My
juul was charging and the green light came on, and I got distracted and forgot to remove it. An hour or two later there was a burning electrical smell in the air, coming from it. It seems the charger overheated, because that's what had the smell, but not the
juul device itself. Still, I'm not gonna chance using it, and especially not the charger. I'll call them and see what they say.
They were very nice about it, had me return the device and charger while they quickly sent me a new kit.
Now, having a new Juul, I've discovered that most of the problems I'd been having were from wear on the device itself. All my pods that were no longer snapping into place well, and therefore not working well, are now working very well on the new device. I still have to squeeze the pod here and there when the vapor gets thinner. That problem is with the pods, and there's leakiness even with new pods.
The juice is way too strong for me, but with the one pod I hadn't messed with from the original kit I got, the throat hit has diminished to about 20% of original strength since about June this year when I bought it. I hadn't kept it away from heat, light, and humidity, but that's a lot more diminished than my other nic juices get from that sort of neglect.
I greatly prefer the type of throat hit I get from regular (freebase) nic, compared to juul juice with added PG/VG to bring the nic level down to tolerable. I don't like that I feel the throat hit from the juul juice all the way down into my lungs. Much less pleasant, for me.
I'm getting some great vaping out of this juul by filling with my own juice. I'm hoping that this new device doesn't loosen up like the last one, which eventually made it not even work with the one pod I hadn't refilled.
The snap-in design is a problem. A new pod takes a lot of force to snap in, and that begins to wear down the tabs on the pod, and either the same with the device, or the device stretches. The change in the device was the much bigger contributer to the failures, than the change in the pods.
The problem of leaking from squeezing a pod is a pretty big problem, but I've gotten pretty good with avoiding squeezing. They need to make the pod less flexible. According to their website, the plastic is not polycarbonate, so I guess tank-cracking juices would be OK.