EGO Style Battery issues (no explosions)

[Worutaa]

So, I recently lost my only large (650 mAH) battery while mowing. While waiting on my twist to come in (hoping it's a good model of battery), I went to a local smoke shop and bought this 1000 mAH ego-t battery. I've had trouble since. The guy at the counter didn't seem to know too much about anything, really. I put on a stardust clearomizer (2.1-2.4 ohm) and it didn't fire at all. I try my girlfriends battery out ( Riva) and the clearomizer fires fine. I try my small 510 battery and it fires fine as well. All signs point to a problem with the battery. I go into the store, and tell him the trouble I'm having. He suggests a higher resistance clearomizer, so I try it and it doesn't fire. I look at the threading and it seems to be longer than my other batteries.. an extra two lines or so? Regardless, I look at a 650 mAH ego battery and it seems to have the right amount of threading but the guy wouldn't let me exchange the battery because it was "probably a clearomizer issue and not the battery". After trying 3 clearos, he admits that the battery may have been faulty, and gave me another battery of the same size (with the same extra line or two of threading). I tried the higher resistance 2.5-2.9 ohm clearomizer, it fired first time and as I was in a rush, and knowing that the owner knows more about e-cigs than this guy, I buy the clearomizers that we tried (3 in all at a discount price of 8 bucks ... win!) and leave. If there were problems I could sort it out with him.

The problem is this, after pulling the pin down on the clearomizers to ensure they make a connection (being careful not to damage anything), the battery will fire... kind of ..

It blinks 3 times if I press the button but won't fire. However, if I hold down the button rather firmly, it'll blink 3 times, then go solid for a second, a quick flash off and back on again and it works.

I will probably be taking it back tomorrow for a refund, but I'm just curious as to what might be causing the problems. I used the higher resistance clearomizer to make sure it wasn't too low of a resistance (and I avoided the first clearomizer just in case it had a short). After it acted up, I just used the closest one to me . I get an ego twist (from cignot, a source for batteries I trust) tomorrow. I'm also curious as to whether or not I should be using this battery in the meantime.

If at all possible, I'm hoping someone with a bit more electrical knowledge about these can help.

(Please, no "DONT USE IT EXPLOAD" unless you have a detailed line of logic backing that claim up)

 

[Kent C]

Specs on joye clones have always had some problems in my experience. I have a few batts that I have to take a dental pick and elevate the center post before each use. I even try to put it on the charger carefully until I get the flashing lights only- no further tightening - but 70% of the time I still have to pick out the center post. On some, it's the center posts on cartos/attys. Slotted center posts - either on the batt or the atty can usually be fixed easily with no further hassle. That said, I've never had the spec problem with true joye eGos and most Rivas using joye attys or most cartos although some have come up short but not because of the specs on the batt.... The threading on Rivas isn't always the best - but the center post is usually within spec.