RIP Black Battery

[Kemosabe]

after 6 months of great vaping, i have to lay my black battery to rest. it no longer accepts a charge. same with one of my white ones. ive tried prying up the center post but that doesnt work. i dont know what else to do. i think the warrenty is for 3 months. is there anything i can do, or is 6 months pretty much all you can expect from these badboys?

 

[TTK]

I hope they last longer than 6 months. I have a set I bought about a month ago. I have Joytech 510s that are more than a year old and still going strong.

 

[trichman]

I have a couple of batteries that are a year old and still work. I'll admit I have quite a few batteries and rotate them and we all use our equipment a little different. At only $12 each, they are a good buy regardless.

 

[TTK]

I have a couple of batteries that are a year old and still work. I'll admit I have quite a few batteries and rotate them and we all use our equipment a little different. At only $12 each, they are a good buy regardless.

Same here. But, in Kemosabe's case that works out to $4 per month for batteries. That is a relative high cost, IMO.

 

[Kemosabe]

my gf and i have 10 batts total. 4 Bloog, 2 V2, 4 Volt.

2 bloogs were bought around 10/1/11.
2 more bloogs around xmas time.

one from the first batch is dead and one from the second batch is dead.

just for a frame of reference, same thing happened with the volts. the V2s still work although their life is not what it used to be. but the V2 charger (gen 1) has died so the V2s cant be used unless i get another gen1 charger.

aye-yi-yi! its driving me "batt"y lol but seriously how are you guys keeping your batts so long? all i do is use em and charge em. i couldnt imagine what im doing wrong

 

[Kemosabe]

we dont use LR cartos. just the standard KR8 cartos. ~2.8ohm.
and we always use the bloog brand charger.

what gives?

 

[TTK]

we dont use LR cartos. just the standard KR8 cartos. ~2.8ohm.
and we always use the bloog brand charger.

what gives?

Not sure. Are you absolutely sure you are not getting liquid in them? Do you remove the carto to fill and blow through them before putting them back on? I rotate my Bloogs with egos, so I don't use them constantly. The only batteries I have go bad are the Blu and Smoke 51, when I first started . Then I bought the 510s, EGOs, and my last purchase was the Bloog with the PCC for portability. None of these have gone bad, but I have only had the Bloogs for about a month but I really like the Bloog horizontal coil cartomizers.

 

[redempti0N]

we dont use LR cartos. just the standard KR8 cartos. ~2.8ohm.
and we always use the bloog brand charger.

what gives?

Cleaning them helps

 

[Kemosabe]

thanks for the input. no they didnt get liquid in them. yes, i do remove the cartos for filling. i fill my cartos to ~80-90% using a scale. i never have an overfill. i do blow though them however just to be sure.

Not sure. Are you absolutely sure you are not getting liquid in them? Do you remove the carto to fill and blow through them before putting them back on? I rotate my Bloogs with egos, so I don't use them constantly. The only batteries I have go bad are the Blu and Smoke 51, when I first started . Then I bought the 510s, EGOs, and my last purchase was the Bloog with the PCC for portability. None of these have gone bad, but I have only had the Bloogs for about a month but I really like the Bloog horizontal coil cartomizers.

 

[Kemosabe]

thanks for the reply.
i clean my batts with a toothbrush and 91% isopropyl alcohol, careful not to get alcohol in the center hole. is this still the best method for cleaning?

Cleaning them helps

 

[Kemosabe]

update: it turns out that its BOTH the x-mas time bloogs, in addition to the one from the earlier batch (the black batt) have died. the bloogs purchased at christmas time we both the "try me" deals that come in the clamshell packaging. i understand that the battery bought in october might just be getting old, but the ones from x-mas shold still be alive and kicking.

this makes me wonder.....are the "try me" batts inferior? i had asked this question before purchase, and i was told that they are the same exact batteries as the standard bloog batteries. is this still accurate info? was it just "bad luck" that both try me batts failed within months?

im worried because i just placed an order for another try me batt to replace one of the dead ones. i hadnt known that the OTHER try me was dead when i made the purchase, if i did i would have immediately recognized the pattern with the try me batts. please help. im worried that my new batt will die like the others did and i havent even gotten it yet

my gf and i have 10 batts total. 4 Bloog, 2 V2, 4 Volt.

