Sorry about that. I didn't see the marks you're talking about until just now. Like a finely-tipped object was pressed there. Maybe a testing device they made to be able to diagnose without disassembly?Were those marks on the battery terminal not there before sending the body off? In my experience that is the marking pattern that comes from normal use. To me it looks like "scratch off" lottery ticket material as the conduction point. In my previous bodies I've noticed a direct correlation between vapor performance and the decrease in this gold stuff on the contact. The checkerboard pattern appears (to me) to be the heater pattern below the contact point which is a clear material.
Flavor intensity on first hit makes me drool. Have to angle hopper up so saliva doesn't drip in. Some strange Pavlovian reaction I suppose. Probably just me.
This is misleading. Convection is just a good if not far superior for sessions. Being a solo vape is just the nature of the Grasshopper, but not necessarily convection.
Hey twin! I thought that was only me! It's way the Grasshopper is a personal vape!
Agreed and even GHL would tell you it's designed to be a "personal" device, sure you could share it but gross ... see above, what have backwash when you can have a freshies, in other words, the best way to have a grasshopper session with friends is for them to stop by Terrapin Care Station in Boulder or Denver and buy there own!
This is misleading. Convection is just a good if not far superior for sessions. Being a solo vape is just the nature of the Grasshopper, but not necessarily convection.
I own an Evolutions Vaporizer, which is IMO one of the best ever produced. One bowl puffs for days; really long. And because it is convection, you can sit on it and then continue. I've owned it for over 10 years. It's amazing and ideal for sessions, BIG ONES! Beautiful, dense clouds.
If I could edit the post I would change my sentence to "I think it may be that portable conduction vapes are more suitable to session vaping."
Surely we can agree on that?
(I was not attempting to compare apples to oranges. Or grasshoppers to praying mantises.)
Has anyone tried soda charger?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B012CON4L8?vs=1
Friend gave me this charger free and the hopper cells dock perfectly in there no need to adjust like nitecore. Not a big deal just something I noticed
Also I got iso in heater not really sure how, anyway after cleaning I turned it on and I could here the hopper sizzling kinda like wen u hit a mod. I quickly clicked it off and started putting myself down for being so careless. Anyway later that day tried it again and its fine. Guess i got lucky?
Last year I shared my PAX 2 with a friend outside a cinema, he drooled into it, the saliva pooled under the flat mouthpiece and fizzled in the tube, it really grossed me out.
Over the last week or so I've left my blue GH alone (it has been going straight to blue with no heat) I've only been using my other hopper. I emptied the unused chamber in the blue out earlier today to use, then discarded the hopper again.
I just took it out to have a proper look.
I remember reading that the elevape uses an optical thermal sensor, I'm unsure how the hopper handles it's temperature business, but assume it could be similar.
I have been fairly careless with material in my hoppers, I'll just pour in some kief to enjoy, normally on top of some herb already loaded, but I'm not overly careful.
I hardly, and I mean very rarely, clean my hoppers, and although this particular body wasn't very old (1 month ish) it had accumulated a fair bit of residue - the chamber walls were coated in powdery weed and baked on oils, the heater screen faintly discoloured with a thin layer of resin.
There has been some talk of cleaning under the chamber screen to rid the straight to blue issue, which I think would make sense if the heater sensors are optical (and are thus blocked by residue that can be cleaned off)
As my device was turning on but not heating up, I just did the unthinkable and gave it a blast of air down the chamber. This either dislodged something, or caused a thermal change triggering the sensors, either way - it caused the hopper to heat up - and it still is* although the red lights seem to be lingering for a touch longer than normal.
I think there's a design flaw with the hopper being too enclosed, and unable to be easily cleaned....
This would explain the copious sensor issues (cop lights, red then dead, straight to blue)
Either from displaced thermal mass, or physically obstructing the sensors.
What do you guys think?
I'm hopeful my blue hopper continues to work, so I can lend my good unit away for a week.
If it's just a dirty unit giving me issues, I think it should recuperate well enough as it's relatively fresh.
*it did work and then stop working, prior to blowing down the chamber
I just got a huge cloud from it with the SoL and some fresh herb. It took longer to heat up, and it seemed like the battery wasn't full (which it was not).does it work now? as far as I know the optical sensor in the elevape did adjust temp by recognizing the glowing of the heat element.. I do not think gh have an optical heat sensor... but this is pure speculation..
If I could edit the post I would change my sentence to "I think it may be that portable conduction vapes are more suitable to session vaping."
Surely we can agree on that?
(I was not attempting to compare apples to oranges. Or grasshoppers to praying mantises.)
enough said.I have not used one, but
enough said.
I stand by my OPINION that currently available portable conduction vaporizers are more suitable to "session" vaping than currently available portable convection vaporizers.
