Thank you for the clarification David. I can sleep now. No wait i have to go to work.
It's in the button. I promise. If it were a short in the atty the entire PV would heat up.
The only reason that know what is, is because I've experienced it. It's a very strange sensation. It feels like a cross between the button heating up to 300 degrees and having your pinky hairs yanked out. Yes... The first time it happened to me I thought I had pinky hair getting caught between button and the collar... Then it dawned on me that I don't have enough hare on my knuckles to get caught in anything...
The other odd thing... The button itself doesn't actually get hot. After the arc occurs, the button will not have a noticeably elevated temperature.
Any of you guys waiting on a Kayfun Lite for your ELA's might find the Russian 91% pre-order worth checking out. It's a clone, but it's not a clone. Thiscloneembellishment actually seems to be an improvement on the original, as it adds adjustable air draw. See this thread and Todd's review for more info. If you order, use coupon code vaporjoe6off. Unfortunately, since it's a pre-order, you probably won't receive your order for a couple of months at least.
Theres no way for a Precise Simplicity, PrecisePlus or Precise ELA to short at the button. It is a negative ground design. All the button does is complete the circuit by grounding it. If its getting hot, there is a short in the atomizer 99% of the time, the other 1% would be a positive side battery short or positive top post short. Usually, they get hot at the button as the button is the last path of travel to the negative side of the battery, or they can also heat up where the electricity encounters more resistance.
jasl90, after further thought I have to respectively disagreeI'll take one more crack at it then we can agree to disagree.
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Fault Scenario #1: Any intermittent or hard short that occurs here will not manifest itself in the manner that KiloWatts has described ...
On two occasions, a sudden shock has traveled from the battery and burnt the living hell out of my fingers. It feels like a super concentrated bolt of heat - hot enough to leave a mark.
What will happen is that the coil will fire and your vape quality will suffer depending on how good the “short” is. In the case of a hard short (as in permanent), you would be in a continuous “on” state and the ELA would heat up just as if you held the button down continuously for a period of time.
Fault Scenario #2: If an intermittent or hard short occurs here, it would give you a detectable shock and heat the ELA up quick (exactly what KiloWatts has described). This is because the ELA tube resistance is about 15 milliohms end to end and there is no 1.1 ohm coil in the circuit now. The (+) battery terminal would essentially be shorted to the (-) battery terminal. The current through the case would be EXTREME to say the least. You also have to understand that this shorted “high current” condition in Fault Scenario #2 can only occur if the button is pressed. If the button is not pressed, your (+) and (-) battery terminals remain isolated from each other. You could solder the (+) terminal of the battery to the case and not know you had a problem until you pressed the button.
It’s human nature to think “I press the button, I get shocked and burn my hand” ... it must be the button! Logic dictates otherwise, the button is switching a bad atty into the circuit turning the ELA tube into a shorting bar.
I extracted a frame from the video that shows the spark..
Wonder what is causing that??
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Yeah, but it ain't made in Germany! I figure that's worth an adjustable air draw![]()
Nah, that's the air hole. The air intake is in the side of the base. It's not a 510 connector air draw like GG atties.
But yeah, aside from not having a fill valve, it is essentially a Kayfun 3.1 in the form factor of a Kayfun Lite. I don't consider it an exact clone -- rather, a design fork. It's no longer an exact copy of something, but is instead an improvement on someone else's design.
I'd say it a complete copy (read: ripoff)Nah, that's the air hole. The air intake is in the side of the base. It's not a 510 connector air draw like GG atties.
But yeah, aside from not having a fill valve, it is essentially a Kayfun 3.1 in the form factor of a Kayfun Lite. I don't consider it an exact clone -- rather, a design fork. It's no longer an exact copy of something, but is instead an improvement on someone else's design.
The Russian 91% rebuildable atomizer is a copy of the popular Kayfun Lite. This time though, the clone seems to have come out on top. Who'd of thought! Even the parts match one another. There is one big difference though, the Russian 91% has adjustable air-flow control!
Huh. raq, if you can show me how to adjust the air draw on a Kayfun Lite then your argument will sway me. Till then, it's not an exact copy.
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They copied it to exact specs and drilled an air hole... You can put lipstick on a pig but... Well you get the point.
Hey if people want to buy clones then who am I to argue. I won't spend a cent them because all they are doing is stealing someone's work, but that's just me..