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Had a crazy problem one time playing .FLAC files on my Colorfly C3 digital audio player. Windows 7 would copy the .FLAC files over to the player as .FL~ and it would not recognize or play them. If you renamed all the files to .FLA everything played but it supported .FLAC out of the box.

Apparently a bit got changed somehow in my Windows 7 registry enabling Windows 95 truncated extensions... Once that was set back to 1 instead of 0 all was good in music land again.
Win95TruncatedExtensions: Core Services

Had to turn in my Windows Badge on that one, and seek out those geekier than I (Icrontic Forums) for the solution. ;)
 

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    so if you go to rename the file you end up with "Stock Billet Box.ecig.txt" instead of a proper .ecig file and that would fail to load in eScribe.
    Troll. Mac here as well. It was posted as a .txt file. No hidden extensions. And all is good. When I looked at your original compared to one opened in Notepad, all the nulls (hex 00) had been changed to spaces (hex 20)
     

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    I still have the WeeLeaf EC-Mesh in mine now,
    I'm going to have to try the ECM again in the BB! First attempt I didn't like it :)
    I put it in the Melo 3 on the Ohm Slice & it works nice in there :)
    I guess different flavours lend them selfs better to certain coils?
    I have a Lemon Lime that is awful in the BB with the Exocet, but works nicely with the EUC coil :) The ECM in the BB on Strawberry Watermelon was meh, but in the Melo 3 on Butterscotch Cake is excellent :) Some times it's hard to get the rite combo of mod, tank, coil & flavour
     

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    Mac here as well

    Me Too :) a Mac is so easy! It's idiot prof :) Just change it to .ecig & go :)
    For those of you, who just updated to Windows 10, my 6 or 7 year old Mac has updated the OS seamlessly at least 4 times since new & always Free!
     

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    Don't I HATE UPS...

    Salk Street ($20 B2K's) shipped out my order on Tuesday with UPS knowing full well that I have a PO Box. I sent them an email as soon as I got the notification and asked for it to be sent via Canada Post or have the delivery address changed to my work address. Too late he said already picked up, but here is a 20% off coupon and a free 60ml juice for your next order. :)

    The shipment arrived in Dartmouth Nova Scotia Thursday morning at 9:44AM. Too late for that days run, the driver loaded it Friday, noticed the PO Box and said can't deliver putting it back on the shelf. Now the UPS depot will mail me a notification requesting an updated address, that should hopefully arrive on Monday. You can give them the new address through their website once you have the failed delivery notification number, they won't do it without that number.

    What a PiTA, I should see the package on Wednesday or Thursday. Buddy from Salk said somebody else had mailed him about the exact same problem that day.

    Sorry dude, some of us live in the Willy Wags. :lol:
     

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    I'm going to have to try the ECM again in the BB! First attempt I didn't like it :)
    I put it in the Melo 3 on the Ohm Slice & it works nice in there :)
    I guess different flavours lend them selfs better to certain coils?
    I have a Lemon Lime that is awful in the BB with the Exocet, but works nicely with the EUC coil :) The ECM in the BB on Strawberry Watermelon was meh, but in the Melo 3 on Butterscotch Cake is excellent :) Some times it's hard to get the rite combo of mod, tank, coil & flavour
    I try all my juice in different tanks, RAD Vapor's Belle (Seasonal Rum/Eggnog) was absolutely gag worthy in the Plus. Putting it in the Pulse BF using the E-Phoenix Resurrection V2 (dual simple 24ga) was quite yummy, it brought out the Rum flavor as opposed to a nasty egg taste in the Plus. Lot's of factors influence flavor, build, power, airflow, chamber size etc... Sometimes just a 5W variance will make a flavor pop. ;)

    The tobacco cream is the only juice I tried with the ECM, it might be horrible with fruits or bakery.

    Alberts WHYTE (plain Virginia Tobacco) for example is almost sickening in the Pindad but really great in the Rose V2, dual 26ga vs single 26a and side air vs bottom air.
     

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    Me Too :) a Mac is so easy! It's idiot prof :) Just change it to .ecig & go :)
    For those of you, who just updated to Windows 10, my 6 or 7 year old Mac has updated the OS seamlessly at least 4 times since new & always Free!
    I have an old C2D Macbook running Snow Leopard it's ancient. :lol:
     

    TrollDragon

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    Once I build or pickup and OTG cable, I need to try this out.
    WIN_20190323_15_43_24_Pro.jpg


    Mark Todd was giving out codes for it a while back and I grabbed one. It won't replace eScribe but should allow you to change setting on older gear.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.raverrr.dnamate&hl=en_US
     

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    Well, if ya wanna talk Mac software, I really prefer this over escribe for Device Monitor. It's on github. Written by hobbyquaker "DNA Monitor", who's now of ArcticFox fame.
    Apart from the tiny overshoot (~2°F), I think I got my wicking down as there's little fall off. 65 watts preheat, regular 60 watts power on my beater VT133 and Gold Ammit25.
    VT & gold fresh wick.png
     

