Happy Sunday everyone,
I went to use my VGO 900mAh battery last night (like these, but from a different vendor). The battery is about three months old, out of warranty.
It had a 510 cartomizer in it, recently refilled, about 1 month old, used earlier that day. I took a drag and inhaled a very hot puff of burnt, atty tasting stuff which made me cough. I could hear the atty in the carto sizzling, and the light on the diamond battery button was blinking. I immediately unscrewed the carto and the light stopped. I didn't smell anything and nothing seemed overheated. I was pretty fast at getting the carto out.
I tried another cartomizer, pushed the button and the light just blinked 20 times, but nothing else happened. No heat, no vapor. Just 20 blinks.
I cleaned the battery thoroughly and put it on the charger. The battery light blinked 4 times as usual, but the charger never changed to red, just stayed at what would be a normal fully charged blue. Tried a different charger, (these are VGO chargers which are proprietary to these batteries). Again, battery blinks as if it's going to charge, but charger stays blue instead of blinking red to blue.
If I screw any carto into it, the battery just blinks 20 times.
BTW, the carto I was using is rated 3.0 ohms on the vendor's site. I don't use lr cartomizers.
Is my battery dead? Could the cartomizer have killed it? Should I throw out the rest of the cartomizers from that box? (I don't want to risk my other VGOs or my eGo.)
Is there anything I should try that might fix the battery? But mostly, I so want to understand what the heck happened to avoid it from happening again????
Thank you ECF family, I appreciate any help, or knowledge.
N.
I went to use my VGO 900mAh battery last night (like these, but from a different vendor). The battery is about three months old, out of warranty.
It had a 510 cartomizer in it, recently refilled, about 1 month old, used earlier that day. I took a drag and inhaled a very hot puff of burnt, atty tasting stuff which made me cough. I could hear the atty in the carto sizzling, and the light on the diamond battery button was blinking. I immediately unscrewed the carto and the light stopped. I didn't smell anything and nothing seemed overheated. I was pretty fast at getting the carto out.
I tried another cartomizer, pushed the button and the light just blinked 20 times, but nothing else happened. No heat, no vapor. Just 20 blinks.
I cleaned the battery thoroughly and put it on the charger. The battery light blinked 4 times as usual, but the charger never changed to red, just stayed at what would be a normal fully charged blue. Tried a different charger, (these are VGO chargers which are proprietary to these batteries). Again, battery blinks as if it's going to charge, but charger stays blue instead of blinking red to blue.
If I screw any carto into it, the battery just blinks 20 times.
BTW, the carto I was using is rated 3.0 ohms on the vendor's site. I don't use lr cartomizers.
Is my battery dead? Could the cartomizer have killed it? Should I throw out the rest of the cartomizers from that box? (I don't want to risk my other VGOs or my eGo.)
Is there anything I should try that might fix the battery? But mostly, I so want to understand what the heck happened to avoid it from happening again????
Thank you ECF family, I appreciate any help, or knowledge.
N.
