Provari Battery Warning

[Dan Deej]

Hello all! So I sort of jumped in at the deep end and bought a provari straight after my 510s. I'm absolutely loving it and it seems to work fine apart from the battery warning light not doing exactly quite what it says on the tin. According to the instructions there should be a series or increasingly rapid red flashing LED warnings before it powers down. Mine just goes from working to not working when the battery hits 3.2/3.1ish and then I get a rapidly flashing light. No pre warning.

Could this be down to new batteries or might it be something else?

 

[DaveP]

Are you using the AW 18650 IMR batteries from Provape or the 18350's?

The cutoff is supposed to be 3.2v. Mine blinks slowly at first if I let it go to the battery warning indicator and speeds up if I continue. I seldom let it go that far, though. Batteries last longer if you charge them at 3.5v or 3.6v instead of vaping them to cutoff. Taking them to 3.2v just makes them charge harder and take longer on the charger. I'm using the AW 18650 IMR's.

It takes a few charge cycles to condition the batteries when they are new.

 

[Dan Deej]

Hi Dave, I'm using the 18490s that came from provape. It's a V2 ... I have some identical AWs from another vendor that behave the same way in my mod...

 

[kidbeaster]

You should contact Provape. You may need a replacement.

 

[neeceann]

I want a provari but i'm not finacially ready for one.

 

[Kay1959]

I agree with kidbeaster. Contact Provape. I'm sure they will treat you right.

 

[Dan Deej]

Oops. Hang on a second... Someone on UKVapers just suggested that it might be because I have the LED switched to 'stealth mode'. I didn't realise that this might effect the battery warning as well as the firing light. Switching back on now. I'll report back with the results. I'm at 3.4 now so it shouldn't take too long...

 

[Dan Deej]

Right, I'm down to 3.3 and I'm getting a nice slow flash. Doh! Sounds like I'm at the root of the problem. What do you folks think? 3.3 sounding normal?

 

[markfm]

I would not sweat letting an imr go to the provari cutoff, particularly if you are using a halfway decent battery and charger.

Go back to battery vendor specifications. The newer very popular Panasonic cgr18650ch, for instance, has specs using 3.0V as the cutoff point for discharge on several of the graphs, including cycle life, with 2.5v the cutoff for the total capacity curve. The aw imr spec has 2.5v as the minimum voltage.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...u8X-Ag&usg=AFQjCNHEIEUGd1j7rDVJgo5k8eejUnZAZg

The Panasonic datasheet also shows recommended charge, using a good charger approaching cc/cv characteristic, with max current about 1.5 amps.

It is okay to be even more conservative, but it is also absolutely fine to use a good battery per its specifications. You would be fine running the battery down to provari cutoff and, equally, using a charger with decent output. (i use an xtar charger set to 1 amp max with larger batteries, 0.5 amp for smaller).

 

[ejaye]

It might be because you turn the led off

 

[X P3 Flight Engineer]

It appears you have "got by with a little help from your friends"!

Now where have I heard that before! Lol !