fully-charged Riva battery won't fire - just blinks when I screw in atty

[Valhalla1]

I took one of my Riva batteries off the charger today and screwed in an atty and tried to fire it up, and it just blink..blink..blinked at me as if the battery had no charge.

I unscrew the atty, press the button, and the LED stays lit like a normal button press would. screw the atty back in, press button - blink blink blink.

put the battery back on charger, it lights up green - fully charged. Take it off, clean it as best as possible, try a brand new atty - same result.

is this battery now useless?

 

[dejo]

if you are using lr atties or carts that could be the reason. have a friend that has one that does the same thing. but his works with regular resistance stuff

 

[Valsacar]

Try another atty, if not... battery might be ready for the trash.

 

[mwa102464]

Take that Batt and start tapping it against a table end, it could get it to come back believe it or not, you have probably fried your Mosfet connection for the most part but sometimes tapping it could make it work again, if not it's trash. Unless the newer Riva has the 5 button on off option but I don't think they do. if so try clicking your button 5 times to see if it starts working properly, just a shot possibly but I doubt it. use the table tap trick it's your best shot, or it hits the can. One of the secrets to using Ego type Batts with a Mosfet connection is not to chain vape with an LR Atty, it heats up the connection between the switch and connector and fries it so give it a rest in between vapes to cool down,!!!

 

[eyebrook]

Very wise advice from mwa

 

[guido61]

Riva's batteries has that problem.
The positive wire from the battery to the control circuit is very thin, and the battery moves inside the "jacket".
If it shakes too much, the wire breaks. I have a couple here and i'm trying to find someone who has access to a hot air soldering station to fix them.

 

[casualuser]

Does the ego have this same problem or is it exclusive to the Riva?

 

[mwa102464]

It is a very tedious job taking them apart and fixing them and putting them back together. I have done it but most won't want to bother or can do this task.! Just purchase a new one though it can be done, Remember these are only Batts just like any other battery, they do die after much usage. I must have 35-40 of them all over the place, if your gonna vape and use to smoke a lot heck whats having 5-10 Batts, it's nothing, if your a serious vapor your best bet is having a few back ups so you don't get jammed up and can continue to vape and not sit while waiting for a delivery of your new one and not getting your Nic fix.!

 

[mwa102464]

Does the ego have this same problem or is it exclusive to the Riva?

Same issue as Riva !!!

 

[John Phoenix]

I wanna mention it may not be the battery in all cases. I had this problem.

If you look very closely at the connection on the atty, you will see it has a rubber O ring just under the middle positive connection. It's hard to see unless it's not on properly then you can easily see it. It will look like there is something white rubber between the middle positive connector and the outer negative connector.

Sometimes these O rings don't get put on right and this causes the positive connector to stick where it won't make contact with the battery. If that's the case you need to dig the rubber O ring out with a needle and place it securely over and under the lip on the middle positive connector, thus propping the connector up in place where it will touch the battery.

 

[melloyello]

do the same as above but on the middle post of the batter as well. get a small nail or a paper clip and lift up the middle post a little bit...mine did the same thing but by wiggling the middle post, it started working again

 

[mylose64]

I bought a vgo tank kit from next gen e cigs. One of the atties would not work on ANY of my batteries, it just started blinking.

Here is a video I made and sent it to the supplier.
YouTube - mystery atomizer?

 

[Kent C]

Does the ego have this same problem or is it exclusive to the Riva?

eGos can run their mega eGo attys lr (1.5Ω) and the LR tank attys (1.7-1.9Ω) with no problems for the batteries.

 

[JollyRogers]

I have one Riva that does this all the time with one of my atomizers. Especially if I just used the atomizer on my Provari. In my case the center connection on the atomizer is not making connection with the center conductor of the battery. I use a pin and just move the center post on the atomizer slightly, no more problems.

 

[MickeyRat]

Don't know whether this is the OP's problem or not but, that's the way one of those batteries acts when the protection circuit detects a short. I had that problem with an in-line voltmeter that I got recently.