Mother in laws batts dying too quickly

[Jessamine]

My mother in law has been using e-cigs longer than me and she is having some issues with batteries that seem to drop like flies. I've been using e-cigs for a year and I've only had a couple of batteries die.

I took some of her broken ones to see it wasn't a charger issue and they work / don't work exactly as she explained after charging

She has been using V4L standard batts in all sizes. They are constantly dying after a couple of months of use. Either they no longer work at all or she finds they fail to work with the cartomizer to produce enough vapour.

Does anyone have any tips for her to increase battery life? She just had what I believe is her last battery die while on a business trip and I had to ship a bunch of stuff to her express to keep her going.

Thanks guys

 

[BHam]

Jessamine, are her batteries manual or automatic? It is possible, that juice from the cartomizer leaked into the automatic's post and shorted the batteries. That is my first thought. Also, if her batteries are still under warranty, our CS team will certainly ship out replacements.

 

[Jessamine]

Hi there, they are manual and she doesn't fill her own, which rules out that issue.

I'm sure CS would fix the immediate issue but I want to sort out what she might be doing to kill so many of them as otherwise the cycle will just go on and on

 

[BHam]

Jessamine, what line of batteries are they from? Diamond tips or ash caps? The best advice for battery life is:

- not draining them completely. Start charging once you feel a decrease in your pull.
- charge early and often. Keep your batteries on a regular charge cycle.
- any moisture on the threads when attached to slim charger can kill them. Be sure the threads are dry before coming into contact with the slim charger

Have you contacted the CS team?

 

[HarmonyPB]

Jessamine,

Just a thought, but what do you mean by "they no longer work"? Are they not lighting up? Are they lighting up but won't work on cartos? Do they blink? Have you tried a post raise? Are the batteries cleaned regularly?

A few reasons batts "die" prematurely:
-If there is too much gunk build up then they won't make a proper contact with the charger or carto. These batts are not really dead, they just don't work. Give them a good cleaning and they will start working again.
-Abuse. I have killed a battery by letting it roam free in my backpack. My theory is that it got banged around a little too hard and the innards were knocked loose. I could hear rattling around inside the battery and it wouldn't work or charge at all. No lights, nothing.
-As BHam said, moisture. As I'm sure you know, liquid and electronics do not mix well. If you get liquid into the button part of a manual battery it could fry the circuit and the battery will no longer work. And the threads/charger as Bham mentioned above is a sure way to kill a batt.
-Dud battery. These happen. A dud battery will normally die before the V4L warranty expires, just call and ask for a replacement.
-Deep cycling also as Bham mentioned.
-Batts can seem to "die" if the post on your batt and carto aren't making a good connection. Try raising the post on the carto and battery.

That's all I can think of for now.

 

[Jessamine]

Thanks for all your answers guys

 

[JenJen]

I was also going to suggest gently prying up the posts on the batteries and cartos and seeing if that fixed it.

 

[yuttynutt]

I and many other husbands in the world would say if as the thread title says "Mother in laws batts dying too quickly" is true, most men would not change their mother in laws batteries at all lol.

In all seriousness, my dad uses v4l batteries as well, and he had this issue. The main cause was the charger he had over tightened the batt on the charger so the lil light would say it was charged but wasn't.