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  1. Plain Text Serial commands

    in Researcher Forum

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    @James first of all sorry for digging this old thread, but is there a command to set  only selective cells to charge? or limit certain cells at certain voltage?

    incase you forgot, i'm using Vaporshark DNA 250 and it uses 3S lipo batteries.. and as you know the battery that came with the device is fullymax which is nowhere to be found anymore..

    i think it'll be handy if we could selectively charge the cells because due to aging sometimes the lipos aren't charged balancely.. like mine here, the 1st cell is always somewhere .20-0.30 volts under the 2nd and 3rd cell..
    and everytime cell 2 and 3 reached 4.10v the amp started to slow down and cuts itself.. resulting 1st cell not fully charged to 4.10v

    any other options or suggestions are welcomed.. TIA

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  3. Early Firmware and EScribe Suite Discussion Thread

    in EScribe, Software and Firmware

    Posted

    UPDATE

    @James @Nick

    I have found a workaround to prevent power cut offs from happening on my Vaporshark DNA250 with SP6 INT.
    The trick is NOT charging the device directly after a vaping session, but you must let the device to go idle then turns off by itself, after the device is off then plug the chargers,
    the boot screen will show and will charge normally.

    Note : i don't know a couple of quick draw counts as a session or not and i haven't tried, but usually my session  eats 10%-15% of battery..
    i've been doing this 3 times since last night and it's doing great for me.. I'll keep monitoring this

    however it's pretty annoying to wait for the device to go off by itself then you can charge

  4. Early Firmware and EScribe Suite Discussion Thread

    in EScribe, Software and Firmware

    Posted · Edited by Twiq

    3 hours ago, James said:

    @Twiq, SP5.1 and SP6 should be quite similar about charge resetting. Are you sure SP5.1 cuts out less? SP5 certainly would, yes, but SP5.1 should be the same as SP6 in that regard.

    It is self-protective functionality, detecting quick cut-outs of charge current that can be bad for the device. If it's doing it, it doesn't hurt anything, just annoying. (To be honest, I may have it overly sensitive right now.) PCs have fairly clean USB power supplies so you are unlikely to encounter it there. Does the charge resetting happen to you on other chargers you have? What brand/model of charger is it? 1 Amp or 2 Amp?

    Hi James,

    it's 2 Amps and i use / carry around Samsung chargers.. I'm quoting myself from the support  ticket between me and Nick. but I forgot to mention i also use Anker Powercore II powerbank and it's 2.0 cables

    here are the list of USB cables and adapters that i've tried :
    2.0A> Adapters :
    1. OEM charger for Samsung Galaxy A5 and A7 (2 of them, white and black), 2.0 A output
    2. Samsung Travel Charger, 2.0 A output
    3. Samsung OEM Charger for Samsung Galaxy S8 (the one i carry around) USB 3.0 Qualcomm Quick charge
    4. Hippo dual dynamic charger (1A & 2A ports)
    5. Dell Laptop USB Port (2.0 and 3.0)

    2.0 Cables :
    1. Vaporshark included 2.0 usb cable (data transfer capable)
    2. Macson short 2.0 usb data cable (data transfer capable)
    3. Samsung 2.0 usb cables (3x paired with the adapters, 2 of them are data transfer capable, 1 is not)
    4. Hippo 2 Meter fast charging cable (no data transfer support)

    i can confirm that no cut off happened while on SP 5.1, and very positively sure it didn't happen before upgrading to SP6 and after downgrade from SP6.. because i have a habit whenever i charge my mod, the screen is always facing my direction, as soon as the battery reaches 100% and current goes less than 0.20A then i disconnect the chargers. i do this almost everytime, except when i go to bed, i charge it with anker powerbank which is intellegently turns itself off after the mod no longer accepts charges..

    edit: have you seen my graph on page 49? it has down spikes which i'm not sure have happened before, i rarely use escribe for anything except for theme changes 😉

     

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  8. Early Firmware and EScribe Suite Discussion Thread

    in EScribe, Software and Firmware

    Posted

    Just an update to my previous posts.. I've contacted for support and had been asked to roll back the firmware and i did, i went back from SP6 INT to SP5.1 and my device no longer suffering from power cut offs.. the downside is i lost the boost feature... dang it.. I hope they found out the problem and got them sorted out..

    for now i'll upgrade again to SP6 and enjoy the boost feature and charge my device with 1A only just to be safe :yum:

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  10. Early Firmware and EScribe Suite Discussion Thread

    in EScribe, Software and Firmware

    Posted

    11 hours ago, HolmanGT said:

    If  you have the new 250 firmware and it is doing what you  show in the screen capture I would suggest contacting Evolv's support guy and telling him your problem.

