Joye 510 Passthru on a Laptop

[CorvusDrake]

Tonight, my 510 passthrough suddenly got really weak, then stopped vaping. The battery, I assume, has lost its charge. Still, I expected a 500mA port to give me more than absolutely nothing.

After reading the forums, I found that the issue might be in my USB Hub's power management within my laptop. If your have USB ports that arent' properly charging, try this method.

1. In Windows, click on Start >Control Panel (or Start >Settings >Control Panel).
2. Double-click on System, then open the Hardware tab.
3. Click device Manager.
4. Click the + at Universal Serial Bus Controllers.
5. Right-click USB Root Hub and select Properties.
6. Open the Power Management tab.
7. Clear the checkmark from Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.
8. Click OK.

(Source: Hearing Instrument Manufacturer's Software Association <unable to post a link due to forum rules>)

I had many, many USB choices here, so I plugged my mouse in (98mA power draw) and hunted down the ports I needed to change for this by moving it from port to port. Right after I did it...BAM...it started vaping again. Poorly, but vaping. This tells me that the power management settings were preventing me from charging my passthrough. I'll let you know how it goes after it has some charge time.

 

[AlexTM]

With USB devices, no matter whether related to vaping or not, that use a fairly large amount of power, I'd strongly recomment a self-powered hub. Not only do they work more reliably, if the device blows up, it won't take your computer with it.

 

[Sign-Man]

USB ports on a laptop are designed to turn off if you hook a device that uses more than .5 amp. passthru's usually exceed this limit (1 -2 amps).

I don't have that problem on my desktop ports.

 

[CorvusDrake]

Sadly, while this did resolve the issue for a couple more hours, it looks like the problem is either the battery is entirely shot or the wires are broken somewhere in the passthru. Considering the craptastic wiring they used to make it, and that jiggling the wires got me an extra couple of puffs before I had to declare my passthru dead, I'm thinking the problem isn't the battery.


Considering tearing out all the wires and seeing what I can do with some USB cable I have around the house and the base setup.