So I finally got all my supplies for vaping in the mail and started using them sometime last week. I've been avoiding cigarettes since then and only vaping with my SB + the kick. Thing works fantastic with a 1.7 ohm cartomizer inside a Lil' Mama tank I purchased from Big Daddy Vapor. It also works very nice with a variety of different atomizers I swap out occasionally to sample different flavors. It's been about 2 weeks or so and I've learned a lot from this forum and watching videos on youtube. Plus my own experimenting got me even more experience. I found that I like to use atomizers with VG blends over 60% and using cartomizers with at least 50%-60% PG ratios. A 70% PG ratio might be even better but I haven't tried it yet. My favorite juice so far in my tank is Medusa's Juice 60PG/40VG. I also purchased some Aphrodite's Affair in 50/50 juice that also works nicely with my tank. I haven't tried using a high VG ratio in a catomizer yet but I keep reading they cause clogging problems. All the juices I purchased above 60% VG are great in my atomizers! They give off huge vapor clouds and great flavor!
Well anyways this morning I woke up and threw a freshly charged 18650 2000mAh battery in the SB. I have the kick set to level 9, screwed it all together, and tried to take a toot. Got barely any vapor and then nothing at all. After only a week of use I thought, ohh crap, I finally blew out my first atomizer. So then I threw on my Lil Mama tank and still nothing. Did I blow out my carto too? Well this is odd off a fully charged battery? So I took out the battery and noticed the plastic covering on the bottom appeared to have burnt off! Then I looked inside my SB and noticed that the hot coil spring has collapsed!!! Great! Only one week of use and the thing is now completely unusable!!! So I tried calling Altsmoke several times today! I literally was on hold forever and never got through to anyone! So now what? Well I placed an order with them for 6 spare hot coils and 2 upgrade batteries. I got the 3400mAh 18650 batteries this time because the 2000 mAh batteries I used all week only lasted half a day each. They pretty much sucked!!! Hopefully these 3400's will last longer. Anyways now I'm without a mod and smoking a cigarette as I'm writing this. Which sucks for me since I also woke up this morning feeling good about going a week without smoking ! The SB and kick really isn't working out for me as I hoped it would. Especially for all the money spent! It's just really frustrating that I spent so much money for a device that lasted a little over a week. I'm not even sure that the problem won't happen again. I bought 6 spare hot coils and for all I know all 6 will collapse shortly after using them? Anyone know what the problem is?
I really don't think it has anything to do with the atomizers or cartomizers used with the SB. I tested everything with a multi-meter and everything reads correctly as it should. Continuity and ohms were perfect. With the exception of the batteries and one atomizer that reads higher than the ohms it should be. On the battery I keep getting a reading of 4.3 volts which is higher then the 4.2 it's suppose to be at when fully charged. Again this is a 2000 mAh 18650 battery. I even got readings as high as 4.6 on my battery when fully charged. Do you think my battery is overcharging and causing my hot coil to collapse? I charge them at 0.5 amps and also tried charging them at 1 A. The incident did happen after putting a fresh charged battery in the mod. Immediately collapsed the hot coil! I'm wondering if an overcharged battery will heat the device up too much and cause a short. Maybe the kick has something to do with it? At this point I'm not even sure if my kick still works or if my SB is defective. The atomizer I think is broken is reading around 2.7 ohms and it's suppose to be at 1.5 ohms. Is juice clogging the coil to make it read this high? I blew it out and cleaned it with vodka and it still reads the same?
Well this really sucks! lol
I sent Altsmoke 2 emails about the problem and waiting for a reply. Hopefully they will help fix this problem for me and let me exchange whatever is defected or causing this problem. Everything is less than a week old or so. I ordered everything on 5/27 and got it in 4 days afterwards. But like I said earlier it's only been used daily for a week and now it doesn't work at all!!!
