Heritage Grande fixed!!!

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Comment by Carol on April 25, 2015 at 6:43pm

You should be at my house when I start with the I can't get flow issues!!!!  I'm like a mad scientist making coils of anything the tool box has to offer and throwin mad hardware in the lamp, haahaahaa!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Ian on April 24, 2015 at 3:36pm

To this day, its still flowing perfectly! If anything, it seems to have a more balanced flow, and it never gets to the point that there is hardly any lava in the bottom.

Comment by VOXul on June 21, 2014 at 4:36pm

I was thinking of doing just that Loren! One of my greens loves to go back to pea shooter after working properly for a few days. The standard yellow/purple of mine has two coils and no lamp could flow better than it, they really do need the dual coil.

Comment by Loren on June 21, 2014 at 4:29pm

Awesome!

Oh, and the "pea shooter" flow problem is caused by poor coil adhesion. The gap in the coil draws water in, and makes those small blobs. It also weakens the surface tension of the lava, and wrecks the flow...trapping all the heat in the bottom of the globe. It can usually be fixed by adding a second, 52oz coil.  I have fixed 2 heritage grandes that way so far, and now they both run amazingly every time. If my pink replacement doesn't hold up like the other two didn't, I'll be fixing that one in a similar fashion.

Comment by VOXul on March 28, 2014 at 11:45am

Today is the day Ian. I ran into your issue after a month of good flowing, bam, coil and wax are like oil and water, it will not stick to it. The coil itself is completely void of ANY wax on the metal :(

I have been running it on a simmer for 4 days as the blob just hovered at the bottom most of the time, would spin it to get it reattached and then it would just float off minutes later.  I tilted the globe to get the coil to physically flip upside down and rest on the reverse side as it was originally. I will kick it back on tonight after it's 24 hour settling, wish me luck.

Comment by VOXul on February 17, 2014 at 11:29pm

I am wondering if this mine needs to get a case of sticky wax too.  It acts almost like there is an air pocket always trapped under the blob and it percolates upwards, so to speak, out of the blob ripping it up.  Than you for your info and situational experience, glad to hear your grande is doing well!

Comment by Ian on February 17, 2014 at 9:19pm

Also, it has not disconnected from the coil at all since it "fixed" itself. Even when all of the lava goes up to the top and breaks from the bottom, the bottom all stays connected together on the coil.

Comment by Ian on February 17, 2014 at 9:17pm

The sticking is not bad at all- you can only tell from looking at the underside of the globe, you cant tell from looking at the side of the bottom, if that makes sense at all. And definitely cant tell from looking at it when it is on the base. So as far as I'm concerned, let it stick! It flows because of it! As long as it stays on the very very bottom, I dont care at all.

Comment by Ian on February 17, 2014 at 9:13pm

I just typed a whole big paragraph and accidentally deleted it so here goes again.

1. I had it not quite full blast, but on just hot enough to flow. I would adjust the dimer every once in a while, like if it started getting too hot and disconnecting from the coil ever 2 minutes instead of every 15, and if it got too cool where it would only send up grape sized blobs. I adjusted the dimmer so slightly I could not even tell I adjusted it, but it would have a big effect on the flow.

2. I think it fixed itself because the wax started to stick to the glass right underneath the entire coil and in between, so with the wax stuck in the middle it gave it something to grab on to, essentially what the second coil would do. I don't care about the sticking, because it is not visible in the slightest, and I only found out cause I lifted the globe up to see.

3. It did not happen gradually at all. It was misbehaving exactly the same way after 4 days as when I started, sending up bubbles every second. That is not an exaggeration. Every second, sometimes 2 in a second. I turned it off so that it could rest, and I figured since I saw no progress I would try again the next day. I waited for it to fully cool, and then turned it on. As soon as it heated up, I got perfect, beautiful flow- much more stretchy than it has ever been, and a mix of big and small blobs. I was completely shocked, as I was expecting it to behave in the same, crappy disconnect-from-the-coil flow or the grape-shooter flow.

This is some of my advice, I know your problem is a little different, but hey its worth a shot. Good luck if you decide to try something like that, it is really nice to not have to open it up to fix it! and we shouldn't have to open them up to fix them anyways, they should come out of the factory flowing beautifully and stay that way.

Comment by VOXul on February 13, 2014 at 9:36pm

A few questions Ian, did you have any kind of dimmer schedule when you ran it for 4 days? Was it full blast most of the time? Did your bubbles just star disappearing over the course 4 days?

I may try your trick on mine too as it runs grapes and peas. The coil has never disconnected but it pretty much just sits as a wizard hat if I crank it, it tries to flow if I dim it.  It ends up cooling too much with the dimmed flow though.

When mine sends up somewhat larger than grape blobs, they seem to contain quite a bit of bubbles, reminds me of a Lotus pod, creepy. Sometimes one bubble covers the full top domed surface of the blob too. Seeing if you had any protips, thanks!

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