http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ US, West en Sat, 18 May 2013 18:57:44 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/images/misc/rss.png http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/notcigs/410717-ipro-draining-batteries-when-not-use.html Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:45:22 GMT I've encountered a problem with my IPro.

I own a large number of PVs, so the IPro doesn't get much use, but I keep it loaded and at my bedside, along with 25 other PVs loaded with different juices.

I reached for my IPro this morning for a quick vape, but the batteries (the blue 14430s from NotCig) were dead. No interior LED, no vape. This was strange, because I hadn't vaped the IPro for more than ten minutes over the two weeks since my last battery swap. And not only were the batteries drained, but they were drained far below the safe shut-off level---all the way down to 1.3 volts (I checked with a VOM). I've read that 3.7 volt batteries shouldn't be recharged if drained below 1.5 volts.

Even more troubling is that this was the second time this has happened in a month. Same thing happened then---batteries were drained below safe recharge levels without having been used. I did try recharging that first set of badly drained batteries, but no go. They wouldn't take a charge.

Thinking that a short in the carto I was using might be the culprit, I swapped out that carto for another and tested it for a short on my ProVari (no short), then put it on a different PV. It's been fine for the past month. Vapes well and doesn't drain the batteries on one of my VAMOs. Since the problem has now recurred and killed a second set of batteries (I'm now down to my last of three sets), I doubt that the cartos/clearos I'm using are the problem.

I fear that the PCB in the IPro has gone wonky. Either that or two sets of batteries have failed consecutively, which I very much doubt.

At 13 months old and having seen only light use, my IPro is out of warranty. Is it worth the time, hassle, and money to send it back to NotCigs for bench-testing and repair, then buy two more sets of batteries? I mean, the IPro is a nice PV (although I like my BuzzPro a bit more), but if it's going to cost $36 dollars to fix, I can get a brand-new VAMO v2 shipped for that from VaporBreak in China.

If the IPro were my primary PV, I'd get it repaired in a heartbeat. But with 95 other PVs, it's not in my Top Ten faves, so I don't know. ]]> Notcigs billherbst http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/notcigs/410717-ipro-draining-batteries-when-not-use.html http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/notcigs/407500-bovinia-information-cost-button-replacement-my-buzz-pro.html Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:04:06 GMT Hi Bovinia, After 3 button replacements on my wife's IPRO my beloved Buzz Pro's button caved into the body, the button was alway's shorter than my wife's IPRO. My question is how much does it cost to replaced the button on my Buzz? Also have they hopefully improved on these buttons? I already have a RMA printed out...But if it cost to much to fix I might retire my buzz and look elsewhere as the buttons don't last long. IMHO the buttons are prone to break. ]]> Notcigs jwv651 http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/notcigs/407500-bovinia-information-cost-button-replacement-my-buzz-pro.html