Is my clearomizer bad?

[FishinMT]

I have a knockoff ego kit that is almost 2 weeks old, has been working well with CE4 and MT3 clearomizers as well as cartomizers. This morning one battery stopped firing with the MT3 and none of my other clearomizers/ cartomizers will work on it, the charger says it is fully charged, which it is not. I figured OK, it has crapped out but at least I have a twist showing up Monday. Then I put the MT3 on my other battery, worked for a couple drags, then the same thing happens. Both batteries seem to be dead. Is it possible that the Kanger MT3 single handedly ruined my weekend?

 

[Robin Macri]

Try lifting the center post on your battery but be gentle or you might break it.Take a pin and gently lift the post at the opening of your battery. Maybe someone hear can explain it better! Good luck!

 

[FishinMT]

Try lifting the center post on your battery but be gentle or you might break it.Take a pin and gently lift the post at the opening of your battery. Maybe someone hear can explain it better! Good luck!

Thank you, I gave it a shot but still no dice. I'm not entirely surprised a cheap battery would crap out after two weeks but seems strange that both batteries would fail within minutes of each other.

 

[FishinMT]

I guess now my main concern is the possibility that a clearomizer can destroy a battery. Obviously I'm going to throw this head away but I'm scared that this will happen again, next time I'll have name brand batteries so a little more loss. Any thoughts?

 

[danimal40]

I would try lifting the post again...lift it all the way around..it is almost always the cause

 

[bacc.vap]

Do you have an electrical meter? It would help to diagnose a problem like this, if you don't, you can get one that'll do the job for 10 to 15 bucks.

 

[FishinMT]

I don't have a meter now but at work I will check it on Monday. I've tried lifting the posts again but they are still lifeless.

 

[dragonfly72]

It may be possible that you were tightening your clearomizer too much and the center post is pushed in too far to make connection with your battery. At least that is what happens to me.
I use needle nose pliers to gently pull the inside post down just slightly (too much and it will leak).
That inside post has to be sticking out just a bit more than the metal ring that surrounds it.
Try it....hopefully it helps.

 

[bacc.vap]

It may be possible that you were tightening your clearomizer too much and the center post is pushed in too far to make connection with your battery. At least that is what happens to me.
I use needle nose pliers to gently pull the inside post down just slightly (too much and it will leak).
That inside post has to be sticking out just a bit more than the metal ring that surrounds it.
Try it....hopefully it helps.

I agree, that happens to me semi regularly. Some attys/cartos can be somewhat looser than others.

 

[FishinMT]

I've tried both batteries with 2 CE4s, a MT3, 2 cartomizers and 2 different attys. Still no dice and the charger acts as if no battery is plugged into it. The blue light on the battery buttons still comes on so I assume there is power in there and not a problem with the charger. Thanks for the advice though, I'm willing to try anything!

 

[bacc.vap]

It's looking like your MT3 may have had a short and your Ego knockoffs might not of been able to protect themselves. Further proof will require metering the carto and batts to get to the bottom of the situation. I wouldn't put the MT3 on anything else till you know it's good or not.

 

[FishinMT]

Yeah, that's the only thing I can think of. This MT3 head will definitely be sidelined. I hope the next head/battery combo does better. From what I've researched it was quite the anomaly and probably resulted from crappy batteries. At least that is basically what the clearomizer's vendor said vs. what the battery's vendor had to say, who has not answered my emails regarding the issue.

 

[bacc.vap]

Did you get it figured out?

 

[FishinMT]

Yeah, a new battery came in the mail yesterday. As far as the dead batteries, I finally got a multi meter and they both read 0V. Checked the head on the T3 and it was reading 3.3ohm. This was surprising since I thought it was supposed to be 2.4-2.6ohm however a new T3 head was reading 3.1ohm so maybe my meter is screwy. I also checked others and they all seemed to be reading about .5-1ohms higher than they should be (with exception of a Joye LR atomizer that is reading 2ohm). Checked the voltage on my new twist and seems to be fairly close to what it should be +/- .15V. Any thoughts?
Worth noting: this is the first time I have used a multimeter without electrician supervision and am thankful I didn't blow anything up.

 

[bacc.vap]

Don't forget you have to subtract the resistance of the meter to get the actual resistance of the T3. Just in case you did'nt know , you just touch the meters leads together and subtract that ohms reading from the one you get when you check the T3. The readings you give don't seem to be to terribly off, my guess would be the carto might just be shorting when it's screwed in and there is pressure on it. Assuming you're checking the batteries correctly( button pressed) and the charger won't charge them anymore, that's what I'd go with. File 13 the T3 and move on. Now that you have a meter you can check things when they're good and that will help to troubleshoot when things go bad. Excuse the comment about the pressed button please, just trying to make sure all the simple things are covered, sometimes they get overlooked.

 

[FishinMT]

Never thought about subtracting the resistance of the meter, makes perfect sense! No offense taken about the button, it did take me a couple times before remembering that I need to press the button, lol. The old T3 head is in the trash and my backup mini batteries are put away. I think it may have been poor quality on the batteries part, maybe I screwed the heads on a little too tight shorting them out or broke a post or something. This new battery, while still a knockoff seems to be of much better construction and I don't need to screw the clearomizers on nearly as far to keep them from wiggling around. The battery post is much firmer too, the dead battery's posts were really "spongy" with a lot of wiggle room.

 

[FishinMT]

During my lunch break I checked my multimeter and with taking into account the meter's resistance the MT3 head's resistance is 2.6ohm. Seems about right to me. I think I must've just eaten too many Wheaties that morning and busted the posts on the batteries. Maybe I'll rip them apart when I get a chance to see if anything is broken.

 

[FishinMT]

In case it helps anybody...I have explained the issue ad nauseum to the vendor of the clearomizer this was their response after I told them the measured resistance of the MT3:

"Most likely while the batteries you had were ego threads, they were not exact ego spec which may have caused the center post to short etc..."

 

[FishinMT]

I wish I could change the name of this thread to "my MT3 is posessed by demons"! I removed the offending head from the clearomizer and replaced it with a brand new head that measured 2.4ohm. Filled this up and put it on my new twist, happy as could be for about 5 hours. Then guess what, the battery died, no sign of life whatsoever. The clearomizer still read 2.4ohm after the debacle. For those not keeping track, that is 3 dead batteries in 5 days (the latest twist battery didn't even last 1 charging cycle). Fortunately the MT3 doesn't fit on my mini backup batteries or those would be dead now too. I take no blame for this last one whatsoever since I definitely didn't screw it on too tight and as far as I know there is nothing going on in the tank setup that should be causing this as it is just a juice holder with a mouthpiece.

Anyways, two more batteries showing up today, can't wait!

 

[bacc.vap]

You're really having a tough time there. Is there an outside chance you might be accidentally turning the batteries off while fiddling around with them? Or at this point maybe even a faulty charger, just a guess, I wouldn't even no how to test this , other than trying another one.