Disagree with my opinion all you want. Not sure what you're trying to accomplish by posting that you disagree with me though?
I got a message from Caroline:
"[...] In regards to the rattle, I showed the video to the team and they would like to have you send it to us for service. In order for you to do so, please submit a warranty request on GHVape.com and I will get this processed for you and send you instructions for how to return the device to us. Unfortunately, Verdampftnochmal doesn’t have the ability to test the device or knowledge about what could cause this error.
We are happy that they are assisting you with your other Hopper troubles, but would like to have you send this Hopper to us for service."
Hmmm....Perhaps they are just curious... Or they are just careful. But now i'm worried about the rattle noise. They want to take my hoppers' soul away
I will send it in, BUT i cant register my hopper because of the error "serial nr not found " on the website. So Caroline got another mail. THAT'S frustrating. When I RMA'd my other broken hoppers to verdampftnochmal, I usually get them back within a week.
Now its almost a week and nothing happend but 2 mails from me and 1 from Caroline. That's such a slow CS. Nice to have 2 backup hoppers.
@ GERMAN HOPPER USERS WHO HAD WARRANTY EXPERIENCES WITH HL: how did you ship it and how long took the whole process till you got your hopper back? I'm afraid of the costs, what about insurance as well ?
Hello,
I removed the heater screen and 2 pieces of metal (hopper crap) came out. They laid on the blue heater when i looked into the chamber.
Looks like solder to meI'm glad your hopper is back up and working and I'm glad you were able to get your batteries.
But what the heck are those two metal turds and how the heck did they end up in your hopper?
Very weird.
Over the last week or so I've left my blue GH alone (it has been going straight to blue with no heat) I've only been using my other hopper. I emptied the unused chamber in the blue out earlier today to use, then discarded the hopper again.
I just took it out to have a proper look.
I remember reading that the elevape uses an optical thermal sensor, I'm unsure how the hopper handles it's temperature business, but assume it could be similar.
I have been fairly careless with material in my hoppers, I'll just pour in some kief to enjoy, normally on top of some herb already loaded, but I'm not overly careful.
I hardly, and I mean very rarely, clean my hoppers, and although this particular body wasn't very old (1 month ish) it had accumulated a fair bit of residue - the chamber walls were coated in powdery weed and baked on oils, the heater screen faintly discoloured with a thin layer of resin.
There has been some talk of cleaning under the chamber screen to rid the straight to blue issue, which I think would make sense if the heater sensors are optical (and are thus blocked by residue that can be cleaned off)
As my device was turning on but not heating up, I just did the unthinkable and gave it a blast of air down the chamber. This either dislodged something, or caused a thermal change triggering the sensors, either way - it caused the hopper to heat up - and it still is* although the red lights seem to be lingering for a touch longer than normal.
I think there's a design flaw with the hopper being too enclosed, and unable to be easily cleaned....
This would explain the copious sensor issues (cop lights, red then dead, straight to blue)
Either from displaced thermal mass, or physically obstructing the sensors.
What do you guys think?
I'm hopeful my blue hopper continues to work, so I can lend my good unit away for a week.
If it's just a dirty unit giving me issues, I think it should recuperate well enough as it's relatively fresh.
*it did work and then stop working, prior to blowing down the chamber
does it work now? as far as I know the optical sensor in the elevape did adjust temp by recognizing the glowing of the heat element.. I do not think gh have an optical heat sensor... but this is pure speculation..
I took your original statement as portability and convection are not compatible with sessions. I wouldn't quantify portable convection vaping as something that's is only suitable for solo sessions.
Looks like solder to me
Try connecting the magnet to the hopper, then connecting the USB end to power.My Hopper that I ordered from ebay showed up today. I decided to roll the dice on an eBay one while I wait on my pre order, which should be shipped this week (fingers crossed). The clouds on this vape is amazing. It defiently gets much hotter than my FF2 but I can deal with it. I'm loving tell drawl resistence compared to the FF2.
So I used this guy all evening and ran the battery almost completely out. When I put it on the charger, it flashes red once and that's it. Then no more flashing. Is this normal or is my charger a dud? I currently have the battery charging on my old Haze charger.
End of the month a friend of mine wants to bring me along some vape items from the US.
Here in Germany GHBs are much than twice so expansive as in the US. So I want to get some from the US being bringed along by my friend.
Does anyones know whether there are any probs with transport them overseas by plane from the US? I have read something like this.
It seems like air restriction with this body is much less, more or less no restriction... did someone else experience this with new hopper or hopper body... or is it just imagination of me... because I used an other vape while waiting for my gh....
also it seems like my gh needs longer to get to temp. ...
It could of course simply be a dodgy component (sensor) or connection in the device, I'll probably have to send it back to HL