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Maintaining Your Electric Cigarette Battery

An electric cigarette battery has a rechargeable lithium ion cell and, with proper care, can last for several months. Proper handling, storage, cleaning and charging are all components of the overall life of your battery.

Handle With Care

Like the atomizer, an electric cigarette battery is made up of tiny electrical components and thread-thin wires. Care should be taken not to drop your electric cigarette and to keep it from prolonged exposure to moisture. A trip through the washing machine in your pants pocket, for instance, will permanently damage your electric cigarette battery nine times out of ten.

Because electric cigarette batteries contain micro-electronic circuitry and micro-processors, you should not to store your electric cigarette batteries with metallic or magnetized objects or electronic transmitting devices like automobile key remote controls and mobile phones. Putting your electric cigarette battery and/or charger on a piece of electrical equipment is definitely a no-no. Doing so could decrease the amount of time that they remain functional.

Also, please take care when screwing your electric cigarette battery onto an atomizer or the charger. There is a small post inside of the battery that is its main electrical contact point and it can be forced down if parts are screwed together too tightly. Once that post is forced out of position, it will no longer be able to make proper contact with the atomizer or the charger.

Clean the Connection Points

Cleaning an electric cigarette battery’s connection points is something that definitely should be done at least on a weekly basis. Proper electrical connection with the atomizer is essential in ensuring that the proper amount of current is getting to your atomizer.

When cleaning the connection points, use a lint free cloth, cotton swab or tissue and gently clean in and around the threads that connect your atomizer and battery. Definitely be sure to clean the post (the little nub that sticks up inside of it) as well. Make sure that any cloth you use is clean and will not tear apart. The last thing you want is threads or paper towel pieces clinging to the connection area.

Only Charge Your Battery When It Needs It

A properly cared for electric cigarette battery can usually be recharged 200-300 times before it will no longer accept a charge. Because of that, it is good idea to rechagre your electric cigarette batteries only when they have been completely drained.

Like all electric cigarette parts, the battery will not last forever and will begin to last for shorter periods of time as it nears the end of its life. It is always a good idea to have an extra battery waiting in the wings for when the inevitable day comes that your battery has completely died and will no longer accept a charge.