Maxi-Roughstack breakdown? Not exactly.

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bushmaster

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I'm a logger and I've found the Roughstack to be the perfect vaping device for my rough and tumble occupation. With the Maxi extension, the 18650 battery easily lasts all day. I have no idea what kind of collision it would take to damage the Roughstack body. That said, I broke down today. From 6:00 AM this morning until 3:30 PM this afternoon I was vapeless.
My Roughstack went totally dead at about 6 AM this morning. I was running my skidder up and down a mountainside using the lights and didn't have much time to stop and consider why. I did stop and change the atty--nothing changed. I unscrewed and rescrewed the atty connection and the body connection--nothing changed.
I assumed my Ultrafire battery had given up the ghost--I didn't have a spare along since the 18650 batteries had been so faithful and a spare takes up too much room in my little parts box.
It was a long, vapeless day.
When I got home, I ran to my old boxmod and at last, after 9 and 1/2 hours or so, acquired some needed nicotine replacement.
I changed the battery, nothing changed.
I thought the switch must be bad, but it was relatively new.
I pulled the nut off and saw that the positive end of the switch circuit board looked wet.
I took a swab with a bit of alcohol on it and wiped the circuit board off.
I put everything back together and the Roughstack vaped like it should.
In retrospect, I probably could have taken a corner of my t-shirt, wiped the circuit board off without removing it from the mod cap and have been a happy vaper for the day. Just for your information.:)
 

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Interesting. Couldn't you spray the board with something to make it waterproof then? :) I just got a roughstack, and I like it. Feels like I could throw it at anything and go pick it up and vape on.
On a sidenote: 18650 a whole day? I think it could last me at least to or three days :D

No, I don't think you could spray it with stuff because thats where the positive terminal of the battery makes contact.
As to your sidenote, yes, I have run my 18650 2 days just to see if it would. That said, from what I've read, battery life will be increased by not totally discharging them. There is no harm in charging them daily.
 
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