Hey guys,
Got some entertainment for ya.
Yesterday after work and a nice training i went back home and tinkered a bit on my dripper. Attempting to make a better coil then the one before. After posting a previous thread about using the ohm reader of your device or if i should get a separate ohm reader anyway. I decided to get a ohm reader and yesterday was the first time that i used it in action.
Made my coil, the ohm reader values was jumping around, I've learned by now that this happens if i didn't tight the screws right & tight. But still, the reading was off.. i should be around 0.5 ohms, but it insisted on 2ohms and if i screw it off and on again, it said 3 ohms, screw it off and on and now it's 1.5 ohms. I thought perhaps my ohm reader is broken or something.. So i grabbed my istick, screw it on and check it on that thing. Now it said 1 ohm.. Weird.. well lets fire it. The coil seemed fine, everything was tight & neat.
I fired it.. i saw a little spark and my istick was dead. First i was so disappointed, i just have this thing for about a month and it's broken already.. ......
After being heartbroken for a second i realized, that maybe i have a bomb in my hands. I mean, i read your horror story's, exploding battery's due to stupidity. I'm stupid, i've done my fair & share of stupid, i'm very capable of being stupid, i know that by now. Just ask my girl, she can confirm.
That's why i got the istick. It has all those protection features on it. On the other hand, people are stupid, company's are careless, do i have a faulty istick? Is it getting hotter? So i was feeling it. Heating my istick up with my own hands, i just didn't know anymore if i was heating it up or not. So i ran silently (my girlfriend was already sleeping and has to work tomorrow) in my house finding my clothes and shoes and touching and checking the istick every time i passed it. Was it getting hotter...? i still wasn't sure, at this point i was raging with adrenaline, being fully aware that if it goes off that i had to somehow put off the fire, because my house is mainly made out of wood and if it blew up it's better outside then in the house. With 1 shoe on standing in the hallway, ready to run i touched the istick with my lips, since lips are quite sensitive and i just couldn't trust my own hands anymore, they were giving me conflicting data my lips, felt nothing but cold, there was no heat generating from the inside.. pfff... that was the time i could relax again..
half relaxed though, because i had no idea what just happened.. Did i really just messed up my istick?
Because it wasn't turning on, it did nothing, completely dead. I wasn't plugging that thing in the socket, maybe i'll create a explosion that way. I just simply didn't know.
After a intensive search on the internet and still not trusting my istick. I finally figured it out.. it was the short-circuit protection. It just kicked in, and apparently when it does it just shuts down the istick and nothing will respond until you plug it in the net.
pfff, i stayed awake for a couple of hours reading about it and making sure it was really not getting hotter in time.
What a night, my favorite lesson i've had for now
Although i'm very happy with regulated mods, all those awesome protection features for noobs and idiots like me. But in this case i just wish it would let me know what was going on. man oh man oh man..
I've been evolving and playing with vaping quite fast, but i don't think i will ever make the step to a mech mod, it's just ain't my thing. I like buttons, displays, sensors who will warn me. i'm just to freaking paranoid. I don't mind hurting myself with stupidity, but hurting someone else or burning a house down with my playing and experimenting would shame me on such a deep level. I won't allow that to happen..
pfff.. ok, it's out of my system now.
thx for listening, hope i made you smile while reading it
I need a coffee now
Got some entertainment for ya.
Yesterday after work and a nice training i went back home and tinkered a bit on my dripper. Attempting to make a better coil then the one before. After posting a previous thread about using the ohm reader of your device or if i should get a separate ohm reader anyway. I decided to get a ohm reader and yesterday was the first time that i used it in action.
Made my coil, the ohm reader values was jumping around, I've learned by now that this happens if i didn't tight the screws right & tight. But still, the reading was off.. i should be around 0.5 ohms, but it insisted on 2ohms and if i screw it off and on again, it said 3 ohms, screw it off and on and now it's 1.5 ohms. I thought perhaps my ohm reader is broken or something.. So i grabbed my istick, screw it on and check it on that thing. Now it said 1 ohm.. Weird.. well lets fire it. The coil seemed fine, everything was tight & neat.
I fired it.. i saw a little spark and my istick was dead. First i was so disappointed, i just have this thing for about a month and it's broken already.. ......
After being heartbroken for a second i realized, that maybe i have a bomb in my hands. I mean, i read your horror story's, exploding battery's due to stupidity. I'm stupid, i've done my fair & share of stupid, i'm very capable of being stupid, i know that by now. Just ask my girl, she can confirm.
That's why i got the istick. It has all those protection features on it. On the other hand, people are stupid, company's are careless, do i have a faulty istick? Is it getting hotter? So i was feeling it. Heating my istick up with my own hands, i just didn't know anymore if i was heating it up or not. So i ran silently (my girlfriend was already sleeping and has to work tomorrow) in my house finding my clothes and shoes and touching and checking the istick every time i passed it. Was it getting hotter...? i still wasn't sure, at this point i was raging with adrenaline, being fully aware that if it goes off that i had to somehow put off the fire, because my house is mainly made out of wood and if it blew up it's better outside then in the house. With 1 shoe on standing in the hallway, ready to run i touched the istick with my lips, since lips are quite sensitive and i just couldn't trust my own hands anymore, they were giving me conflicting data my lips, felt nothing but cold, there was no heat generating from the inside.. pfff... that was the time i could relax again..half relaxed though, because i had no idea what just happened.. Did i really just messed up my istick?
Because it wasn't turning on, it did nothing, completely dead. I wasn't plugging that thing in the socket, maybe i'll create a explosion that way. I just simply didn't know.
After a intensive search on the internet and still not trusting my istick. I finally figured it out.. it was the short-circuit protection. It just kicked in, and apparently when it does it just shuts down the istick and nothing will respond until you plug it in the net.
pfff, i stayed awake for a couple of hours reading about it and making sure it was really not getting hotter in time.
What a night, my favorite lesson i've had for now
Although i'm very happy with regulated mods, all those awesome protection features for noobs and idiots like me. But in this case i just wish it would let me know what was going on. man oh man oh man..
I've been evolving and playing with vaping quite fast, but i don't think i will ever make the step to a mech mod, it's just ain't my thing.
I like buttons, displays, sensors who will warn me. i'm just to freaking paranoid. I don't mind hurting myself with stupidity, but hurting someone else or burning a house down with my playing and experimenting would shame me on such a deep level. I won't allow that to happen..pfff.. ok, it's out of my system now.
thx for listening, hope i made you smile while reading it
I need a coffee now
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