How do you bypass the auto battery switch?

[boondongle]

I've got a little project in mind, but I'd need to disable the vacuum switch on an automatic battery so that it will provide power as soon as it's connected. Is there an easy way to do this, like just dripping solder into the hole? I only have one auto battery, so I can't really experiment at the moment.

 

[breakfastchef]

I am not sure I understand what you want to do. If you fill the hole of an automatic battery, it will do nothing. The vacuum switch makes the appropriate contact to cause power to go to the atomizer. The solder would short the positive and negative pathways of the battery, but without a switch to turn the battery on, you would have a useless appendage.

 

[boondongle]

Right, I didn't actually think that would work, just offering up the kind of solution I'm looking for. Basically, I'd need to set up an automatic battery so that it can go to an atomizer connector, which goes to a switch, which goes to the actual atomizer. Essentially, making an auto battery into a manual.

Edit: Another way of putting it would be that I'm looking for a simple way of making the auto battery switch permanently stuck on "on."

 

[boxhead]

i dont think that is possible. auto batterys work with a pressure/sound, power to atty/power to led...the ic in them provides charging without pressure/sound activation completeing circut yet completing circut for charging, i guess a slide switch could be added (where?) to do this entailing full disasembly of battery. there is sort of the same IC in a man. batt. to charge it and not press the button.
hope this helps...

 

[vendo]

If you are going to use the actual battery itself, then I don't think it can be done without opening it up.
If you just want to use the connector and connect to another power source, then just remove it and solder your 2 wires to it

What model is it for and do you need the actual battery?

 

[breakfastchef]

It would be much easier to purchase a manual battery for your atomizer or step up to a modified battery pack (i.e. Super-T, Silver Bullet, AdapteveR, etc.). To convert an aotomatic battery to a manual would take more time, furstration and effort than it is worth. It would be easier to but an auto battery and transform it into a manual passthrough. Trust me, I have done these things and it is mind-numbing.

 

[boondongle]

Oh, I understand it would be easier to just get a manual battery (actually, I have manual bats, and lots of box mods I've built), but I just thought it would be fun to make a box where you screw in an auto battery so that you have the LED sticking back out next to the atomizer, with a switch to turn it on. It's a bit of a pointless mod, I agree, but I wanted to do something a tad more interesting with my one lonely manual 510 battery than just rip off the LED and connector to use in mods.

 

[freaknormal]

I like your idea boondongle, albeit kinda pointless in my opinion since I tend to err on the side of "If i'm gonna take the time to build it, it sure as hell better be at least 5v!" But it's a unique idea and thats what's great about these forums, creativity.

If you have a pressure activated auto battery, I've seen people stick a rubber cap on the led end that causes pressure inside the battery and thus causing it to stay on. You can test by simply blowing into the led end. That way you don't have to destroy the battery. But since it will be constantly on, the battery life is gonna be horrible. Good luck!

 

[boondongle]

Well, I'd be looking for a way to just disable the switch, not leave the battery permanently on. But now that you mention it, when I press the button on my 510 batteries, the LED lights up, even if there's no atomizer connected. Hmm....