Charging spinners

[snow]

Well I struggled to get mine to charge for barely 3 hours last night - and that was from orange, had to switch it off and on a few times to get it to continue the charge cycle, started vaping it at 8.45am so will see how long I get out of it today though I am alternating between the spinner with Blueberry, my 1100 ego-t with soft mint and my ego c 650 with Irish Mist (Baileys) so it won't be being used exclusively.

[snow]

New spinner has arrived - straight out of the box it does seem to be vaping better than the other one, very very happy with the service from the vendor love-vaping.com/ and I certainly don't hold him responsible for the way the first Spinner is working. *Fingers crossed* the new one doesn't have the same issues but won't know until I come to charge it up.

[jaysey]

Jun 21, 2014 11:59:54 GMT snow said:

New spinner has arrived - straight out of the box it does seem to be vaping better than the other one, very very happy with the service from the vendor love-vaping.com/ and I certainly don't hold him responsible for the way the first Spinner is working. *Fingers crossed* the new one doesn't have the same issues but won't know until I come to charge it up.

fingers crossed for you

[sleedale]

Well mine has just died, 9.00pm

So, fully charged? At 9.00pm last night, vaped to 11.00, not continuously then up around 7 this morning and I've used it exclusively........but, we were photographing a wedding today so from 11.00 ish to 12.30 hardly vaped at all then on and off to 4ish. Once home normal vaping resumed.

Overall much less than 12 hours and never over 3.8v, usually around 3.5ish

Is this how it should perform?

Any vendors know any better?

[Romney]

I got 8 hours out of my Vision Spinner 2 today that's vaping at no more than 4 volts and no more than 3mls of juice.This cant be right? Once it died,i put it onto charge,started charging on Orange,then after 30 mins I checked and there was no light on the battery,this cant be right either.So unplugged it,and put it on again and got the Orange light,and it started charging again,but no 5-6 hrs charge as it says on the Instructions.Charged fully in 3 hours.

[snow]

Thought I'd update - the original Spinner 2 is definitely "not right" now that I have had the replacement to compare it against for a couple of weeks its very obvious, it holds far less charge than the replacement (and thats not much either) it still does the green light after barely 5 mins thing and has to be turned off then back on again before it charges. The replacement sometimes does it as well but more often than not will charge right through, both Spinners indicate a full charge after 3 hours. However, there is a significant drop off in performance on both of them the instant the battery charge drops down and triggers the blue light - the original battery tends to be only any good to use whilst the replacement is charging up as it'll drop to the blue light in next to no time - 3 - 4 hours and thats with me not vaping it exclusively. The replacement does last longer before the blue light probably around 8 hours or so but again not vaping it exclusively as I now run 3 batteries at the same time and I am getting far longer from my 1100 ego's. Both spinners are set at 3.8 as I use 1.8 coils and thats where they seem happiest for taste and vapor and since thats the same as the ego I'm not really seeing any benefit from it being a VV battery either. The drop in performance for both when the blue light comes on is instantly noticeable, I don't even have to be looking at the battery to know the power has dropped and the performance drops dramatically. All in all I would not buy another Spinner V2.

[jaysey]

Jul 5, 2014 9:50:09 GMT snow said:

Thought I'd update - the original Spinner 2 is definitely "not right" now that I have had the replacement to compare it against for a couple of weeks its very obvious, it holds far less charge than the replacement (and thats not much either) it still does the green light after barely 5 mins thing and has to be turned off then back on again before it charges. The replacement sometimes does it as well but more often than not will charge right through, both Spinners indicate a full charge after 3 hours. However, there is a significant drop off in performance on both of them the instant the battery charge drops down and triggers the blue light - the original battery tends to be only any good to use whilst the replacement is charging up as it'll drop to the blue light in next to no time - 3 - 4 hours and thats with me not vaping it exclusively. The replacement does last longer before the blue light probably around 8 hours or so but again not vaping it exclusively as I now run 3 batteries at the same time and I am getting far longer from my 1100 ego's. Both spinners are set at 3.8 as I use 1.8 coils and thats where they seem happiest for taste and vapor and since thats the same as the ego I'm not really seeing any benefit from it being a VV battery either. The drop in performance for both when the blue light comes on is instantly noticeable, I don't even have to be looking at the battery to know the power has dropped and the performance drops dramatically. All in all I would not buy another Spinner V2.

