So yea, I was at work and we just got a new boom lift delivered, so i was going to go move it. had my provari in my hand but couldn't get it started and didn't know how this model worked, apparently. so i put my provari in the tread on the tire beside me and started playing with the controls. still couldn't get it started, so i went over to the platform where the manual was, and started looking at it. found that i had to do something at the platform before it would start, and that i could start it from there too, so i did, and then decided i would move it to where we wanted it. ended up going back and forth about 5 times just to get used to the new controls, then turned and moved it into place.
went back inside to work for a bit, then went to have a few puffs, and couldn't find it. at first i wondered if someone jacked it, but then i realized i left it on the tire and almost crapped my pants. i literally RAN outside to see if it maybe (luckily?) fell off the tire before i moved, but i couldn't see it. then i saw it's back end poking out of a puddle (!) and ran over, found that the boge carto was broken off and partly stuck inside the provari, the ming vase drip tip was broken off and smashed, and the screen cover was smashed on my provari. i picked it up and turned it over and the LED on the switch was on solid, but dimmer than normal. i took the battery out, then popped out the top cover cuz it was partly popped off already anyways, and i wanted to dry out the innards.
well, after it was all dry, i put it back together, after i drilled out the switch hole a little bit cuz the tube got crushed a little bit and deformed the hole to the point the switch just stuck in it. the crushed part of the tube wasn't crushed in a mortal part of the tube, so i put it back together praying it would work, but as soon as the battery made contact with the end cap, the switch LED just went on really diimly, flashing at about 10 or 20 times a second, and nothing i did would help. the board inside didn't look mucked up, but the display wasn't working, and i couldn't see anything wrong with the board, so i'm assuming the water did end up doing some damage....
i was so choked, like seriously... what the crap. thankfully, provape said that they could fix the internal damage for 65$, including return shipping, so that's alright, considering. i just ordered a provari mini though, the day after this happened, which should arrive on friday i'm hoping, or possibly tomrw but i doubt it, but i couldn't wait for mine to get to them, get fixed, then come back to me! using my ego, even for this short time, is KILLING ME... i even bummed a smoke off of some guy near my work the day it happened, cuz i just needed a nic fix after killing my baby
just had to share this with everyone, more cuz i'm choked, but maybe it will teach other people to not, errr... put their provari on the tire of industrial machinery you are using.... :S
went back inside to work for a bit, then went to have a few puffs, and couldn't find it. at first i wondered if someone jacked it, but then i realized i left it on the tire and almost crapped my pants. i literally RAN outside to see if it maybe (luckily?) fell off the tire before i moved, but i couldn't see it. then i saw it's back end poking out of a puddle (!) and ran over, found that the boge carto was broken off and partly stuck inside the provari, the ming vase drip tip was broken off and smashed, and the screen cover was smashed on my provari. i picked it up and turned it over and the LED on the switch was on solid, but dimmer than normal. i took the battery out, then popped out the top cover cuz it was partly popped off already anyways, and i wanted to dry out the innards.
well, after it was all dry, i put it back together, after i drilled out the switch hole a little bit cuz the tube got crushed a little bit and deformed the hole to the point the switch just stuck in it. the crushed part of the tube wasn't crushed in a mortal part of the tube, so i put it back together praying it would work, but as soon as the battery made contact with the end cap, the switch LED just went on really diimly, flashing at about 10 or 20 times a second, and nothing i did would help. the board inside didn't look mucked up, but the display wasn't working, and i couldn't see anything wrong with the board, so i'm assuming the water did end up doing some damage....
i was so choked, like seriously... what the crap. thankfully, provape said that they could fix the internal damage for 65$, including return shipping, so that's alright, considering. i just ordered a provari mini though, the day after this happened, which should arrive on friday i'm hoping, or possibly tomrw but i doubt it, but i couldn't wait for mine to get to them, get fixed, then come back to me! using my ego, even for this short time, is KILLING ME... i even bummed a smoke off of some guy near my work the day it happened, cuz i just needed a nic fix after killing my baby
just had to share this with everyone, more cuz i'm choked, but maybe it will teach other people to not, errr... put their provari on the tire of industrial machinery you are using.... :S
What a sad, sad story. So sorry for your lose. Hopefully you can have the surgery done and all will be well in 
from now on.
