Sad to report my plain Ti legacy has stopped working, it lasted 449 days, which is quite good for a hopper but a bit rubbish for any ordinary appliance.
It's now just flashing red lights with no heating, or with a different, newer back end it immediately turns off when switched on.
It's been a feeling I haven't had for ages, but a GH becoming a paperweight in your hands is a real blow.
There's not any real way to know what is wrong with it, but it is looking like yet another warranty case...
I've tried a few tricks so far, and no dice, it is persistently dead. It got a good work out at least, but most annoyingly I don't feel nearly as confident with what to expect with my incoming io now. I had just posted how reliable I was finding the legacy unit since RMA, and now not even a couple of weeks after, it bites the dust.
1.23 years has been the best life-span I've gotten from this particular unit, and it's been around and enjoyed for a longer time and to a very great degree, but with the likely lengthy waits for repair, it's frustrating to wind back into ye old purgatory with it.
Luckily I do have another working unit, and although it has been consistent for the longest time span of any hopper I've handled, it runs cold.
It doesn't vapour bong as I... require. It does an okay job, but it's like a lot of models out there which leave something to be desired.
More luckily, I found my old house mates GH which was in storage here, I didn't know about that, but now I have built an ultimate hopper. My engraved back-end, a borrowed body, and I'm getting the insane results which cause me to put up with the hopper ownership realities.
It's insane how good it works, and that makes me super happy, and feeling very lucky. But, I just don't know what to think. The io better perform like this, and I'd ideally like to get a comfortable 2 years out of it. After that amount of time I honestly wouldn't mind sending it away and/or getting new batteries. It isn't self serviceable and wear and tear is a given, possibly if servicing happened in a reasonable turn around and batteries were more available it wouldn't be such an issue...
So, business as usual here. Plenty of problems, but man are the clouds A+