Maximizing Your Vape Battery Life: Proven Tips and Techniques
Get the most out of your new vape device by maximizing battery life and making it last for longer.
Get the most out of your new vape device by maximizing battery life and making it last for longer.
When you first start using a vape kit your device can seem confusing. Learning to vape is like learning a whole new skill – wone that you might even get so good at that you start competing with it. Learning this new skill will take time and confidence, but there are a few things you should consider even from the first purchase of your new vape device.
Whether you choose a disposable vape, a vape kit or a pod kit, battery life will always be a slight issue for you. Disposable vape devices are particularly dependent on battery life. Due to vape construction it is both battery life and the volume of e-liquid within them that make a disposable device run out. Once either is gone, the device becomes obsolete. Prolonging vape battery life is therefore a good way to prolong your disposable vape.
Understanding Battery Basics
When you buy a vape device or pod kit, you will receive a battery pack with it. Eventually this battery pack will lessen in strength because vape batteries tend to run out over time. If you do not take proper care of your vape battery then it will start to weaken, but not in the ways you would think.
Old school early mobile phones used copper batteries which would degrade over time. These older batteries ‘remembered’ when they were most often recharged. It was therefore better to keep the battery until it ran out completely. Modern vape device batteries are not like this, instead they degrade in other ways.
A vape device battery runs out faster the more you use it. Recharging is not dangerous, but you ought to do it on a solid surface and not a soft one. You should never charge your vape device using a cable which does not match the product. Otherwise, batteries come in weaker (550mAh) versions and stronger, up to 3000mAh, versions.
Best Practices for Charging Batteries
The easiest way to make sure that your vape battery lasts as long as possible is by following the recommended use instructions issued by your vape manufacturer. In short, both overcharging and undercharging will damage your battery.
You should only ever use the correct charging device that came with your vape. If you cannot find this charger, browse our spare batteries and chargers at VapeDirect.com as we may have a replacement part.
If you must replace your battery only buy a high quality one.
Keep your battery clean. Where the battery connects to your coil in the centre of the e-cigarette is where your e-cig can sometimes leak juice onto the plate. This causes a drop in performance. Also, try cleaning the battery connection with a soft, dry, cloth before you buy a new battery.
Never leave your vape to charge unattended. They do get hot and on a soft furnishing this is a fire hazard. The same rule applies to your mobile phone.
Do not overcharge your device. As soon as it is charged, remove it from the charger.
When it comes to charging your vape:
Do:
- Keep your battery clean
- Charge it fully
- Use the corresponding charger to your vape device.
Don’t:
- Leave your device unattended.
- Charge your device on a soft furnishing.
- Over charge the battery, since they are useful for a limited number of recharges.
Battery Storage and Maintenance
As well as best practices on when you should and should not charge your vape, you must familiarise yourself with vape battery storage and maintenance. Getting this part correct will lengthen the durability of your vape battery life.
The way you store your battery is important both for the battery life and for the battery safety of your device. Leaving them in the sun on the car dashboard may lead to leakage. Worse, excessive sunshine might cause the battery to explode. Similarly, storing your battery near damp or wetness will cause corrosion, leading to batteries which don’t work.
Aim to store your vape device battery in a cold, dark place, which does not have any contact with damp or heat. You must also keep it away from other electronic devices since a static electric charge can cause further problems.
Try to keep the battery upright. The recommended temperature for safe storage of rechargeable batteries is around 15 degrees Celsius.
Reducing Standby Drain
Any battery will start to drain based on standby use. This means that you can charge the battery fully only for it to be half full when you finally come to use the device two days later. Usually this happens because the product is online, perhaps with a standby indicator light which notes its readiness, and gradually the vape battery life goes down.
If you want to maximize battery life in your vape device you must ensure that you turn it fully off when you are not using it. Unfortunately you cannot turn most disposable vapes off or vapes which are breath in to operate. These are permanently in a state of readiness.
The best way to control this is making sure your vape device is fully off when you are not using it. You can also reduce the drainage from stand by mode if you only charge your vape device directly before your use it.
You can also charge your vape device before it fully drains to lengthen the life of the battery. We no longer work with the old copper circuitry which would eventually reset its capacity to the minimum you let it drain to. Rather, modern batteries like to charge before they run out.
Which Vape Battery is Right For You
Above all else, you must stay safe with your vape battery and while charging it. The best way to stay safe is to make sure you use the correct charger and that you don’t leave it to charge without supervision. You may even with to think twice about leaving your vape device to charge overnight beside your bed. It could very well start a fire.
