Silas Crowley

Hello, and thanks for opening this thread- I've almost got a mod together and it's looking great, except I have one serious problem. For some reason- while the mod will turn on with just USB power, when the lipo is connected, it won't charge it nor will it connect to escribe. I can't connect the chip to escribe at all anymore. During a test run (before I soldered the 510 and external fire button) I was able to connect to escribe and updated the chip's firmware, but after everything was installed, it won't take anymore- it won't even charge the lipo. Has anyone has a similar issue? Everything looks fine on the chip, I took it out and inspected it, tried to clean up some of the joints in case that was the issue, but it still won't do data nor balancing charge on USB.

Hello everyone, I've made a couple of DNA mods, but the first one shorted after a couple months and the second is a work-in-progress. It's not that hard to solder up everything and get the DNA working... but, a bit of rogue condensation killed my first DIY mod, so ever since then I've been trying to waterproof the entire thing. I know it's impossible to totally do that, but I'd like to get as close as possible to maximize my mod's lifespan. I was wondering what you guys do for this? My plan so far is I've sprayed liquid elec. tape through the enclosure's interior, and I'm going to put on the starbrite on my solder joints. Still using heat-shrink of course. The actual manual says the chip has a coating and doesn't need any kind of epoxy or other coating... but, I've shorted once, don't want to do it again. Is it fine to coat everything but the heat sinks?