Maximising Your E-cig Batteries Life

Let's face the truth, the only thing worse, for a vaper, than being out of e-juice, is to have eliquid in your tank, but your batteries are dead. It can drive you bonkers! 

You want a drag. No, you need a drag, you press the power button on your electronic cigarette and nothing happens! No sizzle, no vapour. You're just on sucking air. 

It's like approaching a silken haired lass at the boozer and a fella with a full beard turns around. All your golden hopes and dreams come crashing down on you.

Of course, the best way to avoid this situation is to keep a spare, fully charged battery with you at all times. As experience has shown, though even the best of preparations will, from time to time, fall short. You will think you have a your bases covered and at the worse possible time discover that what you believed was a good battery, will fail you. 

To help you avoid this calamity, I've prepared a short-list of things that will help you keep your batteries in top shape.

1. Turn off Your Electronic Cigarette when not in use.

This may seem like a no brainer, but it's probably the #1 cause of battery failures. You forget to turn off your electronic cigarette, you've tucked it into a pouch and then when you pull it back out, it's dead.

Even worse, you may have had the button accidentally depressed the whole time, cooked off all your eliquid, burned out your atomiser, and damaged the control circuits at the top of your battery.

2. Don't completely drain your batteries.

It was once the prevailing wisdom that a rechargeable battery should be completely drained before re-charging. This was because old school batteries would develop a memory and only take a partial charge if short-cycled too often.

Newer batteries are different animals all together. They don't suffer from this shortcoming. Besides, ecig batteries also house inside of them circuits that control battery output and prevent overcharging. These circuits, fair much better when kept alive.

3. Store e-cig batteries properly.

Again, this may seem elementary, but there is a right and a wrong way to store your electronic cigarette batteries. Being on both the frugal and safety conscious sides, I tend to take things to extremes, but it's better to be safe than to be... caught out.

1) Store your batteries fully charged. Some say 40% or better, but again, I tend to be cautious. A full charge will assure that your battery control circuits stay functional regardless of how long they are put away.

2) Keep your batteries in a cool, dry place, and out of the sunlight. Heat and moisture are the enemies of all things electronic. They will not only cause corrosion and damage circuits, with today's lithium batteries they can cause a dangerous chain reaction.

Other than old age, there is no reason you should ever have to face a battery failure. 

Yes, batteries do die with age, but, with a little care, they can have a long as useful life, just like the rest of us.

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