There is a second reported case of this failure mode now on another forum. I’m stumped as to the cause of the failure. My second one is sitting here with 568 puffs on a set of batteries. That’s amazing to me. I really don’t have issues with the mod but this failure mode is unsafe.
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I’m sure with Ogre’s discovery it is moot now, but the silicone replacement fill system takes care of the need to open the battery door. A little Cyanoacrylate, a few magnets, and the door can be left alone. I did it; anyone can.
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Are you talking about the big bottle to refill from the 510? What modification with super glue and magnets? Please share.
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Oh, I’ll have to find the write up. Basically, you remove the 4 little allen screws that hold the bottle cover to the rest of the body, and replace them with magnets. Then you just pop that on and off instead of opening the door.
Doesn’t help much with the stock bottle setup though. But it allowed me to remove the DIY silicone bottle and refill that rather than via 510, which I hate.
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I don’t know if crosslinks are allowed, but you can see about it here.
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Links to bottles etc are here as well
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Thank you @anon96380778 and @woftam , I love reading stuff like that. If Ogre’s experience didn’t call into question the safety issue, I would be all over that, especially as cheap as you can get the G-Box now.
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Ya hopefully he can get to the root of the problem - mine has been trouble free but i don’t use it that often.
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I just hope they address it. Nobody involved needs to have a catastrophic outcome and unfortunately the potential exists. I don’t understand folks that don’t report things of this nature. Doesn’t make sense to me.
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As you mentioned earlier, without documentation I doubt I could fix it and even if I did, I can’t run a worst out study on the design to see of the failed component is under-specified or if there is a potential of tolerance stacking, or on and on, yada, yada. It’s one thing if a mod won’t fire but when a mod becomes an inferno it’s a whole different situation.
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Not just under-specced, but inferior quality!
I’ve been wracking my mind about the whole strange set of circumstances and I keep coming up with the same two answers.
Experience tells me it’s most likely to be a shorted capacitor. But given the rampant shoddy programming (or implementation) of shit firmware… Combined with poor quality control on some of the chipsets we’ve seen… It’s hard to say with any certainty.
But “gun to head”, my money would be on a shorted cap. It’s long been preferred in guitar effects building circles that Japanese caps are much higher quality than the majority of most Chinese offerings (though that’s in relation to standard aluminum can type, vs SMT type). Given that the quality control isn’t likely to be any different just because of a change in type, leads me to believe it’s likely no different.
At any rate, without schematics, it would get long and tedious trying to test each and every cap on the board.
Most importantly though, we have a heads up from someone with enough experience to trust it not being foolish user error. (Not that even the experienced can’t make a mistake once in a while, but moreover, it’s far less likely to miss something obvious anyways!) 
Thanks again for the heads up, and interested in hearing how it comes out!
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I was hoping you would chime in. I’m gonna bet on your assessment. So far just scripted replies out of China. Not looking good for GeekVape at the moment.
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This is probably the main reason my antennas are up as well. It is the Ogre, after all. The man (oops, Ogre) that puts an o-scope on his electric can opener to make sure it is functioning within tolerances. He knows what he is doing.
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My meat grinder too.
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I’m actually not going to be using my GBOX’s anymore. The risk is not worth it to me. They’ve been shelved for a while now anyway. Fortunately it is not my only or daily driver setup.
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That’s cool. I really have no perspective on how great the risk is. Probability of failure seems to be pretty low per the small number of cases known however the violent nature of the failure mode obviously effects the perception. I am going to continue to use my second one but only under close supervision, lol.
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Worst comes to worst, just use it as a hand grenade. Push in the battery door and throw it.
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That should be a tagline on a review! Brilliant.
Really, about not using it- There is far too much vape gear on the market to abide babysitting any device. If I have to remove the cells when not in use, or be concerned that it may auto-fire at any given moment, then it’s Sayonara mod time.
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Back off! I have a G Box!!!
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