M401 Battery death? How?

[plastick]

One of my pilot batteries randomly died on me today. I never dropped it or mistreated it. It blinks when you put it in the charger but the light stays green.

I know the M401 batteries don't use a standard pneumatic pressure switch, so what could possibly cause it to die? I really want to know so I can fix these myself. Seems like a perfectly good waste of a lithium ion battery.

 

[Nuck]

Maybe it was lonely for that atomizer you killed recently

 

[V-Power]

I had exactly the same thing - and it was only 4 days old! It had been working perfectly until then and I've reported it back to ecigs.co.uk in the hope they will replace it for me.

Trouble is I've now only got one battery. I have some more on order but they haven't arrived yet .... what am I going to do? 8-o

I lit up an analog yesterday evening while the good battery was charging and had to extinguish it again straight away. It was foul - yeuch!!

 

[MisterPuck]

I had exactly the same thing - and it was only 4 days old! It had been working perfectly until then and I've reported it back to ecigs.co.uk in the hope they will replace it for me.

Trouble is I've now only got one battery. I have some more on order but they haven't arrived yet .... what am I going to do? 8-o

I lit up an analog yesterday evening while the good battery was charging and had to extinguish it again straight away. It was foul - yeuch!!

Make one

I've got a touchy 401 batt, It will sometimes act dead, no blinking, no activating ect ect. Sometimes this will last an hour, sometimes it lasts 5 minutes. when I plug it in the charger it tells me it's all good to go.

The activator for the 401's is more like a microphone than a pneumatic switch, what I think the deal is that your mic went out not allowing you to activate the battery, yet since the battery itself is fine does no good to charge it as it has a full charge already.

Just one more argument for manual switches.

 

[plastick]

Make one

I've got a touchy 401 batt, It will sometimes act dead, no blinking, no activating ect ect. Sometimes this will last an hour, sometimes it lasts 5 minutes. when I plug it in the charger it tells me it's all good to go.

The activator for the 401's is more like a microphone than a pneumatic switch, what I think the deal is that your mic went out not allowing you to activate the battery, yet since the battery itself is fine does no good to charge it as it has a full charge already.

Just one more argument for manual switches.

The battery died on me after 4 hours of use, so I figured it was dead (it never blinked after dying though). After I got home from work I put it in the charger and it wont charge. So the battery is definitely uncharged and wont accept a charge.

I'm going to order a few more M401 batteries and take this one apart and try to figure out what the hell is going you.

 

[plastick]

I had exactly the same thing - and it was only 4 days old! It had been working perfectly until then and I've reported it back to ecigs.co.uk in the hope they will replace it for me.

Trouble is I've now only got one battery. I have some more on order but they haven't arrived yet .... what am I going to do? 8-o

I lit up an analog yesterday evening while the good battery was charging and had to extinguish it again straight away. It was foul - yeuch!!

A Better Smoke - Creative Alternative to Smoking Cigarettes has m401 replacement batteries. Thankfully I ordered one of their black and gold batteries a week ago, so I still have two batteries even though one of my originals died. Gotta give them props; they ship really fast and have instant customer service. And no, I don't work for them Just sharing my experience.

I really wanna tear this dead battery apart and figure out what the hell went wrong with it.

 

[plastick]

Maybe it was lonely for that atomizer you killed recently

Har har I killed that atomizer by puffing too much on a fresh battery.

PS: Get on the new IRC channel!

 

[Nuck]

One of my evo batteries is acting flaky recently. Sometimes it just won't activate like the switch gets stuck. If you figure out anything with the battery, let me know.

I guess its time to get a few more backup supplies.

 

[youfillintheblank]

if you can salvage the connector, save it for me!!! I'll give you $2 to send it to me.

thanks

and good luck

A Better Smoke - Creative Alternative to Smoking Cigarettes has m401 replacement batteries. Thankfully I ordered one of their black and gold batteries a week ago, so I still have two batteries even though one of my originals died. Gotta give them props; they ship really fast and have instant customer service. And no, I don't work for them Just sharing my experience.

I really wanna tear this dead battery apart and figure out what the hell went wrong with it.

 

[teardrop88]

One of my M401 batteries died on me. I know the cell is good as it charges and I pulled voltage using my multimeter. The switch is what went south. Anyone know how to disassemble the thread-end from the shaft so I could solder a manual switch?

 

[Lorddrek]

I believe it is glued. Some more than others...