You may be right about the 650 vs 490/500. But, I like my Provari's short. Never seen buttons on their own, but never needed them until recently. I'll take a look around. Thx.
Thanks DP. I'll look tomorrow when I'm more awake.For v1-2. 5 (and can be used with Classic too).
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But, I'd love 490/500's. Like short tubes vs long tubes.
One of the best performers and shows I have had the pleasure to work for. Albeit only as a local crew stagehand, I am proud to have worked on his performance at Earls Court in London in the late 80's or early 90's. Mindbending, emotion driven fantastic show, with cutting-edge technology for the time.
I have a week off, I think there will be some PG played at neighbor-annoying volumes. Thank you for the memories!
Edit: Crap! it was the "So" tour in 1987. Kate Bush made an appearance. I'm ...
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I heard this live. I was somewhere under the stage, doing something with suitcases
I took a wander down memory lane. I spent a very long day at the movie studios for this one:
Raising Hell was a two stages video shoot uplinked to MTV, one stage was Simon Drake, Gore Illusionist, the other was Iron Maiden, slightly famous metal band (our crew company had personal ties to the band as one of our own had been roadie for them at the beginning). Both stages worked at the same time, but it was directed as a TV event, so one would be dark and resetting whilst the other was busy. Rent a crowd was in attendance.. they had won "tickets" on radio stations, but were herded back and forth between stages for each scene
We spent pretty much all day up in the lighting rig as spotlight operators, but with a twist...the lights were not unfamiliar to us, but they were the lights we'd usually use in a Stadium show, nearly 8 feet long and super heavy , mounted in a spotlight position that usually would have a small, easily operated and moved spotlight . We were indoors, in TV lighting using oversized equipment... was not long before every operator was down to wearing shorts only, and clamoring for water! I'm not going to tell you which light, or which performer I followed, but I was young, not very experienced and probably tired and hungover from the previous show/workday.
It's a long video. Skip around. It was fun, we did.
Raising Hell was a two stages video shoot uplinked to MTV, one stage was Simon Drake, Gore Illusionist, the other was Iron Maiden, slightly famous metal band (our crew company had personal ties to the band as one of our own had been roadie for them at the beginning). Both stages worked at the same time, but it was directed as a TV event, so one would be dark and resetting whilst the other was busy. Rent a crowd was in attendance.. they had won "tickets" on radio stations, but were herded back and forth between stages for each scene
We spent pretty much all day up in the lighting rig as spotlight operators, but with a twist...the lights were not unfamiliar to us, but they were the lights we'd usually use in a Stadium show, nearly 8 feet long and super heavy , mounted in a spotlight position that usually would have a small, easily operated and moved spotlight . We were indoors, in TV lighting using oversized equipment... was not long before every operator was down to wearing shorts only, and clamoring for water! I'm not going to tell you which light, or which performer I followed, but I was young, not very experienced and probably tired and hungover from the previous show/workday.
It's a long video. Skip around. It was fun, we did.
Hallowed be thy name at 21:20 is a great example of the band in all their youthful finest. Bruce is at the height of his athletic ability, running like a gazelle, striking poses inspired by his world-class fencing career and holding notes like it's the end of the world. I'm a Bruce fanboi, make no bones about it, and at that time (maybe still) had a crush on this leather clad vocal athlete. Many years later and I'm comfortable understanding the sexual spectrum and tension .
Provape made some really nice mods. High quality performance (super high frequency pulse modulation), durable, very comfortable. You knew it was high quality just by how it felt to hold. But they were a bit stubborn about some things. Like incorporating flat top batts when many others already had them. They also stayed away from temp control and high wattage devices. I understood some of it. They were .... about safety. But they did steer clear of some of the cutting edge stuff.
I bought quite a few of them for the same reasons you mention. But for me, the most annoying thing was the low battery shut off. Aero engineers don't gamble on safety, but only allowing a .5 volt drop (from 4.2 to 3.7) was overkill and not necessary. It's still a real pain for a P3 in 18350 mode, and slightly lesser extent in a couple of Radius mods.
Got a chance to watch this and it was really interesting. Raw, simply raw, but they had already developed their distinctive style. I know they were older than that, but they looked about 12 years old. Somewhat conforting to know they've followed their vision all through the years and never rebranded into something different.
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On the v2 and up, you can run them down to like 2.9 (I never do). Do you have ones that are shutting down at 3.7, GG? If so, something's wrong. I usually swap out in the 3.2 range (or higher).
No valid reason. I just do.
Absolutely. My P3 with the 350 starts blinking and refuses to fire at 3.7.. Pretty sure it's the same for my Radiuses with 650s but will have to double check since I normally don't take the batteries out to recharge and thus don't have a charger to tell me what the "dead" battery is reading. Is there a setting I'm missing? I remember being happy when my first Dicodes allowed me to set the shut off point (within reason) and it was a new thing for me. And yes, I try to stay on top of keeping the connections clean.
I'm not actually sure. The 3s have all kinds of settings that I never really look at. Once I get the wattage set on those, I never even go into the settings. I'm guessing that there IS one that manages your blink setting, but I don't know that for sure.
The 2.x's are all preset to blink somewhere in the 3,2 area, but the battery can be run to 2,9.
If I recall correctly, the v1s cut at either 3.0 or 3.1, but I never owned one of those. The 2s came out right when I started vaping, so that's the lowest I've actually used.
Still do.
Lotsa too.
Now that I look more closely though, I'm wondering if the battery size has something to do with it. I've only ever used 650s. The only smaller batteries I ever use are with the BB 3s.
Something that might be coming into play is battery sag.. As you could imagine, those little guys I'm using are pretty old but have never seen daily extended usage. The board might be seeing a lower voltage under load and shutting things down. But everytime I charge them, the charger shows 3.7 and the amount of mAH used to get a full charge pretty much matches up with what would be expected for that level of discharge related to the total capacity of the battery. I'm not going to quit using it since it's just a minor irritation where if I'm leaving the house I always have to check the level.
On the subject of pocket carry errand mods, my experiment with the iStick 30 with a Haar has turned out very very well. Not quite as compact (but not a tube) and really good juice capacity, battery life, and performance.
On the subject of pocket carry errand mods, my experiment with the iStick 30 with a Haar has turned out very very well. Not quite as compact (but not a tube) and really good juice capacity, battery life, and performance.
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