Another board that wont charge the battery

[speed4mee]

Did you use USB 3.0?
I'm using an external USB Charger with 1A. To see if it's loading change Screen - Charging Field 1 to USB Current.
And don't forget to set the Charging Brightness to 80 % (default is 0).


  

[speed4mee]

Is there a lighning in the battery symbol?
If not then try another USB cable


On your screen USB Power is shown as 0.013W, that isn't normal

[speed4mee]

Then your USB Voltage is faulty.
You can connect to EScribe so your USB Data Line is ok.

[VapingBad]

It's not set to power supply battery type is it, that would explain it.  A long shot, but worth checking.  You could also try a different fw version, even re-flashing the current one.

[speed4mee]

@vmax100uk

Did you Change Mod - Battery - Capacity to your specified Wh? Use the Watt-Hour Calculator

[John]

If you have a multimeter see if the tap connector on the battery was installed backwards when they built the pack. That would cause problems for sure. 

[megahtron]

after getting another board, getting everything soldered up by a friend who actually knows what hes doing my board was working. Hooked an atty up to the 510 and it fired and i was extremely happy to say the least after my issues before. Charged it up some to make sure it was taking a charge, I put it up to wait for my box to arrive.. box came today so i took everything out to get it ready and hooked it up to DM to make sure and now its not taking a charge at all.. i changed the charging screen to see if it was coming up at all and it does but the pack is losing voltage as its supposed to be charging. Frustrating to say the least after everything thats happened (99.9% my fault but still lol) started at 44% now its at 28% with no firing      

[VapingBad]

deleted, misread a previous post

[John]

Can you post a pic of what's going on under the screen? 

You clearly have USB data and voltage, and the charge current sensor is reporting something, so it isn't a problem with the USB port. Your cells are reading right, so it has to be something related to the actual charge circuitry. Which is under where the screen lives. 

[megahtron]

 

[John]

I sure don't see anything that would prevent charging. If you have the battery and the taps disconnected and plug into USB, does the screen come on at full brightness? That also uses the charger circuit to do. If your charger isn't working in that situation the screen will be extremely dim. 

[megahtron]

its not quite full brightness, but its nowhere near dim

[megahtron]

yeah i noticed that too which is why i posted this here, its just weird because it charged fine when it was first wired up

[VapingBad]

vmax100uk said:

Well i was blaming it on the battery i used but im now thinking that there is more to this if you had this board working fine before with the same battery.

Your board is on it way back isn't maybe PM John with the RMA number and a link to this thread.

[megahtron]

im using the fullymax from protovapor

[megahtron]

Is there a chance its the battery?

[megahtron]

well I'll find out I guess, just ordered one thru evolv

[megahtron]

well its not the battery

[megahtron]

wonder if i can send in my fully assembled mod to have it checked out, metered the battery, the connections are good.. theres no reason it shouldnt charge with either batteries.. everything on the mod works except for the charging issue

[John]

Sure, we can do that. Is everything reasonably easy to get to on it?

[megahtron]

yeah i wont secure the board, its a fat daddy 510 low profile and the newer type so very easy to remove

[megahtron]

looking at a friends board i think i found a resistor thats missing is there any way to fix it myself?  

[megahtron]

well his are still black, mine are white i dont know if that matters or not

[John]

Is that board the working one or the non-working one? It looks like both the capacitors that should be there are on that board. 

[megahtron]

this is the one not charging, just thought it was weird they were different colors