Why does evey atty start buring as soon as screwed in?

[justincase]

Maybe this has been addressed somewhere, but ECF is so big, I can't find it.

Has any one experieced this problem and is it fixable?

Every atty I screw into my battery is instantly sizzling away and I'm not even pressing the button on the battery.
I thought it may have been my atty, although I've been using it with no problems. I tried a different atty, same problem. Tried another one, same thing.
In fact, I have now tried 9 different atomizers and I am having the same experience with ALL of them.
I would try a different battery, however, this is the only one I currently have.
I just purchased the new e-power and that hasn't worked, right out of the box. I ordered it because I *knew* I needed a back up. My *old* battery was reaching the end of it's life, that's why I just purchased the e power. I just received it yesterday, and both batteries change the charger light green, when I screw the *button* piece onto the battery tube, the button flashes a couple times, but when I press the button to operate it, it flashes and then nothing.

Is a power more greater than myself trying to tell me to go back to analogs?

 

[WomanOfHeart]

I would suggest contacting the vendor who you bought the E-Power from right away. There might be something wrong with the button section.

If your only other battery is firing the atomizer then I would stop using it immediately. The MOSFET could be fried and there isn't much you can do about that.

Sorry you're having so much trouble, but DON'T GIVE UP!

 

[searcher]

On your batteries try jiggling the button with your thumbnail to see if it is stuck. Never had it happen with a battery but happens quite often with my PT.

 

[justincase]

All these batteries and not a working one in the bunch.
And the E-Power isn't even in that picture.

Off to get a pack of smokes.............

 

[Buzzy]

Sorry to hear about your problems, justin. I take it that your atty issue is happening on more than one battery, since you posted the pic. The only suggestion that I can think of is to try cleaning all of the battery connections. Using a q-tip moistened with rubbing alcohol, run the q-tip around the connector threads until a fresh q-tip comes off clean. Wait for any residual alcohol/water to dry, then try again with the atty.
If that does not help, try a different atty/battery combination. The atty itself is not likely the problem, since there is no switch or means by which the atty will bypass the switch on the battery. Do you drip? If so, it is possible to get eliquid accumulation at the connector threads. In fact, it is even possible to get eliquid in the switch itself, for which there is no cure on eGo type batteries.
It has been reported that an atty can self-destruct by shorting straight to ground, but one that does so will still not fire of itself. However, it can overload the mosfet in the battery and short that out, I think. But I've not had that happen to me...yet.

 

[ericdjobs]

Is your battery upside down? The nipple (positve) end should be sticking out

The e-power will fire every single time something is screwed in with the battery upside down


**oh i just noticed it's not your e-power doing that... What resistance are you atomizers? The flashing thing with the e-power happened to me once with a dual coil carto (Stuck it on, hit button, flashed a couple times and nothing) I believe the carto was too low resistance or maybe a short inside it or something.. because another dual coil (Same exact batch) worked fine.

 

[justincase]

I just posted the pic to show all the batteries I have, and not one of them are working. I have been rotating through these batteries for quite a while now with no issues what so ever until lately. I don't know what is going on or what I am doing to these batteries. They have all failed for various reasons.
2 of them "work" until I put an atty on them. What I mean is, I can press the button and it will light up. Put an atty on, press the button, nothing. Take the atty off, press the button, it lights up again. What the hell does that mean?
One of them, the silver plastic cap thing fell off and the battery fell out of the tube, leaving that useless as now the connection at the end of the battery is separated.
I had the sizzling atty problem earlier in the week that knocked out 2 batteries.
The black one I was using lately, up until today, I took a "drag" of it, walked in the other room for a minute, came back in to see the atty smoking and sizzling. I unscrewed the atty, it stopped. Screwed it back on, immediately it started sizzling. I started trying different atty's, same thing with all the ones I tried. Battery was getting hot now because of all the atty action. Waited for it to cool down, about 20 minutes then tried to screw in another atty. No more sizzling......wait, light on button not coming on at all now.. Battery fried.

