Need help, wacky batetery! (I think)

[EStoges]

OK, so I have been using a Smoktech Magneto v2 (flathead adjustable center pin) with the Aerotank Mega for about a month and a half. I use the Magneto in 18650 mode with an Efest 18650 2500mAh 35A battery at 3.7V (according to battery label). After these last almost two months, it has worked beautifully. Well, as beautifully as any Aerotank should (I don't like them very much). However recently, something has been going very wrong. After taking the entire thing apart and cleaning it out and putting it back together the way I know it is supposed to go, it now either overheats VERY quickly and gets VERY hot, so hot that I can't even hold it and end up dropping it in severe pain. Or, more rarely, itll start to fire on its on. Yet most of the time, it just doesnt fire at all. The battery is fully charged and everything is placed correctly, so what seems to be the problem? I went to VaporIt (a vape store near my house) and they told me that the battery I was using had to high of a discharge rate for the Aerotank Mega (which reads at 2.7 ohms with the ss tank piece in). How is this possible if it has been working fine for the last 2 months? Should I just try to get a new battery, one at maybe 30A? Until then I've just been using serious caution when vaping on the Magneto. Thanks for any help!

 

[Hendric5]

i personally use and like the sony vct4 . there good batterys

 

[FlamingoTutu]

I'm no battery guru but I do know you should never use that battery again. Hang tight, help will arrive soon with a better explanation.

 

[Lessifer]

That sounds like you have a short in your mod, and your vape shop doesn't know what's it's talking about. There's no way a 2.7ohm coil would be drawing too much power from your battery. Take the mod apart again, make sure you're not missing any pieces, like delrin washers or something like that. I'm not familiar with the switch mechanism on the magneto v2 but I'd start there and the 510 connector.

Also, check your battery to make sure it wasn't damaged when it overheated.

 

[dice57]

yep, short somewhere, the E.Purple is 20 amp continuous and 35 amp pulse, have a short somewhere, either in the switch, 510 connector, or shorted wire in the atomizer. Check all the batt to mod areas too.

If auto firing, possibly broke your magnets or housing needs to be cleaned. Take everything apart, clean and replace where needed, assemble and vape. Should be able to figure out where and why the short happened, while doing the tear down.

Vape long and Prosper.!!!!

edit: Yeah, mark the batt that got hot, so you can keep an eye out on it. It is no longer a safe batt and should be disposed of, may work for a few charges, but chemistry is now unknown and unstable, and likely to vent easily in the near future. Just saying.

 

[EStoges]

Thanks everyone! I'll be sure to thoroughly go through the mod and look for any disconnections or problems, and I'll go ahead and trash this battery properly!

 

[eyerhere]

Also make sure you put your atty on an ohm tester to rule out possible short in your atty.

 

[Pescadoh]

I'm would check the switch. I'm had the problem where i cranked down the delrin insulator to much on my Valkyrie and it was keeping the switch in fire mode. I just backed it up a bit so there was still a bit of throw in the switch. Don't know how magneto is built.

 

[joesquid]

I don't know anything about your mod but if I were you, I'd never listen to another thing them feller at that vape shop tell you.

 

[Warpigs]

I don't know anything about your mod but if I were you, I'd never listen to another thing them feller at that vape shop tell you.

This. If your vape shop can't answer simple questions. I would never walk in or use them as a vendor ever again.