The FastTech Thread for All FastTech Posts (Part 2)

[aikanae1]

I keep forgetting, when is Chinese New Year? I want to make sure I avoid that mess.

I've had 2 small shipments from FT arrive apx 10-11 days in Oct. No batteries, liquids and everything showed "in stock". Pretty swift - faster than I expected since one of them had to sit in my mailbox for a few days since I was out of town. BTW: Neither of them advised me the shipments had even reached US customs before they arrived.

 

[WattWick]

I keep forgetting, when is Chinese New Year? I want to make sure I avoid that mess.

I've had 2 small shipments from FT arrive apx 10-11 days in Oct. No batteries, liquids and everything showed "in stock". Pretty swift - faster than I expected since one of them had to sit in my mailbox for a few days since I was out of town. BTW: Neither of them advised me the shipments had even reached US customs before they arrived.

Varies each year. Somewhere around February. Turns out Google got it's own little thingy for it like it does with currency, etc.

Chinese New Year is on Thursday, 19 February 2015.

 

[JD1]

............ (Veritas and Zenith RDAs) .........

How are you liking those? My Veritas has been glued to my lips since receiving it several days ago.

 

[readeuler]

OK, fasttech dilemma here.

I ordered an ohmmeter (SKU 1494601). It kinda worked out of the box, but was reading about .4 ohms higher than my VTR, and jumped quite a lot.

So I screw the atty in a bit more, and now it won't read anything but 1. It seems the center pin is very prone to being pushed down or pulled up, but none of that is making it work.

I'm not an electronics maven, but it looks pretty damn simple on the inside. Should I just take it apart and try to get it to work right? Or ship it back, and get a meter from RTD?

They also sent me the wrong RDA for my first shipment, and I haven't done anything about it. I would use it, but it's really janky.

Just curious if anyone else had luck with any FT meters, or expertise tearing one down and redoing all hot glue

 

[Don Robertson]

The meter may simply have internal resistance of 0.4 ohms - which I would tend to doubt as this is quite high. Just to verify is it possibly 0.04 and not 0.4 ohms high?

You can check the internal resistance of most meters by 'shorting' the connector. Jump the center pin to the outer shell (+ to -) and see what the meter reads. IF it is 0.4 you can possibly live with it - even though the resistance is unusually high -OR- see if there is an internal adjustment for "0" or to as low as it might go.

Same situation if it is 0.04 ohms - see if internal 'zero' is possible. IF NOT and to save the hassle of sending it back simply SUBTRACT the internal resistance from the reading when checking the coil. If it reads say 1.90 subtract 0.4 to arrive at 1.5 ohms -OR- subtract 0.04 and arrive at 1.86 ohms. It depends on that 0.4 ohms you note being correct.

Also possible: I am full of crap (a real possibility according to past experience) and someone has a better solution!

Senile Old Man Donnie ............ on a good day.

 

[readeuler]

The meter may simply have internal resistance of 0.4 ohms - which I would tend to doubt as this is quite high. Just to verify is it possibly 0.04 and not 0.4 ohms high?

You can check the internal resistance of most meters by 'shorting' the connector. Jump the center pin to the outer shell (+ to -) and see what the meter reads. IF it is 0.4 you can possibly live with it - even though the resistance is unusually high -OR- see if there is an internal adjustment for "0" or to as low as it might go.

Same situation if it is 0.04 ohms - see if internal 'zero' is possible. IF NOT and to save the hassle of sending it back simply SUBTRACT the internal resistance from the reading when checking the coil. If it reads say 1.90 subtract 0.4 to arrive at 1.5 ohms -OR- subtract 0.04 and arrive at 1.86 ohms. It depends on that 0.4 ohms you note being correct.

Also possible: I am full of crap (a real possibility according to past experience) and someone has a better solution!

Senile Old Man Donnie ............ on a good day.

Thanks Don! No my friend, you are definitely not full of crap - I suspect this meter is though

I browsed the forum for that product, and got it to at least read resistance, by getting the screen loose in the housing. When I shorted the pin, the readings jumped from 1.56 to 5+ohms. Never anything less than 1 ohm.

