kushkush
happy camper....
Just the opposite may be true...the GH being a backup for the VC...since the VC has the better reputation.
And if I had to pay $60 just to send a GH in for another repair, I'd be asking for a full refund.
Discontinued The Grasshopper
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Just the opposite may be true...the GH being a backup for the VC...since the VC has the better reputation.
And if I had to pay $60 just to send a GH in for another repair, I'd be asking for a full refund.
Hogni
Honi soit qui mal y pense
@GreenHopper
Bats already charged? Enjoy your PS - you'll love it or already loving it?
Tomorrow I'll go with my hopper to Verdampftnochmal. Dont think they can do something for me at once but using the opportunity finally to buy my Herborizer Ti
Bats already charged? Enjoy your PS - you'll love it or already loving it?
Tomorrow I'll go with my hopper to Verdampftnochmal. Dont think they can do something for me at once but using the opportunity finally to buy my Herborizer Ti
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GreenHopper
20 going on 60
@GreenHopper
Bats already charged? Enjoy your PS - you'll love it or already loving it?
Tomorrow I'll go with my hopper to Verdampftnochmal. Dont think they can do something for me at once but using the opportunity finally to buy my Herborizer Ti
Yes the batts are
But not tried it yet though as I should really go for a run first...I mean I guess I could skip this run
![:\](/i/s/hmm.gif "Hmm :\")
....no, no I gotta keep with the programme.I hear great things about the Herb-Ti.
Enjoy my friend.
To everyone else, I used my Hopper over the weekend again when staying at a hotel in London. It was great and performed admirably. The only time it nearly all went wrong was when I felt the need to throw the GH at the dickhead bouncing a basketball down the street at 2am.
I didn't though, turns out I value my GH more than my sleep....now that should tell you how much I like my GH.
Mr Mellish
Well-Known Member
I have a VC M but haven’t had time to slog through their thread. So far, I can’t get anything useful out of it, so GH wins. Never failed.
There is a best of thread for the vapcap, might be worth giving that a read. But yeah, I do like how idiotproof the GH is
GreenHopper
20 going on 60
Grasshopper Grasshopper Mail
Laser Engraving Now Available
Custom Laser Engraving is now available on the Grasshopper Clip. We are offering reduced engraving prices for the first week!
- You can send your existing Back-end in for engraving for $30
- Any new Hopper purchased can be engraved for $25
Designs should be submitted to engraving@ghvape.com. Please visit our page on engraving for more info. If you are not design savvy but know what you want we can create a custom quote for you.
MoltenTiger
Well-Known Member
Hey that's pretty cool. I'm half tempted by this. Seems there's decent resolution to play with for a design too; 600x200 .jpg's
Grasshopper Grasshopper Mail
Laser Engraving Now Available
Custom Laser Engraving is now available on the Grasshopper Clip. We are offering reduced engraving prices for the first week!
- You can send your existing Back-end in for engraving for $30
- Any new Hopper purchased can be engraved for $25
Designs should be submitted to engraving@ghvape.com. Please visit our page on engraving for more info. If you are not design savvy but know what you want we can create a custom quote for you.
Arial is the poor mans helvetica though..
If anyone here is interested in going the custom design route, I'd be happy to produce an image file to a design spec. I might have a play around with some ideas of my own. I'm thinking plain text is lame, a central logo or a themed text to a user name or something is much more appealing. Then there's the option of abstract patterns. It'd look best in a vertical format too
here's a quick one, just the logo
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slcbdco
Brewer, Lobbyist, Vaporist
I have and like both. Very different experiences though. I definitely prefer the grasshoppper and use it a lot more often. Sometimes I enjoy a "session" usually with tobaco and mixed herbs.
For cannabis only, and for travel or most applications really I prefer the grasshopper but the IQ definitely has a spot in my rotation also
btka
Well-Known Member
it seems like my ti gh is performing weaker then when I got it back from my last rma (10th february)...
I also got new batteries with my rma... my other ss gh which was not as good performing as my ti is now performing better in my opinion then my ti gh... maybe it is subjective it is hard to tell... but in my opinion my ti worked better in the past...
so what should I do... could it be the batteries (I bought 3 new 3 or 4 months ago) should I therefore buy new batteries...
or should I rma my ti gh altough it is working (but not as good as I received it after rma in feb.).. I do not want to send it in and then get told it is working and they did not do anything... also what should I tell gh why I want to rma,? should I tell them the performance is not as good as when I received it back from my last rma or that they should bump up the temps...?
did someone send their working gh to hopperlabs because of weaker performance and what did gh do... did they anything at all or did they send it back without doing anything... any experience...
maybe it is subjective as I stated before... it is really hard to tell but I think I got bigger clouds in the past
I also got new batteries with my rma... my other ss gh which was not as good performing as my ti is now performing better in my opinion then my ti gh... maybe it is subjective it is hard to tell... but in my opinion my ti worked better in the past...
