Disposable vapes were changed forever when manufacturers like Geek Bar began to add rechargeable batteries to the devices. With a rechargeable battery, there’s effectively no limit to how much e-liquid a disposable vape can contain or how long it can last. Rechargeable batteries have given us vapes like the famous Geek Bar Pulse, which contains 16 ml of vape juice and lasts up to 15,000 puffs.

If your Geek Bar blinks when you puff on it, you need to recharge the battery. Naturally, you want to know how long you’ll need to wait before you can get back to enjoying those Geek Bar flavors – so how long does a Geek Bar take to charge?

In this guide, we’ll explain everything that you need to know.

Charging Times for Popular Geek Bar Vapes

Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let’s discuss the typical charging types for the most popular Geek Bar vapes. After that, we’ll dig a bit deeper by explaining how you can calculate the expected charging time for any vaping device yourself.

A typical Geek Bar charges in a little over a half hour. Here are the typical charging times by device.

• Geek Bar Pulse: Has a battery capacity of 650 mAh and charges in about 39 minutes.
• Geek Bar Pulse X: Has a battery capacity of 700 mAh and charges in about 42 minutes.
• Geek Bar Digiflavor Sky: Has a battery capacity of 800 mAh and charges in about 48 minutes.
• Geek Bar Meloso Max: Has a battery capacity of 600 mAh and charges in about 36 minutes.
• Geek Bar Digiflavor BRK: Has a battery capacity of 1,000 mAh and charges in about an hour.
• Geek Bar Digiflavor Lush: Has a battery capacity of 820 mAh and charges in about 49 minutes.
• Geek Bar Skyview: Has a battery capacity of 800 mAh and charges in about 48 minutes.
• Geek Bar Meloso Mini: Has a battery capacity of 550 mAh and charges in about 33 minutes.

Battery Capacity and Charging Time: Understanding the Relationship

How are we able to provide such specific information about how long a Geek Bar takes to charge? It all comes down to a bit of simple math, and you can learn how to do it yourself. Here’s how it works. To calculate how long a Geek Bar or any other vape takes to charge, you need to know two things. They are:

• The battery’s capacity, which is measured in milliampere-hours or mAh. A battery with a capacity of 1,000 mAh can deliver a current of 1,000 milliamps – that’s 1 amp – for an hour.
• The battery’s charging current, which is measured in amps. The most common charging current for Geek Bars and other disposable vapes is 1 amp, which restores 1,000 mAh of capacity in an hour.

Once you know both of those things, you have all the information that you need and can do a simple calculation to determine how long your vape should take to charge. It’s especially easy if your device charges at 1 amp since you know that a 1-amp current restores 1,000 mAh of battery capacity in an hour.

• Suppose your vape has a battery capacity of 650 mAh. That’s 65 percent of 1,000 mAh, and 65 percent of an hour is 39 minutes. That’s how long the device should take to charge.

Does your vape use a different charging current? That’s no problem. A 2-amp charging current charges a battery twice as quickly as a 1-amp current, so you can simply adjust your calculation accordingly.

What Does It Mean if a Geek Bar Charges Too Quickly or Too Slowly?

Now that you know how long your Geek Bar takes to charge, let’s discuss the second question you’re likely to have. If the expected and actual charging times are different, what does it mean?

Before we go too deep, it’s important to ensure that your expectations are correctly set because it’s rare for a device to charge in exactly the expected number of minutes. Here’s why.

• A battery’s capacity decreases gradually as it’s used. If a battery’s capacity is decreased, it’ll charge more quickly than expected.
• Anything you do that interrupts the current – moving the device and jostling the cable, for instance – will increase the charging time.
• As a battery reaches the end of the charging cycle, it gets warmer. It’s typical for a device to shift down to a lower charging current when the battery is nearly full, which helps to prevent overheating but increases the total charging time.

With those things in mind, what does it mean if your Geek Bar takes significantly more or less time to charge than expected?

• An extremely short charging time either means that the battery wasn’t dead before you began charging it or that the battery’s total capacity is severely reduced due to age.
• An extremely long charging time either means that the battery isn’t receiving current at the expected amperage or that the battery is nearing the end of its life and is having trouble reaching its maximum voltage.

In both of the above cases, it’s very likely that your Geek Bar has a battery issue and will need to be replaced soon.

What Does It Mean if a Geek Bar Isn’t Charging?

We’ll conclude this guide by discussing a final charging issue that you might encounter. What does it mean if your Geek Bar isn’t charging at all? When you connect the device to your computer or a wall charger, you should see a charging indicator on the screen. If the screen doesn’t turn on, try these three things.

• Use another charging cable. Current can’t flow through a USB cable that has internal damage. Faulty cables cause most charging issues with vaping devices.
• Use another power source. Your Geek Bar should charge successfully through your computer or through any wall adapter that’s capable of negotiating the correct current with the device. Don’t use a high-speed charger for a mobile phone.
• Clean your Geek Bar’s charging port. You can use a toothpick to remove dust and lint.