Didn't last long, a small shard of glass appears to have cracked from my bamboo as it was cooling down. . . Quite disappointing as this thing was looking pretty revolutionary when is was working.
Mine was shipped on the 14th for those who wanted to know.
I checked back on this thread to see if I was experiencing an isolated issue, and reading this and the following posts my heart sank. My bamboo also broke cooling down. My unit had red-light fever right from the first time I turned it on, I left it for a full hour without change, trying every spot on the dial (only found out later that it will go green if switched off and back on). Cranked all the way up, the top half of the unit became way too hot to touch with a finger for more than the tiniest fraction of a second, but still stayed solid red. When I switched it off, I noticed an odd phenomenon where the "red LED" stayed lit, even with the power cable removed. I assumed big filtering capacitors and residual charge or something. It was only when I actually looked down the bamboo that I realised what I was seeing was
red hot incandescent glass. My GonG was actually glowing
orange from the side by channeling the glow from the heart of the tiny, artificial sun like a fibre-optic novelty lamp. In the hours post meltdown my unit made a lot of tortured tinkling sounds at random times, and now a frosty pattern is visible on the walls down the top of the bamboo. I know she's leaking as she doesn't whistle anymore, just sounds like a straw. :c
I'm wondering how long this is going to take to get replaced, because if there's some underlying issue here that's causing a spate of similar failures, it could be a while. :/
I also got two ELBs, not six, but for some reason I was expecting four; I can't recall why, though. I was expecting the hydrafoot since the post mentioning them being included with tubes late last year, so I guess the present is the extra bands?