Doesn't sound very impressive for the cost ! Why not try a vamo ? Cheaper from fasstech and do various colours ! Charger and batteries from myepak , think you will be impressed

[amygx]

Can I revive this thread for a moment...

After my friend got ripped off by a market trader the other day and took the battery back for a refund, we both went to a reputable shop and are now proud owners of our first Vision Spinner 2's. Been using mine for the last couple of days and it ran out of power this morning, I put it on charge for a few hours but had to go out so turned it off (being safe) then I put it back on charge this evening, now its been charging for a good few hours and the green light on my USB charger has been on for 20 minutes or so but the button light on the battery has remain on and white.

Is the button light meant to go off when fully charged like the ego ones do?

When charging my ego batteries the usb light goes green followed by the battery button light flashing a few times before turning off, the spinner hasn't done that yet so I'm not sure.

[sleedale]

amygx when I charge my spinner 2 the light on the charger goes out but the one on the spinner stays lit, white, which I've always assumed meant it was fully charged

[amygx]

Well it was on white for about an hour so I just stopped charging it and have been using it for a few hours now, I'll see how long it lasts.

[jules21]

Just to chime in here. I bought 2 Spinners V2 (arrived yesterday). Both were already fully charged, but I'd read about charging issues, so I took them off the charger and put them back on, where they charged for a further hour, repeated again, but they wouldn't charge any more.

My first battery had a 2.2ohm coil and was set at 4.3v, exactly the same as my 1300 Spinners.

Battery life went like this:

White light to blue light > 3hrs 40mins
Blue light to orange light > 3hrs 35mins
Orange light to dead > 1hr 5mins

So, in total, the battery lasted 8hrs and 20mins - which is an hour less than a 7-month-old Vision Spinner 1300 that's been used regularly!

I've now started using the second V2, and if the battery life is the same as the first, they're both going back, and I'll buy 2 original Spinners instead. Very disappointed so far, as was not expecting less battery life than a battery I've been using for 7 months. One of the reasons I bought the V2's was for the extended battery life, not less!!

Will update later when the second V2 is flat.

[sleedale]

If they are brand new don't they new a few full, dead to full, charge cycles to reach max? Having said that, mine rarely lasts more then a day and I was getting that from an old ego t! Have kept mine but aren't over impressed with the battery life, I must admit.

[jules21]

Jul 13, 2014 12:45:41 GMT sleedale said:

If they are brand new don't they new a few full, dead to full, charge cycles to reach max? Having said that, mine rarely lasts more then a day and I was getting that from an old ego t! Have kept mine but aren't over impressed with the battery life, I must admit.

I don't think they need to go through dead to full charging cycles to reach maximum potential. My original Spinners lasted all day from the beginning, and by all day, I mean at least 12 hours of heavy vaping. This is the first Spinner I've had that's got a short battery life from the off, and yet it's an extra 300mAh.

[jules21]

Well, the second V2 went blue after just 3 1/2 hours so I imagine it will last less than 9 hours, same as the first one. I'm glad I had 2 so I could compare both of them. Think I'll have to return them and buy the original Spinners. It's crazy that an upgraded battery with more power is giving me less time than my old Spinners.

UPDATE. Second V2 Spinner lasted as follows:

White light to blue light - 3hrs 30mins
Blue light to orange     -   3hrs 15mins
Orange to dead           -   1hr  20mins

Total time = 8 hours and 5 minutes!!

That's 2 brand new V2 Spinners giving just over 8 hours total vaping time each, much much worse than brand new 1300 Spinners.

The first one's had a full 5-hour charge, so will try that once more to see if a full charge did anything, but if not, both are going back. Such a shame because I love them otherwise, The button is so much better and more firm, and I love the 'fixed' dial at the bottom. What a bummer.

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I saw a thread about this on ECF not so long ago,.. they were saying that the center pin on the charger does not stick out far enough and makes a bad contact...it would seem there is two chargers that are being used...one of which is wrong, i dont have a spinner so dont really know fully what they were talking about.... might be worth a search tho.