......Ya know how you're supposed to clean off your contacts on the battery and Clearos etc ......well, I forgot that you should do that to your USB charger ....and it cost me ! .......I use Vision Spinners, and smoktek VVs .....and I was having problems ....kept buying new ones until I had ammased about 9 of them .....and none of them seemed to be working very well for the last several weeks .....
( insert : when one of those batteries dies, it's button light doesn't light ....at all )
....then in 2 days 6 count 'em 6 of my batteries went "dead" that is, they wouldn't take a charge and they no longer worked, even though the button lights still worked ....when the first 6 went, I panicked and sent for a new charger, and paid almost $40 for the overnight shipping ! ...and was getting ready to head for the drug store to get a Blu type to last me until the new charger got here .....I didn't trust my last 2 batteries to last the night ....( I found 1 more battery today, cleaning up, hence the number of 9 ) ....and I must have my nicotine .....
.....Just before I started putting on my boots ( I am in Michigan , and we have SNOW here )and I don't know what kicked in, but you could see the light going off over my head .....Check the charger for gunk !!!! so I did ...and yes, it was gunky, very very gunky ....took about a minute and a half to clean off the contact, plugged in one of the "dead" batteries......and whoopee and a great big OH BOY ....it was working like a champ !
....Turns out all the batteries I though were goners, are actually very strong, they are taking a long time to charge, ( unlike before I cleaned the charger, they hardly took any time at all to charge ) ....and from what I can gather, the stronger ones with more life in them batteries take the max time to charge, .....
.....Oh and as this was a gradual problem, I spent the previous week shopping for and buying 2 smoktek vv/vw s and one itaste vv....( and of course I always get the 1100 &1300 ones .....why bother with anything smaller ???)
then went to ebay and bought 2 more 1100 vvs with digital read out ....
so my collection of batteries which will now number 14, should last me ....oh say ....5 or 6 years !
...so people, keep your charger contacts clean !
( insert : when one of those batteries dies, it's button light doesn't light ....at all )
....then in 2 days 6 count 'em 6 of my batteries went "dead" that is, they wouldn't take a charge and they no longer worked, even though the button lights still worked ....when the first 6 went, I panicked and sent for a new charger, and paid almost $40 for the overnight shipping ! ...and was getting ready to head for the drug store to get a Blu type to last me until the new charger got here .....I didn't trust my last 2 batteries to last the night ....( I found 1 more battery today, cleaning up, hence the number of 9 ) ....and I must have my nicotine .....
.....Just before I started putting on my boots ( I am in Michigan , and we have SNOW here )and I don't know what kicked in, but you could see the light going off over my head .....Check the charger for gunk !!!! so I did ...and yes, it was gunky, very very gunky ....took about a minute and a half to clean off the contact, plugged in one of the "dead" batteries......and whoopee and a great big OH BOY ....it was working like a champ !
....Turns out all the batteries I though were goners, are actually very strong, they are taking a long time to charge, ( unlike before I cleaned the charger, they hardly took any time at all to charge ) ....and from what I can gather, the stronger ones with more life in them batteries take the max time to charge, .....
.....Oh and as this was a gradual problem, I spent the previous week shopping for and buying 2 smoktek vv/vw s and one itaste vv....( and of course I always get the 1100 &1300 ones .....why bother with anything smaller ???)
then went to ebay and bought 2 more 1100 vvs with digital read out ....
so my collection of batteries which will now number 14, should last me ....oh say ....5 or 6 years !
...so people, keep your charger contacts clean !