    BillW50

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    Have to agree Bill :) I did try them in TC, standard 316L Evolv settings.
    It did work as far as not falling out of TC. I found the vape too anemic for Me :(
    Yes I could see using a setting for SS to be too anemic. They act like they use nickel legs. The Crown 1 uses SS316L with nickel legs too. There I use a TSR of .00125. So I tried it with these ceramic. And it is very close. If anything it is slightly hotter than the temperature setting. So a slightly lower TCR should be perfect.
    I'm running it in old fashion watts boost mode, it's ratted for 25 to 35 watts, I find it best at 35 watts with a second or so boost of around 50 watts. It helps with the ramp up time :) I'm still on my very first coil I put in there, seems to holding up well :)
    Whoa! I was using 17.5W and no boost. I thought that was fine for me. Although these JMK Tips only has a 5mm bore. A Kayfun 5 has a 6mm bore. So that might have something to do with it. Pretty restrictive DL for sure. Now with a TCR .00125, I am using 25W @ 420°F, still no boost.

    You might recall I was planning on using Claptons in my Exocet, but I was advised against it. Well I did it anyway and the vape was fine. But it needed the max boost and a minimum of 30W to keep it going. And the vape was barely noticeably better than round wire. And the biggest difference was it drained batteries really fast. So yeah, it wasn't worth it. :lol:
    I didn't bother as I've never had much luck with ceramic coil heads in TC, I just run them in power. When I put another one in I'm going to use Steamers boost mode with it. I still have the WeeLeaf EC-Mesh in mine now, I run it at 45W providing excellent flavor/vapor with BB Vapes BLVK (Tobacco & Cream) juice.
    Wow! Running mesh! That is something I got to try next. And that juice sounds like something I might like too. ;)
     

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    Yes I could see using a setting for SS to be too anemic. They act like they use nickel legs. The Crown 1 uses SS316L with nickel legs too. There I use a TSR of .00125. So I tried it with these ceramic. And it is very close. If anything it is slightly hotter than the temperature setting. So a slightly lower TCR should be perfect.

    Whoa! I was using 17.5W and no boost. I thought that was fine for me. Although these JMK Tips only has a 5mm bore. A Kayfun 5 has a 6mm bore. So that might have something to do with it. Pretty restrictive DL for sure. Now with a TCR .00125, I am using 25W @ 420°F, still no boost.

    You might recall I was planning on using Claptons in my Exocet, but I was advised against it. Well I did it anyway and the vape was fine. But it needed the max boost and a minimum of 30W to keep it going. And the vape was barely noticeably better than round wire. And the biggest difference was it drained batteries really fast. So yeah, it wasn't worth it. :lol:

    Wow! Running mesh! That is something I got to try next. And that juice sounds like something I might like too. ;)


    The EC-M/-N are 2 mesh coils you can use in the BB A Tank M= bigger mesh N= finer mesh :)
    As far as the 35 watts plus boost, that how it works well for Me :)
    I run the Exocets at 25 watts in TC with Ti coils, any more power & they don't work well. I'l just play with the settings till it's working well :) If a coil say 25 watts max but it's working well for me at 40! Well that's were I run it :)
    I'v been in the situation were I'm just using more power & battery for nothing! I just bought 3 dual coil RSA's for the Boxer Clone & after all that, I'm using the pulse 22 with a single coil on it! IMO it's working all most the same as the duals, so why waste power & juice for very little gain?
     
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    My 2nd SXK BB is due to arrive this coming Monday. With it is a styled Insider, I'm thinking that I should have ordered a couple more of those...maybe later.
    Strangely enough I would have no quips about paying $300 - 350 for an authentic BB but $150 for an atomizer for it just seems off. $150 for a Kf or TGT...no problem.
     

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    So with the mention of an OTG adapter I thought I'd try out the one that came with my Drone. I couldn't figure out how to turn it on so I just connected it to my ERM and it worked, good too, around 1.2 amps.
    So I try it with my SXK Boxer and it didn't work. Off to EScribe I go to find out why. In EScribe there is a setting for either manual in theme or automatic. Now I know but not really a feature that I'm interested in.
     
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    It would just sit there and watch me vape my Billet box (styled)
    It's funny. Just 45 days ago, I had zero interest in the Billet Box. I never thought much about them. As I thought they were just a very limited little box mod that runs proprietary tanks and coils. And the only advantage they had over anything else is they are small and that is about it. And I wouldn't expect them to vape very well either. And a square tank with one side with a sliding glass door, you can't be serious? You are just asking for problems there.

    Boy did my opinion change in this brief time. The number of rebuildables and coil heads you can use in them are endless. And that tank isn't so tiny after all. And a square tank with a sliding window really isn't problematic and it's actually quite nice. For the mod itself, I didn't think I'd like the button and the screen placement. But now, I wouldn't want them to be anywhere else.

    Nor would I have imagined that I would be using them 95% of the time now. And almost everything else I have just seems so obsolete. The BB was already around for 2 years when I started vaping. If only I had known and started with them instead of everything else I bought. I could have saved countless thousands of dollars. ;)
     

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    I too was very impressed by the BB! I bought my Authentic, just out of respect for BBV!
    If they were more available, when I first started to get interested in them & I was able to get an Authentic before I got my clones. I would of only bought Authentic's :)
    It's a high Quality American made Product :)
     

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