2 bloogs were bought around 10/1/11.
2 more bloogs around xmas time.

one from the first batch is dead and one from the second batch is dead.

just for a frame of reference, same thing happened with the volts. the V2s still work although their life is not what it used to be. but the V2 charger (gen 1) has died so the V2s cant be used unless i get another gen1 charger.

aye-yi-yi! its driving me "batt"y lol but seriously how are you guys keeping your batts so long? all i do is use em and charge em. i couldnt imagine what im doing wrong

 

[trichman]

Kemosabe, you are doing everything right according to your posts. I am less attentive to cleaning them than you. I've never used a Try Me battery so hopefully Leaford will weigh in on that issue. I really don't expect more than 6 months from any battery and am happy when they exceed that time, but many of mine fail around 6 monthsish.

 

[TTK]

For the Bloogs you received, are the LED ends flat, or relatively flat, rather than rounded or hemispherical?

 

[Kemosabe]

no they are not rounded. they are flat, with concentric circle grooves. same caps as the non Try Me AKA standard bloog 78mm batt.

trichman, its good to hear that im not the only one whos had batts fail earlier than others. 6 months is acceptable, but i still think something is wrong with the two 4 month old dead batts. im really interested to hear what the official answer is on this.

 

[TTK]

While I do like the way the Bloog batteries and cartomizers perform, such a short time for batteries to last would keep me from buying any more of them. After all, I still have my original Joytech 510s that are well over a year old and perform as new. My Joytech Egos are nearly a year old and still going strong. If a battery can't last more than 6 months it isn't worth buying, IMO.

 

[TheBaldEagle]

no they are not rounded. they are flat, with concentric circle grooves. same caps as the non Try Me AKA standard bloog 78mm batt.

trichman, its good to hear that im not the only one whos had batts fail earlier than others. 6 months is acceptable, but i still think something is wrong with the two 4 month old dead batts. im really interested to hear what the official answer is on this.

Hello Kemosabe, if you had 2 Bloog batts that failed in 4 months, please just send them back to us and ask Aileen to replace them for you. No charge. Please just send a quick note with them letting her know that I OK'd it. Our apologies for the inconvenience. When we get batts that fail, we do send samples of the defective products back to the factory & Leaford for diagnosis.

 

[TTK]

Bloog to the rescue. That's good. Now, how old were the Volts when they bit the dust?

 

[Kemosabe]

That is amazing BaldEagle! Thank you!

Hello Kemosabe, if you had 2 Bloog batts that failed in 4 months, please just send them back to us and ask Aileen to replace them for you. No charge. Please just send a quick note with them letting her know that I OK'd it. Our apologies for the inconvenience. When we get batts that fail, we do send samples of the defective products back to the factory & Leaford for diagnosis.

 

[Kemosabe]

the volts were purchased at the end of october, so 5 months.

Bloog to the rescue. That's good. Now, how old were the Volts when they bit the dust?

 

[Marsai]

My 2 cents : I have personally NEVER had a bloog battery just stop working of its own accord.

However, I have about a 50% chance of ruining them when I clean them. My problem is in between the center post and the outer threaded ring ...I have been using a thin piece of wire to scrape out the gunk ... sometimes they work after, sometimes not ....lol. My theory is that I have pushed the center post around too much and broke something inside.

I have dropped bloog batteries out of my mouth from on top of a 10 foot ladder. No worries. Before switching to bloog I used another brand ( RiV4L ... ) and even a 3 foot drop off the table and they were cooked. Bloog is far and away the superior choice for pen style E-cigs IMO.​