eGo Mini 650 mAh Battery Problem

[John Castle]

Okay, I did a search, and I've seen a few threads on similar subjects -- but they all got closed down before an actual answer appeared, so here's crossing my fingers...

I bought an eGo-C 1000mAh passthrough battery. I also bought an eGo Mini 650mAh battery.

Over the last 2-3 days, both batteries have developed significant glitches.

The 1000mAh passthrough battery will randomly stop firing with a 306 or 510 atomizer screwed on. No flashes, no nothing -- just won't fire up at all. The only exception is if the passthrough USB cable is plugged into the battery -- then it fires up just fine.

The 650mAh eGo Mini battery will just blink its blue button light three times. Nothing else. The exception to THIS glitch is if nothing is screwed onto the battery -- THEN it'll fire normally.

So, what's the deal? Am I just getting my batteries from a shady source?

 

[Ken_A]

I don't find anything on a search.. Have you asked the vendor about it?

 

[UncleChuck]

Sounds like the 650mAh (not a mini BTW, 650 is regular size, minis are 350 or 400mAh) is dead and needs to be put back on the charger. When eGo batteries reach their cutoff voltage they won't fire anymore, and will just blink the button light when you try to fire them. This tells you that it needs to be recharged.

The other battery's symptoms could potentially be from using an atty or carto with resistance that is too low for the eGo. Do you have either a multimeter, or a mod that is capable of reading the carto's resistance? If so check out what ohms your atty and cartos are reading. If they are too low (1.0-1.2) the eGo battery might not be able to supply enough power, but when the passthrough is plugged in then you get additional power from the USB, so it works fine.

 

[Buggs5347]

Clean the batteries with a qtip dipped in rubbing alcohol. Also clean the charger. Try charging them, again. If they still won't charge, try nudging the center pin up just a tiny bit.

 

[Vchick]

Try lifting the post on the battery, sometimes the charger will push it down and it won't make a good connection with the cartomizer

 

[Unforeseen]

Moved to Model Specific Discussion - ego Type Models

 

[mainevaper]

Ya, what's ohms r the carts? Sometimes if I use a Atty lower than 1.5, my ego 650 detects it as a short and shuts down. My twist doesn't do that however.

 

[John Castle]

Sounds like the 650mAh (not a mini BTW, 650 is regular size, minis are 350 or 400mAh) is dead and needs to be put back on the charger. When eGo batteries reach their cutoff voltage they won't fire anymore, and will just blink the button light when you try to fire them. This tells you that it needs to be recharged.

The other battery's symptoms could potentially be from using an atty or carto with resistance that is too low for the eGo. Do you have either a multimeter, or a mod that is capable of reading the carto's resistance? If so check out what ohms your atty and cartos are reading. If they are too low (1.0-1.2) the eGo battery might not be able to supply enough power, but when the passthrough is plugged in then you get additional power from the USB, so it works fine.

Unfortunately, I don't have any of the electrical tools needed to check resistance. I do know that both the 510 and the 306 atties were described to me as low-resistance.

Here's the thing about the eGo Mini -- I'm pretty sure it's a Smoktech, and I did some research on Smoktech's Mini batteries and saw just what you said -- 450mAh, which one is not supposed to use with LR. But the guy at the store I bought the battery from assured me that it was a 650mAh battery. I figured, well, maybe what I've seen online was out of date and this is a new-and-improved higher-capacity battery. Turns out not -- a buddy of mine disassembled it and discovered that the solder had busted, which is a symptom of using an LR atty on a 360-450mAh mini battery. ........

The issue with the 1000mAh eGo passthrough battery, I have discovered, is that it won't hold a charge. That's why it works just fine on the cable but dies after about 5 minutes of being disconnected from the cable. Now, I don't know if that's also a result of using LR atomizers or if I done screwed the pooch with bad dripping technique and flooded the atomizer, causing juice to leak into the battery and damaging it. That one may genuinely be entirely my fault.