    As per your recommendation I've posted a bug report, hope they could identify the bug and fix it soon.. 
    but i would love to hear @James 's comment on this :) really enjoy reading his posts

  11. Early Firmware and EScribe Suite Discussion Thread

    in EScribe, Software and Firmware

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, retird said:

    I think you will like the "Replay" feature in the DNA250C......  Select "Replay" of the 3rd puff and next puffs are the same while "Playing".....  There is a couple videos out where Brandon speaks about it but you probably have seen them already....  

    ..........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jac9au_1uY8..........

    .........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPb3UKXXP4......

    actually i haven't seen or heard any of it.. and after watching these i get a lot of WHATs..

    WHAT? 250C? i haven't even heard of 166C or 200C

    WHAT? 400 WATTS? with some big ass coils you could definitely roast some meat with those.. what kind of batteries could deliver such power? 4S++ lipos? sh********ttttttt

    WHAT? REPLAY? sweet spot without needing TC wires? that is really dope..

    i'd probably should stop before going more OOT.. but man, evolv is really killing the game.. when is it going to be released? i'm saving some bucks from now on 😂

  14. Early Firmware and EScribe Suite Discussion Thread

    in EScribe, Software and Firmware

    Posted

    9 minutes ago, HolmanGT said:

    Twig,

    Did you apply the new firmware update when you moved up to  EScribe Suite 2.0 SP12  ?

    The new firmware is supposed to fix the problem you are having.

    If  you have the new 250 firmware and it is doing what you  show in the screen capture I would suggest contacting Evolv's support guy and telling him your problem.

    George

    yes, i did applied the SP6 for DNA 250, as you could see in my uploaded pic (bottom right)..  it sez Version 1.2 SP6 INT

    i think i will contact them for support tomorrow since i left my laptop at the office

    thanks george.. for now i'll just charge em with 1A to avoid damaging my device

     

  15. Early Firmware and EScribe Suite Discussion Thread

    in EScribe, Software and Firmware

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    13 minutes ago, retird said:

     Early Release versions may have some bugs or some tweaking may be necessary...  I've not heard of any board or charging failures from this yet.  I recall reading that essentially Evolv added  a protection where if the USB current or voltage changes dramatically in a frame it'll drop charging and re-orient itself.  

    thanks for the heads up,
    so whenever the current changes drastically within a period might trigger the chip to cut off the charge and reorient itself.
    i do have to mention that my favorite fast charger adapter randomly ramps up/down rapidly reading at 1.94 to 2.00A before disconnection happens..
    but i can confirm that the behavior happens when i'm using previous firmware without disconnecting.. 
    well, i'll try changing the adapter and see what happens..

    btw, have you seen my graph above? is it normal to have some spikes like that while charging? or is it the balancer taking control which cells needs to be charged?

    thanks again

  16. Early Firmware and EScribe Suite Discussion Thread

    in EScribe, Software and Firmware

    Posted · Edited by Twiq

    Hey guys,

    i've noticed some charging instability on my vaporshark DNA 250 (international i think, since I'm not from US).
    I'm not sure if this is related to firmware issues or it's battery age issue, but the last thing I did before having this issue was updating escribe from EScribe Suite 2.0 SP5.1 to EScribe Suite 2.0 SP12 to try out the new Boost feature.

    well, here's the deal :
    Whenever i charge the mod using 2A fast charging capable power source and cables i get frequent disconnection while charging.
    for example, i plugged in the cables to the mod, then i read the system stepping up the amps level from 0 to 2,00 A (random numbers), in less than 10 seconds the mod ALWAYS seems to drop to a state like no charger is connected to it, and after 3 seconds or so it ramps up again from 0 to 2,00 A again, and the loop begins..

    i have no disconnection issues while using 1A chargers OR using 2.0 cables plugged in to 1A power sources but it sure is dam slow :) 
    should i be worried? should i ignore the disconnection and keep on fast charging this way? should i downgrade the firmware and try again?

    any recommendations appreciated.

    thanks

    edit : forgot to mention that i've tried using different 2A Chargers/Laptop USB Ports and cables (data transfer capable or not), but it's all the same..
    as long as i charge it under 2A it's all gold.

    edit 2 : i've uploaded the device monitor view while charging with 2A cables on 1A usb port, is it normal having down spikes like that?

    spikes.png

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