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Post by maccafan on Mar 9, 2012 18:08:28 GMT
FYI the spring collapsing is a safety feature and doesn't keep happening unless you have a fault So it does develop faults then..Anyway I was only joking about it. the one pictured had been used Possibly but she also posted that she tried to dry burn a brand new one on the brand new egos and a brand new RIVA and it wouldn't work. No. From what I understand it's more likely that Kirsty was unnecessarily trying to lift the center pin on her two Riva's and fried their electronics in the process to make the stardust's work and not the other way round. im sure the vendors do this already for products that are below par and indeed take them off sale. the pin connection is a weak point of their design as many have said but the only solutions would be to increase quality and hence price or to have a total redesign of said connection. I never said they don't. I only said if I pay £15 for anything I expect it to work out of the box. Pperiod. to be honest the stardust had been working on the riva so i doubt if it is from a dodgy batch It works on one RIVA out of four batteries she currently has (2 x RIVA & 2 x EGO VV)..It also never worked on the 2 x RIVA additional batteries she had until she kept lifting the centre pin unnecessarily.
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Post by Gordy on Mar 10, 2012 1:28:19 GMT
in answer to your GG point it was the atty that shorted and the GG safety spring save the battery and me from a problem so what exactly are the issues Kirsty is having Macca? is it a faulty stardust or a faulty battery? or more likely (no offence Kirsty) user error and things have been tightened down too far?
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Post by maccafan on Mar 10, 2012 7:01:30 GMT
so what exactly are the issues Kirsty is having Macca? is it a faulty stardust or a faulty battery? My initial thoughts was that the ego VV battery was at fault with the information that I had at the time. My thinking right now is that it has been the stardust all along after more information came to light. Some think she managed to sink the center post on the stardust by over tightening. Yet others including yourself think she pushed the center pin inwards in her battery by over tightening. At this stage, they are all opinions and conjecture. I have mine and others have theirs which I respect but do not necessarily agree with. My opinion is I do not think that Kirsty over tightened anything and that she has been unlucky. My theory is that the amount of force needed to sink the center pin of a battery or the center post on the EVS cannot be done by hand tightening a skirted cartomizer like the EVS onto a battery unless the center post on the EVS was sticking a mile out in which case she would have never had any connection problems. Ergo, I think that the EVS is faulty.
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Post by kirsty0108 on Mar 10, 2012 7:09:04 GMT
no offence taken Gordy, I am not convinced but I'd also like to put this one too bed now. Currently I'm mistrusting every bit of my kit and myself I think really I just need to go back to basic's and use what I know works which is Riva and Cartomizer
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Post by VE Jason on Mar 10, 2012 7:43:19 GMT
no offence taken Gordy, I am not convinced but I'd also like to put this one too bed now. Currently I'm mistrusting every bit of my kit and myself I think really I just need to go back to basic's and use what I know works which is Riva and Cartomizer Excellent decision Kirsty Get settled and comfortable with what works best for you, there's plenty of time for experimenting.
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Post by Karma on Mar 10, 2012 18:32:03 GMT
Kirsty, i keep going back to simple cartos too! I seem to have my stardust working again ok after it's bath but the draw is a bit tight and it doesn't seem to work well above 4.1 on the LT! I do now have a very simple tank, from a very generous member on here. It's working very well, great for just picking up in the morning without and faffy filling, but I usually vape around 3 different flavours a day, so the humble carto is still my best friend How are you getting on with your new vv batteries?
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Post by Gordy on Mar 10, 2012 23:50:06 GMT
im finding the stardusts work better at lower voltages ...when trying to take them too high they cant wick quick enough
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Post by Perpetua on Mar 11, 2012 6:57:25 GMT
Exactly what I'm finding as well Gordy. . . and that's with the Standard Resistance . . . suppose we shouldn't be to surprised as they've been designed with the Ego in mind. Just that we like to push the limits of what stuff will do.
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Post by blakey on Mar 11, 2012 9:12:25 GMT
im finding the stardusts work better at lower voltages ...when trying to take them too high they cant wick quick enough That's the nature of wick, it can only suck the juice in at a certain speed and higher voltages burn it off very quickly, the wick on these does need to be longer so that it spends more time in contact with the juice, I suspect that they left it short for aesthetic reasons. When I re-wicked mine I allowed enough to reach the bottom of the tank and it vastly improved it's performance, On another note, I thought it was insane the amount of volts I was trying to put through my devices in order to feel satisfied, I never remembered my fags having the same amount of hit as I required from my e-cig, so I took a couple of puffs of a roll up and sure enough it was a milder hit, since then I have kept my usage between 3.8 & 4,2v and found that I have gotten used to it, it took a couple of weeks but now I no longer need to ram 5v+ through a 2ohm attie and all my wicking issues have been solved. What I really need form any set up now is regulated power so that my experience remains constant and the abilty to make small adjustments to the voltage to suite certain juices or atties. That said I'm aware that 5v through a standard 3ohm attie will burn juice at the same rate as 4.2v through a 2ohm attie and taste much better for it but I'm finding that I need to use the same atties on multiple devices and they don't all have the ability to reach 5v. If I want 5v then I'll use a rebuildabe. At the same time I'm also trying to reduce the nic content of my juice, I started out with 20-28mg and now I'm right down to 15mg and finding that I'm quite satisfied. Back to these vision stardusts, I find them to be very good for my needs ,if I'm not trying to thrash them then they perform very well and are faff free. I don't expect them to match the performance of my odysseus. I expect them to perform the same as a normal medium strength fag, and I'm finding that they do.
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Post by Gordy on Mar 11, 2012 15:09:26 GMT
I always thought i was missing something when i only vape around the 3.5-4.2 mark when alot of people said they liked 5+volts but like you Blakey when i compared the amount of flavour and vapour i get at these voltages to a cigarette then im getting way more than i probably need
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Post by dave on Mar 11, 2012 16:46:12 GMT
I've had a very similar experience Blakey. I now find that 4 ish volts into 2 ish ohms (or sometimes a 1.5 DC) works for me most of the time now, so I mainly use my VV devices for regulated voltage. I also agree about the stardusts - they just don't cope with more than about 4 volts.
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