Holy crap everything stopped working at once

[TulsaClint]

I have an Ego starter kit and a gas station type with a (I'm guessing) 510 type battery. All of my batteries suddenly are not charging and blinking when I do try to activate them. This is really weird and not acceptable to me. Has anyone experienced this phenomenon?

One of my batteries continuously blinks, one blinks a few times when I press the button but quickly seems dead after that, producing no power.

I bought these from a local shop. I was in there today and they treated me like .... over a $4 leaking clearomizer I bought there. I basically ate the cost of the clearomizer and fixed it myself with some teflon tape. If these batteries are dead already after only 3 days, I'm gonna raise hell and smear their name over the net. This is total bs and not a good intro to vaping....excuse me while I go smoke a real cig.....so disappointed, I really wanted this to work and was believing it would until this .... happened.

 

[singu]

I'm so sorry to hear you have so much problems. I can't really help you but someone prob will. Hang in there...

 

[Spazmelda]

So sorry you are having problems this early in the game. I hope your local vaping shop can help you out.

Interestingly, when I was googling for vaping shops in Tulsa after reading your post, this was one of the first links I came up with:

VaporKings.com electronic cigarette supplies store and Tulsa e-Cigarette retail store/vaping lounge

The very first video there is a battery/charging troubleshooting guide. I haven't watched it, but from the description you might find something useful.

I don't know if Vapor Kings is your store, as I found at least two vaping B&M stores in the Tulsa area (lucky you!). I have ordered from Vapor Kings a few times and had no problems with an exchange once when I ordered the wrong cartomizers from them.

Hope you get it figured out and that your local shop helps you out!

 

[TulsaClint]

I just find it odd and totally rediculous that everything (3 batteries, atomizers, etc) stopped working at exactly the same time. I'm blaming a CME....What else can I blame it on?

 

[TulsaClint]

Thanks Spazmelda, yes Vapor Kings is the store I purchased from. I don't know this seems too weird for everything to go at once like it did.

 

[Spazmelda]

So, are you saying 3 ego batts went at once, or was it 2 ego batts and the gas station battery?

I'm wondering if you have a problem with your charger? Did you happen to charge the gas station battery on the ego charger or vice versa?

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

What a drag. First try clicking the batt button 5 times to turn it on. Next if you know someone with a digital multimeter you could try testing the batts. Finally, on the cartomizer battery end, there's a small pin that sometimes isn't making contact with the battery- It's the tiny pin in the center- try carefully pulling it out 1/32". One more thing you can try- the connector on the battery sometimes gets pushed down- try carefully pulling it up a bit.
This is all I can think of right now.
Good luck and I this helps.

 

[the wind]

What a drag. First try clicking the batt button 5 times to turn it on.

this does sound like the problem for the egos that clint has.

 

[Brad524]

Pulling the posts deffinately sounds like the place to start. If there's a short, either on the batt or carto/atty side (usually caused by over tightening and the center pin + being pushed into the threading -) the pcb in the battery will go into protected mode. If the batts seem to operate fine w/o a carto/atty on it than the carto/atty is the short.

 

[xbassman]

Another thing to check.....
Sometimes the center pin on a cartomizer can get compressed too far in by overtightening on your battery.
I have had this happen more than once and your ecig bat may blink or just not fire.
you can raise the center post with a toothpick or something else small like a jewelers screwdriver if this is the problem.

I am local to you Clint.
If you want, send me a PM, I'll be glad to help if I can.

 

[TulsaClint]

Thanks for all the help guys. I still can't get either of the Ego batteries or cartomizers/tanks to work. The gas station e-cig and one of it's cartomizers kind of works. It will work if you don't screw it in all the way. Once you do screw it in all the way it fails to work. I'm going to try to find a multimeter, or tomorrow I'll take it to the local shop. Really disappointed.

 

[Pammers]

Did you happen to use CE3 Smokymizer cartos with your Ego batteries? I lost a number of Ego bats because of them.

 

[TulsaClint]

Did you happen to use CE3 Smokymizer cartos with your Ego batteries? I lost a number of Ego bats because of them.

No, just the ones that came with the starter kit and Vision clearomizers.

One battery just sits there and blinks, the other acts like it's ok but does nothing when I turn it on/off with 5 clicks. It blinks like it's turning on, but when holding the button down and trying to vape, it blinks 3 times and nothing. My gas station e-cig battery kind of works if you screw it almost but not quite all the way in. Seems the Ego batteries aren't charging, just seems strange that all these issues happened at the same time.

