Penelope, Proteus, GGTS and Proteus!

[caveman]

May 19, 2012 17:21:37 GMT blakey said:

A question though Cam, what mechanism will be in place to ensure somebody can't just look at the list and say that they are that person and claim a unit?
How and when are we to make ourselves known to you to secure our pre-order?

Hi Blakey, I will have a master list but in addition to that I suggest you add me as a friend on ECF with your name as it appears on the E-Cigz shopping cart.

Thanks

[Chrissie]

My biggest problem (well far from a problem really), is that my GG Stealth, early version GGTS & even older GG Grant, all still work perfectly, so don't need anything else

[Perpetua]

Good to see you here Cam . . . and thank you for the P&P updates.

[Gordy]

probably none of us 'need' any extra GG's but they are too tempting to resist

[Gordy]

May 19, 2012 21:54:37 GMT @colliwobbles said:

where can i find a battery spring i dont know how it happened but the button got real hot and my spring colapsed today i have opend inspected and cleaned and polished and put a trial spring in and all is ok but dont want to risk it without the real Mccoy in there

looks like the spring melted due to a short of some kind... did you have the kick in at the time ?

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yes gordy the kick was in and is still working aw imr batterries are fine (phew)
gg is ok the 510 atty on it appears to have been the issue the rubber grommit seperating the centre post has disintegrated but all is good just need to source a new spring

[bel]

Colli what have you done

[blakey]

I removed the spring in mine colli, reason being the kick has a cut out built in. I have the fused center post but it means that the telescope has to be extended more to use it so I didn't bother fitting it. Might just change my mind if your spring collapsed before the kick cut the power

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Bel Dont worry all is well i think the atty shorted the button got too hot as the spring collapsed but even though it had collapsed it was syill making contact hence it was hot i unscrewed tele and disconnected every thing.
I have as said previously cleaned and rechecked everything put in a tempory spring and all is working fine it was definatley the atty

[Gordy]

i removed the spring in mine thinking the kick would ensure safety ....may invest in the fuse spring set up

[blakey]

May 20, 2012 16:04:50 GMT Gordy said:

i removed the spring in mine thinking the kick would ensure safety ....may invest in the fuse spring set up

I dd some experiments gordy, I wired up a 1.2ohm coil in a nova and deliberately shorted out the connections and screwed it on to the provari to make sure the connection was live. E1 was in the display, I pressed again and got e4 so good enough for me- I put the nova on the GGTS with the kick and pressed the button, Bottom tube got a little warm otherwise nothing at all happened, so I screwed it onto the don which also has a kick in it and same thing.
next I tried an old 510 attie that was ready for the bin, put it on the provari and it was working fine, put it on the ggts and used a small screwdriver to short out the coil to the side wall of the attie mid vape. The bottom tube on the GGTS started to get hot and then power cut out. I have no spring in there to collapse so it was a pure connection, the attie survived so I did the same thing on the don and the same thing happened but this time the attie never survived and when I removed the switch in the don the spring had deformed a little and the little plastic grommet showed signs of melting on its edges but was perfectly functional.
I concluded that the safety on the kick does work but it doesn't cut power straight away and it does cut power well before any real damage can be done. Both kicks are working fine and the batteries I used were the Moju IMRs and they are also fine.

[hifistud]

That's WAD (working as designed), Blakey, to my knowledge - it's not an immediate cutout. FWIW, there are no springs in any of my Kicked GGTSes - no need for 'em.

[blakey]

May 20, 2012 18:15:18 GMT hifistud said:

That's WAD (working as designed), Blakey, to my knowledge - it's not an immediate cutout. FWIW, there are no springs in any of my Kicked GGTSes - no need for 'em.

I thought as much hifi, had to test and make sure after colli's spring collapsed though, didn't really want the spring back in there

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Strange thing is my 510 atty i thought had gone to vaping heaven is still working tested on the lavatube i really cant fathom this one out
using the eye glass it looks ok so thought i would try it
should i risk a quick test on the gg with the thinner spring do you reckon at least the thinner spring would collapse quicker will post results soon



Definately the atty gone tits up re-assembled with the old one it was dead new one and all is well