My Plenty self-modified itself by sheer will power alone.
Back story:
Bought a Plenty in Dec 2020. After a year or so it broke (flashing light - known problem after I researched it), returned for a replacement. (For various reasons there were problems in sending my original one back so I was told to keep it.) After a year Plenty#2 broke, same problem; returned/replaced. ... This happened again ... I received Plenty#4 July 2024. I still own Plenty#1 and was always hoping to fix and modify it.
When I received Plenty#4 I was a little disappointed because it didn't feel like it was reaching max temp, or it was just hitting it but the temp would drop quickly. The reading was showing just into the red, so I guess very accurate, especially compared to my previous ones. But at the same time this is one of the main reasons I like the Plenty, in that it it never goes over the max temp, never gives a "foul" taste, and is totally consistant in it's vapour deliverance. Within a few weeks, however, this problem went away and it then felt like the perfect Plenty. And I was then tempted to modify Plenty#1, and use that mostly, with Plenty#4 as a perfect backup or one to lend out.
I spent about a month contemplating the mod; I knew which part to get, etc., and looked forward to some tweeking. (I have 101 things like this on a to-do list!)
Then, one day, vaping on the Plenty, I noticed a foul taste. (I predominately use capsules and come in at 5.5 on the dial, and will finish off at 7.) The dial was at 5.5, but the reading was at around the last part of the red section. So I dialled it back to 4.5, it now read where it used to; just into the red. Over a few days of use I had to keep dialling it back a bit more; I now come in at 2 to 2.5 to get the same results I did at 5.5. I finish near 4, but that is a little hot, It's better pulled through water, I'll get into that more.
Okay, so It is clearly defective, but I found it odd, and amusing, that whilst I was contemplating modifying Plenty#1, my Plenty#4 became defective but operates like how I expected Plenty#1 to be modified to!
For me the average lifespan of a Plenty is 1 year, so I do expect the flashing light to appear at some stage, and for that reason I haven't contacted S&B yet. But for now I have self-modified Plenty!
btw, If I set the dial to 7 then the reading has gone into the "I" of Bickel. (I don't use that setting, temp is very high.) But for several weeks now I've wondered it would ever read the six o'clock mark. Yesterday I set it to 7 and took a photo of the reading; almost there!
I don't yet know how to upload images to this forum, it appears to be unconventional; the "insert image" function won't accept the URLs I have given it.
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