Eeek.. Damn that's some bad luck.. Mech's for you myfriend.. lol
LOL.. Thanks for the good laugh..
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Vamo 5, not a good product....
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Eeek.. Damn that's some bad luck.. Mech's for you myfriend.. lol
LOL.. Thanks for the good laugh..
Key words, WITH PROPER CARE.
I'm not seeing anything to say that's wrong. If your idea of "proper care" is to drop your ecig 20 times a day that's not "proper care". Your Provari may survive that better than a Vamo but eventually even a Provari will die from it.
If you abuse any ecig, battery, mechical, digital, custom made, whatever what can you expect other then a very short life span! So far I give away a Vamo V2 I bought last January to someone in need of one in spotless condition with the gold replacement contact put in last year still in prime condition. One battery thought to have bit the dust proved to be shorted a little by some leakage of ejuice last summer and still works like brand new now.
Another battery that was in my pocket a few times each time with a 1.6ml clearomizer attached saw side pressure against that and the connector popped out of the end. The second the two wires came off!
I gave that to someone who works in electronic assembly once I was able to determine where the wires broke off from since those wires are too fine and need someone with similar experience with fine wires as far as microsoldering, etc.
Now I was definitely taking a look at the V5 as I was mentioning before but went with other variable voltage/wattage mods here's a fast look at the latest in use here. First the Groove II placed up nest to the MVP2.0 when someone was asking what would be a better place to see the button on the MVP2.0 without the shoulder surrounding the button itself which makes it awkward.
Then what I found does the same job the Vamo V5 would do only lighter in weight is the SMOK ACE VV/VW 18650 or with SID battery tube(bought separately) the 18350 size battery power telescoping mod. I had find the second one in gold to have a matching pair of course!
I had an accident with one of the Itaste VV V3s where my hand must have had some ejiuce on it and the battery went sailing to see the tank on it ruined as for the plastic tip molded into the tank part as a one piece constuction while the battery is still good as new. A close one however. Yet with each of these batteries and mode people tell me they have had numerous problems while I find them reliable! Something isn't right with that when this happens to everything they get!
Another battery that was in my pocket a few times each time with a 1.6ml clearomizer attached saw side pressure against that and the connector popped out of the end. The second the two wires came off!
I gave that to someone who works in electronic assembly once I was able to determine where the wires broke off from since those wires are too fine and need someone with similar experience with fine wires as far as microsoldering, etc.Now I was definitely taking a look at the V5 as I was mentioning before but went with other variable voltage/wattage mods here's a fast look at the latest in use here. First the Groove II placed up nest to the MVP2.0 when someone was asking what would be a better place to see the button on the MVP2.0 without the shoulder surrounding the button itself which makes it awkward.
Then what I found does the same job the Vamo V5 would do only lighter in weight is the SMOK ACE VV/VW 18650 or with SID battery tube(bought separately) the 18350 size battery power telescoping mod. I had find the second one in gold to have a matching pair of course!
I had an accident with one of the Itaste VV V3s where my hand must have had some ejiuce on it and the battery went sailing to see the tank on it ruined as for the plastic tip molded into the tank part as a one piece constuction while the battery is still good as new. A close one however. Yet with each of these batteries and mode people tell me they have had numerous problems while I find them reliable! Something isn't right with that when this happens to everything they get!
I think the point is that if you carry a pv around with you everywhere you go, accidents are going to happen, you will drop it eventually and probably more than a few times if you own that mod long enough. I've lost count of how many times I've dropped my mod on the floor or God forbid the concrete. I work in a machine shop and stuff happens. In the last year mine has hit the cement enough times now, that I don't even worry about my provari, I',m checking to see if my topper is okay.
I call these people firefighters.
Seriously. If you want something broken, give it a firefighter.
