Indulgence V3 with AW IMR High Drains

[SIC08869]

I thought it was important to mention this although I don't know if it is just my unit. Just an FYI, one of the vendors has claimed that the wiring in the Indulgence mod does not support IMR High Drain batteries. This confused the hell out of me but the claim is that they come off the charger considerably stronger than a standard protected battery and that it will melt the wiring. Honestly I thought that this was a bunch of BS and surely if it was an issue it was from stacking 16340s so the other day I elected to stuff one of my 2000 mah AW IMR batteries into it. I put a 1.5 carto on it fired it up.... no response at all and in fact the button stuck like it had never done. I hit the button again, and it released. I made two more attempts, tightening the battery cap, tightening the carto and still got the odd sticking button as well had to hit it each time a second depress to get the button to release. I then took off the cap and accidentally touched the spring on the cap and it singed my skin. The spring was discolored like heated metal. So I let it cool down, stuffed the lipo protected battery that came with the kit back in and it fired perfectly. In short please be careful with this mod, although it has 3 vent holes in the newer model it still lacks any kind of internal safeties with the exception of the collapsable spring.

 

[Neon]

Same thing happened to me using AW's (red ones). I got a misfire, then touched the spring and burned my finger, the spring did collapse but it was scary. I blame it on an adapter I was using because I've used this set up for 4 months now with no issues. That being said, the vendor I got the indulgence from advised me not to screw down that atty too far as it would cause the floating center post to create a short.

Neon

 

[Neon]

As a side note, over screwing the atty down will cause most devices to short circuit.

 

[SIC08869]

How do you go about adjusting your pin backup once it has been moved down?

 

[sachavaca]

if you have the older style my suggestion is throw it in the garbage. newer style has ego type threads for cone

 

[Neon]

How do you go about adjusting your pin backup once it has been moved down?

Remove the battery and push the pin back up from the inside using the eraser end of a pencil. I can do it with my finger as well.

 

[Neon]

if you have the older style my suggestion is throw it in the garbage. newer style has ego type threads for cone

Well...$1.50 will buy you a 510 to Ego adapter

 

[SIC08869]

I have the ego threads. It just seems that all the claims of the new version of the V3 are false and the unit is still having the same issues that it did. Maybe I am wrong but these were the same issues that I read about before.

 

[Mr.Bogart]

I can confirm this, I just fried mine. (Argento from Britvapes with a SB hotspring) with a fresh AW IMR 18650. Good thing I also bought a Legacy!

I thought it was important to mention this although I don't know if it is just my unit. Just an FYI, one of the vendors has claimed that the wiring in the Indulgence mod does not support IMR High Drain batteries. This confused the hell out of me but the claim is that they come off the charger considerably stronger than a standard protected battery and that it will melt the wiring. Honestly I thought that this was a bunch of BS and surely if it was an issue it was from stacking 16340s so the other day I elected to stuff one of my 2000 mah AW IMR batteries into it. I put a 1.5 carto on it fired it up.... no response at all and in fact the button stuck like it had never done. I hit the button again, and it released. I made two more attempts, tightening the battery cap, tightening the carto and still got the odd sticking button as well had to hit it each time a second depress to get the button to release. I then took off the cap and accidentally touched the spring on the cap and it singed my skin. The spring was discolored like heated metal. So I let it cool down, stuffed the lipo protected battery that came with the kit back in and it fired perfectly. In short please be careful with this mod, although it has 3 vent holes in the newer model it still lacks any kind of internal safeties with the exception of the collapsable spring.