Dying Batteries Ouch!

[pepper]

well it may have happened.

My wife decided to start vaping after seeing my success, so we hobbled along for a few days sharing my duel ego kit.

I ordered a WetBox and have been using that very happily for a couple days. I really love the IMR 14500 battery and the ease of charging, the power, the duration, and the consistent discharge.

i also ordered some cartos (trying to simplify the vaping process and mgmt) and went wih the coolcarts from V4L cuz they seemed have a reasonable following, also ordered some 510 carto (waiting on these) cuz all of our gear is 510. (i ordered an adapter for the V4L cartos)

Last night the eGo batteries just seemed to be fading hard and fast. I put one on the charger. When the light turned green i pulled it and put on a carto. BIG delay beween pressing the manual button and when i heard the caro kick in, then on what appeared to be a fully charged battery the light starts blinking at me.

have only had the eGo two weeks!

Now i am not really sure what to do......the replacement eGo battery is $20, even one or two of those a month seems costly. I am thinking about getting my wife into something that uses the 14500 batteries - a big battery model....

I like the wetbox so far but i am not sure if she likes the whoe box "look". The provape units seem pretty stable and not much different than the eGo form factor.

Definately swiching to cartos at this point, two weeks of flling carts and mucking with filler has been a pain.

so thoughts, opinions, comments apprecited.

Big Battery options

-ProVape

-THE VYPR-510 http://www.vaprlife.com/vypr510.html

(will add some more later or start a new big batt thread for archival purposes, no time right now)

Edited July 30, 2010 by pepper

[Jeffb]

I have had 2 eGo batts go on me. I have 4 others that I have had for a couple of months with no problems. I guess as with any batteries some go bad quicker than others. You may want to ask for a replacement from the place you bought them from.

[Jolly]

for life span you cant go wrong with a 14500, that is all i will use after building my mods.

you could even look into 10440 (AAA sized) and mod a really small flashlight to work with it.

madvapes has a keychain torpedo one that i just modded and love. you get one free with any order i believe.

its the clear one on the left.

if you want a nice box mod, and you don't mind doing the mod yourself or having someone do it. that duracell box mod i just made is an awesome box.

here is the size in my hand and my 4 year old daughters.

my duracell is running at 5v with a booster board and a 14500.

i may attempt to make a 10440 at 5v. if i do i am sure i would be the first as i follow all the current and old mods.

will just need to figure out what tiny box i could drop it into.

[kitsune]

Would definitely contact the supplier you bought them from...

They should be covered by warrenty.