Cleaning battery terminals

[John1952]

Today I was lamenting the fact that my eGo just wasn't like it used to be. I happened to look at the terminals on one of the batteries, and it was brown. I grabbed a Q-tip and cleaned it off. I was amazed at the amount of gunk that came off.

Maybe it's just my imagination, but that seemed to make a huge difference. Everybody probably knows they should clean their battery terminals, but I like to think I invented this!

 

[sailorman]

Know what works good? After you use a q-tip and some alcohol, rub it down with a clean pencil eraser and it shines it back up. If you push your center post down, just pull it back up. Works good on the positive battery contact inside some mods as well.

 

[NJC]

We go through Q-Tip's and toothpicks with batteries and cartomizers like crazy. We also quickly go through alcohol pads, the little 1-2 inch by 1-2 inch pads that would be used for swabbing prior to getting shots or taking blood.

We bought a box of a 100 or so for close to nothing online. They are great for cleaning things and the general "film" easily left on hands, tables, keyboards, batteries or otherwise.

We also bought a giant box of Wet-Naps as well.

For getting around the little edge around a battery post where things can collect we will periodically take one of the little alcohol swabs and wrap it around the end of a toothpick, blunt syringe end, or if you have a set of the extremely small screwdrivers for glasses or tiny electronics and gently go around a circle. We're ideally looking to seek out some form of extremely thin Q-Tip/Swabs -- we know they have to exist somewhere.

We've also seen mentions on the forums about using "Goo Gone" or Noalax I think is the other item -- mostly for getting rid of labels on bottles, but I believe also for cleaning threads and posts. We've never tried or looked into it, but it's something on the list to try.

 

[Ladypixel]

Don't forget to clean out the USB charger, or else when you next put it on to charge, the battery'll promptly get gunked up again! I now clean my battery before putting it on the charger every time, just so I don't gunk up the charger (they're harder to clean).

 

[Martö]

I use a sheet of toilet paper. maybe Q-tip once a week.

Something else to clean would be the charger connector as well sometimes I just switch out batteries without thinking.

 

[DrOckW]

Congratulations on figuring out a big part of ecig ownership here!

Cleaning my chargers and batteries is the way I've had the same charger and kept my egos running for a LONG time. Alcohol is good, make sure you unplug the charger first and do not activate the eGo during cleaning. Also let the alcohol evaporate completely before connecting a charger to your battery. I don't imagine there would be much danger, small puff and quick burn. Safe is always the better way to go.

Clean your attys or cartos as well, use the q-tip on the threads of the connections as well to help keep those connections clean. Think about a car battery, the more gunk the less juice flows. This can lead to poor charging and early eGo demise.

Well deduced!

 

[rdwg]

I clean my battery connectors everytime I remove a carto. I always use a sheet of toilet paper instead of paper towel