New Vamo v5. Burnt taste.

[Jerri]

Wonder if anyone has any ideas. Got the focal vamo v5 group buy.

Arrived a few days back. Been using a protank two, air flow control with a naturevape head at 1.5ohms. Been using it on the SID for months with no issue. Got the vamo out today and every few vapes I'm getting a burnt hit. Same juice and same 8.5w

Thought it would be that it wasn't set to RMS but holding down the minus button for 10-20 seconds and nothing happens. Just shows the battery level. Google tells me the newer vamos don't have both and are just set to RMS.

Any ideas?

[xs2man]

Reduce the power. Could be that the Vamo and the SID aren't firing the same, and the Vamo overpowers slightly.

[Jerri]

Jul 5, 2014 18:37:50 GMT xs2man said:

Reduce the power. Could be that the Vamo and the SID aren't firing the same, and the Vamo overpowers slightly.

Thanks

Tried that. Took it right down to 5watts.

It works fine with my small aspires so I don't think the vamo is faulty and the answer is probably staring me in the bloody face!

[Perpetua]

Jul 5, 2014 18:14:31 GMT Jerri said:

Thought it would be that it wasn't set to RMS but holding down the minus button for 10-20 seconds and nothing happens. Just shows the battery level. Google tells me the newer vamos don't have both and are just set to RMS.

I'm trying to dredge my memory banks Jerri . . .

It may have been robby or some other knowledgeable soul, who said that despite it being said that the V5's are automatically set to RMS, they're all not and you access that menu feature differently from the old style Vamo's.

I wish I could remember where I'd either read or seen it now, but I can't.

Was it PBusardo:

[fred]

My v5 (long time from fasttech) needed setting to RMS - can't remember how I did it.

And from what I can gather, these new v5's have a different firmware anyway? With puff-counter and stuff? Maybe they should be called v6 or v5+ or something?


Hope you can sort it though. I know, what you're going through, as mine was the same before I sorted it!

[robby]

There are a few V5s out there. I dont have one but I thought they only came in the RMS mode. Maybe someone else who got one in the group buy may have an idea.


EDIT  check from 17 minutes on the vid above

[Jerri]

I had actually looked at that review before posting to check how to get in to RMS mode. Holding the button just shows the battery voltage no matter how long I hold it for.

[robby]

Jul 5, 2014 20:43:40 GMT Jerri said:

I had actually looked at that review before posting to check how to get in to RMS mode. Holding the button just shows the battery voltage no matter how long I hold it for.

Must be preset

[robby]

When you go down to 5 watts, is it any better Jerri ?

[fred]

You must have different firmware to me

This was after about 10 seconds

[dalealan]

The ones from the group buy don't have the function to set it to mean/rms and come with the rms only due to firmware as said above. Maybe worth trying another coil in it or giving it a good clean in case it's a bit gunked up.

[Jerri]

Jul 5, 2014 20:49:09 GMT robby said:

When you go down to 5 watts, is it any better Jerri ?

Nope. It's getting less often though so maybe it's because it's new? I'm clutching at straws here haha.

[Jerri]

Jul 5, 2014 20:56:37 GMT dalealan said:

The ones from the group buy don't have the function to set it to mean/rms and come with the rms only due to firmware as said above. Maybe worth trying another coil in it or giving it a good clean in case it's a bit gunked up.

The same coil is working fine on the SID.

Worst case scenario is I can't use the PT2's on it. So not a giant issue. But was hoping to use protank 2 with airflow for indoors and the small aspires on the spinner for out and about.

[robby]

Jul 5, 2014 20:57:19 GMT Jerri said:

Jul 5, 2014 20:49:09 GMT robby said:

When you go down to 5 watts, is it any better Jerri ?

Nope. It's getting less often though so maybe it's because it's new? I'm clutching at straws here haha.

That`s strange. Strange that it is okay with the small Aspires  ???

[hijack]

Check the resistance before every draw and see it isn't jumping around as this would effect how much power it delivered.