Smoant Battlestar, shorted error...

[unclepoop]

So I received my Battlestar yesterday and mounted my TFV8 tank on and was vaping away for awhile. I went and filled the tank again and a pretty good leak happened. I cleaned up the tank and the mod, at least it only seemed to be a little juice got on top and the back side. I reset the coil in the tank and mounted it all back up. When I did this the mod read "shorted". I tried resetting and cleaning the tank again, "shorted" came up.

I then decide to put my Mad Dog GTA on the mod after putting the clapton in. Turned on the mod and "shorted" popped up. I am thinking maybe juice got into what I didn't want juice to get into.

So what should I do, it is a brand new mod? I am thinking about contacting Smoant which is probably the best thing to do. I was just hoping letting sit over night would have helped.

This sucks...

 

[Eskie]

Have you tried cleaning out the 510 on the mod with a Q tip or something?

 

[unclepoop]

Have you tried cleaning out the 510 on the mod with a Q tip or something?

Yeah I used some napkins I have laying around. I tried it several times. There doesn't seem to be any juice there or at least none the napkins can get at.

 

[Eskie]

If you've got any alcohol around you can dip a q tip in it (not dripping wet) and see if that will get anything out.

 

[stols001]

Unclepoop, that's too bad. I hope you figure out a solution, for sure. I assume you took apart everything you could overnight and aired it out (batteries, whatnot, cleaned with rubbing ETOH each part you are able to get at? The only thing I might add might be a blowdryer action (on low) to dry out anything you can't reach, but it sounds like you may have a toasted mod.

You are technically within your warranty period, so.... I personally, would treat it like I did with my son's many bricked cellphones, he was SO bad with water (toilet drops happened twice, we finally banned electronics from the bathroom), so we'd send it in for warranty, figuring "IF they are oh so serious about water voiding the warranty, they will know how to know and let US know." We always got it repaired or warrantied for free.

Maybe this is slightly bad, but the way I look at it, is if a company has any questions for me about a warranty issue, they can ask me questions which I will answer truthfully..... IF they ask them.

Anna

 

[MMW]

Take the atomizer off and fire it. If it says shorted, it's the mod.

 

[Vapefiend]

I hope things work out for you.

 

[unclepoop]

Thanks all for the help. I ended up changing the coil out of the TFV8 tank, kinda forgot there was another coil. As soon as I did that and put the batteries back into the mod everything started to work. Still cannot get the GTA to work, still shows shorted. I have to get my hands on some coils to see if it was the coil or something else that I did when building it.

 

[MMW]

Perhaps the coils are contacting the chamber barrel on the Mad Dog?

 

[unclepoop]

I reset the coil on the GTA and removed the batteries in the mod. Mounted the GTA and placed the batteries in. Started it up and it fired for the time I held the button down, then released and tried again and got the error again. Fired up again and no error messages since. Seems everything is ok, not sure if it was a quirk of the mod or my poor building skills.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

My Battlestar didn't complain, but I had a similar event when I put a brand new Geekvape Illusion tank on my brand new Battlestar.

I didn't assemble the tank properly and all five milliliters of my favorite juice waited until I wasn't watching and promptly exited the tank. Juice was everywhere. In the airflow chamber. All over the mod. All over the table. All over the cat (not the dog; she's too smart).

I was petrified.

I reassembled the tank properly, refilled it, watched everything like a hawk. When I was reasonably sure it wouldn't try a repeat performance, I fired it up and it was like nothing had ever happened. The only thing I lost was a tankful of primo juice and the time it took to bathe the cat.