Finnicky atomizer only likes USB power!

[Bastage]

This is the wierdest thing... I have a 901 (white) atomizer that just does not want to work well with either of my battery mods, but works great with USB. I have a Husky 18650 powered battery, and a Screwdriver Clone that work like a charm on every other atomizer, but this one just doesn't want to work right unless it's plugged into USB. The only thing I can come up with is that it works well using 4.8v from my USB port but 3.7v from the batteries won't operate it. It would normally be considered a bad atomizer but since it works like a charm with USB I'll just use it on the wire. lol Thought that might be of interest to anyone that gets an atomizer that barely works on batteries and has a USB cable available to them. I was getting mad because I thought both of my battery mods had broken. This atomizer just requires a little more horsepower than most.

 

[Jaaxx]

I had a similar problem with an 801 atomizer. After I used it on a USB passthru it quit working with 5 out of 6 of my batteries!!!??? After it happened to a second atomizer, I realized that the center contact on the USB was slightly taller than the 5 batts.

I think that screwing it in the USB "pushed" down the center contact on the atomizer just enough to prevent proper contact with the batteries.

 

[Sun Vaporer]

I had a similar problem with an 801 atomizer. After I used it on a USB passthru it quit working with 5 out of 6 of my batteries!!!??? After it happened to a second atomizer, I realized that the center contact on the USB was slightly taller than the 5 batts.

I think that screwing it in the USB "pushed" down the center contact on the atomizer just enough to prevent proper contact with the batteries.

Thanks Jaaxx for confirming the contact theory--the threading is off on some of these and does in fact displace the center contact ever so slightly, but just enough for failure--Sun