I'm really liking my new Chuck...but....

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I'm not diggin 6volts AT ALL! I was taking it pretty easy only holding the button for 1-2 seconds at a time, keeping the atty good and soaked and it burned out my favorite 801 within an hour. It was a well used atty and 3 months old so I wasn't too suprised. Stuck a brand new one on there and it's working fine but the flavor is really tasting on the burnt side. Also my tounge was starting to get irritated after half a day yesterday. I usually vape constantly for about 2 hours before I go to bed but last night I didn't even want to use my 401. I guess I kind of got a nicotine OD from the Chuck. Another weird thing happened last night. I was watching TV holding the Chuck puffing every 20-30 seconds when I noticed I wasn't getting the vapor I was a little while earlier and it started feeling a bit warm. Then warmer. I took the batteries out and they were smoking hot. Too hot to even hold. I was really afraid they were gonna blow up. I put them outside to cool down and checked the voltage later on and they were still at full charge 3.7volts. I noticed a lot of juice around the connector between the positive and negative when I took the atty off. I don't know if that could have caused it (I doubt it) but when I cleaned it all up those batteries were working fine. I don't know what caused them to heat up like that.
Anyway, I'm gonna order a little Chuck next week and along with it I'll get the inner sleeve for the big Chuck to use the 3.7v batteries. For now though I'm sticking to the VAPRE 51 with 3.7 volts. Hats off to Jeff though. This Chuck really is well made and I'm glad I have it.
 

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Your not gonna see a major difference 2600 mah compared to the 3000 mah ones. The better battery makers like AW and Tenergy are fairly accurate to the mah ratings, but the cheaper ones like Ultrafire, Trustfire, or anything fire for that matter, tend to fudge the numbers a bit.
True True! I have a bunch of 10440 Trustfire and Ultrafires and they last 2-3 hours max @1000mah. I'm thinking they might be half that at most.
 

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Those batteries should not be hot like you describe.. be careful. I dont know what battys you are using but sounds like 1 is shorted somehoe. If a battery gets that hot something is not right..
I know it. They are Tenergy RCR123A 750mAh. I looked them over and can't see anything damaged about them. They wern't swelling at all when they were hot. Voltage test is fine even under load. I've been using them today and no problems.
 

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do u have a pic of your chuck to show us???would love to see it?whats the lil chuck gonna be??

hope you sort out ur battery issue...as usual im useless with technical stuff....sorry
Here's a couple I just took. Maybe I'll take some more with me in the pic later.
I'm still trying to think of something unique for my little Chuck.

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I'm not diggin 6volts AT ALL! I was taking it pretty easy only holding the button for 1-2 seconds at a time, keeping the atty good and soaked and it burned out my favorite 801 within an hour. It was a well used atty and 3 months old so I wasn't too suprised. Stuck a brand new one on there and it's working fine but the flavor is really tasting on the burnt side. Also my tounge was starting to get irritated after half a day yesterday. I usually vape constantly for about 2 hours before I go to bed but last night I didn't even want to use my 401. I guess I kind of got a nicotine OD from the Chuck. Another weird thing happened last night. I was watching TV holding the Chuck puffing every 20-30 seconds when I noticed I wasn't getting the vapor I was a little while earlier and it started feeling a bit warm. Then warmer. I took the batteries out and they were smoking hot. Too hot to even hold. I was really afraid they were gonna blow up. I put them outside to cool down and checked the voltage later on and they were still at full charge 3.7volts. I noticed a lot of juice around the connector between the positive and negative when I took the atty off. I don't know if that could have caused it (I doubt it) but when I cleaned it all up those batteries were working fine. I don't know what caused them to heat up like that.
Anyway, I'm gonna order a little Chuck next week and along with it I'll get the inner sleeve for the big Chuck to use the 3.7v batteries. For now though I'm sticking to the VAPRE 51 with 3.7 volts. Hats off to Jeff though. This Chuck really is well made and I'm glad I have it.

Same thing happen to me with the chuck getting hot. Exact same situation. Liquid in the adapter, battery and atomizer hot. In addition, my 510 end cap has a piece of round metal sticking out the center hole of it. It kind of looks like the lead off of a resistor or capacitor. Can someone look at theirs and see if they have something sticking out the center pin hole.

Thanks
 

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Same thing happen to me with the chuck getting hot. Exact same situation. Liquid in the adapter, battery and atomizer hot. In addition, my 510 end cap has a piece of round metal sticking out the center hole of it. It kind of looks like the lead off of a resistor or capacitor. Can someone look at theirs and see if they have something sticking out the center pin hole.

Thanks

I don't have anything sticking out of the pin hole. It just looks white.

I also tried 6V a couple times and yeah, everything tastes burnt. Still gotta mess around with it some more to be sure, but I don't see how people are liking 6V with a regular 510 atty. And I had my atty soaked and only held the switch for a couple of seconds. I am waiting on the 801 adapter from Jeff to try those. Hopefully I won't have the empty evelope like others. I like the HV 510 atty at 6V, I get more flavor, more throat hit, but less vapor and it's cool. I'm waiting on my 16340s to come in, so hopefully that will make the HVs even better.
 
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