The E-Power....tried the battery both ways. If I stick the battery in up-side down, the button doesn't light up at all. Turn the battery around and the light blinks as soon as the connections "touch". Press the button and it flashes a few times then it's "dead". I can unscrew it and go through that ritual over and over getting the same result.

I made a video recording with my camera of what I'm talking about, but I don't know how to put that on here. I hope you can picture what I am trying to say.

 

[ancient puffer]

The atty "completes" the electrical circuit. It sounds like your battery is "always on" (switch is stuck?), so when you attach an atty, circuit is complete and it fires. I know if you happen to get juice into the switch, that can cause it to stick in the on postion (electrically, not physically), but that's the only thing I can think of that could cause it, and it's unlikely to happen to so many batteries.

The epower sounds like it might be trying to tell you the atty is bad or has a short, but I'm not familiar with them so that's only a guess.

ETA: if you have a multimeter, I'd check all the attys for a dead short as a first step in trying to isolate the problem. If you find a bad one, it's possible it has damaged your batteries in some way.

 

[riverwhiskey]

Had that problem. fried two batteries instantly before i figured out i had a bad cartomizer. Boge 2.0, when i put it on i guess it had a direct short and fried the switch each time. Threw away two batteries and one cartomizer. no problems since.

Could be.

 

[justincase]

The atty "completes" the electrical circuit. It sounds like your battery is "always on" (switch is stuck?), so when you attach an atty, circuit is complete and it fires. I know if you happen to get juice into the switch, that can cause it to stick in the on postion (electrically, not physically), but that's the only thing I can think of that could cause it, and it's unlikely to happen to so many batteries.

The epower sounds like it might be trying to tell you the atty is bad or has a short, but I'm not familiar with them so that's only a guess.

ETA: if you have a multimeter, I'd check all the attys for a dead short as a first step in trying to isolate the problem. If you find a bad one, it's possible it has damaged your batteries in some way.

The e-power has never had an atty connected to it yet. That's what it does when I "assemble" it. Nothing special about an e-power, other than it has replaceable "parts" as opposed to replacing whole units. Very similar to an eGo in size, shape, etc.

i have a multimeter, but don't know how to use it to check an atty. can you tell me how to do that?

 

[4mehealth]

Set the multimeter to measure resistance (the omega symbol). Doesn't quite matter what value you set, but set it to the lowest (typically 20).

Take the probes and touch them together. This is to get the internal resistance of the mm.
Put one probe on the thread of the atty. Place the other probe in the centre of the atty. You should get a reading. Take that reading, subtract the previously measure internal resistance and that's how you get the resistance of the atty.

As for how your batts are stuck, I dunno. Did you drip some juice on it?

 

[unloaded]

Put your epower batteries on the charger and wiggle them around until the led turns red, make sure the + is on the led end of the charger.

 

[justincase]

Set the multimeter to measure resistance (the omega symbol). Doesn't quite matter what value you set, but set it to the lowest (typically 20).

Take the probes and touch them together. This is to get the internal resistance of the mm.
Put one probe on the thread of the atty. Place the other probe in the centre of the atty. You should get a reading. Take that reading, subtract the previously measure internal resistance and that's how you get the resistance of the atty.

As for how your batts are stuck, I dunno. Did you drip some juice on it?

Thanks. I will try that tomorrow.

Put your epower batteries on the charger and wiggle them around until the led turns red, make sure the + is on the led end of the charger.

Well. I am a dumb...
I had the battery on the charger upside down. Did I screw up the battery or will it be ok and charge?

 

[Bozzlite]

Well. I am a dumb...
I had the battery on the charger upside down. Did I screw up the battery or will it be ok and charge?

Use the MM to check the voltage on the battery. It should have a partial charge on it. Make sure the polarity hasn't flip flopped. Then, only one way to find out if it's still good. Put it on the charger.

BTW, this may be a bit obvious, but you need to have a working battery in your multimeter before you can check resistance. That is, if you have an analog mm. With the Digital Multimeter the one battery powers everything.