Baron23
Well-Known Member
Yes, mine has ran beautifully for what...maybe 8 months now without a hiccup. It is NOT a daily driver but it is in the rotation.The grasshopper seems like it would fulfill my wildest vape dreams, but besides the wait time to get one, the problems with it seem overwhelming. Has anyone gotten one that worked, and kept working?
But I'm still in the place where I cannot recommend the GH except to a experienced, vape tech, early adopter type due to concerns on reliability.
I'm glad they say that they have their failure rate reduced but I personally will believe it when people no longer reporting flashing lights and broken GHs.
By the by, I believe the quote was something like "they have reduced the failures rate to less than 5%". I don't think this is very meaningful in reliability engineering terms. Exactly what 5%? Are they saying that they are having 5% of shipped units be dead on arrival or suffer infant mortality (failure within some defined short initial period of use). If so, that really isn't all that good.
Reliability figures.....ones that would be truly meaningful to us....would generally have to have an operating time component....be a failure in time (FIT) rate or mean time between failures (MTBF). E.g. failures expected in a population over some number of operating hours such as failures per thousand of operating hours or the mean time between such failures over the population.
Just saying 5% failure rate is really rather meaningless to me.