It seemed to stabilize for a bit and actually read resistance, but it's ungodly off - like 0.5 ohms off (nope, didn't forget any zeros). Before I had pryed everything loose, just touching the meter caused resistance jumps. After loosening it all up, that's no longer an issue. The lack of accuracy or precision is definitely an issue. Even when it would read resistances without jumping, everything could be several tenths different, just turning the unit off and on.

This one will not be salvaged by me, I'll just open my first tickets, I think. Ah well, it was worth a shot!

 

[mikelipino]

@JD1 I like the Veritas a lot. It is quite leak proof, nice looking, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be to build (I'm still on my first horizontal single coil build). The only cons I see are the more restricted draw even fully open (I might drill it out a little) and I don't get anywhere the 40 draws that Rip Tripper gets on 10 drops. Still, I use it quite often. Compared to the Zenith, I like the Zenith's hex screws over the Veritas's screws and nuts as they seem more secure and the more open draw, but the Veritas has better flavor even with the Zenith closed off more. And compared to the Plume Veil, my clone has a pretty loose top cap and leaks a bit, whereas the Veritas is leak proof, but the Plume Veil certainly makes more vapor.

@Readeuler did you notice a small grommet under the center pin of the ohmmeter? I got an ohmmeter with my Fasttech order as well, and after the first resistance check, I noticed that the force of the 510 pin pushes down the center pin of the ohmmeter which squeezes out the grommet. This makes my ohmmeter read either infinite resistance or a short. Not well designed, but it works if I reseat the grommet and only very loosely screw attys into the ohmmeter. Not ideal because then the atty can spin as I build. It took 3 weeks to get here, so I'm not going to return it. I'll probably just get another one off eBay. Let me know what Fasttech has to say if you open up a ticket though.

 

[JD1]

@JD1 I like the Veritas a lot. It is quite leak proof, nice looking, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be to build (I'm still on my first horizontal single coil build). The only cons I see are the more restricted draw even fully open (I might drill it out a little) and I don't get anywhere the 40 draws that Rip Tripper gets on 10 drops. ....................

I seen were some models have a smaller hole in the lid than in the reduction block. If that's what you have, it shouldn't be too hard to drill the lid out to match the block. My problem is that the Veritas is slowly but surely ruining me for my chifuns. I have both of those drilled out to 5/64th and at first I was closing the Veritas down until it felt about the same, but then I started opening it up more and more until now I'm starting to prefer it at wide open. Now when I go back to my chifuns the draw seems way to tight lol.

 

[xtwosm0kesx]

I seen were some models have a smaller hole in the lid than in the reduction block. If that's what you have, it shouldn't be too hard to drill the lid out to match the block. My problem is that the Veritas is slowly but surely ruining me for my chifuns. I have both of those drilled out to 5/64th and at first I was closing the Veritas down until it felt about the same, but then I started opening it up more and more until now I'm starting to prefer it at wide open. Now when I go back to my chifuns the draw seems way to tight lol.

My veritas clones have ruined pretty much everything else for me, 4 months later and still love um, i keep up to date on the new stuff rolling out but have no reason to search for a different dripper.

A leakproof life (unless you do crazy stupid things) is the life for me these days!

 

[BuddJohnson]

Rare Fasttech sales.

[PayPal USA Christmas Promo] 10% off site-wide. Coupon code USASALE . Paypal only, must ship to a USA address. Valid November 26, 2014 through December 2, 2014 Hong Kong time.

[Black Friday Sale] 10% off. Coupon code BLACKFRIDAY14 . Worldwide. Valid November 25th through November 29th.

Happy shopping...

 

[klynnn]

I used xmas14 today for 5% off. Had a gift cert and it was driving me crazy to spend it. Got a purple vamo 5 and a ss magma..

 

[PLANofMAN]

https://www.fasttech.com/products/1980900
Rare opportunity to own an OEM (cough, cough, authentic) for the price of a clone. Buy it now before the cease and desist letters hit FT's offices!

Where else can you buy an "authentic" Aqua v2 for $35.31before discounts?

Edit: I posted the following in another thread-

https://www.fasttech.com/products/1980900
And then there is this. The Aqua V2, it's not a clone...but not an authentic either.

