Maybe you all should start dropping your istick 50W... I dropped mine 3 times in the same day 2 days after getting it, incredibly hard, on cement, and it has been working flawlessly ever since (got it on a coop pre sale).
I think we need to STOP recommending a Istick 50
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Funny you should say that since I found out on Reddit that something similar was how to stop that auto-firing. Just smack it hard! LOL. It worked.
yeah but they didn't replace mine after several emails. I had mine exactly one month. Sucks!
Gee, maybe take a second and read the link I posted. A major vendor set up a no questionds asked replacement policy, AND is working directly with eleaf Over the issue.
Kinds hard to pretend we made it up when they actually acknowledge the issues huh
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if Eleaf cared they would have responded to my emails and offered to replace mine that broke in one month. lost my business for life
Exactly -- I've seen one or two posts about problems with the 20w or 30w, but hordes and hordes of problems with the 50w.
Andria
I bet they've sold millions, certainly many many thousands. I don't deny there have been some problems but we do not and cannot know how widespread they are.
This thread got heated a bit since my nap lol. I'll just say what I said before, that I'm not recommending them (the 50w) ever again. Regardless of the fact that your personal mod is working perfectly, the rate of failure and catastrophic failure has been way, way, way too high. No other reason is needed imo.
I'll keep recommending the iStick 50 Watt. Mostly, just because it's awesome. There are very few other options that offer a similar feature set anywhere near the iStick's price. My wife's and my iStick 50's have worked perfectly since purchase a few months ago.
My wife is the general manager of our friend's local vapor store. The store has sold nearly 700 iStick 50 Watt mods since it's initial release. Of those 700 iStick 50's, less then 10 of them have been replaced by the store for defects.
With this type of product which is prone to abuse and misuse, I consider those pretty damn good odds.
Recommend me a mod that's better then the 50 Watt iStick, then give me 60 seconds to find a thread on the internet with some guy complaining about how terrible it is.
My wife is the general manager of our friend's local vapor store. The store has sold nearly 700 iStick 50 Watt mods since it's initial release. Of those 700 iStick 50's, less then 10 of them have been replaced by the store for defects.
With this type of product which is prone to abuse and misuse, I consider those pretty damn good odds.
Recommend me a mod that's better then the 50 Watt iStick, then give me 60 seconds to find a thread on the internet with some guy complaining about how terrible it is.
Lol I dropped mine and it's all good. Dropped my mvp, which is a tank no doubt, but the connector pushed up a bit and now my tanks don't sit flush. I'm afraid if I take it apart I'll mess something up lol.
FWIW, I purchased my iStick 50 the third week of February, and have had zero issues with it. I was using it every single day as my sole mod until I started on my mod buying spree beginning towards the end of March. Since I have so many mods now, my wife took it and now she is using it. Granted she doesn't use it much (maybe 0.5 ml a day), but still no issues with it at all.
Most products of any kind are probably gonna see some issues, i think its important to specify hazardous problems. That said, i havent heard of innokin having problems eith their APVs that caused any sort of hazard
Why do new vapers need 50 watts? What percentage of vapers ever go over 20?
This isn't just "some guy on the internet complaining" level of problem here. It's mods catching on fire, due directly to poor quality control and/or design. Complaints are to be expected. Fires are not. Regulated mods should not catch on fire. I'm happy that there have been few returns at your friend's store, and also happy that yours has been fine. That being said, I don't personally recommend them and will not in the future.
oh dear me I suppose I shall have to ferret out the bad things that can create issues I only own eleaf I have two 20s and one 50 they work I would prefer not to get myself in a stew I think the little gizmos were somewhere around 35 to 50 Canadian dollars each. I bought them specifically because they are supposedly safe -no firing if the coils are not happy ohm wise and long battery life before recharging. it has been a learning curve figuring out the vaping lingo, making a coil or two and figuring out a little info on juices. I looked at the provari but seems to me it is extremely pricey bought the fifty because all the coils I made kept coming up at just under 1 ohm so wouldn't fire the drippers on the 20s. Living in Canada, out of the megatropolis of southern Ontari, one is lucky to have any choice re equipment.