so what should I do... could it be the batteries (I bought 3 new 3 or 4 months ago) should I therefore buy new batteries...
or should I rma my ti gh altough it is working (but not as good as I received it after rma in feb.).. I do not want to send it in and then get told it is working and they did not do anything... also what should I tell gh why I want to rma,? should I tell them the performance is not as good as when I received it back from my last rma or that they should bump up the temps...?
did someone send their working gh to hopperlabs because of weaker performance and what did gh do... did they anything at all or did they send it back without doing anything... any experience...
maybe it is subjective as I stated before... it is really hard to tell but I think I got bigger clouds in the past
freshly baked
Well-Known Member
Just realized I no longer have a shut off timer. Timed it and gave up after 2 1/2 minutes. Hopefully its a new update and not just me. Haven't read anything about it that I can remember.
vapviking
Old & In the Way
Re: the engraving
If you can submit your own graphic design, why should font matter? Couldn't their scan just reproduce what you send, whether it be a design of a tree or the letter 'T'? I understand emojis and some other things may be protected images, but...
In the pre-digital '60's my dad had a Zippo lighter with his signature engraved on it; a promotional item that also had a company logo in bas relief on the reverse. Why could I not have my own signature on my Hopper? I don't sign papers with Arial font! Maybe I just don't understand the distinction.
If you can submit your own graphic design, why should font matter? Couldn't their scan just reproduce what you send, whether it be a design of a tree or the letter 'T'? I understand emojis and some other things may be protected images, but...
In the pre-digital '60's my dad had a Zippo lighter with his signature engraved on it; a promotional item that also had a company logo in bas relief on the reverse. Why could I not have my own signature on my Hopper? I don't sign papers with Arial font! Maybe I just don't understand the distinction.
MoltenTiger
Well-Known Member
I'm in a similar position currently. I never managed to post my GH away (plain Ti has red then dead), so I'll do it on Monday - but, in the mean time my blue unit has started to show signs of imminent failure.
It's taking ages to heat up, it's super annoying. 13 seconds at T4.6 as I just timed it, and the hits it's giving are abnormal.
It begins to produce the classic GH vapour (super dense) but almost as immediately as it comes, it begins to rapidly taper away. This results with a super tasty but whispier than expected cloud. Gees it tastes good, and with my current tolerance, it is doing great things and I'm super baked.
But, I'm a little dismayed as to what to do with it myself.
When I was working last week, I had to pick some stuff up from our lead engineers property, and whilst I was there he gave me an over my head run down on this new product he's developing, basically a controlling device for a 'smart' hot water cylinder.
Now, this tech is actually pretty similar to what the GH is, a regulated circuit pumping energy at a controlled rate. Our board is doing heaps more as well, but at the heart of this motherboard was a glimpse at the intricacies that similarly lie within my favourite pen as well as this big A5 size control box.
I'm adequately sure that when the pen is fucked, it needs to go back to the labs.
Mine are both fucked again, so they're going to need a tuning.
The board Chris was making has a whole section with another processor unit that is basically a backup to the main micro-controller - if that thing drops out of sequence, then the backup overrides the residual command sequence and then it re-calibrates and operates normally.
The GH is possibly just reliant on being at a particular sequence that could be disrupted, and when that happens, it's basically game over until it's 'reset'. Without the hardware to do this, it'll need to be sent away to the hardware.
The issue with dropping performance, which I've experienced a few different times, usually is linked with longer heat up times. And damn does 13 seconds seem like a long time to wait to hit the bong lol
I'm guessing that after a while of this the device is disrupted and normally I'd get a cop light response or a red then dead.
Instant blue has been identified by HL as fixable by blasting compressed air into the device.
I'm curious if IPA soaking, a GH with a long heat up, to the gills would cause it to heat up in a normal time frame... I'll probably try this but I'm not overly hopeful.
I know HL have said that long heat up times are a sure sign of a problem - so I think they should be capable of fixing this better than I could anyway.
I'm also curious, both our units spawned from a time before a revision to the front end was outlaid that was claimed to solve residue build up.
I'll probably send both mine back together, and make use of a bit of engraving for the hell of it.
I think I just bought a sublimator for 30AUD... so if that's the case, the exuberant expense of custom engraving is a little easier to swallow
This happened to me before my last RMA.
I got into my high mind, rather correctly though, that pre-heating chambers was a mint idea.
I clocked it at 10+ minutes (lol) and damn the cloud I got.
However, I ended up getting a straight to blue error.
This is actually not problematic - it just needs cleaning (air compressor to the front end).
I sent it away, and it came back (with new front-end parts), worked perfectly for a few weeks and now it has a red then dead failure and is filed to be returned, and probably soon tattooed.
