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LAST MINUTE ADDITION TO THE STOCKING – A CUSTOM ENGRAVED SDNA BY MIKE MORGAN AKA ZEN!
And here it is! I hope this doesn’t accidentally fall out of the stocking and into my collection. 🙂
Thanks very much to Zen and the House Of Hybrids for this. Hopefully it will make someone very happy along with all the other goodies in the stocking!
CONGRATS JENNIFER!!
Congratulations to Jennifer LeBlanc the winner of the impromptu (not a) contest!. She was the first one to guess the SDNA75 fire button reminded me of the alien eye from the original War Of The Worlds (and correctly send an email to contest@tasteyourjuice.com) 🙂
Jennifer, you know what you have to do. Send an email to me at pbusardo@tasteyourjuice.com using the email you entered the contest in, I’ll get some information from you, and get this out in the mail just as soon as I can.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
A BATTERY MOOCH POST: Another fake VTC4 is floating around!
My thanks to ECR’s /u/icanshitposttoo for getting a pair of these batteries to me for examination and testing. These were bought from a smoke shop in Oregon, USA and are definitely fakes.
Here’s why:
– Genuine VTC4’s have three “legs” coming down from the top contact. These fakes have four.
– These fakes have the printing on the outside of an opaque wrap. Genuine VTC4’s use a translucent wrap and the text is printed on the metal can. The code square is printed on the wrap though.
– The printing on the fakes isn’t even close in appearance to the printing used on genuine VTC4’s.
– Discharging these fakes at 10A causes their voltage to drop to a useless level almost instantly. Genuine VTC4’s can be run for quite a while at 10A.
These fakes don’t match any Samsung, Sony, LG, or Panasonic/Sanyo battery I have. While I don’t have a sample of every battery made by those companies I think these fakes are of Chinese manufacture. They are either only rated a couple of amps or they are very low grade higher amp-rated batteries.
A troubling feature of these fake batteries is the use of a free-floating top insulating ring. Up until now every rewrapped and fake battery I have seen has used a self-adhesive ring. The counterfeiters are learning and we need to keep ahead of them. We can no longer assume that a battery with a free-floating ring is genuine.
One of the two fake VTC4’s I received seems to have either leaked from the top seal or vented before I received it. There is debris around and under the top contact. The 10A discharge test was done using the other fake.
If you have bought any of these fakes do not use them. Contact the vendor you purchased them from to arrange for a refund or exchange.
Please do not send me photos of your batteries asking me to authenticate them! Use the information here and, if needed, the photos in my test report for the VTC4:
https://imgur.com/a/qSshA
LAST MINUTE ADDITION TO THE STOCKING – A CUSTOM ENGRAVED SDNA BY MIKE MORGAN AKA ZEN!
Mike Morgan AKA Zen of the House Of Hybrids watched the last review video and offered to custom engrave the SDNA75 I reviewed as a wonderful addition to the stocking.
I’ve seen some of Mike’s work and it’s just amazing. Here’s a small example:
Thanks so much Mike! I sincerely hope this makes someone very happy!
MY NEXT EVENT – TPE 2017
I’ll be at the TPE 2017 event representing B.!
Hope to see you there! Let’s have a vape and a chat together!
Click the banner for more information…
January 25-26, 2017 • Las Vegas Convention Center • South Halls Level 2
THE SMY SDNA75 – THE FINAL ADDITION TO THE STOCKING – HOW TO WIN IT – THE BUH-IN AWARDS – AND CLOSING THOUGHTS MOVING OUT OF 2016 AND INTO 2017
A PBusardo Review – SMY SDNA75 & MORE!
In this video, we’re going to:
1) Take a look at the SMY SDNA75
2) We do the final addition to the stocking
3) I’ll let you know how to win the stocking
4) We do some “Buh-In” awards
5) And I give you some thoughts moving out of 2016 and into 2017
BTW – you have until December 31st @ 11:59PM EST to get your entries in. Sorry it wasn’t mentioned in the video!
The Links:
SMY
VaporDNA
My DNA-75 board review
My Second look at Escribe following the DNA-75 board review
Tesla’s Software Video Tutorial
Doctor Farsalinos’ Website
The Video:
*NOTE: Any use of these videos in part or in their entirety without Phil Busardo’s expressed written consent is strictly prohibited.
The Photos:
NEW ON REGULATOR WATCH – Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction | Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping
NEW ON REGULATOR WATCH – Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction | Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping
Here’s the latest from Brent Stafford!
Why is heroin harm reduction ok, but nicotine harm reduction is not? Often it seems public health officials consider nicotine to be far more of a danger to society than heroin. In the rush to clampdown on alternative forms of nicotine use many vapers feel like their health needs are being sacrificed in the name of a greater good.
In this episode of RegWatch hear from Dr. Sally Satel, eminent psychiatrist, author and Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. Dr. Satel is a world-leading expert on addiction and is an ardent proponent of vaping. Learn why she believes there is a hypocrisy of harm reduction—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.
RegulatorWatch.com – December 20, 2016.
THE TESLA TOUCH 150W TC
A PBusardo Review – The Tesla Touch 150W TC
In this video we add to the stocking and take a full look at the Tesla Touch 150W TC.
The Links:
Ruby Roo’s YouTube
VaporShark
Teslacigs
Tesla Touch 150W TC Software Download Page
Tesla’s Software Video Tutorial
The Video:
*NOTE: Any use of these videos in part or in their entirety without Phil Busardo’s expressed written consent is strictly prohibited.
The Photos:
A BATTERY MOOCH POST: There’s another fake LG HG2 variation out there!
This makes for five different types of HG2 fakes and there will be more so be alert. My thanks to ECR’s /u/tarek26007 for posting pictures of his.
Luckily this version is easy to spot. It has a five “leg” top contact and not four like the genuine HG2 does. It also has an invalid date code, “O2O3”.
You can check the date code for a lot of batteries using the BatteryBro tool:
https://batterybro.com/pages/18650-date-code-lookup-tool
A valid date code does NOT mean it’s a genuine battery. They could have easily used a genuine code on their fakes.
Images of the fakes and a real HG2: https://imgur.com/a/Bq8Sk
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