 

[Pammers]

The blinky thing is exactly what all my Ego batteries did after using the Smokeymizer cartos. I'm going to try replacing the circuit board in one of them and see if I can save it. If it works, I'll order more boards and try to save the others.

eGo-T Circuit Board

 

[Pammers]

oh...I meant to mention that I haven't had much luck with the Vision clearomizers on the Ego batteries. They need to be screwed down so tightly to make a connection that they leave little room for air flow, making them difficult to draw through. They also tend to push the center pin down, which causes more connection problems. The Visions work much better on my T-Rex and Firefly batteries. When I use them on my Egos, I use an Ego/510 adapter to solve the airflow problem.

 

[reckless]

hey there, i think i see what may be your problem. the problem with a lot of ego batteries is that they do not have a sealed batttery. that means if you over fill your carto, or use a clearomizer( which in my experiance are garbage) and even if alittle juice leaks down through the battery connector of you carto into the battery it will short the battery out. i've seen this happen more times then i can count. as for using tape , i would not recommend that, that tiny hole in the treads of the carto is a air hole. if you block that up it will stop the catro from performing at all. unfortunatly there not much you cqan do about the battery now that its probably been fried. but here's what you cna do in the future, either 1 buy a battery or equal pv/mod that has a sealed battery connection. you can see this by looking down the battery threads on your device and there should be no hole in the center positive post center pin, or 2 you can purchase a 510 to 510 sealed adapter connector. this with prevent any leaking juice from going from your carto into the actual battery. i'm sorry your having such a bad experiance with vaping. the retailer that you bought this from should have explained some of this before you started. but i have been vaping for a long time now and have saved enough money from it so that the occational loss from something like this has been mode over ten time. i recomend going online to smoktek.com and perchasing the ego twist. its the news and in my opinion one of the best ego style devices out today, it's only $ 22.00 for the 650 mah and about @$ for the 1000 mah battery. Joye eGo-C Twist Variable Voltage 1000mAh Battery . i checked and they do not carry the sealed adapter there. you cand pick one up at. Sealed shortie 510 - 510 Adapter that should settle things for you. again i'm sorry this happened to you. this is my problem with inexperianced retailers selling products they don't understand. please don't give up on vaping. i love it now that i've gotten used to it. i recommend going onto youtube and checking out reviews but grimmgreen, pbusardo and geekgirl, they taught me eveything i know.

 

[reckless]

Another thing to check.....
Sometimes the center pin on a cartomizer can get compressed too far in by overtightening on your battery.
I have had this happen more than once and your ecig bat may blink or just not fire.
you can raise the center post with a toothpick or something else small like a jewelers screwdriver if this is the problem.

I am local to you Clint.
If you want, send me a PM, I'll be glad to help if I can.

also check out a video review by pbusardo on youtube aor at his website tasteyourjuice.com. he has a video on pulling the post. i recommend watching this before you try to d it yourself. if you pull it to far and it touches the negitive (outer threads) you will create a hard short, not good.

 

[mostapha]

Another thing to check.....
Sometimes the center pin on a cartomizer can get compressed too far in by overtightening on your battery.
I have had this happen more than once and your ecig bat may blink or just not fire.
you can raise the center post with a toothpick or something else small like a jewelers screwdriver if this is the problem.

I am local to you Clint.
If you want, send me a PM, I'll be glad to help if I can.

I've had that happen with every atomizer, cartomizer, and battery I've tried at one point or another. Apparently I just over-tighten things like it's my job. My battery either flashes or on my auto batteries, the light just turns on like someone flipped a switch instead of it slowly starting to glow in line with how hard I'm tooting/drawing.

I've also fried my share of auto batteries because of leaking. Never again…auto batteries are jokes.

Honestly, I'd just try again. I've got a shipment coming in from VK on Monday, and they seem perfectly nice so far. We'll see what happens if something shows up DOA.

Oh yeah……It's also likely that everything you've used has been made in China. There's no such thing as quality control in China. Sometimes, you just get unlucky…and it doesn't matter what vendor it comes from, how expensive it was, what brand it says……if it's made in China, sometimes things just plain don't work……and when circuitry is that small, it's not just a matter of being taken apart and put back together.