That was before the black hole there in now. They have not shipped any repaired hoppers since the first week of November.
I sent one of mine in only about a month ago. I haven't even bothered to ask. As long as I have one that's working "well enough"... speaking of which...
The Ti I'm currently using has been requiring the "second click" thing nearly all the time. (if you don't know what this is, then you don't have the issue.... lol... you'd know!).
@MoltenTiger , I'm not sure if it was you from whom I'd heard about the "second click" phenomenon... If not, sorry to wake you
... but I noticed something about the time it takes to go from Red to Blue:
I have to keep the temp on the high side between T4 and T5 to get the performance I
used to get. So.... "Second click + High Temp Set" is the "working" operating point character of my Ti, if you will.
I'm actually trying to characterize the thing because I'm curious if this is a common hopper ailment? I can live with it if I know it's not starting to die. It works 'well enough', but I
have to use it a particular way. Can anyone relate?
Last thing: Try this at home! You can use a stopwatch, but if you're hopper is like mine, you won't need it; you won't need such tight measurement:
1)
Set your hopper to T5.
Click it ON, and gauge the amount of time it takes to go to Blue.
Turn it OFF.
Let it cool, leave it alone a bit.
(My Hopper: 6 seconds)
2)
Hopper still at T5.
Click it ON and then OFF after 1 mississippi
Click it ON again
immediately and measure the time it takes to go to Blue.
(My Hopper: 1 second + 3 seconds = 4 seconds)
See that?!?