensions to accept the Ego's. This worked fine, and I also have an Ego USB charger.

One after another, my Ego's would "fail" meaning they would not take a charge. The little LED remained red forever. Batty's were dead. Being cheap, I put all four in a pile and cussed a while. Then I noticed that with NO batty screwed into the adapter on the charger, the LED's were still red! Hmmmm

I screwed those batty's into the USB charger and they all charged perfectly!

It was the adapter! Cleaned threads, used clean alcohol to clean contacts and they still show red just by screwing them into the charger. So, will either buy new adapters or another USB charger.

 

[zoiDman]

I've had one die in about 3 weeks and it was kinda a let down. But it can happen.

I was Very ...... when it mine died but then I thought, I was spending $6.50 a Day on analogs. I guess if I got a bad battery and it costs me $1.00 a day, well, it should have lasted longer.

But it was still cheaper than analogs.

 

[Toot Sweet]

These batteries have problems. I love them and use them, but I'm very careful with anything LR. LR atties and cartos can kill those batteries easily. That's what happened to me. The LR carto had a short and took the battery with it.

I would peg the LR atty as primary culprit. Not just via short but also by virtue of design.

Those lovely little 50 milliamp micro-switches can't handle the amp range of normal vaping. Which is why ego switches are FET driven. When you use an LR atty below 2.0 ohms on an ego the FET itself can fail. Unfortunately on many websites the LR warnings aren't always clearly posted for ego batteries.

I consistantly use my ego batteries with 2.0 ohm cartomizers. I know even at 2.0 ohms the ~3.6 volt ego batteries are clocking 1.8 amps [I=E/R]. But at 1.7 ohms which is where many LR atties are, that amperage goes to 2.1, presto dead FET i.e. dead battery.

Hope that helps clarify