This comes from the manufacturer of the authentic atomizer, but is not sold by Footoon. Per FaceBook, they denied that it was authentic, but didn't deny that it came from the same factory as the authentic.
I consider this an authentic item, sold at clone prices. So, is it moral and ethical to buy this? I don't know, but I bought one. It will look great on the PAPS.

From Sufie (FastTech staff member)

Product title changed from "Authentic" to "OEM"
Dear valued customer,

As you may have noticed, the product title for this item SKU 1980900 has been changed from "Authentic" to "OEM", we would like to explain the scene behind this change.

The authentic one from Footoon is manufactured by a Chinese OEM(Original equipment manufacturer) factory. This item SKU 1980900 is manufactured by the same factory.

In order to avoid legal issues, we have asked the manufacturer to print something different on its packaging box, that is the triangle mark on its top left corner, which the authentic one doesn't have.

After further reflection, we decided to change the product title from "authentic" to "OEM" which better suits the actual product.

We will contact the affected customers for this. If you prefer to have a refund, please open a ticket and we will process it for you in 24 working hours.

Thank you for your understanding.

And from Geek

For the record, this product is made by the same production line in the exact factory that made the $100+ "Authentic" Aqua.

Problem is, the factory is not authorized to use the packaging so the product can't come with its "original" box. Since calling this authentic won't be 100% true without the same packaging, the name got changed to OEM.

We assure you that the product is made from the original production line and this is not simply a so-called "1:1".

As a matter of fact, I believe there is no such thing as 1:1. Clones from China are almost always guaranteed to be slightly "off".

 

[MTM]

How does Sufie know that it is manufactured by the same factory??

 

[PLANofMAN]

Well, judging by the heated debates going on in the FT Forums, she looked into matters to get to the bottom of things. I imagine she picked up a phone and called them. It would be fairly ballsy for a manufacturer to claim it if it wasn't true. It would get them blacklisted big time.

Edit: Geek confirmed that he'd been shown physical proof. I'm guessing that consisted of being shown a box full of FooToon's authenticity cards.

 

[readeuler]

I just made my 2nd fasttech order. It started with a simple $15 xmas present (everyone who rebuilds should own a dripper, and you might as well make it a magma for starters), and snowballed into a considerably larger order for me... but I ordered slightly before midnight, and everything is ready to ship already! Got to use the 10% off code as well, which was quite nice.

I got my 2nd mech, the SKU 1943605 SMPL, and a sample-platter of classic drippers - Tobh Atty V2 with chuff-style topcap and a Stillare (Storm style?).

What I'm most excited for? A bright pink Tugboat clone for the GF. She's nowhere near as into vaping as I am, but she's pretty excited for it.

Fasttech: Bringing families together (after we deal with this weird concept of a vape 'budget').

 

[PLANofMAN]

I hope you're okay with it being an "around" x-mas present. The Chinese mail service tends to slow down a bit this time of year.

 

[klynnn]

Today I am 3 years cigarette free. So to celebrate I ordered the gold plated nemisis, the gold plated kayfun and a gold driptip. I will be super shiny at the Christmas parties hopefully.

 

[Silence]

Ordered on the 12th
Showed Shipped on the 27th
Left Hong Kong on the 29th
Now shows Origin Post is Preparing Shipment on USPS site...
Glad none of this was an immediate need...

 

[PLANofMAN]

On a side note...: FastTech Forums
Regarding the Aqua V2 "clone."

The whole knurling on the hybrid connector not matching and the no red o-ring mystery has been cleared up.

The ones on the "clone" don't match the authentic shark run because, surprise, they match the just released dolphin run.

The just released, just shipped, no pictures all over the interwebs dolphin run. Interesting coincidence, no?

Edit: the plot thickens. Focalecig has a Tobeco Aqua V2 as well, with the same knurling, orings, and get this...the v2 second run dolphin engraving. (Cheaper than FT too).
http://focalecig.com/Product/-Ship-from-USA-1-1-Aqua-V2-by-Tobeco-14096

YouTube video reviews of the authentic dolphin version are only just starting to come out in the last day or two.

 

[cindycated]

If you haven't already, don't forget to use your gift certificate from rebate points that was automatically generated on Nov 7. Mine expires on Dec 8 and can't be extended. I just placed an order yesterday and didn't even know it was there. Now they won't apply it to that order.