what exactly does the protected circuit board in the JS do waldo?
A PCB prevents the battery from discharging past a certain point. The JS will not allow the battery to discharge past approximately 3.3v. The reason for this is that lithium batteries that discharge past a certain point will begin to generate a gas inside the battery. Once that gas is generated, the battery is unstable to be recharged and can result in an exploding battery.what exactly does the protected circuit board in the JS do waldo?
Then I guess that is my bad. I read all these posts saying how the Screwdriver was so consistent so I guess I was wrong to believe that. See with my Janty Stick I have no warning when the battery is about to die because at 3.4v it is still delivering consistent hits like it does at 4.2v.thanks, but after I hacked up my flashlights, and cobbled together my pv, I'd take the time to measure voltage when performance trailed off and I never got a reading lower than 3.5, it's really pretty obvious after a couple days of use to be able to tell when it's time to change the battery-you get no mo vape.
Have you not heard? the Prodigy IS the next big thing. Even the biggest screwdriver fanboy on the forum is anxious to get his hands on one...dumwaldo...what you're saying doesn;t make sense at all. The SD is tried and tested. How do you know how the prodigy will perform? When I told Cash that it was bad idea to sell a 6 volt mod...because the juices would taste like crap...he argued with me that it works great...and a couple weeks later he changes it to 4.5-5volt device. I mean he was trying to convince everyone that a 6volt mod using the 801 atty and dripping was the way to go. Who drips with an 801?....it defeats the purpose of the 801. Second it is torture to drip with 801s....since the atty is nowhere to be seen. Same with the GG....I guarantee most people will be very unhappy with the taste. Now the stick seems like a well thought out device....and has improvements over the SD...with the LED and and built in passthrough.
And as far as ergonomics....the prodigy and the GG are a disaster. The stick looks like it will fit the hand well. As far as the SD being a flashlight mod...it doesn;t matter since everyone who has one likes it....it is tried and tested....the other devices....it remains to be seen if they will work well. Already people are complaining of leaking problems with the stick.
My Janty stick lasts around 6 hours per battery. You don't really expect me to believe your Screwdriver goes for 18 hours on a single battery?DW, again you get a huge LOL from me. Even Ludo, the JS maker, admits you have to carry three batteries to get battery life equivalent to an SD (with one battery)!
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/jantyusa/12600-janty-stick-2.html#post192863
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/jantyusa/12600-janty-stick-6.html#post196042
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/jantyusa/12600-janty-stick-7.html#post198247
You are correct and anything I say about the Prodigy is an assumption and I am old enough to have seen the odd couple and know that assumptions make an ... out of you and me.DW...how can you say the SD is unsafe? It is the only product out there that is tried and tested. Everyone who has one likes it. The prodigy might be unsafe since the fact is the atos and the eliquids are all desigened to work at at around 3.7volts. I am not saying that the prodigy won;t be an excellent device...but that remains to be seen. Believe me Cash wised up real quick and brought the voltage down...it was going to be a disaster for him to offer a 6v device. We'll see if people will like the 5v device. I have a feeling it will be good. The only problem is that it is way too big...when he makes the miniprodigy...I'll definitely consider it.
Anyway I am glad that there is competition for Trog now...maybe he'll make a SD v.2 now. Ludo mentioned that they might offer a device like the SD for around $50...this might get interesting.
I see comments like this all the time and it always leaves me confused.Well, DW - your points are well noted, I do believe the simple layout of SD is a strong point. Only possible point that I could see it going bad might be the switch after few years of use - maybe loose spring or what not - but such could be easily replaced by compatible parts from Radio Shack or what not.
All the bells and whistles are nice on JS... such as built in usb ports and all - but since JS is such a new product, I'm not sure of longevity of the device yet with all those bells and whistles. I've seen circuits going bad in may occasions for apparently no reason - and a mod like SD is basically as simple as one can get w/o making one's own. Well, time will tell, I guess.
Your mistake is to think it is a matter of simple math. You think because one has a 360 mAh battery and the other has a 1000 mAh battery that it has three times the battery life. But that is wrong because they do not consume power at the same rate.
This is the part about something being engineered and specifically designed as a PV that I think escaping you.
See the screwdriver is just a box with a battery and uses power very inefficiently. It comes on strong and then weans off as the charge level on the battery depletes. These are the characteristics of an unregulated power supply that is pretty wastefull with the power.
If you do not wish to discuss things you are absolutely welcome to not participate in a DISCUSSION forum.Look dum waldo - we all know you've had words with trog over the SD.
You sabatoge every SD thread with your warped perceptions.
Anyone responding to you just fuels your need to be even more aggravating and annoying.
Look what you've done to this thread for pete's sake!
I don't know what your real problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce!