iStick 50W possessed by Beezlebub!

[Evil_Toast]

This started today, and it's really making me cranky.

For no reason my iStick will just randomly fire without any involvement on my part. It fires for anything from 0.1s to max 10s. I can stop it by pressing the fire button, sometimes...

Should I go visit the Catholic Church down the road, or can someone here offer any advice on what could possibly be wrong? I'm hoping it can be easily fixed?

 

[Christos]

I somehow think the church down the road will be ill equipped to assist you. Perhaps the Winchester brothers from supernatural are more equipped for this job.

I suspect button issues.
Does it have a warranty?
Alternatively donate it to the church down the road. Hopefully they are not going to turn it into a explosive like some extremist sects.

 

[Jan]

That is awesome all you need to do is connect a long pipe to the drip tip put it in your pocket and you have a hands free vape. . Joking aside it sounds like a problem with the firing button have you tried to clean the button especially the sides with something like an earbud with some surgical alcohol. Sometimes the buttons become sticky and the don't release completely.

 

[Tom. F]

I somehow think the church down the road will be ill equipped to assist you. Perhaps the Winchester brothers from supernatural are more equipped for this job.

I suspect button issues.
Does it have a warranty?
Alternatively donate it to the church down the road. Hopefully they are not going to turn it into a explosive like some extremist sects.

Blasphemy! The sweet lord jesus can fix anything. Except world hunger and cancer and every other blight the human race has ever faced. But shit, he must get tired too, so can you blame him? Of course you cant!

 

[wazarmoto]

maybe juice flowed into the fire button and it's causing a short?

 

[ET]

From some intawebs googling reports are of the possibility of liquid having gotten behind the fire button or something about the atomisers 510 going down too deep and thus causing a short ala autofire. Do you have another atomiser to test on the istick to see if it's maybe that?

 

[Evil_Toast]

I somehow think the church down the road will be ill equipped to assist you.

Can confirm this to be true. Took a walk down and spoke to the father about this. In short, the Church no longer performs exorcisms and it's more likely some sort of physical fault with the device. He also wanted to know if my 9 year old would like to come round and "blow the horn of Gabriel". I'm a bit confused by this. I would prefer it if he learnt a stringed, or possibly percussive, instrument. Will think about it.

Anyway, looks like I'm going to pop open the case and see what's going on inside (and hopefully not blow my jaw off later from screwing around with the gubbins inside) tonight. ET, need to dig up an old atty and give that a try too.

 

[Marzuq]

Sounds like a short on the fire button. Likely caused by juice somehow finding it's way there. So now it's shorting or sticky. Try opening her up and giving her a good cleaning.

 

[ET]

Can confirm this to be true. Took a walk down and spoke to the father about this. In short, the Church no longer performs exorcisms and it's more likely some sort of physical fault with the device. He also wanted to know if my 9 year old would like to come round and "blow the horn of Gabriel". I'm a bit confused by this. I would prefer it if he learnt a stringed, or possibly percussive, instrument. Will think about it.

Anyway, looks like I'm going to pop open the case and see what's going on inside (and hopefully not blow my jaw off later from screwing around with the gubbins inside) tonight. ET, need to dig up an old atty and give that a try too.

Was reconnecting a phone line at work and accidently shorted the line between my tongue and outside cheek. Bit of a shock hey. Um, wait you wanted some useful info. Oh troll youtube, pretty sure there's at least one or two vids on taking the thingy apart

 

[Necris]

maybe juice flowed into the fire button and it's causing a short?

if juice was conductive tanks would short...

 

[wazarmoto]

if juice was conductive tanks would short...

Valid point there.

 

[ET]

if juice was conductive tanks would short...

Not completely true. Electricity always follows the path of least resistance.

 

[Evil_Toast]

Well, opened her up, gently probed her with some tissue, gently blew around the switch area and was an all round gentleman and it seems to have solved the problem. Now if only I knew what the problem was, life would be peachy! Guessing it was some misplaced juices myself.

And so far I still have both my lips where they belong.

 

[wazarmoto]

Well, opened her up, gently probed her with some tissue, gently blew around the switch area and was an all round gentleman and it seems to have solved the problem. Now if only I knew what the problem was, life would be peachy! Guessing it was some misplaced juices myself.

And so far I still have both my lips where they belong.

Must....... Resist...... Dirty.... Jokes!!!