How did your mod die?

[monty]

When I started, I used a tiny passthru with three voltage settings. It worked for 3 or 4 months before giving up the ghost. All my others still work, a gremlin with my second hand V2 Provari but ZMax 18 months old, FT Vamo 1 year and Roberts Robust 9 months all fine, I've never dropped any on the floor, hardly ever knock them over and use mainly gennys so rarely need to unscrew them from the mod.

So what are the main causes of failure?

[ronaldo]

threads people tighten them up to much and strip them
people leaving them in there pocket when sitting down
general wear and tear firing buttons not working
juice getting inside them and blowing the electrics
dropping them denting tubes and making battery removal impossible

[markm]

Over tightening, over tightening, over tightening,
That and dirty contacts...........
Be gently with your devices, clean them, look after them and they will look after you.

[Edge]

A forklift truck driving over my Vamo didn't help.

[ronaldo]

Jul 14, 2014 22:28:51 GMT Edge said:

A forklift truck driving over my Vamo didn't help.

  don't think it would

[Deleted]

think I may have distorted one or two rolling over them whilst in bed .............. yes I have mine in bed like a soother ( dummy ) and tuck it under the pillow

[Jerri]

I dropped my favourite SID about 387 times. The 388th killed it.

[boyofford]

My to main causes are dropping or sitting on stuff which I've left in back pocket.

[Deleted]

The only thing that ive ever had die in almost 3 years was one of those little ego style passthroughs, after about 2 weeks the switch just stopped responding.... im either lucky or just plain old brilliant.... haha... seriously tho ive never had a problem with anything other than the passthrough.

[GunJack]

old second/third/however-many-hand MkI Lavatube...suffered a terminal juice leak into it

[Deleted]

I am famed with destroying vamos just by looking at them

Flooding (literally - don't put a water bottle that might leak in the same bag as your mod)

and dropping are my usual

Or just over charging (mvp's)

[fred]

One of my first ego batteries, the +ve wire desoldered itself from the top of the battery. No way I was putting a soldering iron any where near it. The electronics and connector got robbed for a (still unfinished) project.

My v5 vamo had an unsightly air gap (still does), and in trying to carefully remove the top cap, I yorked both wires off the board - they were relatively easy to solder back on.

Never missed a beat with my m16 and sentinel clones - nowt can go wrong with a sturdy metal tube, really!

Oh, and I borked a chivod when cleaning, by managing to stuff the internal tube ( which I reckon is slightly concave) with tissue!

[andy01424]

Only had one Mod quit on me that was a SVD,still have it in the draw,think juice finally killed it,but also cat knocking off windows sill didnt help dented the fire button surround,she was a good mod to sniffles

[boyofford]

Jul 15, 2014 9:32:20 GMT @johanino said:

I am famed with destroying vamos just by looking at them

Flooding (literally - don't put a water bottle that might leak in the same bag as your mod)

and dropping are my usual

Or just over charging (mvp's)

curious, how did you overcharge the mvps? thought it stopped charging when full.

[Deleted]

It was an MVP v.1....it died when I overcharged it