Hello,
New to this forum so feel free to move thread if not in correct area... Sorry for such the long post and if there is anything in here that is a stupid/"duh" question.
After year or so of vaping with different pens and seeing family members with different mod set ups I made the leap last month. I ordered a predator 228 kit from an online vape store. So far they have been no help in trying to get things resolved. There are several issues I have had over the past week and the company is saying all issues I am having are completely normal. I have spent a lot of time reading up on these different issues and do not think that all of them are completely normal.
1. (Biggest problem I am having!) My predator has been getting extremely hot mostly after 3 hits and especially towards the end of the day. The bottom (mostly on trigger side of mod) and sometimes the entire mod will get so hot that I can not even hold it and have to put it down. The batteries do not seem to be getting hot and I have even tried three different sets. All batteries used are of high quality, are paired sets and charged externally. The overheating does seem to be worse when I have the smok tfv8 tank on the mod vs the elabo tank. I typically run at 45-70w with factory made coils if 0.15-0.25ohm. (I know that they can get hot especially with chain vaping but none of my family members mods get so hot that you can not touch them!)
2. The ohms on the mod do not match ohms of coil. I know that there can be a 0.5-1ohm discrepancy but at times there is almost a 1.5-2ohm difference. I took the mod into local store and the predator they have was matching ohms almost perfectly with every tank we put on it including both my tfv8 and elabo.
3. The trigger seems to be a lot looser then when I first got it and the "click" sound it makes is different as well. Could this have anything to do with the over heating? I have watched the youtube videos about the juice getting under the contacts at the top of the mod and am wondering if this has anything to do with it? I have not taken it completely apart yet because I am still fighting with the company to see if they will do anything for me and do not want to void any "warranty". I did have couple issues with my tfv8 tank leaking, which I have seemed to have gotten resolved. But, there were a couple times that the mod ended up with juice all over it.
3a. I have had several times where nothing happens when I hit the trigger button. Sometimes to get it to work again I will have to turn it off, take batteries out and it will work just fine for while. This happens on a completely random basis.
My family has a couple different mods (Kanger, Smoke and others), they do not seem too have any of these problems. Please help! I am getting very frustrated! I did finally break down and spend the last of what money I had on another mod yesterday.
New to this forum so feel free to move thread if not in correct area... Sorry for such the long post and if there is anything in here that is a stupid/"duh" question.
After year or so of vaping with different pens and seeing family members with different mod set ups I made the leap last month. I ordered a predator 228 kit from an online vape store. So far they have been no help in trying to get things resolved. There are several issues I have had over the past week and the company is saying all issues I am having are completely normal. I have spent a lot of time reading up on these different issues and do not think that all of them are completely normal.
1. (Biggest problem I am having!) My predator has been getting extremely hot mostly after 3 hits and especially towards the end of the day. The bottom (mostly on trigger side of mod) and sometimes the entire mod will get so hot that I can not even hold it and have to put it down. The batteries do not seem to be getting hot and I have even tried three different sets. All batteries used are of high quality, are paired sets and charged externally. The overheating does seem to be worse when I have the smok tfv8 tank on the mod vs the elabo tank. I typically run at 45-70w with factory made coils if 0.15-0.25ohm. (I know that they can get hot especially with chain vaping but none of my family members mods get so hot that you can not touch them!)
2. The ohms on the mod do not match ohms of coil. I know that there can be a 0.5-1ohm discrepancy but at times there is almost a 1.5-2ohm difference. I took the mod into local store and the predator they have was matching ohms almost perfectly with every tank we put on it including both my tfv8 and elabo.
3. The trigger seems to be a lot looser then when I first got it and the "click" sound it makes is different as well. Could this have anything to do with the over heating? I have watched the youtube videos about the juice getting under the contacts at the top of the mod and am wondering if this has anything to do with it? I have not taken it completely apart yet because I am still fighting with the company to see if they will do anything for me and do not want to void any "warranty". I did have couple issues with my tfv8 tank leaking, which I have seemed to have gotten resolved. But, there were a couple times that the mod ended up with juice all over it.
3a. I have had several times where nothing happens when I hit the trigger button. Sometimes to get it to work again I will have to turn it off, take batteries out and it will work just fine for while. This happens on a completely random basis.
My family has a couple different mods (Kanger, Smoke and others), they do not seem too have any of these problems. Please help! I am getting very frustrated! I did finally break down and spend the last of what money I had on another mod yesterday.
