Problems with Vamo - Low Voltage shown on fully charged battery

[cghildreth]

I received my Vamo from Health Cabin yesterday. I immediately popped in a fully charged button top AW IMR 2000mah 18650. It worked for all of about 15 minutes before I started getting a low voltage error when pressing the fire button. I put the battery in my Zmax and it works great - reads 4.1 volts (exactly like I would expect a fully charged battery to do.

I think the issue with the Vamo may be in not enough spring tension to provide good contact, resulting in enough resistance in the battery connections to make the Vamo's circuits think the battery is low.

Is this a known issue? Any thoughts or suggestions? Is my guess on the issue even a remote possibility? Or did I just get a bad circuit board and need to send the Vamo back?

 

[shantyshaker12]

I read a thread somewhere a while back that indicated a few having the same problem. Don't own one myself, but use the ECF search function to look for other VAMO threads.

 

[Faylool]

Yes. I think maybe I am having this problem because after 30 45 minutes my AW IMR 700 mah 18350 went to Lo. My atty is 1.8 and immvaping at 9.00 watts sometimes 9.5. Do you mean the spring in the closure cap needs to be stronger? When I vape though it's great. Runs out too fast. I now am using the 18650 size 2100 MAH-AW IMR still. I really wanted to use it small. Lmk what you learn?

 

[cghildreth]

So I have verified that my issue is not the spring - I replaced with a stronger conductive spring and am still having the same issues. I suspect that I received a bad mod. I'll open a ticket with Health Cabin and see what happens.

 

[tnt56]

I own two of them. Version 1 and also version 2. SEND it back. I've run flat top eFest 18350's and also protected 18650's never a problem with any battery I've used. The new versions have a small gasket on the positive end to protect from flat tops. The first version didn't. IMHO send it back

 

[cghildreth]

Pro...Pro...Pro what? No variable wattage? Why would I do that?

 

[kiwivap]

Yes. I think maybe I am having this problem because after 30 45 minutes my AW IMR 700 mah 18350 went to Lo. My atty is 1.8 and immvaping at 9.00 watts sometimes 9.5. Do you mean the spring in the closure cap needs to be stronger? When I vape though it's great. Runs out too fast. I now am using the 18650 size 2100 MAH-AW IMR still. I really wanted to use it small. Lmk what you learn?

Hi Faylool,
i think your issue is that you are drawing too many amps. 700 mah is not a huge amount. There are Ego batts with more mah than that. 1.8 ohms at 9.5 watts is going to chew up your battery time. I'd see how it goes with a normal resistance atty or carto.

 

[kiwivap]

I received my Vamo from Health Cabin yesterday. I immediately popped in a fully charged button top AW IMR 2000mah 18650. It worked for all of about 15 minutes before I started getting a low voltage error when pressing the fire button. I put the battery in my Zmax and it works great - reads 4.1 volts (exactly like I would expect a fully charged battery to do.

I think the issue with the Vamo may be in not enough spring tension to provide good contact, resulting in enough resistance in the battery connections to make the Vamo's circuits think the battery is low.

Is this a known issue? Any thoughts or suggestions? Is my guess on the issue even a remote possibility? Or did I just get a bad circuit board and need to send the Vamo back?

I'm using the exact same batteries with good connection. I'd say open a ticket and have it replaced. You may have got a dud one there.

 

[r77r7r]

Hi Faylool,
i think your issue is that you are drawing too many amps. 700 mah is not a huge amount. There are Ego batts with more mah than that. 1.8 ohms at 9.5 watts is going to chew up your battery time. I'd see how it goes with a normal resistance atty or carto.

Yeah, why you people with big APV's using up all the low Ohm stuff made for us little Ego folks?

 

[kiwivap]

Yeah, why you people with big APV's using up all the low Ohm stuff made for us little Ego folks?

Dunno, but love the avatar. Was watching him just last night - the screened his New Years eve/Christmas sale episode.
Gawd help us if he takes up vaping....

 

[WillyB]

Like this.

 

[r77r7r]

Dunno, but love the avatar. Was watching him just last night - the screened his New Years eve/Christmas sale episode.
Gawd help us if he takes up vaping....

Mr. Bean do you mean? Lol I heard he was in the opening ceremony for the Olympics. The Brits got the best TV shows!

( damn, I never seem to stay On Topic anymore...)

 

[kiwivap]

Mr. Bean do you mean? Lol I heard he was in the opening ceremony for the Olympics. The Brits got the best TV shows!

( damn, I never seem to stay On Topic anymore...)

Yeah, I watched him in the Olympics, he was funny. Lol.
erm... something on topic... not a bad video review from Sensefield. I didn't know there were AW IMR 18700s.

 

[pherik]

Yeah, why you people with big APV's using up all the low Ohm stuff made for us little Ego folks?

Because we are pure evil and stuff.

 

[kiwivap]

For the OP, I've always had a good connection but my AW 18650 did move inside the casing a bit. I could feel it sort of flop over. I have the long spring that comes with the version 2. Today I stretched it up more and now the rattle is gone. So maybe pull the spring up more?

 

[pherik]

I had heard that the spring that came in some of the V2's had come down a little during transit but if you pull it up some to stretch it out it should fix the rattle issue for a while.

 

[braveheart]

I just received mine and having the same issue, and it shut down every 10 sec of vaping it, I mean every time.
I just toke my provari end cap and put it (I just hold to because you can not screw it) and vaped it arroung 1 min with no issue
and the vapor was much much better. so the problem is from the spring and connection was not good enough
I was receiving error (02), what does that means?

 

[braveheart]

yes one more thing when I use 2 batteries it works great it is like provari with no issue .. I think two batteries are bigger that one 18650 battery, so the connection is better

 

[kiwivap]

I just received mine and having the same issue, and it shut down every 10 sec of vaping it, I mean every time.
I just toke my provari end cap and put it (I just hold to because you can not screw it) and vaped it arroung 1 min with no issue
and the vapor was much much better. so the problem is from the spring and connection was not good enough
I was receiving error (02), what does that means?

The error means not enough voltage from the battery. Are you using an AW IMR 18650? Mine worked ok but was a bit loose inside the tube. I stretched the end cap up and now its fine. Have you tried that?

 

[braveheart]

The error means not enough voltage from the battery. Are you using an AW IMR 18650? Mine worked ok but was a bit loose inside the tube. I stretched the end cap up and now its fine. Have you tried that?

yes I'm using IMR 18650 and I stretched it but same thing happened, I think that their spring is really thin