Always - backups for my backup. I'm still bummed.
I don't really use the vv/vw, so I might just get new 510 connector (it was starting to go anyway) and rebuild it as a mech. I love the form factor of it more than anything else I've seen.... and I've been looking.

If I can sell or trade my brand new panny 18650b's for something mech appropriate and just put a battery monitor in the window, this may turn out to be a good thing and I'll only have to invest a little more to get it working reliably. Or so I'm telling myself. Still mega annoyed.