Why can't AUTO batteries be sealed?

[phishtraveler]

OK so the question may be obvious, but I certainly don't understand why it can't be done??
I hear over and over again to buy manual batteries if you are planning to refill so any overfill or juice leaks won't kill the battery..... but why can't AUTO batteries be sealed, too?

These kind of improvements are probably already in the works....but the evolution from vertical coil to horizontal coil to spiral coil seems to be really obvious....they are just being changed at a very slow pace.

 

[Morandir835]

Phistraveler sir it's because the switch as of right now has to be placed at the bottom of the connector. So to activate it you need airflow, which is impossible unless the batt is unsealed.

 

[SnowDragon]

It all comes down to simple engineering...something has to trigger the battery to allow power to the atomizer. As for using Auto Batteries and juice I have never shorted a battery, let alone shorted a battery due to leaking juice.

Does it happen? You bet, but the possibility of it happening diminishes greatly by the use of proper refilling techniques. I also believe that the e-cig industry is extremely fluid and that a lot of hardware we use today will soon seem antiquated in the very near future.

 

[Robby]

Seems to happen much more often when filling cartos with darker/heavier liquids, just because the cartos only 1 or 2 days old you think it can hold some drops and really its gunked up and 70 percent of what you just dripped in made its way to the battery. Learned that lesson after 2 dead 808s.

 

[angelad]

I dropped a whole battery with tthe cart on in tub. It worked fine the next day. I have never had a problem with auto batteries and refilling the carts.

 

[phishtraveler]

Cool. so all they have to do is design airflow tubes that reach down to the bottom of the connector and then they can be sealed??

Phistraveler sir it's because the switch as of right now has to be placed at the bottom of the connector. So to activate it you need airflow, which is impossible unless the batt is unsealed.

 

[Morandir835]

Technically yes Phistraveler sir, but you still have the one issue, the switch itself is still in danger of getting juice into it, which would still render the batt unusable. I'm sure someone somewhere is working on a new design for the auto batts, just don't know when a juice safe auto will be a reality.

 

[wader2k]

The problem IS the switch getting gunked up. The actual cell has never been a problem.

 

[teslastick]

Water evaporation dries clean. Juice evaporation dries sticky with residue. Alcohol evaporates faster and cleaner than juice and water.