I was so excited about this mod. A buddy of mine was lucky enough to get a sample unit. He made me aware of this last week. I wanted a good nitpicky detailed review from him so I waited until today to get some detailed feedback. Today stopped for a visit and got the feedback. To my surprise and disappointment it was in the trash. He loved every feature we've been excited about, but the mod lived a short button life. An unfixable recovery. Poor smoktech, it appears this will be the design flaw tat kills it. Now, all I have to look forward to on the mod front of the new version of the lavatube that overcomes the 2.5 amp shortcomings and the ego-c vv.
Smoktech Vmax a bust
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That doesn't surprise me much concidering the poor quality of the E-Powers I got. Just trash. Of course with the price point of the E-Power I wasn't that surprised. If this was to be a higher price, it should have been better.
I have to chime in on this one. I have 2 Vmax's and their both flawless pretty much in quality. Both of my buttons work perfectly. The chrome one I've had for just over a month now,and the black one I just got yesterday. Now every place I've seen selling these so far all of them offer a warranty, since they've just now kinda been getting to vendors and releasing to the public so he could NOT have had it so long now the warranty has expired. So why would he throw it in the trash rather than get a replacement or refund from the vendor. Most vendors in this awesome industry would deffinately work with your friend and the situation. I really cant see or believe that a vendor would not replace it if it failed in any way the 1st day he got it. Did anyone else stop to think about this besides me. Tell your friend to call the vendoe and "talk" to them, he'll attract more bees with honey than salt (be nice),but don't act hastly and throw a hundred dollar mod in the trash, and really the button is absolutely repairable, it's just a tactile type button soldered to the main board. It would take me more time getting the circuitry out of the tube safely than it would for me to de-solder and re-solder a new button on for him. Smoketech doesn't make the actual button that failed,you probably just happen to get the 1 button out of 10,000 that had a issue from the start( I hope) and the manufacturer of the actual button is to blame for that really. Anyway, just a different perspective on the situation. I hope your friend takes the time and patience to get this resolved and you can maybe report back to us with some better news in the future. Good luck, take care everyone. .............J
I´ve got two silver/Chrome Vmax´s right here on my desk.
They are way better quality then i ever expected from a china product. They are miles ahead of the lavatube and very nice.
I have had ZERO problems with any buttons and i do not expect i will get any issues with it at all.
Its a super great vmod, simple as that.
They are way better quality then i ever expected from a china product. They are miles ahead of the lavatube and very nice.
I have had ZERO problems with any buttons and i do not expect i will get any issues with it at all.
Its a super great vmod, simple as that.
It really kind of irks me when someone has a problem with a product that's churned out by the tens of thousands and condemns it as crap because they get one of the 2 or 3% with a defect. I've seen people do the same thing with the $10 TR-001 chargers. There must be a million of them in service and a cord that's not even made by Trustfire shorts out, so suddenly they're all crap. I guess if you sell something with a 1% or .5% defect rate, that justifies charging 2 or 3 times the price, just so there's half the chance someone will call it crap. OTOH, no. I don't think so. An electronic device with a 2 or 3% defect rate is not crap and it doesn't magically become the best on the market by becoming 99% defect free. No electronic device, at any price, has a 0% defect rate.
It was already offered then he tried to salvage te good components for a 5amp regulator no dice.
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My friend never paid for it in the first place, major smoktech vendor. If you follow all of my recent posts in the other forums was really, really looking forward to this one. Just don't think I will get one till V2. Everyone knows this won't be the last venture for smoktech in the variable voltage tube.
FYI just sharing an experience with a product that probably wouldn't of hit the forums as many of the testers are smoktech vendors who have already placed their first order of the mod. I look forward to a positive balanced review on your personal experience with this mod.
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