Or you could give it to someone who always seems to get? bad batteries and mods?! Whenever I pointed someone at something new I was looking at they went out and bought it right away before I even placed an order and had some time with a new battery or mod. The ones I would get in always worked while that one or two people would soon complain their's failed for some unknown reason?
One would come out with saying what they heard from the vendor that they have a toss up of getting a good or bad one for each sale when I ordered two of the same thing at different times from the exact same vendor and not one problem! Dropping anything on cement over and over will sooner or later be a problem. The height however as well as construction of mech and telescoping mods is a bit different however from digital circuitry in variable batteries and other digital mods!
Unfortunately back when I was running CNC and heavy milling in a tool & Die specialty shop there were no ecigs to drop! Back then things would have gone much better if there was something like a Vamo rather then lighting up while out delivering our work for a few hours at a time. That would have gone much better with the foreman at the time!
One would come out with saying what they heard from the vendor that they have a toss up of getting a good or bad one for each sale when I ordered two of the same thing at different times from the exact same vendor and not one problem! Dropping anything on cement over and over will sooner or later be a problem. The height however as well as construction of mech and telescoping mods is a bit different however from digital circuitry in variable batteries and other digital mods!
Unfortunately back when I was running CNC and heavy milling in a tool & Die specialty shop there were no ecigs to drop! Back then things would have gone much better if there was something like a Vamo rather then lighting up while out delivering our work for a few hours at a time. That would have gone much better with the foreman at the time!
Or you could give it to someone who always seems to get? bad batteries and mods?! Whenever I pointed someone at something new I was looking at they went out and bought it right away before I even placed an order and had some time with a new battery or mod. The ones I would get in always worked while that one or two people would soon complain their's failed for some unknown reason?
One would come out with saying what they heard from the vendor that they have a toss up of getting a good or bad one for each sale when I ordered two of the same thing at different times from the exact same vendor and not one problem! Dropping anything on cement over and over will sooner or later be a problem. The height however as well as construction of mech and telescoping mods is a bit different however from digital circuitry in variable batteries and other digital mods!
Unfortunately back when I was running CNC and heavy milling in a tool & Die specialty shop there were no ecigs to drop! Back then things would have gone much better if there was something like a Vamo rather then lighting up while out delivering our work for a few hours at a time. That would have gone much better with the foreman at the time!
That used to me with electronics. I could almost guarantee I'd have to take another trip to the store no matter what or where I bought. Luckily that ended for me about the time I got into computers. Now everything seems to work out of the box and lasts at least through the warranty period.
Before I got into pcs I got formal training in electronics but I know what it's like to fell like you were born with two left feet when it comes to different types of new or newer technologies. I pulled a few things apart in my younger years too!
Before I got into pcs I got formal training in electronics but I know what it's like to fell like you were born with two left feet when it comes to different types of new or newer technologies. I pulled a few things apart in my younger years too!
This wasn't me messing with stuff, which I admit I will do. Maybe I got lucky and got the tape deck or stereo the dock workers were playing catch with but whatever it was, I'd get it home and there was something messed up with it. I got to where I was figuring at least 2 trips for gas into the sale prices and I'd open boxes to check for broken cases before leaving the store the first time.
My first PC did catch on fire but that was long after I sold it. After that I was building, and if I had my original electronics luck with mail order PC parts it would've been a royal pain. So far I've only had 1 hdd show up DOA.
I'm a watchmaker by training. The reason I didn't go into that was I'm the opposite with watches. Give me a broken watch and it works. Give it back to Mr Badluck and it quits.
I have 2 of those watches from school 30 some years ago that I "fixed" as my daily watches. I sent them off to be cleaned once since college. They were bad enough for someone else to say they didn't want them. They have never needed any parts. I just cleaned them and they worked.
