So like a dope I put my 78mm autos through the washing machine. I shook them dry, but the lights are staying on. Did I trash them by washing them? Any way to recover them?
Washed my 78mm Autos!
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oh man... do not try to use them for a few days..this is important.
Second set them out in the sun on a window ledge in a a bag of rice...for 2-3 days.
Second set them out in the sun on a window ledge in a a bag of rice...for 2-3 days.
Put them in metal or ceramic bowl of rice... Just in case. If you don't have little ones or pets, you can put it in front of the bottom of the fridge so the fan can blow on it at night.
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It's dead or it soon will be if it discharges below the cutoff (2.75V).
If you are lucky and the diaphragm inside the sensor dries before it reaches cut off then there might be a chance of getting it back. Leave it in the rice, You don't have a short cut, if you did the battery would have exploded long before so the only load right now is the LED (10mA) since it remained activated, it will take around 34 hours to completely discharge the battery. If the asic in the sensor works it will protect the battery when reaching the cut off you will notice it when the led starts blinking.
If it doesn't protect then it will be discharged below the cutoff and that will have serious impact on the battery capacity or a fire.
Open the ash cap when you leave it on the rice, it will absorb faster.
hubby got one of his 78s wet.. forgot how but that sucker stayed lit almost a week.. durable little light on the end of that thing. RIP lil red battery
LOL! Do not try to charge a battery like this (0volts or 1 etc.) it WILL start a fire.
Silica gel is better or activated bentonite but it's unavailable in an average home (not mine
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Because I am traveling right now I do not have rice available so I am simply letting them rest in the bottom of my dresser drawer. Not perfect but maybe they will self-restore?
Well I shook them really well then let them dry with the ash cap off. I charged them both and they both charged. One works just fine! The other one is really hard to get to come one, I have to draw really hard to get it to light up, I think the water damaged the auto turn on mechanism. Could be worse!
So I put my wet cartos away for now and screwed on a kanger clearo and filled it nice and full and was walking around with it in my pocket, and what do you know, started smelling juice. Sure enough, for the first time the end came off the kanger and dumped out all the juice in my pocket. Not my week for vaping I guess!
So I put my wet cartos away for now and screwed on a kanger clearo and filled it nice and full and was walking around with it in my pocket, and what do you know, started smelling juice. Sure enough, for the first time the end came off the kanger and dumped out all the juice in my pocket. Not my week for vaping I guess!
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