6day old zmax went out? low power output....

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ItsTheDanYole

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So, i bought a zmax mini from gv 6 days ago and i love it! :headbang:theading, finish, function, all great! way better than my vamo and obviously my ego-t 18650 mod and egos. BUT!.....yep there is a but..... lastnight i was vaping some kick .... Mt.Baker Moo juice:vapor:, which is an easy to burn juice that i usually set to 10.5 watts on a Iclear 30 with the 2.0ohm coil. so there i was, puffing away. when i noticed that the vapor production had lessened slightly. went into the menu and cranked it up a watt. same result! hummmm.... went up to 12.5, which would burn the heck out of any juice or delivery system i own ( iclear 30, genesis cobra, mega dual coil cartos) and same result!! low power! tried switching to a fully charged battery(aw imr18350), same result! tried the aw imr18650 fully charged... same!!!! aaarrrggghh!!! nnoooo!!! i just dropped a bill on this thing and its bugging out?!?!?! to others this may not be so bad, but to me, its a huge amount of money... im hungry over it and will be for the next week bc i had to re-arrange bills to get this thing.

in depth, my zmax has the same power output from settings 9.5-15w. drop lower than that and you will notice a difference in performance. all settings and menus work fine, it shows no alarms when in use except for the typical LOV when the battery dies, and i have yet to have a bad coil head or poor coil wrap considering im still using the pre wrapped coil on the genesis which measures at 1.7ohm. i put a multimeter on it and it puts out the full 3-6v which eliminates my guess that the booster has failed and im relying on the regulator alone.:facepalm:

can anyone PLEASE help me out here? GotVapes, u reading this? i desperately need help! :cry: this was my first order from you guys and i was amazed by how much "goodies" you have and plan doing much more shopping with you.

thank you in advance to GotVapes and the excellent ECF community!
 

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Until then... I can think of a couple of general things to make certain it isn't something non-PV related...

Using a multimeter... test the battery to verify it is at 4.2v.

Then test and verify that the vaporizer isn't actually shorted. It may not be the coil itself, it could be the post in the center of the 510 connector pushed to one side causing a short. A third test would be to use a known good commercial vaporizer that you didn't build the coil etc.
 

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Just one question...did you try anything other than the iclear 30? I believe they have two 4ohm coils in them. My guess would be that one of the coils popped, leaving you with a single 4ohm. 4 ohms at 6 volts would be 9 watts. You may have simply hit the voltage limit which why you got no change above 9 watts.
 

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like i said earlier,

"Btw the vamo works on all the same settings with near exact performance results as the zmax before the issue which makes a good comparison... 11w on the vamo burns moojuice and the same on the zmax till lastnight....""""""

and the batteries are 3 weeks for the 18350's and a month for the 18650.
 
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like i said earlier,

"Btw the vamo works on all the same settings with near exact performance results as the zmax before the issue which makes a good comparison... 11w on the vamo burns moojuice and the same on the zmax till lastnight....""""""

and the batteries are 3 weeks for the 18350's and a month for the 18650.

Relax, it's the Internet and sometimes you have to clarify. Your original quote read as though the vamo, iclear, and battery were all working perfectly before the problems came up, not necessarily after. So, if you are in fact saying that the vamo, that battery and that iclear head are still working perfectly together and the zmax is not, can you tell us if they are both set the same, to either rms or mean? It may sound silly, but I have unintentionally changed mine before without realizing it until I had a burnt carto or such.
 
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