Discontinued Pax Vaporizer by Ploom

[newVaper420]

I'm having a slight problem with my pax. Wondering if anyone else has this issue. With the mouthpiece in (new one just got it with those batches that week of sept. 10th), sometimes the Pax thinks the mouthpiece isn't in. If I wiggle a little, it starts to heat. If I shake, I have to hold the mouthpiece down, otherwise I risk having the heating turn off. Does this happen to anyone else? Should I get an exchange? Today was the first time it happened

 

[jambandphan03]

when you say "turning off heating" what is happening with the pax, what color is the light?

 

[JoeKickass]

I'm having a slight problem with my pax. Wondering if anyone else has this issue. With the mouthpiece in (new one just got it with those batches that week of sept. 10th), sometimes the Pax thinks the mouthpiece isn't in. If I wiggle a little, it starts to heat. If I shake, I have to hold the mouthpiece down, otherwise I risk having the heating turn off. Does this happen to anyone else? Should I get an exchange? Today was the first time it happened

This is the temp light issue, your mouthpiece has so much resin on the inside it's not making contact with the metal spring or the inner tube. The fix is simple, actuate your mouthpiece while it's still warm after your next sesh, or clean it but I liked my lazy fixes...

 

[Bortz]

you're soldering wires that are already attached to the pcb (printed circuit board) to the tabs that batteries+ is going to spot weld to your battery. all you need to do is desolder the wires from the tabs on the stock battery, and resolder the wires to the tabs on your new battery.

hopefully that clarifies what needs to be done

Actually, you clarified that for me too! I figured the tabs went straight to the PCB, didn't know there were jumper wires. Even better, now I don't really have to worry about cooking the PCB!

Haven't got my pax yet, so I haven't seen the innards yet, just planning ahead.
Thanks man!

 

[newVaper420]

This is the temp light issue, your mouthpiece has so much resin on the inside it's not making contact with the metal spring or the inner tube. The fix is simple, actuate your mouthpiece while it's still warm after your next sesh, or clean it but I liked my lazy fixes...

I shoved a pipe cleaner in the mouthpiece. Do you think I broke the metal spring or something inside the mouthpiece?

 

[Dreamerr]

I just finished cleaning my Pax for the first time in a week.

I found that soaking the screen doesn't get it clean enough.

So i took a Brillo pad put the screen in my sink and it easily shined up like brand new.

Then i pulled off a little piece of the Brillo rolled it up into a ball. Put it inside the oven ( Plus i had a pipe cleaner in the vapor path so no debris got in.)

I used a chopstick to move around the piece of Brillo. Toothpicks were also used to push around the Brillo to get in the tight corners.

The oven is shiny new again. It didn't scratch up anything.

I use to do this to my iolites's heating chamber

The only grip was the Brillo fibers kept sticking to the magnets.

I cleaned out all of the Brillo fibers and did a high temp burn just to make sure i got everything.

So if your OCD like me, sorry JKA. It will be good as new.

I wish i took before and after pics. Maybe next time.

Now I am picturing a pax with brillo hair wondering if it is natural, in a pony tail or even braided. Wow my head is off today. It really is making me laugh. Ok so I want pics of your pax's dressed up for Halloween. You have a month to plan it.

 

[JoeKickass]

I shoved a pipe cleaner in the mouthpiece. Do you think I broke the metal spring or something inside the mouthpiece?

No spring in the mouthpiece, just solid metal/plastic/and the little metal ring.

The metal of the mouthpiece connects the metal of the tube (in the Pax) to the metal of the spring around the tube (in the Pax)

I doubt you broke anything, have you tried clicking the mouthpiece in and out a few times when it's warm? That keeps mine working without cleaning...

 

[druminfected]

I would love to do that battery mod, but I would love to see a video on how it's done before opening up a 250$ piece of equipment. I've done soldering before, but I think I would have batteries + do it for me when I finally know how to take the pax apart. Anyone want to make a disassemble video on the pax?

by the way you can get this tool at www.1percent.com there's a 15% off code that's good till noon on 26th as well just put in FALL12

remember you need to file it down a little bit though!

 

[bluesurfboy]

so my pax fixed itself from the iso button problem.. after about a day, or day and half, it returned to working almost as it did out of box, i really cant tell, except for 1 in 5 times it seems like i press it twice on click, but now i just may be getting too critical.

 

[Futuretvowner]

Ok so I'm in west virginia and ordered my pax here from vapeworld, I ordered the Onyx which it said was in stock and I was wondering how long it usually takes these shipments from vapeworld to arrive. I haven't received any shipping info but I did use the free 2-7 day shipping. Anyone have any experience with vapeworld shipping?

 

[HSIHP]

Ok so I'm in west virginia and ordered my pax here from vapeworld, I ordered the Onyx which it said was in stock and I was wondering how long it usually takes these shipments from vapeworld to arrive. I haven't received any shipping info but I did use the free 2-7 day shipping. Anyone have any experience with vapeworld shipping?

I got min in one day but I was VERY close to the shipping site. If the use they same site (South Florida) I would say 3-4 days to get to WV.

 

[Futuretvowner]

I got min in one day but I was VERY close to the shipping site. If the use they same site (South Florida) I would say 3-4 days to get to WV.

Did you receive tracking info?

 

[HSIHP]

Did you receive tracking info?

Yes but it got here before all of the USPS tracking info even updated to out for delivery. Their tracking system is notoriously slow to update.

