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If it's brand new you should contact the vendor. Most offer some kind of warranty on batteries and will replace them if you let them know right away.
Good luck.
BTW--you should have a spare charger and spare batteries. They do fail occasionally--for no good reason. I like genuine joyetech fast chargers.
Dont know if its related or not but recently it took my spinner over 6 hours to charge i had it plugged in one of those outlets in the kitchen that has a reset button....
The next few times i charged it in a regular outlet and it was closer to 3 hours
The next few times i charged it in a regular outlet and it was closer to 3 hours
Sounds like a GFCI in the kitchen, and that should make no difference on charging. It just breaks the circuit if it senses a ground fault. It should either deliver full line voltage, or none at all.
Maybe you put it on a stick charger by mistake? They're only 150 - 200 mA output, so would take a long time?
Try this:
[1] unplug the charger from the usb port
[2] disconnect the battery from the charger
[3] turn the battery off and then on
[4] connect the battery to the charger
[5] plug the charger into the usb port
You should now have the situation you described, where the charger light is still green.
[6] hold the button for 1-2 seconds. the charger light should temporarily turn red as you described.
[7] let go for 1-2 seconds
[8] hold the button for 1-2 seconds
[9] let go for 1-2 seconds
[10] hold the button for 1-2 seconds
After that third 'hold' is usually when mine starts charging.
[1] unplug the charger from the usb port
[2] disconnect the battery from the charger
[3] turn the battery off and then on
[4] connect the battery to the charger
[5] plug the charger into the usb port
You should now have the situation you described, where the charger light is still green.
[6] hold the button for 1-2 seconds. the charger light should temporarily turn red as you described.
[7] let go for 1-2 seconds
[8] hold the button for 1-2 seconds
[9] let go for 1-2 seconds
[10] hold the button for 1-2 seconds
After that third 'hold' is usually when mine starts charging.
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Happy vapiversary to me. I'm late to this thread, but must add my two cents.
When my first cigarette free birthday was upcoming (the date was the Saturday morning after Thanksgiving), I ordered two Vision Spinners from Myfreedomsmokes. For the previous year I'd been using genuine Joyetech Ego-T batteries, two at the office, two at home, which I believe will never die. They are my back-up batts now. I just got tired of them gradually weakening during use, giving me thinner, cooler vapor until the point when they flashed to be recharged. They've always been that way.
On my vapeday I opened one of my new Spinners. Using it with my new Aspire BDC clearomizer, I felt I'd reached a whole new level of vaping. When my Ego-T's were new, they worked for several days before requiring their first re-charge, so I was surprised to find my first Spinner flashing, as if wanting a recharge, after about 45 minutes of use. I put it on the recharger with wall adapter, the same one of several that came with my Joye Ego starter kits last year, but the light on the charger was green. So fine, I said, and left it charging but with a green light, and opened my other Spinner and started on it. 45 minutes later it wanted recharging too. The first one was still recharging but with the light still green on the charger, so I took it off. Flashing glitches can occur, after all. I put the second spinner on the charger, and the light on the charger stayed green for it too.
So I planned to contact MFS about DOA batteries, and went back to using the trusty old Ego-T's, grateful for their longevity.
Later in the day, I thought again about flashing glitches, and started vaping on one of the Spinners again. In about 45 minutes, it started flashing again, that visual scream for a recharge. I put it on the charger again, and this time the charger light was red. In about three hours it went green. I went to bed.
The next day I vaped on the fully recharged Spinner all day and all evening. While doing that, I put the second Spinner back on the charger, but the charger light remained green on that one. Hell, I said, but I went back to vaping on it. A few minutes later it flashed again, "recharge me!". I put this one back on the charger, and this time the charger light was red, and in due time my second Spinner took a full recharge.
The long and short of this: for my second vapiversary I'm getting Ego Twists! I have more respect than ever for the Joyetech name, and the Spinners obviously have some recharging issues, if I'm judging from this and a couple of other threads I've read since my experience.
When my first cigarette free birthday was upcoming (the date was the Saturday morning after Thanksgiving), I ordered two Vision Spinners from Myfreedomsmokes. For the previous year I'd been using genuine Joyetech Ego-T batteries, two at the office, two at home, which I believe will never die. They are my back-up batts now. I just got tired of them gradually weakening during use, giving me thinner, cooler vapor until the point when they flashed to be recharged. They've always been that way.
