ego t 1100 (slb)

[scoopbrady]

hi everyone! i am new here.

so, i have a couple older ego t 100 vape pens that dont seem to like my ce4 tanks anymore.. when i bought them they worked fine, but now when i press the button to vape, the light blinks 5 times and nothing happens. the pen does not turn off, it just blinks and doesn't heat up.

so i bought me a brand new battery, charged it up for about 4-5 hours and it does the exact same thing?

i tried different tanks and the result is always the same.. 5 blinks and nothing.
i put a new tank on it and got the same result.
if i repeatedly keep trying, eventually the new battery goes from green to blue, then it heats up for maybe 2-3 seconds before the 5 blinking lights and no heat.

what am i doing wrong?
i also have an eGo -V v3 that works fine.
the tanks that don't work on any of my eGo t batteries do work on my eGo V battery.

i am just guessing that the blinking lights mean that there is a bad connection or a short in the battery, but how can it be both my batteries and the brand new one?

confused,
-scoopbrady

 

[suprtrkr]

Just guessing-- the ways of eGo batteries are passing strange, not given to mortals to understand-- I think you may have a bad charger. It may blink green, but it's not really charged. Do you have a DMM to check yout voltage? You might try that. It could also be they're all just fried. Some of them last forever. Others toast out in a few days. My advice would probably be buy an iStick.

 

[Katmar]

Hi scoopbrady and welcome aboard. Have to agree with suprtrkr, thinking it's a bad charger. Time to upgrade...

 

[NightShadow]

@scoopbrady The number one reason I made sure all my ego batteries had mini usb connections (passthrough) is the screw in chargers are inherently a bad design. The screw in type can depress the 510 pin in the battery, leading to no or faulty connection with the atty.

I have used the screw in type chargers before, and after charging put the same atty that was in use before charging (known to be good) and had a non firing issue and blinking afterwards.

1. The typical remedies in this case: Cleaning the connections (battery and atty), and wiggling the 510 pin inside the battery to lift it back up with a small thin tool like a paperclip, tweezers etc (as the screw on charger pushed the pin deeper into the battery housing). This could be your problem.

2. The other fixable solution is to change the atty, which you have tried as it was possibly a dead atty.

3. Bad charger / bad connection with charger, see item 1 to fix. Possible that the pin in the battery got pushed in, resulting in failure to charge. Adjust pin and recharge, or replace charger.

4. Multiple batteries bad, all with same symptom, possible but not likely. Would hope 1-3 above is actual solution.

Finally if any of the above do result in a fix, take care when screwing the battery to the charger that you do not apply much torque, or this all starts again.