Your Ego Batteries and Some atty issues

[tonyorion]

I am getting very frustrated with my ego/Tornado batteries (not from you). Of the 10 I had (5 regular and 5 mega), I am down to 4. They just fail after a while and will not take a charge or light up. (Since April of '10).

In addition, I have 3 Riva style which have a soft switch. All three have failed due to the soft rubber like material of the button wearing out quickly and collapsing into the housing.

For all of the issues that I have had, this style of battery has been my favorite when out and about since it is not too obstrusive and large. In frustration, I have ordered an ICON which is a 14500 style PV and relatively small. The batteries will fail but at $3-5 they are a lot cheaper than egos. The Icon is far far perfect since it is a purely mechanical device. Vaprlife has some products with 14500 fixed voltage, but I am one of the victims of their garbage products and wretched customer service. I will never deal with them again.

I favor the 14500 because it is a good compromise between size and mAh.

First question, is your ego similar to the Riva? I just do not trust the switch

Second question, I have a whole bunch of attys that I got in Nov (26 total 10 regular and 16 HV 510) that have failed. They are dead. I did write to Tim, but I do know that my email account did get hijacked so my email may have ended up in the spam folder.

The order number is 4420 ordered on Nov 2 2010. You can see that it is an inordinatley high failure rate.How do we handle this?

Thanks

 

[Landlord]

I got an ego battery from gh1. It is like the riva with a soft button, but ive been using it for almost two months now with no problems, button still feels new.

 

[SubGothius]

You got an eGo with a rubbery-soft button like the Riva? I thought all Joye eGos have a hard plastic button that makes a tactile click when activated?

 

[tonyorion]

Sorry for any misconceptions. My ego's failed because of issues not related to the switch. I actually like the original ego switch as well as the the Tornado from TW, but I believe the Tornado is actually an original ego. They mostly just died; however, two did short dramatically which caused the egos to start smoking and become dangerously hot. Fortunately, I was not in a spot that could have caused serious issues such as driving.

My 3 Rivas failed due to switch problems. In the meantime, I received my Icon. It's a small, compact unit with decent sized 14500 batteries. It seems to be well made and is not as obstrusive as some of my other units (DSE 905, Screwdriver, Indulgence, a Buzz for high voltage and an ordered ProVari). I drip at home only.

I do miss having an indicator light for the battery status, but then again neither does my screwdriver or my indulgence.

Tony

 

[Smocha]

Hey Tony,


I`m sorry to hear about the batts and atties. Shoot me over an email and I`ll send you over our return address to have every warrantied for you.

Warmest regards,
Tim