All Your Base Are Belong To Us — The Kip Lange Homepage

A while ago, I posted a fix – and it does still work – for the Puffco Peak Pro flashing red and white. I’ll get to refining that in a second, because I got a better look at the insides of one after mine fully died.

What I got was a severely dreaded three-white-flash error, which means the chamber is simply not connecting with the base, not that there’s an error. Usually means your atomizer is dead, and mine was, I think, though I tried desperately to adjust the pins and so on. It had just been cleaned (if yours isn’t, clean it), and so on, and dried, and should have worked.

After searching a while I read online that the two end pins – these are the gold pins on the bottom of the chamber, or atomizer, that connect to the base – actually have wires in them and that the solution was to remove the rubber band and all three pins and straighten the wires. DO NOT DO THIS. I CANNOT EMPHASIZE THIS ENOUGH. Unless you know of some way of threading a tiny wire back into a tiny hole in a tiny pin through a rubber grommet…no, don’t do it. Maybe if you’re a professional jeweler with a loupe and serious equipment, but otherwise – you will never get the pins back in. That’s why I emphasized only moving the middle pin in my article about the fix, because that, I believe, just provides supplemental power to one of the two wired pins. Anyway, you pull those two end pins, you’re screwed. You pull the middle pin, you can put it back in. The end pins? I don’t know, if the grommet is still in, try getting them back in there, I guess, but you’ve pretty much destroyed your chamber. Mine was already gone, as far as I knew, so…I mean, sometimes they just go, as I said to one commenter on here.

Mine lasted about seventh months. It was flashing red and white almost immediately, but the pin trick seemed to fix that until it died this morning after a cleaning (by the way, by far the best way to clean is to just use the dab tool and iso, honestly, just don’t crack the bowl). Anyway, I did want to point out, the fellow who posted about the wires is right and I might have been able to fix the atomizer (chamber) if I had been able to get the wires back straight. I believe they fall out of contact with the end pins. So here’s the thing I would suggest – don’t really ever pull the two ends pins out at all when attempting a fix of the thing flashing. Just jiggle them a little (this may bring them into contact with the wires underneath/inside). If anything, try pushing them in a little, very gently, if you are getting red and white or white-white-white errors. You can pull the middle pin out a little. It’s just that the two end pins do have the wires connected to them, and they’re very small – and I believe that is what powers the coil. The middle, as I said, I think just feeds more power to one of the wired ends.

So, there you go, one dead chamber/atomizer, a Puffco 3DXL, I knew it would happen; live and learn. I replaced it with a regular 3D – and, note on this, and an important one, the 3D chamber did not have the joystick top. It had no top. Joystick top sold separately. Make sure you have a 3D or 3DXL joystick top before you buy the replacement chamber/atomizer. I have to say, the thing hits almost as well as the 3DXL. The XL is just a big bowl, basically, for super sessions with multiple people.