I don't want to spend money on more batteries and I have been told there are duds galore on various pieces of equipment. I paid 57 dollars for a useless kayfun 4 clone and haven't done anything other than pour juice on myself. The 20's work with my mini and my evod tank the 50 works with the dripper so far they work for me. It is disheartening though to buy something that is a piece of junk, probably should have returned the kayfun 4 clone to the store but I dismantled it so many times I just said f... it and considered it a learning lesson. For a few weeks I couldn't get the nautilaus mini to work without leaking -finally bought new coils so just assume I had a dud batch but maybe it was me and the way I vaped or filled or cleaned, perhaps quality control is lacking in much of the equipment and because there is so darn much variety it is hard for a beginner to have any idea at all what is good and what is not and quite truly here in Canada we often get products that cannot quite cut the mustard in the U.S. of A.
I suppose if I would have seen or even known about this forum prior to my purchases I might and I say, might have received some wise advise from the members here but being such a new vaper probably wouldn't have known which was which anyway . Perhaps there is currently no such thing as the holy grail of vaping equipment and you just take your chances, I guess I will stay with what I have for as long as it works otherwise I will end up spending more on shiny new things than I did on smokes.
I don't want to spend money on more batteries and I have been told there are duds galore on various pieces of equipment. I paid 57 dollars for a useless kayfun 4 clone and haven't done anything other than pour juice on myself. The 20's work with my mini and my evod tank the 50 works with the dripper so far they work for me. It is disheartening though to buy something that is a piece of junk, probably should have returned the kayfun 4 clone to the store but I dismantled it so many times I just said f... it and considered it a learning lesson. For a few weeks I couldn't get the nautilaus mini to work without leaking -finally bought new coils so just assume I had a dud batch but maybe it was me and the way I vaped or filled or cleaned, perhaps quality control is lacking in much of the equipment and because there is so darn much variety it is hard for a beginner to have any idea at all what is good and what is not and quite truly here in Canada we often get products that cannot quite cut the mustard in the U.S. of A.
I suppose if I would have seen or even known about this forum prior to my purchases I might and I say, might have received some wise advise from the members here but being such a new vaper probably wouldn't have known which was which anyway . Perhaps there is currently no such thing as the holy grail of vaping equipment and you just take your chances, I guess I will stay with what I have for as long as it works otherwise I will end up spending more on shiny new things than I did on smokes.
I'm just really glad I decided to get the 30w -- mainly from reading all the horror stories here at ECF about the 50s!
Lots of folks have had problems with the button on sigelei zmax's... I never have, despite fairly hard use. I'm grateful for that, but recognize that it's somewhat unusual -- those buttons going south is a definite trend.
Just as you can have bad mods in a trend of good ones, you can also have good mods within a trend of bad ones.
Andria
Lots of folks have had problems with the button on sigelei zmax's... I never have, despite fairly hard use. I'm grateful for that, but recognize that it's somewhat unusual -- those buttons going south is a definite trend.
Just as you can have bad mods in a trend of good ones, you can also have good mods within a trend of bad ones.
Andria
I just woke up today and decided I'm bored. Think I'll lie about Eleaf. Wow. If it blows up on anyone attacking me for being honest I hope you don't post about it. While I will have empathy, I will not have sympathy. I got it before lurking here. Someone who had vaped for years like Embrl recommended it to this rookie then. But I refuse to continue that trend. Even things I love like the Herakles, I tell people it does spit. I may be a rookie in a certain persons eyes but I prefer that over Vaping Snob any ole day of the week. And I'm sorry I got a bit testy but I didn't until provoked. And I'm the type that after i've "vaped for years" I will still be the gentleman I am now. Some people could be holding one that burst into flames and still deny any problem on here. The people that need this message will get it. The people with hard heads, well they'll continue to have hard heads
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