Problem with my ego standard.

[trickxiii]

So I've had two ego batteries both working great for almost a month now. I had one out with me with a stardust attachment, Vision V3 clearo, and i noticed the battery begin to blink when i knew it was fully charged. I would unscrew the stardust a bit, and it worked fine. after a few hours, the draw began to taste like burning nylon, a sign that the atty was dry, but there was fluid all the way through the atty and clearo. The battery then gave out, in the sense that it blinks when the clearo is attached. When I unscrew and hit the button, there's about five seconds of full LED light on the button and then only blinking. When I got home I used my second battery with my LR atty and it was fine, i decided to see if the clearo would work with the second battery, attached it and now I have the same problem with second battery.

Did I just kill both of my batteries??

sadface.

 

[freshbreath'92]

weird, have you tried a different clearo? might just be fried somehow? The battery could be ohming out, because of a problem with the clearo. Definetely try a different one on each battery before you declare them fried.

 

[trickxiii]

Also, when I hook the batteries up to my usb charger, the light on the battery will blink but the light on the charger stays green.

 

[trickxiii]

I have tried standard 510 attys, a DCT and an LR on each batt. Nothing. One battery still blinks, the other has gone out all together.

 

[JKVaper]

could still be a bad charger, they can go bad too.

 

[trickxiii]

possibly, i don't think it's the charger, simply because when I came home and used the batt that was still attached, it worked fine until I attached the V3, got the same bad taste, and it went out on me.

 

[lotsoffish]

I think that Vision V3 clearo is shorted or running at very low resistance and it's messing up your batteries. My best advice to you right now is to either throw it out or mark it so you do NOT attach it to a battery in the future.

If both those batteries are permanently fried you might want to at least meter that Vision V3 clearo to try to get an idea regarding what caused those batteries to die like this.

 

[trickxiii]

That's good advice. Bummed I blew both of them, nothing to vape today

 

[Bullette the Cowdog]

I am reading this often on ECF lately.
Do you clearomizer-users out there think clearos are ruining batteries?

 

[awsum140]

Did I just kill both of my batteries??

sadface.

One word answer, YUP! It sounds like something was wrong with the atomizer in that clearo and the battery protection cicuits in both batteries couldn't handle it and are probably fried. Just my opinion, worth what you're paying for it, your results and mileage may vary, no warranty or guarantee is implied.

 

[trickxiii]

One word answer, YUP!

Archer - yups and nopes - YouTube

heh heh.

 

[lotsoffish]

That's good advice. Bummed I blew both of them, nothing to vape today

Well you could do one of 3 things at this point.

1. Start smoking again

2. Run out and try to find a battery or 2 locally.

3. Go cold turkey and order some new batteries ASAP.

To put things in perspective. Here in NY you could buy 2 packs of smokes for the price of 1 brand new Ego battery. A carton costs almost 100 bucks.

You could easily spend 700 bucks a Month if you buy them by the pack locally if you smoke about 2 packs a day.

And EVERYTHING about cigarettes is disposable except the crap they leave in your lungs.

 

[trickxiii]

Thanks for the advice.

I don't want to start smoking again, and luckily I have an order in the mail from this weekend that has a battery. Should be arriving tomorrow! I'll just have to tough it out.

 

[Bullette the Cowdog]

If you find you just can't make it till your vapemail arrives, Walgreens has a disposable ecig for less than $10.

 

[trickxiii]

Thanks, just went and checked the mail and it arrived! Very happy to see that. What part of the stardust do you think the short happened in? the atomizer? the bottom that connects to the battery? What would cause this short?

 

[Deriok]

Could it be juice between the clearo and the battery that caused a short circuit?

 

[grandmato5]

Sorry to hear you shorted out both your batteries Unfortunately its a common mistake when an ego type battery stops working not to realize that an atty or carto has shorted out the battery and to try to use the same atty or carto on a second battery and have the same thing happen again. Unfortunately this is a good reminder that having a multimeter and using it to check our attys and/or cartos when something goes wrong can help prevent us from accidentally ruining more then one battery.

 

[trickxiii]

That's good advice. I'll have to pick up a meter!

 

[ShogaNinja]

So I've had two ego batteries both working great for almost a month now. I had one out with me with a stardust attachment, Vision V3 clearo, and i noticed the battery begin to blink when i knew it was fully charged. I would unscrew the stardust a bit, and it worked fine. after a few hours, the draw began to taste like burning nylon, a sign that the atty was dry, but there was fluid all the way through the atty and clearo. The battery then gave out, in the sense that it blinks when the clearo is attached. When I unscrew and hit the button, there's about five seconds of full LED light on the button and then only blinking. When I got home I used my second battery with my LR atty and it was fine, i decided to see if the clearo would work with the second battery, attached it and now I have the same problem with second battery.

Did I just kill both of my batteries??

sadface.

The battery blinks for three reasons. You have a bad connection, the atomizer in question is dead, or the battery is dead and needs charging.

Try a different clearomizer like the E1-V or Vivi Nova Mini.

If that doesn't work it sounds like your center post needs pulling. I'll let someone else handle that because it's risky.

 

[trickxiii]

I've tried both dead batteries on a vivi mini, C3E, 510 atty, and an LR atty. Nothin. Although one still blinks when I press the button, no solid light when attached to anything. It also blinks when attached to the charger but the green light doesn't turn red. The charger does work with a 1100 mah ego battery, so I'm pretty sure it's not the charger. Any thoughts on how to fix the connection? because the atty is definitely fried, and the charger seems fine.