What exactly do you mean by this?
Are you talking about the indentation in the door for the battery?
Are you talking about the indentation in the door for the battery?
So my black one does not have the half circle cradle underneath where the battery goes, but the silver one does, its interesting the differences I am noticing between the 2
It has 3.6Volt minimum...period.
No, underneath the battery, the silver has a cradle, like a half pipe, the black one doesn't. Ill post pictures tomorrowWhat exactly do you mean by this?
Are you talking about the indentation in the door for the battery?
In such a case you may flood the internals with isopropyl alcohol: that will dislodge juice (or water) from the internals, and will evaporate very quickly afterwards.
Sounds good Herb, solid point. I am using my other VTC5 on it and will use the same charging setup today and see if that fixes the issue. Hopefully the battery is the issue because spending $10 on a battery is alot easier for me than sending this unit back for another.The Nitecore charger is actually STILL charging this battery (almost done though) so it was barely even charged by the USB over the 5-6 hours it was plugged in.
I will update later if the USB charger fully charges this new battery. If that doesn't do it - then I will use a different USB charger (one for my phone or something) before declaring the device defective. I mainly wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong. The main concern was the fact that it did not give me the 10w default mode that some others have mentioned. Granted - I am new to regulated devices coming from a mech mod, so I may just be behind on this learning curve. Only other thing I have noticed is that if this thing takes a hit in the least (even easily) it seems to do the 'auto-shutoff' thing quite easily....annoying, but not a nail in the coffin for me.
I got the IPV already down to about 80% with my current use today so I am actually going to go ahead and plug this into the charger and see what happens over the next few hours so that I can update this faster than once a day.
No, underneath the battery, the silver has a cradle, like a half pipe, the black one doesn't. Ill post pictures tomorrow
If you are to use isopropyl alcohol it is best to use the strongest you can find such as 91% or even better 99%. They contain less water which is obviously better for this use, will evaporate faster and leave behind less moisture
I have used this trick to save a cell phone i dropped in the water before. The alcohol will replace whatever liquid is inside the electronics, such as water or e liquid, and will evaporate at a much faster rate. As xpen said do be sure to give it ample time to evaporate before you go inserting a battery.
Many people have been fooled by the protective film. Did not think it was on there when it really was. Maybe you already new this though.
Welcome home, by the way.
Here it is!
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Also replaced the screws with m1.6 thumb screws
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Very nice. Are they longer? More sturdy?
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The screw length itself is shorter. The stock is approx 4mm I think. The thumb screws I have are 3mm. However it still secures the back panel very sturdily.
Plus I can remove it without tools now!
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I am shocked even you were fooled by that film Kiwi , you seem to know everything lol. Where did you get those screws , FatDaddies ?