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  1. Sure... John: Hey John get off your ass and get those cases into production. John: grumble grumble slave driver grumble grumble. Worst boss ever. John: well it is your fault for putting so many features in it that have to be machined with tiny endmill or engraved. John: well it is your fault for only having six CNC machines. Really we are waiting on gold plating for the center pin and anodize.

  2. Were these DIY mods or commercial ones? 

    Anything else for us to go on? Obviously we'd like to cross ship replacements so we can get yours back to see what happened, if you could contact the main Evolv help desk and set up a cross ship, that would be ideal. 

  3. We actually played with this! 

    What we were thinking of doing is having a button press "light" the ecig, holding it at 120 degrees or so. Then look for the temperature drop when you draw on it.

    The only problem is it draws nontrivial power the whole time it is sitting in what I called the "smoulder" state and is uncomfortably warm. Preheat comes to temperature really quickly though, so we dropped this idea. We were mostly using it to come to temperature faster.

    Trying to do it off ambient temperature wouldn't be reliable, because if the air is 70 degrees and the mod is 70 degrees, you can pull air across it all day and not change the temperature. (well, you could set it up to cool with clever use of fluid mechanics, but you don't want to draw that hard)


  4. Well, I think the technicality they're using is that there is 2850 mah worth of cells in there, they're just assembled into a series pack rather than a parallel pack. 

    It isn't ideal, but I get why they're doing it. A 3x 950 pack will give you about the same runtime as a 1s 2850, because it is the same energy either way. 

    Really they should just advertise the capacity in watt hours. That's why we do it that way on the device and in Escribe. Watt hours is correct and clear regardless of what kind of cells, how many, and in what configuration. 

    It doesn't upset me as much as "6.5hp" shop vacs that plug into a standard 120v outlet and draw 14 amps, at least.

  5. Can you try jumping across the fuse with tweezers or a very fine wire and see if it comes back on? We have been doing batch testing of the fuses made on the same days as ones that have popped, and they seem fine so far, but I am starting wonder if we didn't just get a reel with some bad or mislabelled fuses in it. The fuses that are definitely 25 amps pop dramatically (the link burns away, leaving the fuse white), but some of the dead fuse opuses seem to just kinda bubble up. I don't have any hard evidence of it, and I do have hard some opuses with definite internal shorts, but it makes me wonder.

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