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Post by calnorth on Feb 11, 2016 20:36:31 GMT
Ecolux on eBay tag battery s And sell all of the good ones tagged They do state not for ecig use tho So you takes your chance Shud of said its for vape box...oops! |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 11, 2016 19:06:59 GMT
That'a true nanotm but not sure of its significance now. Electronics/Electrics (analogue) in my early days was known as a 10% business... +/- ? Digitally...ah well! That USB charger I showed uses the switch mode principal which should handle 240v. It didn't after a few weeks and ended with an o/cct primary and that item was a toy trafo in my view.....a weak link among many I think? Likely the load cooked it in fairly slow time? Its the kind of sh*t that fools in this country get hold of and sell via eBay. They'll attempt to kill you and damage your property and I think I'd prefer to see a major extinction of eBay really, certainly as regards this stuff. |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 11, 2016 15:37:14 GMT
Anybody know who sells the tagged 18650 Batts of quality and right kinda price?
Just noted Singapore tracking of free post stuff (non batts) from FT registered as landed GB yesterday 10/02. Ship out was 04/02. Now will see extent of UK mess about.
Pity they don't include landing place also.
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Post by calnorth on Feb 11, 2016 10:01:49 GMT
The TFV4 Triple heads are the best i've had. Not really a fan of premade heads but those are good, 99% of the time i will just use the RBA option though on any tank. calnorth with regards the popping try a tighter wick that seems to reduce any popping for me. It's a bit of an art finding that sweetspot where you don't get the popping but you're also not choking the flow of juice, but a tighter wick does reduce that popping. This is really just supposition on my part but i think when you have a looser wick you get areas where there is a very slight gap bewteen the wire and the cotton, a layer of liquid pools in those gaps and when you fire the coil that liquid boils, expands and pops. I'm in the process of trying stuff @get Off My Cloud. just not enough times yet. 1st try (0.6 ohm) was tight-ish wick....kettle pop was big and then little ones. But big pop per vape 2nd try (1.2 ohm) was much looser/lesser wick....seemed ok then big pop. Big pop per vape Think your supposition is right as regards the big pop...pooling on the coil element..boom. Variables identified: wick density/packing coil/element heating linearity...NOTE juice power NOTE: On a dry run with my ileaf I saw that the 1.6 coil glowed in mid section only (on 3 to 4 windings out of 9 -ish). Probably warmed either side of that but thats too concentrated I think and generates tight steam (super heat) PDQ...boom! Trying again on dry tests for linear glow (almost?) |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 11, 2016 9:27:00 GMT
Got one of those with the Wife's first I-Stick.... burning smell & too hot to touch after first charge, didn't cool down even when not under load, straight in the bin. Use one of these now, 1amp max from either USB port & still get to use the socket if need be.  Where did you get that? I likeeee.  Surge Protected? It might be...for a while? That applies to the 3 pin multi socket outlet slabs you can buy. Spendy stuff for nothing much...usually. This is the business of getting special devices to stop power spikes (energy bursts) damaging electronics. Usually this kind of "mains disruption" arises from domestic motor switching (washing machines/fridges/freezers). The principal is to slap a MOV device (fused allegedly) directly across the 240v mains incoming to your equipment. You can well imagine what happens when a spike causes the MOV to operate...if its still capable? Clamp/reduce spike....fast! spike = fast voltage jump above 240v (ugly/dirty transition) MOV = metal-oxide varistor This kind of circuit usually has a neon lamp to indicate your device is protected...anybody check that lamp periodically? Likely they stick high radiance blue LEDs on these days. Who is the idiot that does that? My loft is illuminated almost completely by just one of those. So, on the day you really want your stuff to work and mysteriously it doesn't, add this to your list. I'm not saying this MOV thing never works...just that there exists many variants of it. Lets say "quality issues". |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 11, 2016 8:14:45 GMT
As someone very new to this business I observe that taste was bland using Kanger OCC, SOCC, VOCC heads and FT pre coils (elements) on an RBA. Thats sub and standard ohm. I say bland because my first mixes were, I think, a bit lean on the flavours, so am stepping up by about 0.5ml a time. Thats till I used an ICE flavour...whoooa!
I have not frazzled a wick yet and boil/cook up at max 12W.
Kettling (big and little pops) apparent on RBA builds and waiting for that to calm. As regards this issue I wonder why the pre coil heads don't really do big pops...are they pre "run in"? Or is it PG/VG ratio dependant? Variables!
No bad tastes yet...except bad mixes of course.
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Post by calnorth on Feb 10, 2016 15:13:27 GMT
The other thing I should mention (my pic above) is that the body of the charger is not built as a compliant UK plug. Its a bastardisation of our safe plug type. And, along with most mobile phone companies they have placed power conversion circuitry directly into our hands...effectively. No fuse in them...again!
