Proud new owner of a Provari, have a question.

[Master Rawl]

Hello fellow Provari owners,
I just recieved mine Friday and it has been working great all weekend. Though starting today I've been having a small issue. When I replaced the IMR 18650 battery, the device would not turn on. The button light would sort of fade on and off and the display would not turn on. After taking the battery out and replacing it a few times, it started working again perfectly. Interestingly, there were no error codes. I just wanted to ask if anyone else has had this issue and if it's something that will get worse. Thanks for any advice.

 

[asidrave]

hmmm...only thing i could suggest is to make sure the contacts on your battery and provari are clean. If they are clean...i have no clue

 

[ScottinSoCal]

Mine has done something like that a couple of times, but it's been when I mistakenly put a drained battery in, instead of a charged battery. It wouldn't fire and when I hit the buttons to get the display (to check the atty and battery) it wouldn't display anything.

I'm going to back up the suggestion above - check the contacts. Maybe there's something on them that was keeping you from getting a good, solid connection for power flow.

 

[Master Rawl]

Thanks for the tips. I've cleaned the contacts and so far so good. I was using a Ultrafire 18650 before I put the AW back in. As I did that, I noticed the Ultrafire is a little longer than the AW. That made me worry that maybe I pushed the contact up a tad with the longer battery. After looking inside I realized that shouldn't happen, being that the build quality in there looks tough enough to handle a bit of pressure. I hope it was just some left over particles on the positive contact from the manufacturing process.

 

[ScottinSoCal]

You'll get weirdness with other batteries. They don't put out power as fast as the ProVari needs, and it trips the protection circuit on the PV. I've always stuck with the recommended batteries.

 

[asidrave]

The trustfire that works for me is the TR 2400mah. i had 4 of them and they worked in the provari no problems. on the battery it does say "high discharge rate". The Trustfire TR and AW's both work vey well in the Provari....The Trustfire has a small 1mm gap when in the Provari because the battery is slightly longer.