It's a little ironic you mention watches since I had one of those early Timex digital watches last for roughly a quarter century until about 3-4yrs. ago when the metal band let go and there was nothing to find for a replacement! Then right before picking a new replacement watch the watch finally blew a gasket and went belly up when a replacement battery didn't see results. At around the same time I got a "nice expensive" watch one company was handing out and couldn't find a band for that one which was too small. The watches will seemingly last forever while forget the bands when you need to get those replaced. Need a new watch to get the new band! :O
With ecig batteries on the other hand I've only lost a few with a pair of cig size batteries either doa or shorting out being the automatic not manual type where one battery puffed on it's own if you put any cartridge on it. Another simply wore out since I had initially started with the smaller at first before being pointed to the Vamo V2 I just passed along a week ago to someone recouping from a major surgery. I'll miss it in a way while I now have two adequate replacements being gold colored Smoktech ACE telescoping VV/VW mods that are both smiling with 3400mah 18650s in them!
The eGo-T hopefully will be resoldered to see that one repaired and working again some time that is once the friend gets to it.Following the Vamo I went looking for two of each of various sizes as far as eGo batteries, Vision Spinner, various types of clearomizers some with blue led lights. But it was time for reviews on the Innokin Itaste MVP2.0 when I started looking at larger tanks and then the other stuff came in to replace the need for "old reliable" Vamo V2. Having just ordered a second SMOK ACE that makes a nice light weight replacement I was able to pass the Vamo along to someone in need who just saw an Itaste VV V3 quit on him within a short period of time and was fortunate to win a VTR in a contest but had to under go a major surgery. He made a new home for the Vamo fast however!
Vamo is a great mod at FT prices.
What turned me off on the 134 was finding out it's VW only. I liked VW when I was rebuilding Protank heads and my ohms would vary but now that I'm doing gennies the ohms vary without rebuilding so VW constantly adjusting for that wouldn't be consistent. I usually go with VV because it's a finer setting and I adjust it as the coil gets caked and don't worry what the wattage is.
Not sure what an evod charger is but you have to remove the battery and charge in a separate charger. I like that better. With an assortment of batteries I can always vape the mod I want to vape.
Hey guys, didn't want to start a new thread.
I am considering buying a VAMO V5 and the only reason I didn't want to buy it, it's because I thought it was too big. Well I borrowed one from a friend and it wasn't really big at all (luckily I have big hands, lol) at 18650 mode.
However I have another 2 mods into consideration, the SVD and the ZMAX V3.
Which one do you think it's better since they are pretty much the same price?
I am talking for the real thing, not fasttech.
I am considering buying a VAMO V5 and the only reason I didn't want to buy it, it's because I thought it was too big. Well I borrowed one from a friend and it wasn't really big at all (luckily I have big hands, lol) at 18650 mode.
However I have another 2 mods into consideration, the SVD and the ZMAX V3.
Which one do you think it's better since they are pretty much the same price?
I am talking for the real thing, not fasttech.
I own and love my V5 Vamo, Also just bought a Sigelei Z-Max V3 this past friday. This Z is my first non-Vamo mod since June 2013 (an Evic).
Vamo: The only thread failure I've seen has been due to bad threads (sloppy) straight out of the box. Note: I also own 2-V2s, 1-V3, and the V5. Collection started July 2013. Also note FT replaced 2 Vamos with bad threads and paid postage both ways.
Check the 510 threads upon receipt.
Z-Max: I've had it less than one week (telescoping, flat-top) really like it to this point. But, really too early to make a judgement.
Fell in love at the vape shop, and it followed me home.
Vamo: The only thread failure I've seen has been due to bad threads (sloppy) straight out of the box. Note: I also own 2-V2s, 1-V3, and the V5. Collection started July 2013. Also note FT replaced 2 Vamos with bad threads and paid postage both ways.
Check the 510 threads upon receipt.
Z-Max: I've had it less than one week (telescoping, flat-top) really like it to this point. But, really too early to make a judgement.
Fell in love at the vape shop, and it followed me home.
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I bought mine from Fasttech. The threads only lasted a few months. It's just sitting now totally shot.
