Thanks for the advice, I know how to go about testing it, I was just posing the question as to what the community thought about the possibilities of this as being at least part of the problem.
Wow, clearly there is a fault that allows a constant trickle of current when not in use. No telling the origin of this fault, but DaVinci should be able to easily find it if they get the faulty units back in house for analysis.
I watched that video from that guy on youtube, that IQ had some messed up issues. He's lucky he got to record that one, there's no way he would have been able to explain that one, LOL.
I read a few pages back were someone talked about using small silicon wax dabs to hold them in till they cool down.
The Odin stainless steel spacers that they sell at puffitup are suppose to fit the IQ and they are half the price. I went with the glass bc it's from Davinci so I thought it would be better quality and better suited for the IQ. i certainly wasn't expecting that they would be so flimsy and fragile, my sticky brick jr has glass stems that u can drop from the height of your head and it'll survive. It cost $12 for a shatterproof glass stem that's 10x the size and weight from Sticky Brick Labs, DaVinci is charging $10 for 2 little glass cylinders. My spacers arrived chipped, DaVinci was good enough to replace it when I reached out. Unfortunately the replacements came chipped too, either the glass isn't cut well or they aren't sturdy enough to survive the delivery process undamaged.
May I ask what batteries are you using? Have you tried using a higher amperage battery? The LG HG2 is a 3000 maH 20amp battery that has solved most battery issues with the IQ.
When u are using your IQ at 410 do u monitor the display at all? My original unit dropped 15-20 degrees after each inhalation if I set the temp above 400. The battery would die real fast bc the oven is constantly reheating. It got to a point where I couldn't enjoy my IQ at all bc I'd be so concerned about each inhalation.
I'm using Smartpaths. I have mild COPD so 410 is my max on temp. When I first got it all I used was the precision mode. But something is still wrong somewhere. Either what the device is reporting for actual battery usage, I just don't know. I'll check out what your stating never noticed it, like I said haven't done precision mode in a while.
So are you right on the amps here? 20? You are right on about the batteries about this. Looked up all my batteries, they are for the most part all different but 2.
If I'm understanding this correctly wouldn't that make sense. If your changing to a different path then that's like a totally different "program" to the unit so to the device it's going to start from zero not from were you left of from the last path. As far as the unit shutting down when you set it down a lot of us including myself had luck by adjusting the tang at the bottom of the battery housing. Quick fix.
It's what I use too, it's the IQ stock battery. Lots of folks has had issues with it though.
More than likely, Only way to figure it out is to get 2 batteries and verify they are the same and re-test. But at this point I'm willing to say that it's just crappy batteries. The others that were having major issues, their batteries were totally drained the next day, this is not the case here.