Isuues with Spinner II charging, and use...please help.

[relink2013]

So I bought a Spinner II from a local shop, reputable place, and yes is a genuine Spinner II complete with scratch off serial number and everything. But I have been having some issues with it, first is after about 30min or so on the charger the light on the battery will start to flash white and blue. Im not sure if it's still charging or not at this point. The second issue was this morning after taking it off the charger for the first half hour or so, I would go to vape and randomly the light would flash all the colors (like when you turn it on or off) and it would shut off, usually pressing the button again would make it work, but then after 2 or 3 times it would do it again. I should also mention that I did get a successful full charge last night, so I dont know why it's giving me trouble now...any help is greatly appreciated.

I do want to say thought, that I have used spinner batteries since day one of vaping and I love them, and when this battery works it WORKS! I just seem to be having issues with this one unfortunately.

 

[DavidOck]

From their site:



The button flashes fifteen times in mixed color to indicate that there is no power at all left in battery and it can no longer function without being properly charge.

I don't have the 2, but if it's like the earlier ones, a full charge is achieved when the battery light is off and the charger light is green. With my array of backup 1300s, the battery light will be on for the first part of the charge. Maybe the blinking action on the 2 is similar. Once it gets up to some predetermined charge level, the battery light will go out while the charger light is still red (or sometimes slow red / green blink rate.)

The 2 may also do the rainbow flash on overtime shutdown. Safety feature, but can pop up on long long draws.

 

[relink2013]

I'm thinking that's all it was because after about an hour the light turned solid white, and an hour after that the light went out and the charger went green. Spinners are great batteries but I really wish they were better documented.

 

[DavidOck]

What, you want instructions with that??

Hope that's all it was, and it's working for you now.

Yeah, documentation is something sorely lacking on many products in vape-land. Not just Spinners. Guess that's one of the reasons our hard-working hosts started ECF!

 

[relink2013]

Thanks for the quick reply. It seems to be working just fine, maybe im just not used to the new "advanced pcb". So far ECF has been a great help in learning about all the different options out there.

 

[Rodeorat]

Spinners have always had a problem with "Ego" chargers. The 510 charger and EGO chargers look identical, but the EGO charger will not charge the Spinner fully, or it wont fully charge it every time.
I picked up a couple 510 chargers from SlowTech and haven't had a problem with EGOs or Spinners since. I dont think alot of folks, including vape shop employees are aware of the difference.

Having said that, I'm not sure the issue still exists with the V2s. I have a V2, but I have 510 chargers and haven't had an issue with them.
Sounds like its still an issue though as your thread isn't the 1st one I've read on the subject.

 

[Ribkage]

I got a 2 pack of vision spinner 2s in the mail yesterday and I thought they were broken. When putting them on my charger the charger is green but the button on the vs2 lights up white. So basically do I ignore the charger light and charge it till the button light is off? Because atm both of them just flash multi-colored when I try to use them on the 1.25 ohm dual coil carts from ccv.

I just find it weird my charger is lit green if they are dead. I order from so many places these days... I think my chargers are the "Joyetech" one from sweet-vapes. So these don't charge it at all or will they be fine while I wait another month for another fasttech order? Gonna just order a 10 pack of standard 510 chargers.

 

[DavidOck]

Sounds like you're not getting a good connection to the charger - or it's not the right output charger.

On my Spinners, if really low, the battery light will go white for quite some time, but the charger light is red...

If the charger has a 420 - 450 mA output and is the correct polarity, try connecting the battery to the charger and then plug it in to your wall wart. That sometimes works.

Not likely both new batteries are bad, although of course it can happen. More likely a bad connection or a bad charger.

 

[houstonyankee]

Just an FYI, vision announced on their main site that they are aware of charging problems with the spinner 2. Apparently they are making a charger to be used with the spinner 2 that will charge it correctly.

 

[TLS01]

I would think they would have found that out during the development of this particular product. I almost bought a couple of these but with an MVP only a little more, I'll just stick with that for now.

 

[jstjoehere]

The spinner 2 is a good battery. the lights will go from to yellow to blue to white while charging. The multi colored flash while vaping may be do to a shorted coil or overload on the battery.