iTaste VV acting weird?

[CrazyDamon]

Has been working fine regular and on usb charge, but tonight it's on charge now it randomly blinks, turns off as if not charging, then blinks, repeat.

Is there something defective with it?

 

[Kyi]

One of mine has been doing the exact same thing. I was vaping it one night and it was still on a green charge and suddenly it wasn't working. I thought it broke for some reason but later I realized it had turned off by itself. It does this frequently now where one minute it's working and the next minute its not and its off. It's not that big of a deal yet because a quick 3 clicks and its on again and works fine. It worries me a little bit though. I guess as long as it doesn't randomly fire I can deal with this. Maybe I dropped it one too many times.

 

[CrazyDamon]

One of mine has been doing the exact same thing. I was vaping it one night and it was still on a green charge and suddenly it wasn't working. I thought it broke for some reason but later I realized it had turned off by itself. It does this frequently now where one minute it's working and the next minute its not and its off. It's not that big of a deal yet because a quick 3 clicks and its on again and works fine. It worries me a little bit though. I guess as long as it doesn't randomly fire I can deal with this. Maybe I dropped it one too many times.

Dropped mine once or twice as well, wondering if I damaged something. Still vapes though even when there's no light and it stays green (charging) when Im not using it, so it's okay for now. Just hoping this isnt something that could break soon, although I do have a few backups.

 

[jjcordone]

Try gently pulling up the center pin inside the 510 connector.
If a carto pushed it too far down, it will short and do as you described.
Good luck!

 

[CrazyDamon]

Try gently pulling up the center pin inside the 510 connector.
If a carto pushed it too far down, it will short and do as you described.
Good luck!

I have no idea how to do that and dont wanna ruin it lol.

 

[Topacka]

Is it hot or warm at all? It could be a short. And if it is, it will ruin itself if you don't fix it lol

 

[embee214]

Mine is not doing what is described above, but just now I decided to charge it b/c it had been showing yellow for a while. Put it on the charger and it was immediately green. Unplugged it and it showed green again when vaped, but it was only on the charger for like 30 seconds. ???

 

[Tinkiegrrl]

You need to leave it in the charger until the green light goes away. That is when the battery is full. If it is plugged in, and the green light is displaying on the fire button, that means it is still charging and it is not complete. If you pull it off the charger each time to green light domes one, you aren't allowing it to charge much.

 

[suspectK]

Sounds like a wire could possibly be loose in the board for charging port..

 

[Tinkiegrrl]

My husband uses two of these. He leaves ones to charge overnight an uses the other while that's charging. The next day, he switches them around. I use MVP 2's and I typically need to charge one every two days, but the other will work for two days with a complete charge. So, I wind up cheating something once every two days and switched back and forth with them as well. This will hopefully provide longer battery life for me. The MVP2 gives a phenomenally smooth vape for the price point, less charging times hassle, and looks great with all my 19 mm carto tanks. The beauty ring it comes with seems to fit the 19 mm perfectly.

 

[embee214]

You need to leave it in the charger until the green light goes away. That is when the battery is full. If it is plugged in, and the green light is displaying on the fire button, that means it is still charging and it is not complete. If you pull it off the charger each time to green light domes one, you aren't allowing it to charge much.

Thanks for that. Guess I didn't read the directions completely! Will go charge now.

 

[p.opus]

Mine is not doing what is described above, but just now I decided to charge it b/c it had been showing yellow for a while. Put it on the charger and it was immediately green. Unplugged it and it showed green again when vaped, but it was only on the charger for like 30 seconds. ???

The charge light only indicates output voltage of the cell based on capacity. If the cell is producing between 3.3 and 3.61 volts, the indicator is red, if it is producing between 3.61 and 3.75 volts, it is yellow, and if it is producing 3.76 to 4.2 volts it is green.

The nature of a Li-Ion battery is that the battery charges at a constant voltage for the first hour. The voltage increases tremendously in this amount of time, so within an hour your battery will be up to 4.1 to 4.2 volts but only 1/2 charged. After voltage settles out at 4.1 to 4.2 volts, then the battery goes into constant voltage, or saturation charge, where the charge voltage stays constant but the charging current drops as the battery absorbs more charge. After the the charging current drops to a particular level, the battery is considered charged and the battery charger shuts off.

The point is, you can't rely on the green LED to give you charge status. The LED will display green very shortly after it is put on the charger because the charging voltage will go quickly above 3.75 volts.

Here is a graph of voltage, current, capacity from Battery University of a typical Li Ion battery.

 

[suspectK]

Has been working fine regular and on usb charge, but tonight it's on charge now it randomly blinks, turns off as if not charging, then blinks, repeat.

Is there something defective with it?

Is it constantly blinking, or is it just blinking when you first put it on charger?

 

[CrazyDamon]

Is it constantly blinking, or is it just blinking when you first put it on charger?

Blinks for a second when I use the passthrough then shows no light as if it isnt even charging.

 

[Completely Average]

I had a similar problem with my iTaste SVD. That you take the batteries out to charge them in the SVD so charging wasn't affected, but once you put them back in at random times it would blink and turn itself off. It started doing it more and more and eventually stopped working entirely.

Having taken an SVD apart as far as I can get it I learned something about how the iTaste products are assembled. One thing I found that really bothered me is that each part has it's own wire or wires, and that the PCB has it's own wires, and they're not soldered together, they're just twisted and wrapped with a small piece of tape.

I suspect a lot of these problems are caused when the PV is bumped or shaken hard enough to loosen the wires. Trust me, those wires come apart REALLY easily. When I first took my SVD apart and removed the battery terminal it had a red wire that just came right out and wasn't connected to anything. I thought it was broken until I removed what I thought was the other part of the wire, inspected it and realized that both ends of the wire were stripped and there was this little tiny 3mm wide strip of tape around the end of one. It wasn't a single wire that I broke, they were two different wires that were simply taped together.

 

[suspectK]

Is it constantly blinking, or is it just blinking when you first put it on charger?

Blinks for a second when I use the passthrough then shows no light as if it isnt even charging.

That's fine. As long as it's charging. Check your voltage/capacity while it's on the charger. You can only click the setting buttons once when plugged into charger some reason on the itastes.

 

[CrazyDamon]

Okay now its not charging at all.....what a waste of 30 bucks.

 

[suspectK]

Okay now its not charging at all.....what a waste of 30 bucks.

Where'd you get it? and how long have you had it? Most places have a 30 day warranty. That is a fallback on mass produced mods like this, with internal battery. Any issue generally takes the whole thing out of commission.

 

[CrazyDamon]

Where'd you get it? and how long have you had it? Most places have a 30 day warranty. That is a fallback on mass produced mods like this, with internal battery. Any issue generally takes the whole thing out of commission.

Ebay, so any type of refund is out of the question. So ...... off right now.

 

[suspectK]

Have you tried contacting seller?