Holysmokingopherfireworks, that is scary!! Glad you and your home were unharmed. I've been vapin' on my ego Twist for days on end, and right now it's on the charger....gotta say that freaks me out somewhat.
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There's no reason to be terrified. It's no different than charging your cell phone or anything else that you plug in that needs to be charged. Just use caution. Don't leave any charging battery unattended and if you see a battery starting to 'act up' don't use it.
I just went back and looked at my purchase. I was unaware that there are many fakes out there. Now I am wondering what I have purchased. Yikes!! I don't know any of this stuff.
Are you sure it's Joye, there are tons of eGo-T knockoffs going around.
the knockoff above doesn't have this logo on the cap
for that kind of price and looking at the picture, it looks like you got a joye knockoff
Ego T System E-Cigarette starting kit
nice, thanks for responding. i'm curious what the vendor or joye is going to do about what happened. please report back and tell us how they respond. i'm betting they offer to send you a replacement device and charger.
I think the vendor will be ok. He's a small business. I'd wanted to deal with someone in person rather than an website as I'm so new to all this. I'm going to see if he can sort me out with a Provari. With the amount of money I've spent so far I could have got one right out of the starting block. Thanks for your help.
I hope all you people scaring people with talk about knockoffs realize that Joye licenses their design, sells their battery, and makes units for dozens of other companies. Just because it doesn't say Joye does not mean it's a knockoff. Open up a Riva and you will find a Joye battery and a Joye circuit board inside. Joye does a huge amount of private labeling. There are probably more unlabeled Joyes out there than there are labeled Joyes or knockoffs.
The, you have companies like Smoketech, who is just as big and just as reliable as Joye and does exactly the same thing as Joye does. There are a lot fewer knockoffs out there than you might expect. There are clones, but clones are not the same as knockoffs. Knockoffs are counterfeits. Clones are virtually identical and may even contain Joye parts.
The, you have companies like Smoketech, who is just as big and just as reliable as Joye and does exactly the same thing as Joye does. There are a lot fewer knockoffs out there than you might expect. There are clones, but clones are not the same as knockoffs. Knockoffs are counterfeits. Clones are virtually identical and may even contain Joye parts.
I am positive you are correct N rustica. I have been smoke(analog) free since April 2 and decided it was time to move up a notch from my original V2 kit. I should have paid much closer attention to the overall pricing and I would have noticed this was too cheap.
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I've heard of several problems with Ego knockoffs lately, although even the genuine Joye gear are still pieces of crap. I'd try to stay away from Chinese batteries period in fact. I was at a site which wholesales hardware and you wouldn't believe how cheap you can get this stuff for, like full kits for $11. So the wholesaler is making money here, the manufacturer is making money as well, so you can just imagine what the cost of production is, scary low. So that tells you that this stuff can't be well made, and when batteries are concerned, quality of manufacture is pretty important, as the OP discovered.
WOW, so glad your weren't hurt! That is scarey. I was just thinking of charging my ego today, it is a back up but I think I will get a battery charging bag first! bnrk
So sitting here reading this thread puffing away with my backup ego-c charging next to me and I hear this weird hissing noise.. About jumped 10 feet in the air before I realized that my window is open and my curtain was just brushing up against a plastic bag ... Anyone else reading this reaching over to feel your charging battery now every two minutes?
No, because unwarranted hysterics is not productive. Every time something like this happens, a wave of hysteria sweeps though this place like the plague. Last time, people were demanding that big slots and holes be cut in the perfectly adequately vented Silver Bullet. Everybody forgets the hundreds of thousands of these same units out in the world and suddenly people are running to buy LiPo bags like this has never happened before. I fear for what is going to happen when there are a million of these things in circulation and the standard consumer electronic defect rate causes this to be a daily occurrence. I guess then we'll all have to buy Provaris and Reos when the government crackdown comes. It's interesting that you don't see this kind of reaction on RCgroups, where people deal with Chinese made motors, speed controllers and LiPo batteries made gawd-knows-where but that make these e-cig batteries look like pop-rocks.
Are you aware of any battery NOT made in China, or at least Japan? There are only a handful of battery factories in the entire world and I don't think any of them are in N. America or Europe, except for possibly some very specialized batteries that you and I would probably never buy. Yes, the cost of production IS very low. Batteries are cheap, even the vaunted AW's are dirt cheap to produce. Electronic circuits are cheap to produce, even if you paid $200 for your Chinese e-cig, it's still dirt cheap to produce. It doesn't tell you this stuff can't be well made. It tells you that cheap labor and mass production methods make it dirt cheap to produce. A $44 Chinese e-cig is unlikely to be any better built than an $11 one. There's a good chance that they both came out of the same factory. That's the nature of manufacturing in China.
There's a guy in Miami who bought the rights to a bunch of old, venerable bankrupt bicycle names; Huffy, Raleigh, Schwinn and some more. He gets a shipment of frames, all from the same factory in China. There are only about 3 bicycle factories that produce about 80-90% of the bikes sold in the U.S.. He gets these frames and puts the various labels on them. He wholesales some of them for $50 and some for $400. There's maybe $100 difference in hardware between them. Is the $50 bike "cheaper" than the $400 bike? Not really. Both frames cost about $20 to produce. That's just how it is in China.
Half these so-called "knockoffs" come out of the same factory that Joye does. I'd be willing to bet that if you compared the part numbers on the circuit board of that burnt battery to a Joye unit, they'd be exactly the same, and the charger probably was made in the same factory as well.
I think that in light of what happened here, I'm going back to analogs...already did in fact. Never had a cigarette explode on me before.
EDIT - BTW - This is not the only reason I'm quitting vaping...there's a few other reasons that have drawn me back to smoking recently, but this certainly seems like a good excuse to use for my lack of willpower during tough times.
EDIT - BTW - This is not the only reason I'm quitting vaping...there's a few other reasons that have drawn me back to smoking recently, but this certainly seems like a good excuse to use for my lack of willpower during tough times.
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Dang this is scary. I have some older batteries. Should they get warm at all when charging?
I had this happen once, BUT after I removed the battery from the charger I found a tiny splinter of metal in the charger, crossing the center post to the threads. Not sure how it got in there, but I stopped using PV's that have a hole recessed in the charger after that.
Charging a battery involves pumping electricity into them. I would think it's normal.
Charging a battery involves pumping electricity into them. I would think it's normal.
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