Pneumatic switch failure

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Kimmiegrif

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carts without topping off get dry earlier than advertised...I beg, someone else to differ. sometimes I think it's the battery and its a dry atomizer. then if it is the battery...I have a couple that I didn't do the initial 10 hour charge cuz that direction was buried in the owner's manual. Then there was the charger that was defective....I kept thinking that my batteries were duds...it was the charger...just some things to think about.
 

zaphod

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Its not the charger. Both batteries failed but in different way. The first has good charge and makes good vapor but the switch wont go off. The other just ran out of juice, it does not make good vapor even after long charge...

And yes, the supplier here offers 1 year guarantee, I dont have problem swapping them but it is annoying ;( its been about a week and I have already swapped 1 batt and now both are gone.... Im on real cigs again ...
If I have to wait for new batts every week - well shortly this suck. Even if only one of them fails I cant smoke couse Im swapping batts all the time... they for a too short time...

Luckily today I ordered the screwdriver... hope this will free me from the battery hell of the original batts!
 

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Interesting update :)
Now it has been about week and 2 days after I got the mini. I replaced my first battery 2 days after.. it was not holding charge and flashed just after few puffs off the charger.. I charged it for 12 hours but it was useless..
After another 5-6 days of usage both batteries failed, one with the pneumatic switch failing and the other like the first one - no charge holding and very weak smoke.
Luckily the e-cig.bg reseller grants 1 year guarantee so they exchange failed batteries without problems.
Today I replaced both batteries, gone to work and put the first on the charger. After about 6 hours I had to go home so I took the charger and the batt out of the wall. I was going to put it on charge at home for some extra hours ;).
At this point I noticed that the battery looks strange. It does not have the tiny stripes imitating real cigar, plain white and its not glossy but mat. The original one are little yellowish but this is plain white. It also does not have SLB mark at the bottom as explained Here.

Are these fake? anyone noticed such batteries?
 

greenie

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Interesting update :)
Now it has been about week and 2 days after I got the mini. I replaced my first battery 2 days after.. it was not holding charge and flashed just after few puffs off the charger.. I charged it for 12 hours but it was useless..
After another 5-6 days of usage both batteries failed, one with the pneumatic switch failing and the other like the first one - no charge holding and very weak smoke.
Luckily the e-cig.bg reseller grants 1 year guarantee so they exchange failed batteries without problems.
Today I replaced both batteries, gone to work and put the first on the charger. After about 6 hours I had to go home so I took the charger and the batt out of the wall. I was going to put it on charge at home for some extra hours ;).
At this point I noticed that the battery looks strange. It does not have the tiny stripes imitating real cigar, plain white and its not glossy but mat. The original one are little yellowish but this is plain white. It also does not have SLB mark at the bottom as explained Here.

Are these fake? anyone noticed such batteries?

yes yes and yes

My 801 battery does the very thing you discribe and so did one of my 901s. I've been nursing the 801 until my 808 pass through gets here.

EST batteries seem to be the good ones, that said I just killed one of them trying to fix it. lol.

It looks like VK sells the same ones as EST. Now in my unprofessional layman's terms they 'feel real' and not like a plastic toy.

Fake is a pretty good word for the products I've had in my hand lately.
 
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