Hello everyone. First of all I would like to say HI. I am slightly brain damaged, so am a bit slower than others, but still can repair PC's to make money and such, I am just a little slower than I was before my 'incident'. Yesterday, after the amazing shipping time of FOUR days from China to the UK, I got a hotcig DNA200. Now, it had the issue that the hotcigs tend to have-the battery was under 4 volts. I used combination of escribe recovery to get it going, and the included charger to finish the charge. It is reading in escribe at 9.99 W/H in the diagnostics screen, and each cell is balanced to full charge. The issue occurs when I get to around half battery- the W/h of the battery are now around 5, both in ecribe and on my mod (I set it to show on my mod to check). When I try to fire, it comes up with something like "DNA 200-Battery-Warranty issue." Now, I DO NOT want to have to send my new device all the way back to china, I am in the process of trying to get a new battery replacement from them, I have emailed both gear best and the actual runner of Hotcig. If I have no luck doing this-I am fairly adept with technical repairs, and used to fly RC helicopters so am used to attaching different connectors to them, so that will be easy peasy, as I have seen in the battery bay, All it is is balance port through the bottom, and positive and negative attached to the banana pin type connections. I could swap the pack out in literally ten minutes. So, my question is mainly: Do you think I will get a new battery from either party, either hotcig or gearbest? If not, can you recommend me a LIPO that will fit inside the Hotcig DNA 200? I have found some higher MAH batteries that fit, but I am worried they are not rated high enough. I am talking 30C for a 1200MAH Lipo. I have my preheat set to just 60-80W for 1 second, and I vape at a maximum of around 80 watts. It is very rare for me to push a device past this, as I enjoy my vape mainly around 20-40 watts with rebuildable tanks due to ease of use, fill and off you go. I do own a variety of drippers I tested yesterday on my 4 profiles I created (NI200, Ti, SS, and Kanthal). Thing is, the battery originally worked for the first charge all the way down to zero. I do not know if a setting I have changed has messed this up. I changed the W/h from 9 to 9.9 as it is rated to that. Is it worth changing my settings back to original escribe factory settings, and doing a soft or hard reboot? Or is the battery the definite cause? I believe it is the battery, and have no issue of replacing this with a higher quality, working lipo myself. Thank you all, Conan.
