Eleaf Istick

[StarreLabelle]

The 20 W has it, and I presume that all the iSticks have it also: a brief lag between the tap on the firing button and the actual current being provided to the atomizer. That's because of two main things. Firstly, the device is always checking the atomizer resistance, with a 100 mV current in the 20W. I don't remember how often it does it, but it is surely less than one second between pulses. That's how it reads the resistance in real-time (at least meanwhile the screen is on). Busardo's depiction of it in its review of the 20W was 'it has a heart-beat, I'm not sure why, but it has it...'

But they also have to discern between taps for firing and taps for setting things up, like changing the VV/VW mode (three clicks) or powering the device itself on/off (5x). eleaf's designers decided not to feed the atomizer in those taps.

I wonder if that delay could be misinterpreted as a soft firing after all, when you are driving the 50W at high settings......

The 50watt iStick is totally different than the 20watt. Eleaf actually fixed many of the issues with the 30watt.
I waited, and waited for this MOD's release, and I'm very glad I did! I doubt anyone can find a MOD this powerful, with all these features, and the new safety measures at the iStick's price point. Most places are charging about $50 for the 50w, and I think that's a great bargain.

Don't get me wrong, I think the 20watt is a great little device, and brought these wonderful vaping tools to our attention. But, I can't see the point of buying a 20w; the threading issues stopped me. Plus the 30watt is only about $10 more, and 50w is just $20 more than the original 20w iStick.

 

[StarreLabelle]

I know I've said it before but if E-Leaf releases a 100 Watt box with a 5200 mAh battery stuffed into an enclosure slightly larger than the i50 then I will get rid of all my other mods.

........They also need to improve the 510 connection and the fire button. =)

Eleaf did improve the fire button and the 510 connection is now 100% stainless steel. I know both the 30 & 50w have the updated connectors. Just the 50w got rid of the button rattle, though.

 

[StarreLabelle]

I would call my vendor if I were you. The 510 connection on the 30 & 50W 'Sticks have been brilliant for most users.

Yes, I've heard NOTHING but EXCELLENT reviews on the new 50watt iStick. The 30 watt has improved the connection, too.

 

[StarreLabelle]

While I'm being picky, the plastic that covers the display on the i50 feels super cheap and when you tap it with your finger it feels loose.

Why don't you send your 50w iStick back? Just return it already. I've been reading all your many complaints about it, and since you dislike it so much, why are you even keeping it?
Everybody else says their iSticks work beautifully. My Sweet Vapes order should be here tomorrow with my 50watt iStick, and I can't wait! I think I'm going to live it, especially paired with my new Kanger Subtank Mini.

 

[StarreLabelle]

Well at $50 it's not going to be Gorilla glass is it?

Lol, exactly)) I'm just happy I can afford a 50watt iStick or 50watt ANYTHING!
I remember when the Vape Shops were selling the first box Mods for almost $200 about 2 1/2 years ago.

 

[StarreLabelle]

I'm trying to help a friend get an istick 30watt as cheaply and quickly as possible - can anyone tell me the best deal going right now and if there is a coupon code for the deal? I saw a deal for Rocky Mountain Vapor 30 Watt for $39. and mention of a $5 coupon code - anyone know the code and if it still works? Sorry to be lazy, it was so many pages back I'm not sure if there is a valid coupon to keep looking for. Thanks so much!

Check www.Sweet-Vapes.com, and look under the Electronic Mods section. I think you can get a kit for that price there.

 

[AnsonJames]

I was one of the first utilizers of i-stick in my country. For the price i accepted many problems in virtues of the cheap price. I thought that device was a innovation in market the substitute of the ego that from the advent of this device stopped to be the fulcrum of the market of vapers in the world. But...there is a big bad but...

