Snow Wolf 200 watt Issue

[jseah]

I can absolutely 100% guarantee you that you're wrong. In fact it would be IMPOSSIBLE for them not to be draining the batteries unless your mods have toggle switches like a light switch wired between the battery and the chip that break the circuit entirely, but then you would need to flip the toggle switch for the fire button to work.

Any mod that turns on with the fire button is ALWAYS on, and ALWAYS drains the battery to some extent. It's absolutely impossible for them not to. The battery carriage is wired to the chip and the fire button is wired to the chip and the only way the chip knows the fire button is pressed is by monitoring the voltage change when you press the button. The mod is never OFF, it's only in a locked sleep mode. The ONLY difference between the SnowWolf and any other mod in this regard is that the SnowWolf wakes up from a single press and then you unlock it, rather than waking it up and unlocking it at the same time.

Look at the wiring schematics of any chip out there. The batteries are wired directly to the chip, the fire button is wired directly to the chip, the only way the fire button can receive power is if the chip is being powered. If the chip wasn't powered the buttons would be on a dead circuit and wouldn't work.

The only mod that I am aware of that actually has an on/off switch is the Coolfire IV (at the bottom of the unit).

 

[jseah]

It isn't waking up. Just displaying the name, checking the charge in the battery and then going dark again. If you wait until it goes dark, then hit the fire button, it goes through the wake up routine again before you can unlock it. Not a big deal, just remove the batteries. That's the safest thing to do anyways...

Yeah, I actually noticed this for the first time today. Previously, I have always had the display turned away from me so I never noticed the display turning on by itself. It definitely isn't "waking up". When it wakes up, Laisimo shows on the screen, then Snow Wolf, then the normal display lights up with the power, temp, etc. I caught it out of my peripheral vision and saw that Snow Wolf flashed on the screen (since I was not sitting there staring at the thing, I didn't notice if it flashed Laisimo first before Snow Wolf) and then the display turned off. I know it definitely did not have the normal display show up after that. And this was after having the mod sit there unused since I went to bed last night.

 

[AnthonyB]

I can absolutely 100% guarantee you that you're wrong. In fact it would be IMPOSSIBLE for them not to be draining the batteries unless your mods have toggle switches like a light switch wired between the battery and the chip that break the circuit entirely, but then you would need to flip the toggle switch for the fire button to work.

Any mod that turns on with the fire button is ALWAYS on, and ALWAYS drains the battery to some extent. It's absolutely impossible for them not to. The battery carriage is wired to the chip and the fire button is wired to the chip and the only way the chip knows the fire button is pressed is by monitoring the voltage change when you press the button. The mod is never OFF, it's only in a locked sleep mode. The ONLY difference between the SnowWolf and any other mod in this regard is that the SnowWolf wakes up from a single press and then you unlock it, rather than waking it up and unlocking it at the same time.

Look at the wiring schematics of any chip out there. The batteries are wired directly to the chip, the fire button is wired directly to the chip, the only way the fire button can receive power is if the chip is being powered. If the chip wasn't powered the buttons would be on a dead circuit and wouldn't work.

Thanks for this post. It is very informative.

I understand that batteries will lose charge slowly whether the device is used or not. I was not being entirely accurate when saying my other mods don't lose any charge.

I have 3 eleaf isticks and a sigelei 150 watt. I've left them unused for over 2 weeks and not had significant battery charge loss that was noticeable. In fact, I wouldn't know they are using battery up sitting idly if someone didn't tell me or if I didn't start using the Snow Wolf.

However the Snow Wolf will fully discharge in a week if I put in a freshly charged set of batteries and don't vape on it. The amount of battery loss everyday is noticeable.

Removing the batteries when I don't anticipate using the Snow Wolf is my only option. I've never needed to do this with my other mods.

The fact that no one else is noticing significant battery charge loss in the Snow Wolf makes me think the problem could be my batteries and not the device.




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[AnthonyB]

Do you use a matched (married) pair of batter's for the wolf ?

Yes I do but I was using the matching Sony Vct5s in my Sigelei for a while and now only use them in my Snow Wolf.

The batteries are always charged together, only ever used as a matching pair and I often will switch them over in the Mod.

I'm going to buy a fresh set of batteries and see if that slows down discharge when not in use.


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[Stinkytofus]

buy another mod, problem solved =)

ipv4s, ipv d2, sigelei 75w tc, sigelei 150w tc, cheap mods, performs great, feels great

snow wolf i almost bought but the battery drain problem i didn't like... really dig the exterior looks and feel tho

 

[AnthonyB]

buy another mod, problem solved =)

ipv4s, ipv d2, sigelei 75w tc, sigelei 150w tc, cheap mods, performs great, feels great

snow wolf i almost bought but the battery drain problem i didn't like... really dig the exterior looks and feel tho

It is a great device. I have the sigelei 150 watt and bunch of isticks. The Snow Wolf is my favorite device. It performs stellar and is so easy to use.

I am just trying to figure out of the battery drain is normal or my device is defective.


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[Rixsta]

Late to the party but this is normal, that's just how it works.

 

[Ryedan]

Most mods draw about 1 mA when they go to sleep. And that's sleep as opposed to turning it 'off'. The DNA200 uses 4.5 mA and the Naos Raptor 20A uses 6 mA, but they are exceptions in my list.

One week has 168 hours, so a 1 mA drain will take 168 mAh from your battery. Even at 4.5 mA, that's only 1,008 mAh in a week.

So if you have one 2600 mAh VTC5 in a mod, at a 4.5 mA drain it would last 2.5 weeks. Put two of those batts in there and it would last twice that long. To run one down in a week would take a sleep current draw of 15.4 mA.

I don't know anything about the SnowWolf 200, but if it drains that much current from the batts in sleep mode it's way higher compared to the rest. IMO either this is normal for this mod and people have seen this already or you've got a bad one.

 

[jseah]

My Snow Wolf doesn't sit there unused for more than maybe six or seven hours at a time, and that's when I'm sleeping. When I'm awake, I will use it at least once every half hour to an hour, so I have no idea how long the batteries would last if it sat there unused for a week. I just know that I have to swap out the batteries on a daily basis, or every day and a half, depending on how heavy I am using it.