 

[Dreamerr]

I would love to do that battery mod, but I would love to see a video on how it's done before opening up a 250$ piece of equipment. I've done soldering before, but I think I would have batteries + do it for me when I finally know how to take the pax apart. Anyone want to make a disassemble video on the pax?

by the way you can get this tool at www.1percent.com there's a 15% off code that's good till noon on 26th as well just put in FALL12

remember you need to file it down a little bit though!

I love that tool and want one but shipping is painful to me.

 

[J Matthews]

pax is sick. was stuck using a vaporgenie for too long and i finally got the nerve to upgrade after reading some reviews. nice not having to carry a hemp wick around with me lol.

 

[Deadshort480]

Damn! Something is wrong. Upon turning on my fully charged Pax I got the normal white light and then a flashing blue light and then the unit turned off on its own. I clicked the mouthpiece in and back out and got the blue light again. Clicked the mouthpiece a few times and it finally started working correctly. I let it sit for a little bit after a quick session, went to turn it back on and that blue light was flashing at me again. Did the click trick again and it started working, but I think I'll have to contact Ploom in the morning.

 

[jambandphan03]

Damn! Something is wrong. Upon turning on my fully charged Pax I got the normal white light and then a flashing blue light and then the unit turned off on its own. I clicked the mouthpiece in and back out and got the blue light again. Clicked the mouthpiece a few times and it finally started working correctly. I let it sit for a little bit after a quick session, went to turn it back on and that blue light was flashing at me again. Did the click trick again and it started working, but I think I'll have to contact Ploom in the morning.

That's what my first one was doing, right out of the box. I got it to work a few times, but yeah, I had to send it back. I would contact ploom chat as soon as you are able. Sux, but what can you do.

 

[willieR]

So this would be an electrical contact issue within the Pax? Not something dirty, but rather just a loose connection of some sort? Since you can wiggle the mouthpiece t get some action, it would seem like a loose connecton as compared to something wrong with the PCB

 

[Dammit]

I think I went a little overboard making tamping tools.

The ones to the left fill the shape of the oven but the ones to the right have smaller gaps.

Various lengths and tips. Two of them have flatten tips, two with blunt tips, and one with a loop if I want to attach it to a key chain or something.

I Think I'm starting to develop carpal tunnel syndrome from bending all this wire with improper tools.

 

[Dammit]

So this would be an electrical contact issue within the Pax? Not something dirty, but rather just a loose connection of some sort? Since you can wiggle the mouthpiece t get some action, it would seem like a loose connecton as compared to something wrong with the PCB

The mouth piece completes the circuit between the vapor path tube and the spring loaded ring around it, which activates the heating mode. Resin buildup between the mouth piece and the outside of the vapor path tube, and interrupts the connection, switching the pax into temp change mode like when the mouth piece is off. That's why it goes back to operating normally after cleaning these areas well.

 

[druminfected]

I love that tool and want one but shipping is painful to me.

I didn't take a look at the price for shipping. I wish stores would ship tiny things like this via first class mail so it's cheap, because who wants to buy something inexpensive and have a big fee shipping price that is more than the item itself! I remember I bought a few things from the site and that's how I ended up getting that Pax wonder Tool I like it so much ( before I did any portable vaping) that I showed my friends the tool and they liked it so much I gave it to my friend, and bought 5 more to give as xmas presents

Dammit, do you carry all of those pax pack tools where ever you go? Seems you and me like our Pax packing tools as much as the Pax! I do at least, it does the job perfectly.

 

[willieR]

The mouth piece completes the circuit between the vapor path tube and the spring loaded ring around it, which activates the heating mode. Resin buildup between the mouth piece and the outside of the vapor path tube, and interrupts the connection, switching the pax into temp change mode like when the mouth piece is off. That's why it goes back to operating normally after cleaning these areas well.

Right, but if the unit is new that leads me to think it's a physical connecton failing for some other reason than resin.

 

[druminfected]

I just finished cleaning my Pax for the first time in a week.

I found that soaking the screen in Iso doesn't get it clean enough.

Like earlier posters mentioned you don't need much iso at all to clean the Pax, I honestly think the only time you need to use iso is to clean the screen and underneath the screen oven. Everything else can be cleaned with a pipe cleaner and setting your Pax on to med/high and clean it when hot. I poke out the screen with the pipe cleaner and then just put a drop or two of iso on a Q-tip and put the screen on a flat surface and scrub both sides of the screen lightly and boom no more icky boom boom. I do the same with inside the oven and use the other side of the pipe cleaner to get the mouth piece and your done!

No brillo pad needed!

 

[willieR]

Someone else posted this recenly, but I hold the Pax with the temp switch up, oven down. Then I slide a lightly Iso soaked pipe cleaner from the oven side up to just near the top of the steel vapor path tube, then back down. I don't risk exposure of the temp switch to Iso, but man! does that put a mirror finish in that steel pipe.

 

[smokum]

After watching the manufacturer's site video on cleaning the PAX, I 'do' notice that they are only using the wipes to clean surfaces/mouthpiece, and with the pipecleaners.... they are 'only' wiping them with the alcohol wipes to moisten them (not saturating them).

Perhaps 'this' is the issue people are having by applying too much alcohol to the pipe cleaner, q-tips, etc.

I think once PV gets the PAX back in stock that I'll most likely take a stab at ownership, because frankly... I'm feeling left out, lol.