Provari Fire Button

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Baditude

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There are multiple safety features in the Provari:

  • You can put it into "standby mode" with the on/off power button. This will prevent the atomizer from being fired by the battery by an accidental button compression in a pocket or purse; however the processor remains on in this mode.

  • The Provari also has a timed auto cutoff to the fire button, again in the case of an accidental button firing in a pocket/purse.

  • The Provari has thermal protection. If the Provari detects too much heat (over-discharging a battery), it will shut itself off to prevent thermal runaway of the battery. It also has the usual collapsable hot spring with the battery and vent hole in the battery cap.
 

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Nope... it's 9 clicks wait 10th click for me. They must have changed it. Maybe you have a V1.


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Nope. I have two V2.0 and four V2.5 (which are the same except for the designs on the body). But as I posted earlier, for me, there is a rhythm to the menu. I can't remember the last time I paid any attention to the number of clicks.

1
2
3
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5 power on
-- 1 beat (click)
power down
-- 1 beat (click)
power off - take your finger off the button for a second, it will show "On," click to turn it off.

It is 9 to get to Po, I just think in beats, rather than clicks.
 
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The Ocelot

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I'm going to have to test... just don't know how I would know if it does go on. Pressing the button 10 times is a pain in the behind!

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It's really not a pain when you get used to it. There is a rhythm to the menu, I can do it with my eyes closed. <incorrect information deleted>

Huh? I think your first message said you never remember to do it, yet your second says it's not that hard... I'm confused...

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I misread your post, I thought you meant the overall menu is a pain. My apologies.
 
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I think that might not be correct about turning it back on. With mine anyway, you have to cycle back through to PO, switch it to on, and then it'll be on. I just tried turning it off, then going to PU, and tried firing it and it didn't work.

To the OP, I wouldn't worry about it firing in your pocket, its never happened to me

I stand corrected. I just tried it and you are right. Now I know for sure I have never turned it off. Lol!
 

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I turn mine off when I don't anticipate using it for awhile, thinking it would help preserve the battery.

I don't believe it would. You should think of the "off" state more as a "safety on" feature than a "power off" feature.

If you want to preserve the battery, you should probably take the battery out of the Provari.
 

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So I tested this ... button press till device timeout does not produce burnt taste, at least with a protank 3. What it does seem to do, however, is cause leakage on to the provari contact point (which causes gurgling). It seems to me that it's highly likely that the button will press when in my pocket. Now I'll try the pain in the behind process of shutting the thing off each time I put in my pocket to see if leakage still exists. It does, however, seem to be a design flaw to require so many button pushes to shut it down... especially with such a protruding button which is highly likely to be pressed in your pocket. I'll try to send provape a note to see what they say.


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ProVape doesn't recommend ProVari pocket carry for males wearing Skinny/Girlfriend/Emo jeans...In case you were wondering.

ProVape will likely say, "for safety reasons, we recommend all users turn off their ProVari when not in use..."

and that e-liquid in the connection? That was caused by juice dripping off the coil down into the airhole. Attys are designed to be sucked on when fired.
 
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The Ocelot

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It's really bizarre that you went from 'doing it with your eyes closed' to never having done it. Very strange.


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??? I can scroll through the menu with my eyes closed to get to the functions I use. I do not use Po or Lo, so I skip right passed them. Does that make sense to you now?
 

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It's probably smart to keep any PV in a pocket inside an article of clothing that can be removed. Inside pocket of a windbreaker is my winter choice. Summer ... it's usually a pants pocket, but I'd hate to have a battery meltdown and try to get it out.

I'm not really a lanyard type. Maybe a knife style belt case would be smarter.
 

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??? I can scroll through the menu with my eyes closed to get to the functions I use. I do not use Po or Lo, so I skip right passed them. Does that make sense to you now?

This bores me. A click here or there... Still waiting to see Ocelots box, I think I will build mine out of purple heart, with hand tools. The smaller the box, the better, and a mechanism to keep it closed. hmmm, my mind is engineering it, my hands will build it.
 
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I'm still looking for a mod that does it all (VV/VW/digital information screen), fits in your hand for stealth, and has all day battery life. I still find myself with no place but a jeans pocket to carry it during the summer and I'm stuck on the 18650 for longer life.

For now, battery size is the limiting factor for mods. Some manufacturers do the size design thing better and others seem to cater to the bigger is better crowd.

You'd think that someone would have incorporated the 2000mah cell phone battery into a mod. They have ...

 
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