Please Help

[mojocracker]

My charger died and I don't think I can go 3 days without vaping. I really don't want to go back to analogs. Is there any way to fix it or build some kind of mod that will charge a battery?

I wouldn't mind sacrificing one of my manual 902 batteries into a PT but I don't have a soldering iron.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Shreck]

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/battery-mods/18409-how-build-nicostick.html
You'll have to buy a soldering iron and sacrifice your battery for the connection. Quickest easiest way I know of.. Make it with a 4 aaa or aa box instead and you can use regular batteries in it as you probably don't have 3.7 batteries lying around..
Planning ahead is necessary for the vaping habit...

 

[mojocracker]

If I bypass the circuit board inside the charger by cutting a USB cable and twisting the red wire to the center connector and the black to the outside post will that charge the battery? Will it harm it?

 

[rocketvapor]

You mentioned 902s in your post. Is that your model? I have 510 chargers down here in Rockledge, and I can overnight you one (a loaner) if it will help. Let me know.

 

[mojocracker]

You mentioned 902s in your post. Is that your model? I have 510 chargers down here in Rockledge, and I can overnight you one (a loaner) if it will help. Let me know.

Yeah rocket, 902's. Thanks for the offer though. I rewired the charger and am trying that now. If that doesn't work I'll go buy a soldering iron tomorrow and try my hand at building a mod.

 

[Kewtsquirrel]

I hope you didn't just run straight usb wire to the connector, you'll explode your battery pretty damned quick that way.

 

[mojocracker]

I hope you didn't just run straight usb wire to the connector, you'll explode your battery pretty damned quick that way.

Yeah, thats what i was doing. I just unplugged it. Is there a better way?

 

[Kewtsquirrel]

Its not so much a 'better' way as that way will explode your battery - theres really no way to 'fix' that charger unless you can see a resistor or something on the PCB shorted and you can replace it. Your best bet is to make a passthrough, same concept, but use a battery connector and a switch and hook your atomizer up to it. This way you can just vape off of 5v USB and ignore batteries altogether until your new charger shows up, although chances are you won't want to go back to anything but 5v.

 

[mojocracker]

Its not so much a 'better' way as that way will explode your battery - theres really no way to 'fix' that charger unless you can see a resistor or something on the PCB shorted and you can replace it. Your best bet is to make a passthrough, same concept, but use a battery connector and a switch and hook your atomizer up to it. This way you can just vape off of 5v USB and ignore batteries altogether until your new charger shows up, although chances are you won't want to go back to anything but 5v.

Thanks for the heads up. I really appreciate everyone's help. Do you know if I can salvage the switch in one of my 902 manual batteries for the passthrough?

 

[Kewtsquirrel]

I think theres a writeup around here somewhere for doing just that, but worst case scenario is a trip to radio shack and $4 in parts.

 

[mojocracker]

Wow, cant believe I did it! Didn't want to wait til tomorrow to go to radio shack so I went to Walmart and got a soldering iron and scrounged parts from around the house and car. This is what I ended up with. It used to be a Nintendo DS car charger.

It actually works... and works well. Thanks for the help.

Just wondering, there is no chance of this thing blowing up in my face right?

 

[Kattdaddy]

Wow, cant believe I did it! Didn't want to wait til tomorrow to go to radio shack so I went to Walmart and got a soldering iron and scrounged parts from around the house and car. This is what I ended up with. It used to be a Nintendo DS car charger.

It actually works... and works well. Thanks for the help.

Just wondering, there is no chance of this thing blowing up in my face right?

There is always a chance ..... with using something that wasn't intended for what your using it for , with respect to the nintendo not have the same capability of causing harm in retrospect to the use for an e-cig..
But. as long as that particular charger doesnt have a colapsible circuit built in and there is no relapse for a surge in the circuit- I don't think that you will have a problem. TM

 

[mojocracker]

Anyone use a portable battery with their PT? I read that people are having success with a kensington model. Mine is an xpal and works but doesn't seem to put out enough juice. The output is rated at DC5V-0.5A. It doesn't seem like it puts out half the power of the USB port on my PC. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[timh]

the Kensington would be better for it puts out 1.5max amp .you need at least 1 amp output for the pastthrough to work good .Good job with what you made .
Tim

 

[Kewtsquirrel]

You can also just make your own USB battery pack with an 18650 or 2 in parallel wired directly to a USB female plug. You should get 1-3 days out of a single 18650.

 

[rocketvapor]

But. as long as that particular charger doesnt have a colapsible circuit built in and there is no relapse for a surge in the circuit- I don't think that you will have a problem. TM

Wow...and people wonder why I'm a rocket scientest and not an electrician. I consider myself a reasonably well-educated engineer, but this stuff always makes my eyeballs bleed!

Good on ya for coming up with that mod! I'm definitely impressed.