Smowell 50W 18650 FT £20 Update

[tim]

Mine are at Heathrow yourgurnard. Apparently.

[yourgurnard]

Oooh!...Lemme go check!.........

.....Aaargh! ETA (to THEM..) 14/4/15...

[spigot]

Mine came yesterday.

A HUGE pain in the arse unscrewing the bottom plate with the bloody fiddly Allen key. Now the battery is in, I'm going to leave it in until it's exhausted.

Otherwise, all is fine. Well, except that my Atlantis won't screw into the 510 - it goes about a third of the way in and no further.

Still, for less than twenty quid, it's a bargain.

[tim]

Mine came today

Quickest shift through H/row I ever saw!

Edit: Not tried them yet, still boxed, cba atm

[lairey]

Mine arrived on Wednesday. It's a great lightweight 50w device. The power drop works as I had expected the M65 power drop to work - the M65 dropped the power even when fully charged (expensive paperweight now!)

It's not a device I would use with an RDA as I run them at much higher watts than my tanks and the battery would drain quickly enough to make the power drop annoying, but with a goblin on top, with a 0.4ohm build in it at around 20w, it's performing brilliantly.

[tim]

Apr 10, 2015 20:20:54 GMT lairey said:

Mine arrived on Wednesday. It's a great lightweight 50w device. The power drop works as I had expected the M65 power drop to work - the M65 dropped the power even when fully charged (expensive paperweight now!)

It's not a device I would use with an RDA as I run them at much higher watts than my tanks and the battery would drain quickly enough to make the power drop annoying, but with a goblin on top, with a 0.4ohm build in it at around 20w, it's performing brilliantly.

So, from what I gather from your response, it's ok as an out'n'about mod? But no good at high watts?

Edit: It's rattly too

[lairey]

Apr 10, 2015 20:28:50 GMT tim said:

Apr 10, 2015 20:20:54 GMT lairey said:

Mine arrived on Wednesday. It's a great lightweight 50w device. The power drop works as I had expected the M65 power drop to work - the M65 dropped the power even when fully charged (expensive paperweight now!)

It's not a device I would use with an RDA as I run them at much higher watts than my tanks and the battery would drain quickly enough to make the power drop annoying, but with a goblin on top, with a 0.4ohm build in it at around 20w, it's performing brilliantly.

So, from what I gather from your response, it's ok as an out'n'about mod? But no good at high watts?

Edit: It's rattly too

It works fine at high watts, whilst the battery has plenty of charge in it.  Once the battery charge drops below about 50%, it drops the power regularly and becomes annoying.  I have a few 40/50w devices that don't power drop like this. so use those for higher power vaping and use this and my clouper mini for my goblins

[tim]

Apr 10, 2015 20:39:34 GMT lairey said:

Apr 10, 2015 20:28:50 GMT tim said:

So, from what I gather from your response, it's ok as an out'n'about mod? But no good at high watts?

Edit: It's rattly too

It works fine at high watts, whilst the battery has plenty of charge in it.  Once the battery charge drops below about 50%, it drops the power regularly and becomes annoying.  I have a few 40/50w devices that don't power drop like this. so use those for higher power vaping and use this and my clouper mini for my goblins

Ok. I guess I'll find out when I use one. Probably tomorrow, while watching the footie. Not going to the match, so no biggie, but would like it to last at least 24 hrs. Would be on the news if I ran out of nic intake at a footie game!

JK

[buggritt]

Just an update. Arrived today. The positives are it's light as a feather. And it works without issue. Spring loaded 510 is great.
However - despite all the warnings and taking great care, one of the battery door screws stripped. Luckily it had come out far enough to grip with pliers, and it's ok for the time being with one in. These are 5mm length and look like 2mm screws. Smallest head I've seen on this type of screw, so I've sent for some countersunk allen bolts 2x5. Will update if they are ok.And there's no power lock.
Would I recommend it? No - get a cloupor mini unless you have to have 50 watts. A back up at best.

[jeffc]

Hi Peeps. Regarding the this mod recently acquired, very cheap price, very cheaply made, low battery kicks in at 70% of charge level. Not able to use above 15 watts ??? on a 1.2 ohm coil.

Would I recommend it, no!!! buy an istick or a clouper, or even a VAMO / ZMAX.

"You get what you pay for". In this case very apt.

[yourgurnard]

Apr 14, 2015 17:11:00 GMT jeffc said:

Hi Peeps. Regarding the this mod recently acquired, very cheap price, very cheaply made, low battery kicks in at 70% of charge level. Not able to use above 15 watts ??? on a 1.2 ohm coil.

Would I recommend it, no!!! buy an istick or a clouper, or even a VAMO / ZMAX.

"You get what you pay for". In this case very apt.

Hmmm....Not quite so fussed 'bout when it gets here now!.........

[Ripshod]

Mar 15, 2015 20:11:36 GMT Ripshod said:

Smok M50 in a different dress. Hope it doesn't have the same problems. I'w watching

And I'm still watching. There is a fix for the power drops in one of the M65 threads somewhere, left by one of our newer members (iirc he joined just to join the thread). He posted on ECF too. I'll dig it up later if I have time.

ETA: 2 options:

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/post/906903
allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/post/907403

[mattyjones1977]

Apr 14, 2015 17:11:00 GMT jeffc said:

Hi Peeps. Regarding the this mod recently acquired, very cheap price, very cheaply made, low battery kicks in at 70% of charge level. Not able to use above 15 watts ??? on a 1.2 ohm coil.

Would I recommend it, no!!! buy an istick or a clouper, or even a VAMO / ZMAX.

"You get what you pay for". In this case very apt.

I'm using one of mine on a 1.2 ohm coil and I can run mine at 22w no issues and the power drop only happens on mine when I'm at around 25% battery level. What batteries are you using? I'm running samsung 25r in mine maybe you're batteries are at fault? Can't understand why both of mine aren't a problem like yours is

[tim]

I have 2 of these, (well OH has one). We've been using the for a few days now. The only things about it I don't like are that the buttons don't lock, and the display doesn't flip.

I must add though, that the screws really are rubbish, and it has a *cheap* feel to it.

Not experienced any volt drop. And used it at a range of watts from 8w - 35w.

It's cheap enough as a back-up. Which is what it will be since my sqwonker arrived today

[Ripshod]

Apr 14, 2015 19:54:49 GMT mattyjones1977 said:

I'm using one of mine on a 1.2 ohm coil and I can run mine at 22w no issues and the power drop only happens on mine when I'm at around 25% battery level. What batteries are you using? I'm running samsung 25r in mine maybe you're batteries are at fault? Can't understand why both of mine aren't a problem like yours is

There are strange things happening with these boards. Another M65 user had the power drop when using a VTC5, but not the purple efest 35Amp.

I've only once ever experienced the drop - with a VTC5. With the HE2s and the new HE4s there's no problem.

I have removed the top cap at least once though, to remove the metal clip that held the fire button in. A metal clip that apparently no-one else's has. So it appears there are at least 2 variants of the same mod. Mine is from Myepack, ordered as soon as the upgrade was available, and has 'M65' printed on it.