That's right, Massive failure has occurred over the last week in 4 of my mods. First both of my Aliens went belly up and forced me back to using my favorite IPV5s which then proceeded to have power button failures. Luckily my new I Joy Captain had arrived in the mail, so I was not forced to resort to more archaic times with some of my single battery 50 watt devices, or the clunky XCube II.
While I research new Mods to replace the Aliens, I am determined to try and fix some of the broken ones, so out comes my box of broken mods. For most its a 510 issue, both of my Reuleauxs and an eleaf Pico developed a case of low atomizer or atomizer short and I have been unsuccessful in simply raising the center-pin as I used to do on my Innokins. I decide to start with the simplest issues 1st, fixing the buttons on the IPV5s
So I open up the IPVs and clean the buttons without success, still soft and no click. The Aliens have good clicky buttons and no hopes of resuscitation. Easy fix, I swap out the buttons. That works for one but not the other. But at least I have one decent mod working again and I learned a lot about these mods too.
After perusing the interiors of the IPVs and the Aliens and 1 of the Reuleauxs, I can say for the most part that I am disappointed in some of the construction of these mods, with the Aliens being the worst, with the plastic body and a cheap and shoddy 510 connector. There is also some stiff plastic sheeting attached at the top of the battery sled that can affect the batteries making a connection. The Reuleauxs are the hardest to disassemble, so I am still working on those.
In my search for better devices I am going to stick with metal boxes, side load battery doors and hopefully a decent chip and 510. The IPV5s would of met all of this criteria if the buttons hadn't failed. The Captain, I have only had a couple of days and has the bottom battery door so I am reserving judgment on it.
While I research new Mods to replace the Aliens, I am determined to try and fix some of the broken ones, so out comes my box of broken mods. For most its a 510 issue, both of my Reuleauxs and an eleaf Pico developed a case of low atomizer or atomizer short and I have been unsuccessful in simply raising the center-pin as I used to do on my Innokins. I decide to start with the simplest issues 1st, fixing the buttons on the IPV5s
So I open up the IPVs and clean the buttons without success, still soft and no click. The Aliens have good clicky buttons and no hopes of resuscitation. Easy fix, I swap out the buttons. That works for one but not the other. But at least I have one decent mod working again and I learned a lot about these mods too.
After perusing the interiors of the IPVs and the Aliens and 1 of the Reuleauxs, I can say for the most part that I am disappointed in some of the construction of these mods, with the Aliens being the worst, with the plastic body and a cheap and shoddy 510 connector. There is also some stiff plastic sheeting attached at the top of the battery sled that can affect the batteries making a connection. The Reuleauxs are the hardest to disassemble, so I am still working on those.
In my search for better devices I am going to stick with metal boxes, side load battery doors and hopefully a decent chip and 510. The IPV5s would of met all of this criteria if the buttons hadn't failed. The Captain, I have only had a couple of days and has the bottom battery door so I am reserving judgment on it.