Vision Spinner already dead

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noi_max

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What the heck man? My Vision Spinner 1100mah battery bit the dust. When I plug it into my eGo charger, it makes a high pitched whiny sound and the charging light stays mostly green. Tried my other eGo charger and same thing.
I do the 5 clicks and nothing. It's dead as a doornail.

My banner says how long I've been off stinkies. That's how long the Spinner lasted. I got it the same day I quit smoking analogs.
The 650mah Spinner still works, so I have 1 battery and no backup.

F all this I'm getting a Provari or something.
 
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What the heck man? My Vision Spinner 1100mah battery bit the dust. When I plug it into my eGo charger, it makes a high pitched whiny sound and the charging light stays mostly green. Tried my other eGo charger and same thing.
I do the 5 clicks and nothing. It's dead as a doornail.

My banner says how long I've been off stinkies. That's how long the Spinner lasted. I got it the same day I quit smoking analogs.
The 650mah Spinner still works, so I have 1 battery and no backup.

F all this I'm getting a Provari or something.

pull your positive post up a little. I'm 105 % sure that's your problem :)
Your welcome lol

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Nope. Nothin.

When I screw it in, the LED on the battery button comes on, but the light on the charger stays green, and flickers a tiny bit of red every so often.

Ok hmmm.... I know when my wifes spinner charges the charger flickers red and green. Does your battery do the 3x flash when plugged in?
if worse comesbto worse you can check the wires connecting to the pcb by tacking the battery post off.

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Ok hmmm.... I know when my wifes spinner charges the charger flickers red and green. Does your battery do the 3x flash when plugged in?
if worse comesbto worse you can check the wires connecting to the pcb by tacking the battery post off.

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How do I do that?
 

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The charger charges my other battery just fine, so I'm good there. I'm always keeping my threads and stuff clean.

The wires inside the spinner are so small and fragile. No telling where the thing went bad. If I had a better camera I would get shots of it disassembled.

There are 2 dedicated wires for the potentiometer at the base of the unit that go to the pcb. A dedicated wire for the negative lead, and two for the positive lead. One from the battery to the pcb, and one from the pcb to the center post.

The top portion of the unit that houses the threaded connecter and the fire button is press fit into the rest of the assembly. If you manage to get enough force to pull the two apart, you will surely break some connecting wires in the process. The top portion is textured with slotted lines so it is nigh impossible to "twist" the two pieces apart. This is definitely not a user serviceable item.

The wire leading to the center post was soldered and then covered in some kind of gunk. My guess would be to insulate the solder connection. The negative lead was soldered right to the side of the top portion of the assembly.

The battery itself has no recognizable features and is wrapped heavily in shrink wrap and some other adhesives. Its about the size of a "AA" battery.

The potentiometer at the base of the unit is in there really good. I can't seem to pry it out. Probably the most solid thing about this device. Unlike the eGo Twist, it's very unlikely that it will come out on it's own.

I may have burned up something on the inside using low resistance cartomizers, but not that I can visibly see. If I chain vape with long draws the unit would tend to get warm at the top where the threads are, and as far as I can see there's no place for the circuitry to dissipate any heat.

I totally want to get at least one fully mechanical mod after seeing the insides of this thing. I don't care if my voltage is fixed and unregulated. Just one device on hand that I know isn't going to break so easily.
 
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