usb passthru question - for joye510

[jmvallee]

Pls educate me on this... the battery on this is suppose to charge when plugged in so you can use it when not plugged in?

Mine doesn't work at all unless plugged in.
(I already rechecked to make sure I had put the battery in correctly...)

Any ideas?

 

[a2dcovert]

Pls educate me on this... the battery on this is suppose to charge when plugged in so you can use it when not plugged in?

Mine doesn't work at all unless plugged in.
(I already rechecked to make sure I had put the battery in correctly...)

Any ideas?

I have the Joye 510 pass through also. The battery box contains the charge/protection circuit for the battery. You do need to be connected to some sort of USB connection when using it. It's a poor design but no real good modifications are available to correct it. I'm going to use the parts and make a mod out of mine.

Kevin

 

[Talen]

Once the battery is charge you don't need to be continually plugged in ...I unplug all the time and go about the house. When I get back to the computer I plug back in.

 

[UptownRiot]

Mine also will work for a brief period of time while not plugged in. It is not long, and it doesn't work as well.

 

[KevinD872]

I never tried it while unplugged, but I gotta say it's awesome! Great power to the atty and saves me from wasting charge cycles on my batteries (only have 4 right now).

 

[Parmacrafter]

I have 2 usb passthroughts for my 510. I bought them at 2 different places. Both look identical, but definitely not the same. One of them I can unplug from the usb and use alone for up to about 1.5 hours before it gets too weak. Granted, it is a bit weaker than when plugged into usb. The other I unplug and get nothing. I even tried swapping the batteries to see if that changed it. No go. Exactly the same outcome. I guess they are not all built the same.

 

[UptownRiot]

I only discovered that mine worked while not plugged in by accident actually. My laptop went into hibernate mode, and thus I discovered it stops delivering power to the USB ports then because eventually the passthrough stopped working. WHOOPS.

 

[a2dcovert]

I have 2 usb passthroughts for my 510. I bought them at 2 different places. Both look identical, but definitely not the same. One of them I can unplug from the usb and use alone for up to about 1.5 hours before it gets too weak. Granted, it is a bit weaker than when plugged into usb. The other I unplug and get nothing. I even tried swapping the batteries to see if that changed it. No go. Exactly the same outcome. I guess they are not all built the same.

Well this may very well be why mine doesn't work and UptownRiot's does. I guess we are back to the possibility of a quality control issue. I know there a number of us who report unsatisfactory performance from the Joye-510 pass through. Oh well, I will still buy another one, just a different brand.

Kevin

 

[jmvallee]

Thanks for all the replies. I didn't think I was crazy lol. I have another one on the way. We'll see what that one does...

 

[Talen]

Puresmoker has the Cadillac of passthroughs for the 510 but it is a bit pricey at $40.00. Seems exceptionally well built and there is no battery involved.

 

[lady9ball]

I have the one with the battery, bought from totallywicked. I can use it for awhile when unplugged but sometimes have to hit the button more than once to get it to work.

It also seems to behave this way when plugged into my car USB adapter. I haven't tried it on a long trip yet, but I hope that doesn't mean that the car adapter won't keep it going. Does anyone know?

 

[a2dcovert]

I have the one with the battery, bought from totallywicked. I can use it for awhile when unplugged but sometimes have to hit the button more than once to get it to work.

It also seems to behave this way when plugged into my car USB adapter. I haven't tried it on a long trip yet, but I hope that doesn't mean that the car adapter won't keep it going. Does anyone know?

If you have the Joye 510 pass through you have a chance of having a good product. You will just have to test it out to determine if it's a good one or not. I hope your pt works for you.

Kevin

 

[Uncle Bill]

Why is it that a great e-cig like the 510 should end up with such a mickeymouse passthrough? I've got an M401 on a passthrough that's put out remarkable vapor for many weeks. So I get a passthrough for my 510 and it worked nicely at home and in the car for a few days and then the manual switch stopped working. I got a replacement from the supplier today and it started putting out a feeble vapor only after I charged the battery for a few hours. It's back on the charger. I'll leave it overnight and hope in the morning it doesn't disappoint. If it does, I'll bypass the battery and put my faith in the atty.

 

[gregg perrelli]

how long is the cord on the pass through?

 

[Luke15_7]

I'm not sure the manufacturer of my wife's 510 passthrough - I assume it's made by Joye - but it seems to me that the wires are really very thin and there's no bendy-part (that's a technical term, ya know) to help keep the wire from breaking due to bending. At some point I know I'm going to have to rebuild that thing with a higher gauge wire.

 

[maryjo]

Well I'll be darn - I thought I had to be plugged to the computer for this thing to work. I just unplugged and tried it - I'll be darned. Learn something new everyday. Thanks guys.

 

[markarich159]

The 510 passthroughs are hit and miss. I have 3 right now. They all look the same but perform slightly differently(all acceptably though). I ordered 2 that I had to send back. One did not work outright, the other worked, but would fry the blue rechargable battery in about 10 minutes(literally fry, I mean hot as hell to the touch), I went through 2 batteries before I figured out what was going on(I initially thought the 1st battery was bad). I took that unit apart for sh*ts and giggles to see if I could find a short or something. It was all very cheap looking microcircuitry and bad soldering, also the board was labeled "Janty Kissbox" even though it was a generic Joye 510 passthrough(So the boards in the 510 passthru are the same as the boards in the Janty Kissbox). I have now ordered the 500 mAh battery's from batteryjunction.com for all my 510 passthroughs:
UltraFire 10440 AAA Li-Ion 3.6V Rechargeable Battery 500 mAh FLAT TOP CR10440 Lithium Ion

They seem to work a bit better and last longer(obviously 360 to 500 mAh) if unplugged.

My "guess" is that all the 1st run 510 passthru boards were initially designed by Joyetech specifically for the Janty Dura C passthru and/or Kissbox. Those that came in slightly under spec or "working but not quite to Janty's standard" were never assembled and labeled as such and sold to other smaller suppliers as generic 510 passthroughs. This may explain the unusually high failure rate in these particular initial generic models. However, since they became so popular, Joye has had several production runs since the initial run and quality has improved. I now see they are available in titanium and (I've got it on good authority) will be available soon in COPPER.

 

[mama]

I just got my 510 passthrough today. Plugged it in to the computer for about an hour ... unplugged it and it's been working great. Still going strong after an hour of vaping...heavy, vaping, like non-stop. I love this thing!!!

Think I should switch to no nic while I'm at the computer.

 

[markarich159]

I just got my 510 passthrough today. Plugged it in to the computer for about an hour ... unplugged it and it's been working great. Still going strong after an hour of vaping...heavy, vaping, like non-stop. I love this thing!!!

Think I should switch to no nic while I'm at the computer.

Yup, when they work, they work well. The 3 that I have that came working(about a month ago) are still going strong. I couldn't live without 'em at this point.

 

[ProfessorDaffy]

I just got my 510 passthrough today. Plugged it in to the computer for about an hour ... unplugged it and it's been working great. Still going strong after an hour of vaping...heavy, vaping, like non-stop. I love this thing!!!

Think I should switch to no nic while I'm at the computer.

I loved my 901 passthrough, because you can just vape away. You just can't vape away with the 510, it delivers too much nicotine! I keep a special bottle of lower nic for just that purpose. Maybe I'll make a special label for it and call it "The Forum-ula". All this reading about e-cigs just makes me want to vape.

Mine works when unplugged (seriously, what did you think the battery was for?) and got mine from the Widow. I think she deals directly with Janty. Also love the fact that the passthrough is so light weight. You know, I wish the batter box had a belt hook or clip. Hmmm...

--Prof Daffy