On the blog of thermovape : "this is from the reports of our beta testers saying that their Cera gets very hot when left on for excessive amounts of time".
For me, they admit that the Cera can't be on for a long time. I don't want to say that TET is trying to
defraud anyone OF, but i read all the Cera Threads since 3 months and until last week Tim said "Every day I'm working on sourcing new switches" and now we have a "we will no longer offer a latching switch". (Did they even offer it one day?)....so i'am a little disappointed.
And i can understand your vision of the Beta Testing, but IMO when a company launch a product, and one month later when the company said that Beta Testers had give rise to cancel the production of an essential part of the Cera LL (the latching switch) .....then i think that the product was not totally ready.
I don't doubt there are seven videos. Nor do I doubt the first was LL. You said 'there are seven LL videos', I don't think that's the case. I still recall one LL, and the rest oil.
What you quote is a
report, not admitting anything. "Admits" is an inflammatory term. They did nothing underhanded,
they nothing to admit to.....there is no sin I can see.
I can't swear Tim is working everyday on switches, but I do know he's working on them. We've discussed and tested several. I've taken four home for Beta testing. Latching switches are included in that search. There are useful latching switches available, I'm testing one of my own right now in fact. Mine is in an entirely different body and would need a different end cap. But if I read this right, that whole effort (latching switches) has been called off for different reasons than not having an acceptable switch. If they had it ready to go, as I see it they would still not sell them for the reason they stated?
It would be impossible, of course, to test until you were sure there were no safety issues of concern. Nor can you really expect to know what you'll find. Cars get safety recalls 'all the time' and you're surely not saying Toyota doesn't Beta Test their stuff? When an issue comes up, you deal with it. There is always an element of risk. If we were to do as suggested and wait until Cera was proven foolproof in all cases we'll no doubt get bored and wonder off.
Folks can continue to decide for themselves, as they should, but for me I'm glad TV decided to release Cera, warts and all.
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For additional food for thought I hauled out my original 'push button bypass' clip, it needed to be bent a bit to work with the flat switch of course but it does fine.
Then I decided to try a couple pieces of bent wire, one hinged on the other:
In practice you drop the switch though the loop before installing it on the tube. You then loop the lever up around the end (depressing the switch when you're holding it in):
If you set it down, it shuts off. You can also flip the lever around the other way and stand it up on it's end if you want:
I'm sure other (more clever) guys will come up with other work arounds if the demand is strong enough. In fact I think I can hear the gears turning in Pipe's mind from here?
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it should be a graveyard, not a horse.
