Trying to repair ego c upgrade

[Scoper50]

So a guy at work gave me his ego c upgrade battery. Yesterday he had dropped it down a floor drain at work and it was briefly submerged in water. I thought that I may be able to revive this battery. It appeared to be completely dead.

I disassembled the unit. During the dis assembly process I accidently broke the black ground wire off the circuit board that houses the switch. Upon reconnecting the wire to the circuit board, I noticed that the leds flash 3 times as if the unit is being turned on. I put a volt meter across the contacts and it reads a steady 3.8 volts. This tells me that the battery is alive.

Now when I press the switch, the led's do not illuminate. I suspect the switch is no longer functioning. But I cannot confirm this because for the life of me, I can't figure out how to ohm it out. Like I said, the unit was briefly submerged in water, but the inside of it is dry as a bone. I put the whole works in a bowl of rice and I'm going to let it sit for a day to soak up any moisture that may not be visible. I figured maybe I might get lucky, and it will start working again. Stranger things have happened.

Anybody have any tips or advice? It'd be awesome if I could get it working again.

 

[hitman4274]

any update with what happened?

 

[dwyatt]

if you read 3.7 volts with the switch not depressed then it is firing all the time if you have the switch depressed do you read 0. sounds like it is stuck on.