manual battery blinking after 4 seconds

[Erin Moede]

I have an ego powerpal manual battery attached to an LD aGat5 still with the original coil (about one week old) and the battery starts blinking and shuts off after 4 seconds of inhaling. It is fully charged and have had no other problems. The LD isn't heating up more than barely registering as warm-ish, and the vapour is still clean and copious. Is this a battery problem or is this the indication that the coil needs replacing? I only ask because usually when a coil needs replacing there is little to no vapour or it starts to taste acidic and that hasn't happened.

I also have a Vision spinner II VV and attached to this head I get a quarter the amount of vapour than I do with my small ego (it's the second smallest sized ego powerpal battery) and the higher the setting on the VV battery the less vapour I seem to be getting-but the VV came with a problem where there isn't a 'stop' between the low and high setting son the wrong side. The power selection ring will spin the while way around in either directions infinitely.

both batteries are only about 5 months old. Any ideas what's going on?


Also, out of curiosity can anyone explain why coils need to be replaced? Is it just that they get dirty, or does something specific wear out or breakdown in the metal wiring ect ect.

 

[Rickajho]

You gotta help me out here - I have no idea what an "LD aGat5" is.

It sounds like with the eGo the battery self-protection is kicking in and shutting it down at 4 seconds. What the Spinner is doing could be a variation on the theme. Neither of these batteries is built for low resistance coils - they don't have the capacity to fire much of anything below 1.8 ohms, not without shortening the life span of the battery or possibly tripping the protection circuit. Push it hard enough and the protection circuit pops open, rendering the battery non-functional.. Since I don't know what your topper is I don't have any idea what kind of coils that thing is using. You need to know or check the resistance of the coil you are using.

Kanthal or nichrome does break down over time, becoming less effective with age - and also having the potential of the resistance changing as it ages. Sooner or later it just has to be replaced.

 

[Wolfenstark]

They have a cut off but its usually around 8 seconds.

 

[ImThatGuy]

Most likely it's a UD AGA-T5...

 

[Erin Moede]

You gotta help me out here - I have no idea what an "LD aGat5" is.

It sounds like with the eGo the battery self-protection is kicking in and shutting it down at 4 seconds. What the Spinner is doing could be a variation on the theme. Neither of these batteries is built for low resistance coils - they don't have the capacity to fire much of anything below 1.8 ohms, not without shortening the life span of the battery or possibly tripping the protection circuit. Push it hard enough and the protection circuit pops open, rendering the battery non-functional.. Since I don't know what your topper is I don't have any idea what kind of coils that thing is using. You need to know or check the resistance of the coil you are using.

Kanthal or nichrome does break down over time, becoming less effective with age - and also having the potential of the resistance changing as it ages. Sooner or later it just has to be replaced.

my ohms reader is clocking hte head in at 0.72 does that mean I need a coil with more resistance?

 

[Dumas Mesuri]

Try building twice as many wraps or remove a coil if you built dual. That low ohms shouldn't fire at all on either of those batteries.

 

[Erin Moede]

Most likely it's a UD AGA-T5...

that's what it is, I was having trouble reading the writing on the side of the tank. But I think I need to replace the coil. I'm still using what it came with, but I should make another one and see if that works.

 

[ImThatGuy]

Replace the coil with higher resistance. 1.5ohm+