On my vapeday I opened one of my new Spinners. Using it with my new Aspire BDC clearomizer, I felt I'd reached a whole new level of vaping. When my Ego-T's were new, they worked for several days before requiring their first re-charge, so I was surprised to find my first Spinner flashing, as if wanting a recharge, after about 45 minutes of use. I put it on the recharger with wall adapter, the same one of several that came with my Joye Ego starter kits last year, but the light on the charger was green. So fine, I said, and left it charging but with a green light, and opened my other Spinner and started on it. 45 minutes later it wanted recharging too. The first one was still recharging but with the light still green on the charger, so I took it off. Flashing glitches can occur, after all. I put the second spinner on the charger, and the light on the charger stayed green for it too.
So I planned to contact MFS about DOA batteries, and went back to using the trusty old Ego-T's, grateful for their longevity.
Later in the day, I thought again about flashing glitches, and started vaping on one of the Spinners again. In about 45 minutes, it started flashing again, that visual scream for a recharge. I put it on the charger again, and this time the charger light was red. In about three hours it went green. I went to bed.
The next day I vaped on the fully recharged Spinner all day and all evening. While doing that, I put the second Spinner back on the charger, but the charger light remained green on that one. Hell, I said, but I went back to vaping on it. A few minutes later it flashed again, "recharge me!". I put this one back on the charger, and this time the charger light was red, and in due time my second Spinner took a full recharge.
The long and short of this: for my second vapiversary I'm getting Ego Twists! I have more respect than ever for the Joyetech name, and the Spinners obviously have some recharging issues, if I'm judging from this and a couple of other threads I've read since my experience.
Unless I am very much mistaken, the button on the spinner doesn't flash when it needs charging - that is telling you the 10 second fire cutoff has been reached.
So I just checked my spinner - 5 quick flashes in succession when you are holding the fire button means the cutoff has been reached.
So I just checked my spinner - 5 quick flashes in succession when you are holding the fire button means the cutoff has been reached.
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I'm in the process of testing it - either I don't remember or mine don't flash when they need charging - they just stop firing - but I could be wrong.
Mine didn't flash when needing a charge for the first time, last night. Usually it does.
This takes me back to the good old days. I remember posting this problem way back in February after just starting out. Those were the days......................................................*reminisce*.................................... Hold on a cotton pickin' minute! that was only in Feb. just past. Why do i feel so old when I've only just begun.
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If you plug in an ego battery to charge and the charger light remains green, it's not charging. The fact that after leaving it in this state for hours it was still not charged is irrelevant; Annoying as it must be, this should not be used as part of the case you are trying to make against spinners.
In post 47, directly above your original post, I describe a method to kickstart the charging process in these situations. Try it out and post your results for the benefit of us all.
Well if I run into this problem again, I'll try your method, but if this isn't the case, then my new spinners both have defective lights. I don't take long draws, never more than 3-4 seconds, so I don't know why an emergency cut-off function would kick in. Also funny that the batteries did need recharging after all, even though, new out of the package, I only got 45 minutes to an hour on each one.
Anyway, other people in this thread are saying their lights flash when it's time to recharge. Maybe yours is malfunctioning.
Also you're not reading me thoroughly. I didn't leave them charging under a green light for hours. I ended up taking them off and trying them again, in which case, both times, after another 20 minutes or so of vaping, they flashed again to be recharged, and went into recharge under a red light.
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Also last night, after vaping intermittently for less than five hours, one of them flashed to be recharged. I put it on the charger and the light was red. The pathetic thing is that this is a new 1300 mah battery which gave me less than five hours of intermittent vaping after being fully recharged. I plan to return these to MFS. Since they do not publish unfavorable reviews of the equipment they sell, only by reading here will anybody learn of the problems with this product from that source.
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I know this post is old but I wanted to say thank you Kingpin!
I just got my spinner and when I plugged it in for it's second charge I was also having the green light issue. I tried this and it worked! Yay!
New batteries are typically NOT fully charged. So getting less vape time than expected without a prior full charge is not unusual. If you connect to the proper charger and the charger light is green, it's not charging.
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