Need a little bit of troubleshooting assistance

[NICnurse]

Hello REOnauts!

Day 2, and still in love with my REO!!!

I am having one small problem. When I am vaping, I am getting a cutoff after about 3-4 seconds. I am using boge 2.0 510 cartos on it. And, to make it even weirder, it doesn't cut out everytime. Just every few hits. I am using Trustfire protected 14500 batteries. I had no problem yesterday at all. In fact, I used the same battery for almost 24 hours!

When I went to switch out the battery today, the first 3 I used would not fire except for a split second. The 4th one I put in works, but I am experiencing a cutoff that I did not experience yesterday. Also, noticed that when I pushed down on the firing button, sometimes it tried to eject the battery out, kinda like there was too much pressure on the top of the battery when I pushed down.

These batts are about 2 months old, probably have 60 charges on each of them, never had any problems with them in my wetbox.

What do y'all think may be the issue?

 

[mlinky]

The carto might have shorted out your battery, and possibly the switch. Call Rob. He is really there for any problem. That is why he puts his number on the card.

Did you try a different carto?

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

How many cartos or attys have your tried on it? Is this happening to all of them, or just the one you're using now? Could be a short in the carto.......do you have a multi-meter to check your cartos and batteries with? That would really help you troubleshoot what is happening.

 

[pianoguy]

Make sure the lock knob is turned all the way to the left - if it is partially locked, it won't fire reliably.

 

[NICnurse]

Ok--here is what I have done so far--

Out of my 6 batteries, only 1 is working. So, step two is assuming it is the carto. Did double check the lock knob and it is all the way left.

Just filled up one of my 808's and putting the adapter on to try it. Let you know in a couple minutes!!

 

[NICnurse]

Okay, I think the major malfunction was the carto!

Put an 808 with adapter on it, all batteries work!! Loading up a fresh 510 and making sure it works just as good.

Believe it or not, in my 7 months of vaping, I have NEVER had a carto die on me! I usually just toss them every 5-7 days because it gets gunky and I want a fresh one. Now I know what carto failure is like.

WHEW! I was starting to get a little panicky! I will let you know if this problem persists. THANK YOU!! So much!!!

ETA--the new 510 carto works with ALL batteries! You guys rock. Thank you so much for the help!!

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

YAY So glad you figured it out!!!

 

[mlinky]

The thing with troubleshooting a REO mishap is that it HAS to be either the atty, battery or the REO, and it's almost never the REO.

Glad you figured it out!!

 

[pianoguy]

Glad to hear you got it sorted out!

 

[Big Hitter]

The thing with troubleshooting a REO mishap is that it HAS to be either the atty, battery or the REO, and it's almost never the REO.

Glad you figured it out!!

Congrats on finding the problem. I will add operator error to the list as well but I agree its almost never the REO!

 

[NICnurse]

LOL! Yep, that pesky operator error. Trust me, I am a walking talking breathing operator error just waiting to happen!!! Thank goodness the REO is durable and easy to troubleshoot!