I have an SVD, the button's a pain in the .... to push but it seems pretty solid over all. It will fire lower ohms than a Vamo. Vamo goes to 1.2Ω, SVD goes to .8Ω I think.
Don't have a ZMAX.
My initial reaction to the Vamo V2 a year was about the same until trying out the 18350 size batteries having the 18650 battery extender off where I could then carry it around in a pant pocket. The stainless steel construction is what adds the weight to the telescoping mod and why I ended up now with a pair of Smokteck ACE aluminum mods instead.
The Itaste 134 or VTR wasn't going to make it here being too pricey to start off with when I was already running into the MVP2.0, VV V3s, Groove II and ACE mods by Smoktech. For the ACE however you need to buy the Itaste SID 18350 battery tube to use the smaller battery size while it is much lighter for those annoyed by the weight of the Vamos.
The one to remember however is the loss of battery time once you remove the extender to run the shorter 700-1200mah 18350 size battery over the 18650s that range from 1500 for the High Drain type to the 4amp 3400 or 4000mah size. Once you get into 2.5ml and larger tanks as well as turning up the volts and watts which will go through ejuices faster you may find yourself wanting the larger mah sizes now being seen.
Since the V2 had been only the first VV plus VW mod I was still in the stage of wanting to try out smaller variable batteries and a few months later picked up a starter kit with two eGo C-Twist 650mah batteries(use one while recharging the other) to be followed by several other non variables as well as picking up a 1300mah Vision Spinner VV battery. The best stuff was seen at the end of the year however. With a mod stand several batteries and the mods will each have a tank full of one flavor or another as things were expanded on. I spent more to find out what was going to work out the best and find I ended up with a battery for each occasion it seems!
I bought a vamo v5 when waiting for my svd in the mail. I wasnt a big fan at first but I have come around big time the only thing that gets me once in a while is the power button can rattle a bit and spins but hey if thats my only complaint then Im not doing too bad lol. I will say too that lately it seems that the same battery will last longer at the same wattage in my svd but whether thats a fact or not I have no clue
Essentially the new SMOK ACE is the Vamo V5 in an aluminum instead of stainless steel body but requires a SID battery extension to run with the 18350 or 18500 size batteries since it only comes with the standard 18650 tube where the entire thing at first looks like solid one piece body.
They should have already broken the sharp edge at the top however which is felt when you remove the plastic not metal end cap for the eGo threaded tank or clearomizer you put on. Taking the file on toe nail clippers or a very small metal file will allow you ro break the edge without digging into the edge itself in order to dull that up. The circuitry may actually be the same since the ACE is within a 1/4" length wise of the V5. The buttons are the same as well as the display seem to match.
Why any 18xxx battery will last longer in one mod when compared to the next would be directly related to how draw each mod sees before pressing the button as well as when hitting it to vape. If the on mode takes just a wee bit more that will drain it slightly faster while the minimum draw for each circuit card to produce the same output will have the largest bearing. That can apply to just about any technology however when you are comparing two or more models by the same brand if not one from another brand that still takes the same type of battery. The key factor would be found in the circuit design.
They should have already broken the sharp edge at the top however which is felt when you remove the plastic not metal end cap for the eGo threaded tank or clearomizer you put on. Taking the file on toe nail clippers or a very small metal file will allow you ro break the edge without digging into the edge itself in order to dull that up. The circuitry may actually be the same since the ACE is within a 1/4" length wise of the V5. The buttons are the same as well as the display seem to match.
Why any 18xxx battery will last longer in one mod when compared to the next would be directly related to how draw each mod sees before pressing the button as well as when hitting it to vape. If the on mode takes just a wee bit more that will drain it slightly faster while the minimum draw for each circuit card to produce the same output will have the largest bearing. That can apply to just about any technology however when you are comparing two or more models by the same brand if not one from another brand that still takes the same type of battery. The key factor would be found in the circuit design.
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