And since I don't have a backup device yet to help with quitting cigarettes I'm seriously about to purchase a ProVari instead of another SB! I just hope I can get my SB + kick back up and running too! I have several friends whom I'm also trying to get to quit smoking and when they found out about what happened to my SB today they all basically said, "I told you not to spend all that money on e-cig crap!" Well at this point I can't defend the SB purchase but I hope Altsmoke will fix that shortly. Maybe I'm the unlucky SOB that got a defective SB??? Well I'm not letting something like this make me give up quitting! It really sucks that I'm smoking again but I know that vaping can work! So that's what's going on with my journey! Any thoughts? lol
Well anyways this morning I woke up and threw a freshly charged 18650 2000mAh battery in the SB. I have the kick set to level 9, screwed it all together, and tried to take a toot. Got barely any vapor and then nothing at all. After only a week of use I thought, ohh crap, I finally blew out my first atomizer. So then I threw on my Lil Mama tank and still nothing. Did I blow out my carto too? Well this is odd off a fully charged battery? So I took out the battery and noticed the plastic covering on the bottom appeared to have burnt off! Then I looked inside my SB and noticed that the hot coil spring has collapsed!!! Great! Only one week of use and the thing is now completely unusable!!! So I tried calling Altsmoke several times today! I literally was on hold forever and never got through to anyone! So now what? Well I placed an order with them for 6 spare hot coils and 2 upgrade batteries. I got the 3400mAh 18650 batteries this time because the 2000 mAh batteries I used all week only lasted half a day each. They pretty much sucked!!! Hopefully these 3400's will last longer. Anyways now I'm without a mod and smoking a cigarette as I'm writing this. Which sucks for me since I also woke up this morning feeling good about going a week without smoking ! The SB and kick really isn't working out for me as I hoped it would. Especially for all the money spent! It's just really frustrating that I spent so much money for a device that lasted a little over a week. I'm not even sure that the problem won't happen again. I bought 6 spare hot coils and for all I know all 6 will collapse shortly after using them? Anyone know what the problem is?
I really don't think it has anything to do with the atomizers or cartomizers used with the SB. I tested everything with a multi-meter and everything reads correctly as it should. Continuity and ohms were perfect. With the exception of the batteries and one atomizer that reads higher than the ohms it should be. On the battery I keep getting a reading of 4.3 volts which is higher then the 4.2 it's suppose to be at when fully charged. Again this is a 2000 mAh 18650 battery. I even got readings as high as 4.6 on my battery when fully charged. Do you think my battery is overcharging and causing my hot coil to collapse? I charge them at 0.5 amps and also tried charging them at 1 A. The incident did happen after putting a fresh charged battery in the mod. Immediately collapsed the hot coil! I'm wondering if an overcharged battery will heat the device up too much and cause a short. Maybe the kick has something to do with it? At this point I'm not even sure if my kick still works or if my SB is defective. The atomizer I think is broken is reading around 2.7 ohms and it's suppose to be at 1.5 ohms. Is juice clogging the coil to make it read this high? I blew it out and cleaned it with vodka and it still reads the same?
Well this really sucks! lol
I sent Altsmoke 2 emails about the problem and waiting for a reply. Hopefully they will help fix this problem for me and let me exchange whatever is defected or causing this problem. Everything is less than a week old or so. I ordered everything on 5/27 and got it in 4 days afterwards. But like I said earlier it's only been used daily for a week and now it doesn't work at all!!!
And since I don't have a backup device yet to help with quitting cigarettes I'm seriously about to purchase a ProVari instead of another SB! I just hope I can get my SB + kick back up and running too! I have several friends whom I'm also trying to get to quit smoking and when they found out about what happened to my SB today they all basically said, "I told you not to spend all that money on e-cig crap!" Well at this point I can't defend the SB purchase but I hope Altsmoke will fix that shortly. Maybe I'm the unlucky SOB that got a defective SB??? Well I'm not letting something like this make me give up quitting! It really sucks that I'm smoking again but I know that vaping can work! So that's what's going on with my journey! Any thoughts? lol