Ikon battery is great, but killing me.

[Secti0n31]

Well it measures at 3.6 on my multimeter, it vapes great, and I love the color, but so far my ikon battery has some bugs.

First, I think it's the same battery as what Value Vapor calls the "Kingo" Nothin wrong with that, just an observation. What bothers me is the cutoff. Now I don't know if it's actually a cutoff, or if it's some kind of overheat protection like the blu, but after a long vape (or several short ones) it flashes 10 times at me and cuts off, or sometimes just cuts off. It feels like a heat protection feature because it only seems to do it while vaping pretty heavily. I just want it to stop. I like the way it vapes, but I don't want no stinking cutoff..

Anyone else have this issue, or maybe a solution?

 

[loft]

It seems like (I think anyways) a cutoff. I know all my eGo batteries do this. But I rarely use eGo's now and the Ikon is for when I need to be a little more discreet. I am trying it now with a Fusion and it cuts out at 8 seconds consistently. No issues with short drags though.

 

[Secti0n31]

Heh, I think you're right. I just tried it and went 5/5 at 8 seconds. Apparently I inhale for longer than 8 seconds most of the time at 3.7v. But I'll have to remember that. Thanks.

 

[5cardstud]

I know it's a pain in T A for some people but a needed feature for safety. I mean first thing if it wasn't there someone would have a 1.5 ohm atty on iy and have it blow up in their face. Either that or they would burn it up and want it replaced every other week. It is a good safety feature. I know Ikenvape sells only safe and sane PV supplies so we don't have fireworks until the 4th of July.

 

[Iken]

Try giving it a little pulse Sect, like Hold it down and half way through your hit release and compress again. Or another good one would be to pre heat the atty, by holding down the button before hitting the atty for about 4 seconds, then take your hit. That should cut it down by half. You dont want to suck on an atty too long because it's accelerating the life and the 'sucking' part just creates more heat more than just holding down the button. The trick to this is that when the liquid gets hotter it's going to be more intensified. When your taking your 8 second drags, you take it so long to achieve your desired throat hit,yes? in order for you to achieve that is to heat up the unit to give you that satisfied feeling. So instead of trying to power hit it by taking those long drags, just hold down the button before you hit and then release and hold down again then take your hit.

 

[Secti0n31]

That is an excellent point Issac, but oddly the reason I'm going over the 8 second cutoff is not for throat hit. It's for vapor volume and flavor. Otherwise I'd be fine simply chain vaping on a DC, because those produce lots of heat. Ever since I realized that the 8 seconds was a cutoff I've been able to mostly avoid it by using the Ikons you sent me for LR and DC vaping. I very seldom hit the cuttoff with LR dripping and with the DC tanks I get close, but haven't hit it. It's gone well though.

 

[5cardstud]

That is an excellent point Issac, but oddly the reason I'm going over the 8 second cutoff is not for throat hit. It's for vapor volume and flavor. Otherwise I'd be fine simply chain vaping on a DC, because those produce lots of heat. Ever since I realized that the 8 seconds was a cutoff I've been able to mostly avoid it by using the Ikons you sent me for LR and DC vaping. I very seldom hit the cuttoff with LR dripping and with the DC tanks I get close, but haven't hit it. It's gone well though.

I get plenty of vapor out of mine but when the carto inside goes bad or the tank it'self it can cause the little vapor thing. I've had a tank last a month and I've had a tank last a day. It's the same with all ecig products. One will last forever and the next will go bad in a minute.

 

[loft]

I get plenty of vapor out of mine but when the carto inside goes bad or the tank it'self it can cause the little vapor thing. I've had a tank last a month and I've had a tank last a day. It's the same with all ecig products. One will last forever and the next will go bad in a minute.

Yeah, tell that to my io6 that I've been running since late October... it's starting to die off and I'm afraid to clean it or do anything to it. I know, I shouldn't complain. It's lasted months... but we have a good relationship! lol

 

[Secti0n31]

Yeah tell me about it. Stuff can last you forever, almost forever (my first ego is starting to die after 11mos), or not last at all. Every "great" product out there really is taken for granted by a lot of us. When ya get a gem of a product in this industry, you really need to stock up and pass the word. These little ikon batteries are good. One of them even recovered nicely from a short caused by one of GV's "new" ce2 products. So far none of Issac's products have ever let me down.

 

[5cardstud]

I still have my original I06 and my original 801 mini. I don't use them every day though.