The istick in my opinion is build to have a little life, not for defects of my exemplar but because the istick is constructed to be a use and throw object in a few, very few monts...In fact my 20 w still working not well as new but not to bad has stopped to work after 1/4 of the battery life theorical (330 times of recharge). Now if i vaped 5 ml before recharging i ned to do it in 2-3 ml with a bad erogation in the half the battery thad last too little.....Substantial i was interested in 30w upgrade object because the better electronics, stainless steel pin but now i think the same problems in reliability and duration could be in the new that has the same weak battery, not easyly removable....not a big revolution this product but only a device that would be a revolution, now i'm waiting for the new proposal i hope would be, 100$ BatteryBox long lasting and reliable.....not a chinese use and throw away.....

Average user charging their I50 every 2 days - 330 charges = almost 2 years from a $50 device.
I don't know about you but I don't have (or want) any devices from two years ago.

The lack of non removable battery is not an issue for 90%+ of owners.

 

[AnsonJames]

Why don't you send your 50w iStick back? Just return it already. I've been reading all your many complaints about it, and since you dislike it so much, why are you even keeping it?
Everybody else says their iSticks work beautifully. My Sweet Vapes order should be here tomorrow with my 50watt iStick, and I can't wait! I think I'm going to live it, especially paired with my new Kanger Subtank Mini.

Using that combo myself - very impressed by the RTA part of the Sub Tank.
It's a better vape than the Kayfun 4 with none of the issues associated with the "high end" atties - I'm experiencing big money vaping for a comparatively small amount of outlay.

 

[classwife]

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The past 2 days, one of my iSticks isn't taking a charge right.
I went to work yesterday with what should have been a full battery and noticed around 10am it was low.
Put it back on the charger about 6pm and at 2am it was only a half charge






is it dying ???

 

[AnsonJames]

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The past 2 days, one of my iSticks isn't taking a charge right.
I went to work yesterday with what should have been a full battery and noticed around 10am it was low.
Put it back on the charger about 6pm and at 2am it was only a half charge






is it dying ???

Sounds like a wrong 'un.
Back to the vendor I'd say.

 

[classwife]

Not a returnable...got it "here" in the beginning

 

[AnsonJames]

Not a returnable...got it "here" in the beginning

Bummer.
What flavor of Istick is it - 20?

 

[classwife]

flavor

yes, it's the 20, and my pink (red) one


It's been my every day carry for work

 

[AnsonJames]

Sounds like the battery has had it - first one I've heard off though.
If you don't mind a little soldering you could throw a tabbed 18650 in to it - probably a bin job though, a new 20 is pretty cheap to pick up.

 

[dwcraig1]

Using that combo myself - very impressed by the RTA part of the Sub Tank.
It's a better vape than the Kayfun 4 with none of the issues associated with the "high end" atties - I'm experiencing big money vaping for a comparatively small amount of outlay.

Which version of Subtank you got there Dirk?

 

[tiburonfirst]

classy, take the bottom off and make sure all connections look good at the charging port - an easy-enough procedure even for us

some usb ports were a little wonky and might also be the cause for poor charging. the battery should still have plenty of life left

 

[AnsonJames]

It's the mini - amazing RTA, a little too airy even with smallest setting but still a brilliant performer.

 

[dwcraig1]

It's the mini - amazing RTA, a little too airy even with smallest setting but still a brilliant performer.

Yes it is, I have both, the 25 mm one is a bit tamer.

 

[dwcraig1]

What? No Kayfun V4 pic?

 

[gigetto]

Average user charging their I50 every 2 days - 330 charges = almost 2 years from a $50 device.
I don't know about you but I don't have (or want) any devices from two years ago.

The lack of non removable battery is not an issue for 90%+ of owners.

I don't know about I50 and i refer what is starting happening with the october first Istick 20 that i and others had bought few months ago. Someone bought in Italy, someone in europe someone from china directly, in fact all we have now has different locts. All the same critical signal of underlasting time the lifetime is too short very short too short also for a cheap product. For this reason, I and many more would be unsatisfy and we don't buy probably the 30 and the 50w because these are made to have a short lifetime, Two years? Yes two years for a 50$ product is a good, too good life but i and another are talking of one, two three ...six month maximum of shelf life of these object.....not years month.