Joye Brand 510 Cartomizer Killed my battery

[BigJohnJ]

Been vaping for just over 3 months now and killed my first battery. Have been using the new style Joye 510 cartos, put my last one on my Riva this morning (Have more on order from FSUSA), took about 5 drags and the light started flashing. Swapped batteries and the fresh charged one did the same thing. First thing I thought was my charger was going bad. Cleaned the connections on the charger and put one back on but it showed (green) charged. Ok so it is not the charger, put the carto on a old Mega 510 battery and it worked. Took another 4 or 5 drags and it did the same thing. I then put the Mega battery on it's charger and the light on the end did not flash but showed (red) Charging. Let it charge for about 2 hours until the light turned green.

I put the carto back on and the light on the end came on but got nothing from the carto. So I put an atty that I use for dripping on that battery and nothing. Then I put a brand new atty on and it doesn't fire up at all. The blue light on the end lights up but I don't seem to be getting power to the carto or atty.

Sorry for being so long winded but just wanted to know if my battery is really dead or is there some trick I haven't heard about to make it work again? And also does this happen often using carto's or is it maybe just these new style Joye 510 carto's that do this. I really like using carto's better than atty's and cartridges but I really don't want to burn batteries up using them.

BTW. It was not a LR Carto. I am not sure what it is rated at but as far as I know it is just a standard cartomizer.

 

[flbutterfly1]

Sorry to hear about your batt, this happened to me a few weeks ago with a regular filler 510 carto. I lost 2 batts in 5 min then figured out it was the carto it really sucks and when I smelled the batt I could tell it was fried. Keep them even if they dont work, you never know when you might need an ash cap or a rubber button for another battery.

 

[o4_srt]

Been vaping for just over 3 months now and killed my first battery. Have been using the new style Joye 510 cartos, put my last one on my Riva this morning (Have more on order from FSUSA), took about 5 drags and the light started flashing. Swapped batteries and the fresh charged one did the same thing. First thing I thought was my charger was going bad. Cleaned the connections on the charger and put one back on but it showed (green) charged. Ok so it is not the charger, put the carto on a old Mega 510 battery and it worked. Took another 4 or 5 drags and it did the same thing. I then put the Mega battery on it's charger and the light on the end did not flash but showed (red) Charging. Let it charge for about 2 hours until the light turned green.

I put the carto back on and the light on the end came on but got nothing from the carto. So I put an atty that I use for dripping on that battery and nothing. Then I put a brand new atty on and it doesn't fire up at all. The blue light on the end lights up but I don't seem to be getting power to the carto or atty.

Sorry for being so long winded but just wanted to know if my battery is really dead or is there some trick I haven't heard about to make it work again? And also does this happen often using carto's or is it maybe just these new style Joye 510 carto's that do this. I really like using carto's better than atty's and cartridges but I really don't want to burn batteries up using them.

BTW. It was not a LR Carto. I am not sure what it is rated at but as far as I know it is just a standard cartomizer.

was most likely just a fluke. Those batteries are junk anyway (not just battery life, the quality of manufacturing). I've been using cartos almost from day 1 and have never had a carto related problem.

 

[BigJohnJ]

I will keep it for sure, never know I might get into Mods someday. o4_srt why do you say those batteries are junk?
I am just glad it did not take out either of my Riva batteries.

 

[o4_srt]

I will keep it for sure, never know I might get into Mods someday. o4_srt why do you say those batteries are junk?
I am just glad it did not take out either of my Riva batteries.

I am an electronic technician for a military contractor, and in school for electrical engineering. The workmanship of the batteries is terrible. Cold solder joints, cracked solder joints, improper filletts, flux remaining all over the board, improperly stripped wire, etc.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Sounds like the carto had a short on it. It's not really specific to Joye cartomizers, it can happen with any atomizer or carto. If this happens it will probably ruin any battery it's attached to. You can test for a short with a multimeter, but if its fried three batteries you can be pretty sure that is what's happened.

 

[Automaton]

+1 to Papa Lazarous. Sounds like the carto was flawed. There are many way in which a carto or atty can be flawed, and that's probably the worst one, since the way you find out is when it kills your battery.

Also as he said, it's not unique to Joye cartos. It can happen with anything.

Fortunately, it is relatively uncommon.

When a formerly good batt behaves that way, the carto/atty is the first thing I take out of the equation. If I have some old, beat up battery I can run it on to test it (I have an ancient, weak-performing XL Kr808 batt I use for this purpose), I do that. That way, if it kills that battery, it's no real loss. First I run a known good carto/atty on it so I know it works, then I run the questionable one and see what happens.

But if not, I just toss the carto. The carto the cheapest component, and the least expensive to just throw away. Not worth losing batteries over it.

 

[BigJohnJ]

That is what I basically what I did MistressNomad. The old Mega 510 was pretty beat up. In fact my wife had ran over it once with her car.........lol but it still worked, that is until I put this carto on it. Like I said glad it did not harm either of my Riva batteries. I'll just keep it around for spare parts. Thanks to everyone who responded to this thread. So many nice people with such great advice here on ECF.