Vapor King Cold Weather

[shall]

I been reading the forum hours on end for the past 4 days now and all of my questions have been answered by just reading what everyone has posted. I decided that my 1st E-Cig will be the Vapor King. I placed my order with V4L last night and cant wait for it to get here. I however do have one question that I came to mind heading out to my van this morning. Does anyone know how these hold up in cold weather? Like being stuck outside in a van for hours on end? Housing market is picking up here which means I will be stuck out in the cold for rough ends this winter. I know the extreme cold will suck the life out of the batteries but what about the cartomizers? Im assuming they will freeze, has anyone tired to vape a frozen one? Should I be extremely worried about black toxic smoke (unit shorting out)? LOL

Sorry if this has been asked before, I have read so much here in the past few days I dont know where I started or where I left off.

Oh and thanks Steve for taking the time out of your Sunday night to reply back to me several times.

Steve

 

[Wozzy]

For those times you're gonna be in your car a lot, get one of these:

It's a USB power adapter that plugs into your car's cigarette lighter, output is about 5.0v. Stick that in your lighter socket, plug your USB Passthru into that, and vape away

 

[JenJen]

Welcome to our little corner of the forum!

Coming from Southern California, I have no idea what cold weather would do to a VK! I start whining when the temp drops to 60 degrees, so you can bet these babies will never feel the cold lol! But I did want to say welcome, and I am sure you will enjoy the VaporKing! It seriously has made it a pleasure to quit smoking!

 

[dohsma]

I been reading the forum hours on end for the past 4 days now and all of my questions have been answered by just reading what everyone has posted. I decided that my 1st E-Cig will be the Vapor King. I placed my order with V4L last night and cant wait for it to get here. I however do have one question that I came to mind heading out to my van this morning. Does anyone know how these hold up in cold weather? Like being stuck outside in a van for hours on end? Housing market is picking up here which means I will be stuck out in the cold for rough ends this winter. I know the extreme cold will suck the life out of the batteries but what about the cartomizers? Im assuming they will freeze, has anyone tired to Vape a frozen one? Should I be extremely worried about black toxic smoke (unit shorting out)? LOL

Sorry if this has been asked before, I have read so much here in the past few days I dont know where I started or where I left off.

Oh and thanks Steve for taking the time out of your Sunday night to reply back to me several times.

Steve

I used my first VK during the latter part of last winter and had no issues. I live in Wisconsin so it get pretty cold here.

 

[DiMeZ]

This is a very good question. This will be my first snowboarding season with my VK and I normally would enjoy a analog on the ski lift every few runs. I'm hoping the VK battery holds a charge being in my pocked in the cold outside for hours on end.

 

[dohsma]

Dang, just made a long post and it got lost in server too busy land...

Ok trying this again. At the end of last March, there was a freak snow/ice storm. I was in an accident (rolled my wife's SUV). When I got home I realized that I was missing my VK. My brother and I went out to the lot where the car was towed the next morning (car was totalled), but my VK was sitting in about 2 inches of snow on the front seat. I dug it out, dried it off a bit, then starting vaping. It worked like a champ.

 

[emberl]

The cold weather will definitely have an impact on how quick your battery will warm up the juice in your atomizer or cartomizer.

It does affect it, regardless whether it's the VK or any other e-cig.

 

[dohsma]

The cold weather will definitely have an impact on how quick your battery will warm up the juice in your atomizer or cartomizer.

It does affect it, regardless whether it's the VK or any other e-cig.

That is true as well.

 

[shall]

Cool thats what I wanted to hear.

Dohsma was I talking to you last night or Steve? I just fig Steve ran this out of his home and didnt think he had someone who did his site for him.

 

[dohsma]

Must have been Steve. I have been helping Steve for a few months.

 

[Cimyss]

When I was a kid my grandfather stored all our spare batteries in a container in the fridge> He said it helped them stay good longer. I am not sure how true this is but there was always fresh workiing batteries in our house

 

[Moonstruck]

Cimyss, good point. My grandparents used to do the same thing, and I've even done it myself a few times. It seems to work.

Shall, welcome to the V4L subforum. Looks like we ordered at about the same time; I am converting from 901 to VK. The 901 got me off the analogs, but I was getting frustrated with all the filling, dripping, topping off -- was starting to feel like I was running some kind of laboratory out of my house, LOL.

 

[Panda04]

Heat is a battery's worst enemy. I've read that for long term storage of lithium-ion batteries it's best to keep them cool with a 40% charge.

Look here for more detailed technical information:

How to prolong lithium-based battery life

Andy

 

[RyGuy]

All I know is that when I'm shooting video in the freezing cold, a li-ion battery that would normally last me about 5 hours only lasts about 1-2 hours. The cold seems to suck the life out of my batteries pretty good. Hot days really don't effect it as much as cold days.

 

[Panda04]

All I know is that when I'm shooting video in the freezing cold, a li-ion battery that would normally last me about 5 hours only lasts about 1-2 hours. The cold seems to suck the life out of my batteries pretty good. Hot days really don't effect it as much as cold days.

The charge will not last long, true. But the cold will not damage your battery or shorten its useful life. Heat will shorten the life of the battery.

Andy

 

[kc0cmp]

All I know is that when I'm shooting video in the freezing cold, a li-ion battery that would normally last me about 5 hours only lasts about 1-2 hours. The cold seems to suck the life out of my batteries pretty good. Hot days really don't effect it as much as cold days.

I'd just bet you that turning all those cold gears and what not in the camera has a part in it also..unless its a digital video camera. The news guys up in MO brought a case of batteries for their silly Beta recorders when they'd shoot stuff for that reason...I got the opportunity to talk to the guy a while and asked him why so many batteries lol

Cold does indeed affect battery life on Beta cameras at least. I doubt it does the battery any good insofar as producing ..i think there's a difference between storing cold and using cold..im pretty sure cold usage doesnt kill a battery, just that it depletes faster while cold...and i know for a fact if youre usin one *HOT* like after on the dash here in TX for a few hours...youre going to murder it. murdered some parts for another device like that

 

[RyGuy]

I'd just bet you that turning all those cold gears and what not in the camera has a part in it also..unless its a digital video camera.

No gears. All my cams shoot to solid state. Either P2 or CF.

 

[shall]

Yes cool not deep freeze.. Well as far as my job goes we keep extra batteries in the fridge. I have enough tools that runs off lithium to know if its -10 outside that my fully charged battery will be dead in 10 mins. LOL