Marius,
I'll tell you the one thing that helped me view the battery gauge in a different light...
Think of it as a range gauge in a car...these tell you how many miles you can go, based on your current gas level and rate of speed. If you speed up, the gauge reads fewer miles...if you slow down, the mileage will increase.
So that's basically how the battery meter on the P3 works...if you're puffing 10 times a minute, at a high output, you're gonna see it go down fast...but if you puff only once every ten minutes, it will go down more slowly...so it fluctuates with how you are
vaping.
Now, Vape360 has already informed you of how to troubleshoot your issue, as the battery meter should definitely not jump around that much...
But, if the spring fix works for you, just keep in mind you will still see the battery meter fluctuate...so remember the range gauge analogy!
Marius,
I'll tell you the one thing that helped me view the battery gauge in a different light...
Think of it as a range gauge in a car...these tell you how many miles you can go, based on your current gas level and rate of speed. If you speed up, the gauge reads fewer miles...if you slow down, the mileage will increase.
So that's basically how the battery meter on the P3 works...if you're puffing 10 times a minute, at a high output, you're gonna see it go down fast...but if you puff only once every ten minutes, it will go down more slowly...so it fluctuates with how you are
vaping.
Now, Vape360 has already informed you of how to troubleshoot your issue, as the battery meter should definitely not jump around that much...
But, if the spring fix works for you, just keep in mind you will still see the battery meter fluctuate...so remember the range gauge analogy!
I do understand the logic of the Provari battery gauge, it's just that in my opinion, it's not providing the information I need.
If you already used cars gauges for the example, let me continue with this path -
While cars do have range gauges, they are not replacing the fuel level gauges.
For the sake of the example, imagine your car has only a range gauge, no fuel level gauge, and based on that information you need to calculate when to refuel.
When you're driving at a certain speed it will show you some numbers, and at another speed you'll be shown some different numbers.
You don't drive at the same speed all of the time, sometimes there are ups and downs, some other times you need to slow down.
And each time you make a change, the range gauge will provide different information.
You will never know how much fuel you actually have, but only how many miles you can drive based on your
current driving.
You will have no information to be used as a reference to something you know. You will not be able to plan the refuel, because the information
changes in a way and based on so many parameters that the human brain cannot calculate. Not in real time anyway.
Now here's why your range gauge example was genius - this is exactly how the Provari battery gauge works -
You can never know how much battery you actually have, but only how much can you go with your current settings.
The issue is that your settings are changing all the time. You replace atomizers, coils, different resistances, you don't even vape
at the same power all of the time, not even in the same way. All of these parameters influence the Provari battery gauge, and with so
many details that make it change, you have no reference to something constant for you to compare.
If you're leaving your house for an hour and your Provari battery gauge shows 40%, what do you learn from that ?
Maybe one thing - if you'll continue to vape the
same, without changing atomizers or power settings, and at the same rate,
you're having 40%. But even if you could vape at the same rate, these 40% are 40% in comparison to what? This is not a battery level gauge,
there's no such thing as 100%, it will always be affected by the above parameters.
I'm sure that Provape had good intentions behind this feature, but at least in my opinion, it doesn't hit the target.
The change of the battery gauge to a more classic one is inevitable.
