Hey bullymom, trust me, you're not the only one!
I bought 5 "flamejacket" batteries for my new mod and had all 4 charged and ready for my mod when it arrived.
Put the first bat in...nothing...

2nd bat in...worked for about 2 minutes...

3 bat in...worked for about 10 minutes...

4th bat in...nothing...
Was about to throw something or somone across the room, but decided that putting the batteries on the charger would be a better idea.
Next morning it worked great! And after a few cycles of swapping batteries, it looks like one of the batteries I have is completely no good, but 3 still work.
I have the TR001 battery charger and what James explained about the contacts not hitting the batteries properly is an every day experience in my home.
The only batteries that I can get to regularly hit the contacts every time are my 18350s because they are fat and sit in the channel properly.
anyways...just my
