I know you just got it back, but you should try cleaning the back end threads on the clicker and body. I had this issue with my Purple Ti as well and it seems a good cleaning stopped the issue with mine. Try it and see if it works for you as well. Good luck I hope you don't have anymore issues with it. I'm going on over a year with my OG Ti, (03/17/16).
Yeah ... on my list of things to do ... thing is .... it's not really an issue since it performs extremely well (can easily finish a full bowl in a single hit through water with massive clouds, flashing or no flashing)
Thanks. I'll try a new battery and cleaning and report back.
for the good of vaporists worldwide I beg u to send your hopper to HL so they can take it apart and identify what they did right with your's. Perhaps then they can replicate it
, your sacrifice will go down in hopper history
Ohhh, this is all fitting together now.....
So, after a little over a year with my Ti, I had gotten used to storing it for a while, pulling it out, hating it not working, sending it in, getting it back, having it not work or stop working again, storing for a while......repeat.
This time, it's been a week and it's still working. And after reading all these posts about the blue lights possibly meaning something a little different now, I thought I'd try something.
Average vape producing bud, nothing special. Standard SLX grind and fluffy filled to the top. I ran it thru my Sticky Tube with an adapter and wow. Great taste in the first three hits, with nice clouds. The fourth hit confirmed it was dead.
And brown ABV. I've only seen this once before with my GH!
So a change in my perspective on those lights.....The only thing I did different is instead of taking a good firm pull like seemed had been the consensus, I watched the blue lights and if they flickered, I slowed down.
I instantly saw clouds when slowing down. Maybe mine is just running a bit cooler than others, but I'll be trying this out again dry thru a @DDave cooler during errands today, and really sort hope it works and spins my vaporizer usage into a mix!
**Edit for stoner typos and to add, when it returned this last time from RMA, they did buff out the two very large, deep scratches they put in the body the last time they had it, or replaced the body. Very nice for them to follow thru this time, they hadn't in the past.
This is what I was trying to say although I was under the impression the heater could keep up but I think the battery can't.
WARNING: TOTAL SUPPOSITION ON MY PART
If assume that if you are pulling too hard the heater tries to compensate by drawing more current from the battery. This in turn will lower the voltage as you are pulling more current and depleting the battery faster.
Now there are all kinds of ways to manage the voltage drops using regulators and we know the hopper has a PWM regulator in it so I'm not entirely sure a basic V=IxR (V=volts, I= Current, R=resistance of circuit) applies but I thought it made for interesting discussion.
Also your experience is really interesting and supports the theory.
I could be totally wrong so I'm hoping someone with more electrical knowledge then me chimes in.
HAHA yeh mostly because that's half the battle, confidence in the device. We know it can perform, that is from my perspective not in question. What I don't always know if it's going to work well on the day that I need it.
And no matter how much tea I drink the leave tell me nothing
I think the hopper batteries need to be looked after.
Because I don't use my hopper except for the odd weekend I really should run the batteries though a weekly discharge/charge cycle to keep them running at their maximum potential. I should also really only store them at 60-65%. But that takes a fairly consistent and considered approach and I'm lazy as hell so I think I'm not really treating my batteries as well as I should.
That's on me.
I still love my hopper and will be taking it to the fringe festival next week, but you better believe a VapCap (or two) is coming with me for backup.
This I want so badly, it would probably put my hopper back into daily rotation.
Maintenance:
1. Keep your battery contact clean. If there is any dirt or build up on the battery contact, we suggest using a dry toothbrush to clean it. You may also do a light scrubbing with 600 grit sandpaper shine the surface. This will help keep good contact with your battery, increasing efficiency.
The front end write-up is somewhat informative, but it makes no mention of the material on which the screen is actually mounted. For lack of a better term (or information) I call it a 'plastic' piece. I think it odd that they talk about an air space as part of the design while making no mention of this man-made white-colored material that holds the screen in place - unless they've eliminated it?
