Well, I've experienced some real weirdness tonight.
@Pevinsghost PIFed me a Dripbox 160 last week; today I finally got my squonk pins from FatDaddy, my husband got the hole drilled thru the delrin in the Magma for me, and I got set up to squonk! But the Dripbox 160 had other ideas. The batteries I put in it were a pair of freshly charged 30Q's; nearly new, they work fine. The coil on the Magma was a whopping 2.28 ohms (I was aiming for 2 ohms, but then realized that the Magma needs the leads pointed in the same direction, so twisting it that extra half-turn raised it just slightly). The Dripbox 160 turned on, and I was able to get it into wattage mode... but then, when I press the fire button, it showed me a couple of odd msgs: "check batteries" -- and the little battery indicator on the display was showing a completely empty battery -- and also, "low resistance", reading that 2.28Ω coil at .23 Ω.
It did the same thing when my son inserted his pair of HE2s, also freshly charged -- "check batteries" -- at that point there wasn't an atomizer on it, so i dunno if it would have given the same low resistance msg.
Anyone have the first clue what might be going on with this thing?
BTW, the Magma modification worked, but on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd have to give it maybe a 6 or 7; that delrin block is so tall, I have to squonk 3-4 times to get any liquid into the magma. But at least, it does work (I put it on the SteamCrave, at 9w, and my son tried it at 10w), and I still like the Magma's vape. But I think I may need to give it a boil; I keep getting a sort of perfumey taste. It's been a while since I used that atty, so it may just need a good cleaning.
Andria