I wouldn't have the first idea what the EU directives related to CE compliance might be, but this stuff sure does breach earlier safety design.
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Post by calnorth on Feb 10, 2016 12:48:10 GMT
These things are so variable in quality, yours looks like a Apple charger clone. They are cheap enough to replace but are definitely a weak link in the chain when it comes to electronics. If you like to fiddle around with electrical stuff check out Bigclive on YouTube Here's one that looks like yours subjected to a teardown : Vid was hereThanks DiscoDes. I wouldn't have found that and it is identical. Its coupling the mains in very close and as he said: Transformer - isolation? Capacitor(s) - pffft! PCB gap - isolation? Generic components - pffft! I'll add: USB socket is better than his....at the moment Plastic flammable...dunno? Board has not been conformally coated to prevent moisture effects. CE is self certification....useless really. The design ultimately hopes that something goes open circuit thats in series with mains. The next safety barrier before that is the house skts fuse/trip. So this device fails primarily on not having a standard safety device fitted...a fuse. And that might not be fast enough, but is part of a risk mitigation. BIN! I prefer the PC/Laptop PU's...no other choice really. |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 10, 2016 11:21:23 GMT
Surgery performed. A toy mains transformer exists which now has an open primary. So this toy trafo appears to be the fuse...non replaceable. Various failure modes, but can't be bothered with it.
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Post by calnorth on Feb 10, 2016 10:38:49 GMT
Got one of these with a new iStick 30W a month back. Didn't think eleaf provided them..dunno? Anyway, it worked for 4 weeks and without any flame show it stopped supplying 5 volts @1000ma (1A will do!). It charged the ileaf ok till I noticed I had to plug into my Laptop/PC. Never did measure its o/p during operation...why would you? This has the usual CE joke markings (+ others) and no manufacturer name or type ID. So the temptation now for a lot of folk is to grab the nearest charger with a USB socket on it I suspect? Thats 240v AC to 5V DC with a few bits of silicon. Whether its fused adequately, I've yet to get to surgery.  |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 10, 2016 9:52:50 GMT
One thing you can be sure of, they'll repeat most of the garbage (repeatedly?) via Dave, Yesterday and Quest. Is that all the repeaters?
Whats BBC3 aimed at. Something to do with younger folk. I noticed one (Don't tell the Bride..repeat) of them yesterday get great delight from saying....he farted. I suppose BBC3 going online only shortly is some relief...from on air exhaust like that.
Then there's the solid wall to wall crap on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. I'll stop here I think.
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Post by calnorth on Feb 10, 2016 7:53:31 GMT
Yuasa have a set of vids on it here: www.yuasabatteries.com/videos.phpNew Battery Activation - ConventionalThe Batt is dry charged, so should not need charging initially |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 9, 2016 11:17:10 GMT
On BMW:
Some years back I went to a local BMW agency/franchise to get new windscreen wipers (+other stuff). Bloke in spares dept handed me the wiper boxes and I took a look at country of origin on the back. Belgium. I said I wanted German made at this price. He said if you must know they are from China....take it or leave it more or less!
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Post by calnorth on Feb 8, 2016 20:36:49 GMT
I have checked couple of Aspire,Joyetech, Eleaf products (tanks, coils) on Fasttech and as I remember correctly they put this note next to every item "The security sticker on the product is removed so that this product can be offered to customers like you at the lowest price possible." So after this how we can figure out which is authentic and which is clone? If I was very forgiving I'd say that they were selling into countries where they are not allowed to. They are not official outlets. However, whats coming though from FT (perhaps others) is quality items. It then comes down to adequate support in the end, which at long distance is a bit awkward? |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 8, 2016 19:52:23 GMT
Its an interesting topic, and I have experiened China faking.
My son gave me an istick 30w in its sealed box with verification sticker stuff on the back (16 awkward digits). I opened up and tested. It was all there and a quality piece I thought. So thrashed it for 3 days...no problem at all. And its gone on for the last 4 weeks perfectly. I have no backup vaping brick.
Decided to verify it and went to the eleaf site. It reported it as a non original, recorded my IP address along with 5 others. Thats 5 others using the same 16 digit verification code. Checked 4 days later and 10 IP addresses were amassed.
I think it is an eleaf istick and made by eleaf. I cannot imagine anybody going to great lengths of faking something that appears so good. I likely won't know fully till I goto battery surgery?
I am thinking repaired rejects?
It has one minor problem:
On USB power thru, when the battery fully charges it presents "atomiser error". Unplug USB and thats gone and all functions. That likely may go away when the battery fails to fully charge..as they do.
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