I would recommend avoiding leaving it on at any point. Click it on, wait for it to go blue, hit it, turn it off and keep toking.
If you don't leave it on whilst it's not in use, it should be golden. That was a good device iteration, lasted me ages of heavy use (actually the longest hopper span I've had with a single unit)
Yeah, it's just how it's currently set up.
If you read the reddit thread introducing it, it seems pretty whimsical.
A black and white jpeg with 600x200 real estate can house an amazing amount of detail.
I actually tried to prep a signature pic earlier today, I found using a mouse pretty below par, but I can do a fairly convincing signature on a touchscreen, say a phone. Rasterizing that image digitally and rendering it within the pixel space to be engraved is simple enough, but complex enough that a default option of simple text in a simple font is necessary given the computers controlling the engraver, which won't read emojis or pay royalties to the Germans.
A jpeg can be anything, and is easily the better choice, or as I like to look at it; the only choice.
And as I said before, I'm happy to help anyone pimp out their hopper, because if there's something I know about rasterizing, it's how to do it.
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kushkush
happy camper....
It's those 'proprietary' GH batterys that also make me wish I'd never bought a GH and waited a whole year to get it. Have an order in now for the M with Dynavap and if I like it better I'll put my GH up for sale (which has never quite played nicely with me).
GreenHopper
20 going on 60
Now that is how it's done!
Kermitt
Well-Known Member
@Hogni
I bought the PFE TI yesterday at the same shop. The PFE arrived today. I use the Hopper only sometimes when I'm out. But the PFE is a nice upgrade, i couldn't not resist ;-)
After my first impressions, the purchase was worth it. Now the GH may not look quite as smart, but it is more comfortable to use.
The PFE is unfortunately also a bit more shiny than the TI body of my GH.
I bought the PFE TI yesterday at the same shop. The PFE arrived today. I use the Hopper only sometimes when I'm out. But the PFE is a nice upgrade, i couldn't not resist ;-)
After my first impressions, the purchase was worth it. Now the GH may not look quite as smart, but it is more comfortable to use.
The PFE is unfortunately also a bit more shiny than the TI body of my GH.
Icon13
Serial Vapist
Yeah, it must be an update... LOL.
It's probably not going to make any difference at all. That one is going to break down on you just like the last one. Hopper Labs gave me a brand new, revised unit at one point and it stopped working in 3 weeks just like the rest of them. Best of luck to you. I feel your pain.
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I bought a drip tip (ecig mouthpiece) made of stainless steel and glass. It fits perfectly in the PFE and it solves the hot lip problem completly for me. Can cash a bowl in one run on max temp not necessary to let it cool down. Now it's easily my favorite vape to session with
freshly baked
Well-Known Member
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nice, some pics of mine:
dispatched and in a bubbler:
http://imgur.com/a/e9v9M
It fits with the drip tip in my 14mm piece and the airflow seems to be the same.
Unfortunately it doesn't fit in my 18mm->14mm adaptor but it's really easy to remove the drip tip
and I really like it dry at the moment
there are also drip tips without the red rubber on the glass side available. might look better. I also saw one with a heatsink but for my usage it's really hard to get my current drip tip hot
dispatched and in a bubbler:
http://imgur.com/a/e9v9M
It fits with the drip tip in my 14mm piece and the airflow seems to be the same.
Unfortunately it doesn't fit in my 18mm->14mm adaptor but it's really easy to remove the drip tip
and I really like it dry at the moment
there are also drip tips without the red rubber on the glass side available. might look better. I also saw one with a heatsink but for my usage it's really hard to get my current drip tip hot
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Vapor_Eyes
taste buds
I sent my Ti back a month after receiving it due to declining performance. I had a perfectly functional SS to compare it to so it was easy to see the difference in performance. At first temp 5 extracted like temp 4 in the SS and it declined even further after that.
They sent it back and it was better but it still feels as if it never returned to its previous performance. I suspect they may have made some unannounced changes to the temp curve last fall. We know they did the same this spring and we only found out after a few combustion incidents. I think there was a "cooler" version of the firmware for a while and then it was later bumped up to be even warmer than the original firmware.
This is purely speculation but lowering the max temp may have been an attempt to increase reliability, and when this didn't make a difference it was changed again. Either way I'd like to try out this newly tuned firmware. Perhaps it is finally time to send in my SS with the temp dial that keeps getting stuck. It has recently started to show signs of inconsistent/decreasing performance.
One key thing I've noticed is that during the weak hits the mouthpiece doesn't get hot at all, and that's pretty much a signature characteristic of the Grasshopper. Also, it takes forever to extract, a fully functioning hopper can kill a bowl in one or two hits at temp 5, whereas an underperforming one will take six hits or more and the resulting ABV won't be as dark.
I've got relatively new batteries, the GHB2s with the thicker wrapping, and it doesn't seem related at all to the specific battery being used or charge level.