Color: grey.Battery life remaining: <10 months.Per visual inspection: no physical damage noted.Customer reports: dial its difficult to turn and no insulin comes out.The inpen paired to the commercial app with small pairing dose.The inpen screw retracts when dialing and advances when turning dose knob and high resistance while dispensing and dialing noted.Hard to dial more than 4 units.The dose button was removed and no dust / debris under the dose button or dose knob noted.Inpen was cut open and after inspection it was found that the encoder pattern wheel tabs rotating and traveling off the keyed slots of dose nut guides.Encoder pattern wheel should never rotate.This causes an unexpected travel of the encoder pattern wheel creating resistance to dial and dispensing.Also, contamination build up found caused by encoder wheel tabs rubbing at the walls of the dose nut.In conclusion: the customer complaint of hard to turn the inpen, hard to dial, hard to push to give insulin was confirmed due to encoder pattern wheel rotating and traveling against the walls of the dose nut.
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