Went on a trip with 2 Egos fully charged and three full clearos. Started at my altitude of about 3000 feet. Went through Banff National Park and reached the summit of about 6800. When coming down from the top, the fully charged Ego I had in my purse went dead with very little use. Pulled out the spare, also dead. No biggie, will charge when I get to my room in the town of Banff. Plugged first one in, went out on the town for 3 hours, red light was still on. Weird as mine only take a couple of hours to charge. Take it off and three vapes in and dead. Plugged number two in, left for a few hours, same thing. Thought it was bad outlet. Put the other one in for the night. Ten hours and still red light, vaped for about 30 minutes on it and dead. Bring them both home assuming this was a Canadian outlet prob or altitude and all will be well. Nope. Still won't take a charge and ALL of my clearos started to leak when I got home. Nothing got hot or cold or knocked around. Everything lights up the same when I connect it. The connections are all clean. Ordered everything new again today and am using a clearo on an old Blu battery to get me by. Anyone else have this problem?
Higher altitude Ego Nightmare
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I can't begin to offer a suggestion, I'm a noob too, but I appreciate the info just in case it happens when I'm traveling.
Wish you good luck figuring it out.
Wish you good luck figuring it out.
We live at 3,000’ too. We go over the pass, almost 10,000’, and down the other side for the day at 7,000’. I had one tank leak a little bit once, never a problem with the batteries. Could it be juice leaked into them? That’ll kill them. All my batteries have gone anywhere from sea level to 10,000’ without a problem. This is why I have four batteries plus some old ones as backups. Glad you’re sticking with the vaping while stalking the mailman. Hang in there. I hope your second set of batteries do a better job for you.
I live at 9k ft, never any issue. I feel the battery dilemma may just be a series of unfortunate events.
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ITs probably your center pin --it needs to be pulled up a bit there are videos.
Altitude will not normally affect a battery like a human finding less oxygen.
But it might lol mine has fallen in water --dried it --it was fine..
Altitude will not normally affect a battery like a human finding less oxygen.
But it might lol mine has fallen in water --dried it --it was fine..
My daily commute to work is from 7000' down to 5000' and back up to 8000'. I've found that my tanks will leak unless I'm actively using them on the commute. I've never had a battery go bad, but have gotten into the habit of making sure that my spare doesn't have a tank attached on the commute. I also wrap my tanks in paper towels if they have any juice in them for the drive home. It can be a pain, but that is what I've found necessary to keep everything clean on the drive.
Climbing in altitude messes up the clearos.
I've had the same trouble - the tank works on air pressure, and negative air pressure pulls the liquid the wrong way.
I succesfully kept a ProTank from ANY leaking though - ready for it the second time - and it was EASY!!
I honestly don't know if it will help with other toppers (Evods, T3's etc.) or not, but here's the trick:
TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN.
Yes, that simple. It allows the air pressure in the tank to equalize, and prevents the leaking.
I just flipped it and vaped it every 500 feet in altitude or so, and had no trouble climbing from 500 to 5000 feet, when previously that had caused leaks. I did the same thing up and down a bit higher (in gondolas and chair lifts) - again, no leaks.
I've had the same trouble - the tank works on air pressure, and negative air pressure pulls the liquid the wrong way.
I succesfully kept a ProTank from ANY leaking though - ready for it the second time - and it was EASY!!
I honestly don't know if it will help with other toppers (Evods, T3's etc.) or not, but here's the trick:
TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN.
Yes, that simple. It allows the air pressure in the tank to equalize, and prevents the leaking.
I just flipped it and vaped it every 500 feet in altitude or so, and had no trouble climbing from 500 to 5000 feet, when previously that had caused leaks. I did the same thing up and down a bit higher (in gondolas and chair lifts) - again, no leaks.
I’ve heard that before, possibly from you. My leak was in a cheapo carto tank. I think I did turn it upside down the next time we went over.
We have a 2,000’ elevation drop to get to the nearest town of any consequence and had the same tank leak going down once but can’t swear it wasn’t user error since I’d just started vaping. It hasn’t happened once since getting Davide Minis. No doubt one of them will explode tomorrow now that I’ve said that.
We have a 2,000’ elevation drop to get to the nearest town of any consequence and had the same tank leak going down once but can’t swear it wasn’t user error since I’d just started vaping. It hasn’t happened once since getting Davide Minis. No doubt one of them will explode tomorrow now that I’ve said that.
Where ya at, BC, Silverton, CO? I live at 5,300' and cross 7,300 about every ten days. No problem with batteries or leakage - yet.
Agreed with above posts. I'm at high altitude and regularly change from 5k-11000'. Upside down trick works for leaking, altitude doesn't effect batteries, but cold temps can.
I know not all will agree, but certain places have a different energetic/magnetic field to them, and I've been in places that drained batteries for all sorts of varied electronic devices.
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I've had faulty chargers before. In fact I experienced it today. Charging from my laptop. Two chargers, one worked, one didn't and they are both new. Certainly your leakage was due to a change in pressure and not any fault in the device itself.
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