Hello from Germany,
I just posted this in the mighty thread. Hopes it is no problem to cross- and double- post but I thought there might be some interesting informations. If not please apologize and feel free to remove.
Just wanted to ad I have a crafty with 75 hours of usage. The housing is starting to break around the filling chamber. I am honest, I don't now if it was me dropping the unit while walking with the dog or if it's the same problem like on my mighty which just came back from warranty, but I realized the crack just after inspecting the unit after a very hard drop!
Had to send in my Mighty because the housing was broken around the Filling Chamber. Got back a brand new Mighty with serial number near 12000.
So far so god. Realized some new things and got some information from a S&B Engineer.
-new o-rings in very light blue
-the cooling unit turns with less effort till it snaps hard toward the last angle. Hope this prevents from breaking in the near future.
-the cooling unit is aligned 100% with the heater
-no more loose batteries or heater. They are fixed with foam rubber. When jiggling the device there is nothing to hear
-because of the foam rubber there is no more cracking of the housing
-the mouth piece does take more effort to turn out
-the device feels more solid in general
-the temperature drop with full batteries to reset the 1 minute shut off does finally work like supposed to (or the minivap has trained my lungs in absence of the mighty)
- no more error 004 in the new firmware. Error 004 means heater not working. Some of us me including have such heavy draws, the unit thinks the heater is dead because of massive temperature drops over 30 seconds
-vibration working good so far when attempting temperature
They are working on a lot of problems mentioned in this thread ( I read the entire mighty and crafty thread, I own both and some more devices ).
The breaking housing should be resolved in the near future. They are apologizing much for this and we're sending out the new device sealed with accessories. Hole procedure took 5 days since sending out the broken device.
They are working on a new firmware with a two point controller to make sure the unit is vibrating because temperature level is overhit like the crafty does. Look at the temperature of the display on your mighty. The unit is approaching the set temperature very slowly which results in not vibrating sometimes with empty batteries....
They have a solution for the 4 breaking cooling rips around the filling chamber but not implemented this in production yet, apologizing again.
The design of the mighty not standing or lying flat down was a design decision from one of the managers. Guess out which one ourself, don't want to tell to much.
They thought of much more like a grinder attached to the filling aid, about the size of the sieves ( I was complaining about the coarse ones but the decision is justified for people not cleaning the chamber directly after use, the fine sieve will clog to fast) , the clear plug of the filling unit not being closed or even a pressure sensor for recognizing a draw to reset the timer..I promise you there aren't much things they didn't think of in the last 3 years of the developing work. These guys are genius'. Was discussing some more ideas I had (studying engineering in the last semesters and long time stoner) and you guys of the forum had and for every thought there is a justification apart of the housing breaking and the mighty not standing upwards.
Excuse misspelling and grammar, I am German and this is my first post. Hope it is not too long but I wanted to share the Infos I got from S&B for thank you for your infos I got lurking around here after buying my first vaporizer in 2013.
Still getting about 35-40mins worth of battery.
