Charger help please.

[Jerri]

Okay. I have this charger

www.vapeescape.co.uk/xtar-wp2ii-charger~408

And two efest 2000mah batteries to use with my vamo. Took one out of the charger this morning and soon as I put it in the vamo go the lo battery warning. Despite it being on charge all night.

I assumed when I put the batteries in the LED's would be red then go green when they were charged. But they are always green. So I've no idea if its charging, charged, flat etc.

Is this normal. I read the manual but honestly, it left me more confused.

I've put it back in the charger and will see if its charged in a few hours but I've no idea if the charger is dud. The battery is dud or I just did something wrong.

[genguskhan]

Sorry no idea Jerri.

But a Vamo expert will be along soon or contact Jason

[dickyg]

Have you tried jiggling the batteries in the charger? Sometimes mine are green when I put them in as the circuit hasn't be made for some reason, a quick jiggle and the LED goes red. Not terribly scientific from me I'm afraid.

[4madcats]

It could be a dud battery, or if the battery was stored with 0 or very low volts the xtar won't recognise it. I doubt it's the charger if it's charged the other one, but best to contact Jason.

Just another point re charging, I personally wouldn't leave any kind of mod battery charging unattended or overnight unless it was somewhere they couldn't do any damage. Although pretty rare they can go "thermal", usually just involves them getting super hot then they vent hot gases off, but it has been known for them to spark (I had one do that, that had been damaged in the post), & even more rare go bang. Don't want to frighten you but not something I would ever do.

[Super-Shiny]

I think there is a switch at the back of that charger that has to be changed to something, cannot remember

[mybad]

you do not mention if the charger leds were red when you put the batteries in or if the leds were green when you took them out ?

[andy01424]

check on vmao its says Lo v if it says lo w its the coil on atty ,its to low an ohm so vamo shows Lo warning,hold plus sign button down if its 1.1ohm or below it will give warning

[Karma]

Mar 6, 2013 13:46:20 GMT dickyg said:

Have you tried jiggling the batteries in the charger? Sometimes mine are green when I put them in as the circuit hasn't be made for some reason, a quick jiggle and the LED goes red. Not terribly scientific from me I'm afraid.

May not be scientific but works for me too

[kirrielad]

There's a switch on top of the charger going from 0, 0.5 & 1A. Jason recommended having it on 0.5 to help prolong battery life, might be worth a try as if its still on 0 maybe it isn't putting enough/any power through to the battery?

[DiscoDes]

FLAT TOP batteries do not make contact well in Xtar WPII chargers. If you put one spacer in it will make contact.

Is your battery a flat top?

[Jerri]

Thanks.

When I put them in the LED's go greed right away.

I couldn't fit a spacer in and the battery too.

I shall jiggle lol.

All else fails ill drop Jason an email.

[Ewol]

Make sure the charger is set to '1A'. Also putting the batteries at an angle helps. I have to do this with the batteries I used in my LT.

My pannys on the other hand are flat top and charge fine. I don't use them in my LT as I'm convinced the LT damages them. The pannys are my vamo only batteries.

[Jerri]

Just tried them after a few hours on charge. Vamo still saying low v. Put em back in. Green LEDs.

So. I jiggled. Low and behold. Red LED's!!!!

[kirrielad]

[meeee]

I have one of those chargers and I find it does not fit flat top batts very well, I have to jiggle them until I get a red led.