push the button aaaannnnd-- nuthin. Now what?

[erinspeed]

I have a 3 month old eGo 1000 mAh battery in daily service, rotating duty with a 650 mAh passthru. Both Joye eGo-T brand. Running either a Boge 2 ohm carto or Kanger 2 ohm punched for a tank. Burning me some "Massive chocolate mint" AV 100% by juice. Total vaping bliss.

Until it simply quit. No flashing, no burning to death smell. Nothing. My ego now has 1000 mAh of nuthin. I put a voltmeter on it and got nothing when the button is pushed. My other passthru shows a healthy 3.2 volts, thankyouverymuch.

Pitch it? Strip it for its battery? Is there some magic spell that brings eGo-s back to life?

 

[erinspeed]

Please don't tell me I need a Provari or a Darwin. I lust for them already.

 

[base234]

Make sure it doesn't have a 3 click or 5 click shutoff. Easy to check - push the button 5 times quickly and try it. Mine had a 3 click shutoff and I didn't even know it!

 

[erinspeed]

It has the 5 click feature. It is on. The LED lights up like normal, but with no current to any carto. I tried a couple different ones, thinking that the coil might have burned out.

I just cycled it off and back on. I got even more nuthin.

 

[base234]

Have you tried prying the center contact up slightly?

 

[erinspeed]

I just put it on a charger. You know how they blink a few times to say "Connected and charging"? This one said, " ".

Last rites said. Me any my card are goin ego battery shopping.

 

[erinspeed]

Would prying the contact up give a reading on a voltmeter? I think its really dead.

Sorry about the sarcasm. Would it seriously make a difference? If it's pushed down, does that break contact inside the ego housing?

 

[r77r7r]

Are you keeping the post and charger clean? Could it be the charger? Are you stressing it out with long vape times?

Early death for a Joye product, bummer. Still, only the price of a few packs if smokes tho.

 

[mynameisrob]

Sounds to me like you fried the mosfet. If it lights up like normal, but gives no power output whatsoever, you most likely fried the mosfet, which basically means your eGo is a paperweight now.
I could be wrong, but I dont think I am

 

[erinspeed]

I am starting to collect dead ego's. This is my third. The first two died on the same day, killed by a smokymizer. Now this one. I am considering using the batteries for a mod of my own design, using madvapes vv kit for electronics. Will this work?

 

[Charlz]

I would have had the notion that you fried the battery but 2.0ohms isn't anything that should do that. Dead is dead, though. Do with it what you will. Bury it or use it for science.

 

[silkakc]

I would have had the notion that you fried the battery but 2.0ohms isn't anything that should do that. Dead is dead, though. Do with it what you will. Bury it or use it for science.

Most of my attys drop resistance as they age. The Joye 510's start at 2.2 but after 2 weeks of use, are usually down to 2.0 or 1.9. After a couple more weeks, they get down to 1.6 or so! Luckily, I just adjust my variable volt mod down as the atty's age.

 

[scalewiz]

With a dremel and some epoxy, the egos actually have a pretty good connector for reuse. Gives a good quality 510 connector with ego threads should you decide a cone might look good on the mod.

As for the batteries, probably better to stick to some AW or Ultrafire batteries; they are ready to go and fit the chargers and battery boxes without any problems with end caps/protection boards. Much safer that way.

 

[erinspeed]

Is the protection circuit for ego batteries not integrated into the battery itself?

 

[washvap]

You can try some things to see if it might be the problem. Pulling the center pin up is one thing you can do because it can be that the carto/charger/battery aren't making a solid connection. Another thing you can try is to clean the post and see how that works. Since dried juice can prevent a connection from being made as well. I know it's all common sense type of stuff but, sometimes we forget. You should give it a try and see if that works for you.

 

[base234]

Would prying the contact up give a reading on a voltmeter? I think its really dead.

As Washvap said and as I was trying to say is that if the center pin doesn't make contact in the charger the battery will not charge.

 

[erinspeed]

UPDATE!!! I realized that the wife would be, uh, um, "dissapointed" if I bought another ego. So I decided to do a search for fixing dead ego's. Sorry, but I didn't save the link, and it took a while to find. But there is a guy on youtube that said something about the bottom cap coming un-soldered, breaking the circuit. I figured there was nothing to lose, and carefully took it apart. Surprise, surprise! Broken solder connection! I re-soldered and took a toke. PERFECTION!!! *angels sing* Thank you, youtube guy.

Now back to your regularly scheduled vaping.

 

[r77r7r]

I'd like to see that fix. Can you use the History tab on your browser to find the Youtube link, or did you erase your history already?

 

[erinspeed]

Found it!!
Ego-t Battery Repair - YouTube

 

[r77r7r]

Thanks. It looks like it'd work just to pop the bottom cap off tho.