V4L Battery Dead on day 46!

[LadyPhoenix]

One my batteries seems to have died yesterday. I looked at my purchase date, ironic, day 46 on a 45-day warranty. Grrrr!!

Anyway, I am not blaming them for it. So do I have to just toss it and buy another? I'm still new to this. Yes, it was fully charged. I tested the same cartomizer on my pass-through and other battery. When I plug it into this particular battery, well nothing happens. The green light does not go on and there's no heating up.

Just curious as to why this might have happened, if you can save a battery in anyway, and how often does this happen?

 

[finalthought83]

Manual or automatic?

Also have you tried to clean all the contacts with a q-tip and alcohol?

Yes the smaller batteries do die occcasionally, or start to degrade in time (so many recharges they dont last forever) Luckly they aren't nearly as expensive as cigs in most states, i know for my smoking style 1 battery = 3 days of smoking.

 

[LadyPhoenix]

It's an automatic.

I was wondering about the cleaning thing. What happened is, I opened a cartomizer (filled by the company, not by me), took a vape and had a mouth full of liquid and then heard a long sizzle coming from the battery...so I was like uh-oh! I heard about this. And then it died.

So you think I should try cleaning it out with q-tip and alcohol? Or was it killed by the leaky cart?

 

[Katya]

Flooded battery. Try cleaning the threads and the center post carefully with an old toothbrush dipped in a few drops of rubbing alcohol and then give the battery a gentle blow through the ash end. Then stand it somewhere threaded end down overnight. With any luck, the juice that flooded the switch will drain and you'll be good to go. That's your only hope. And next time, when you refill or get an overfilled carto, start it on a manual battery; those are sealed.

 

[0smitty]

I totally feel ya' on the battery dying jusssst after warranty. I had my second V4L batt, also an auto, crap out on me last week...which so happened to be about four days past warranty. Wasn't the flood issue you were experiencing, but still sucks nonetheless. Making matters worse, it was my favorite one (chrome w/blue LED), and can't afford to replace it at this time. Could be worse: at least I have a pair of functional ones, adapters for the other batts I own.

 

[finalthought83]

Stand it opening down inside a sealed baggy of rice, it will absorb the moisture, leave it in there for a day or two and try it out after that.

 

[0smitty]

**update**

I decided I'd tear apart my dead batt, revisit it a little...It turns out that the defective part is the microphone. There was, indeed, juice buildup in there, but by shorting out the pins on the microphone switch I was able to make the battery function. That said, it appears one could repair it by tearing apart another bum batt that still has a good microphone switch and swapping it!