Hot Vamo

[welshwestie]

Sorry if this has been asked before but my SS Vamo v2 battery cap is getting very hot. It only started doing it last night. I'm wondering if it could be the Nova I'm using, I usually vape between 1.8 and 2 ohm but the one I'm using now is 2.6 ohm also sometimes when I'm vaping nothing happens. I press the button and can hear the sizzle but when I vape there's nothing coming through. I've cleaned the top of the vamo and bottom of the tank but it's made no difference.
Any help will be much appreciated.

[welshwestie]

It's started to turn it's self off now! If I leave it alone for a few minutes and switch it back on its ok for about 10 minutes then it goes off again. Does anyone have any idea what the matter with it is please?

[Deleted]

Sounds more like a battery problem ... are you using a decent battery or a "FIRE" type?

[moodyb]

Afaik the Vamo has a thermal cutoff, so it'll stop working until it cools down again. Are you chain vaping when this happens?

Mine can do it now & again with my drippers, and more often if I chain vape on my Aga-T.

Plus there's also a hot spring that I've seen for sale that's meant to fix them if they heat up at the bottom - due to a poor spring I think.
Someone more technical than me might be able to offer an explanation why.

Have a read through this thread :

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/21414

[Perpetua]

The hot springs are available here Westie if you do want to get one:

www.ivapour-elixir.co.uk/silver-bullet-hot-spring.html

I've had no problems with my Vamo using it.

[welshwestie]

Sept 11, 2013 20:30:37 GMT @freefromsmoking said:

Sounds more like a battery problem ... are you using a decent battery or a "FIRE" type?

I'm using the Efest batteries that came as part of the kit.

[welshwestie]

Sept 11, 2013 20:48:21 GMT moodyb said:

Afaik the Vamo has a thermal cutoff, so it'll stop working until it cools down again. Are you chain vaping when this happens?

Mine can do it now & again with my drippers, and more often if I chain vape on my Aga-T.

Plus there's also a hot spring that I've seen for sale that's meant to fix them if they heat up at the bottom - due to a poor spring I think.
Someone more technical than me might be able to offer an explanation why.

Have a read through this thread :

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/21414

[Deleted]

Sept 12, 2013 5:04:34 GMT Perpetua said:

The hot springs are available here Westie if you do want to get one:

www.ivapour-elixir.co.uk/silver-bullet-hot-spring.html

I've had no problems with my Vamo using it.

Unlikely to be the battery then. Could be something along the lines of what Moodyb is suggesting. I don't have experience of the vamo but my svd will heat up a bit if chain vaping at a high power setting but not uncomfortable so and never to the extent that a thermal cut off has kicked in. Sorry I can't be of any help.

[welshwestie]

Thank you all so much. I would never have thought it could be a spring causing the trouble. I am going to order one now.

[DiscoDes]

It's a contact problem on the battery cap. Remove the battery cap slightly stretch the spring and replace making sure you've tightened it. Shake the Vamo, if the battery is still loose stretch the spring a little more.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using proboards

[welshwestie]

I have just gone to order a hot spring and notice that it is a gold colour. Will it be any different to the one I have in my vamo now that is gold coloured too?
Nothing I do is ever straight forward!

[chykensa]

welshwestie - might be worth trying DiscoDes idea first - that should sort the problem without spending!

[welshwestie]

Sept 12, 2013 8:20:32 GMT DiscoDes said:

It's a contact problem on the battery cap. Remove the battery cap slightly stretch the spring and replace making sure you've tightened it. Shake the Vamo, if the battery is still loose stretch the spring a little more.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using proboards

Thank you. I'll give this a try when I get home tonight.

[chrisjw]

Try turning the wattage/voltage down a tad.............a hot spring is a good idea as well though.

[rich64]

Sept 12, 2013 8:21:42 GMT welshwestie said:

I have just gone to order a hot spring and notice that it is a gold colour. Will it be any different to the one I have in my vamo now that is gold coloured too?
Nothing I do is ever straight forward!

If its the gold spring in it then thats the recommended hot spring for your vamo so a new ones unlikely to make any difference....sorry

Id try what disco des is suggesting before going any further

good luck with it