Hey folks. I was fooling around this evening in the kitchen and I found some cool straws that I purchased from
http://www.amazon.com/straws-reusab...54216915&sr=8-2-spell&keywords=reusable+straw
They cost 5.97.
So here is the deal. These cool colored LONG silicone tubes fit perfectly over the end of the cooling unit draw straw. Extending it some 10 inches. Thats ten inches of COOLING. Making for nice cool pulls at higher temps of when boosting the temp. the other way this could be used is by putting the crafty in your vest inside pocket pull out the long straw and go for it!!.
I noticed that my crafty has 32 hours on it. I timed initial heating time and it took almost exactly 2 minutes to heat to 355.
The crafty battery has a finite life bottom line. This is the core of the Crafty's problem.
Heat is the enemy of LiOn batteries.
I almost always immediately put mine on charge. I rarely run my battery down. I have never fully depleted it before getting it onto charge.
from Batteryuniversery.com:
- [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Heat increases battery performance but shortens life by a factor of two for every 10°C increase above 25–30°C (18[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]°[/FONT]F above 77–86[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]°[/FONT]F). Keep the battery cool.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Prevent over-discharging. Cell reversal can cause an electrical short.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]On high load and repetitive full discharges, reduce stress by using a larger battery.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A moderate DC discharge is better for a battery than pulse and agitated loads.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A battery exhibits capacitor-like characteristics when discharging at high frequency. This allows higher peak currents than is possible with a DC load.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Nickel-and lithium-based batteries have a fast chemical reaction; lead acid is sluggish and requires a few seconds to recover between heavy loads.[/FONT]
- All batteries suffer stress when stretched to maximum permissible tolerances.
Anyway, enjoy your Crafty made vapor!!