Mech Noob

[Necris]

Okay,my apologies,typing while driving and may not have given that reply the thought it deserved. Removed the naughty word.

 

[Necris]

Honestly,stuff it.mechs aren't as good as regulated.but they aren't the face burning pipe bombs people make them out to be either.there is certainly something better in my opinion comparing fresh battery mech to regulated,I find it more instant and satisfying.

I run 2 regulated mods daily.im arguing a null point

 

[whatalotigot]

No Mechs are fine. I used mechs for a year and swore by them , I never said they were pipe bombs! LOL thats user error is they blow up!

Regulated is the future, Easier, safer.
If you want satisfaction, have a 100W hit of my daily vape. Its like having a fresh battery ALL DAY LONG!

No worry @Necris I dont like arguing. Maybe we are arguing different points here! Keep well!

 

[Alex]

UTTER nonsense my friend.
Regulated is REGULATED!! the board is REGULATING the power at a constant rate... set 80w on the screen and you will get 80w constant!!!
On a mech, the coil will be drawing what it needs, watts will be constantly fluctuating.

Dirty contacts? How? please inform me of how? on a regulated device I will lose power due to a dirty contact? From battery series power travels through copper cables directly through the board which sending a constant power to the 510 connection!

When I was using mech, I struggled with dirty fire buttons, and no conductivity when firing. Giving me sometimes no firing at all.

With regulated I press the button on the board, and same hit everytime.

Please learn abit more about both types before saying these things.

Perhaps your bad experience with mechanical switches was a failure to understand that arcing was taking place at the point of contact between the battery terminal and the contact point. This would result in a carbon deposit buildup on one or both surfaces, as evidenced by watching an arc welder in action.

I can understand that you are the kind of person who doesn't like to mess around with things, and expects them to work every-time. In which case an electronic device is right up your alley. But for those of us who know how to prevent such occurrences, and who don't mind the occasional maintenance routine that goes along with owning a mechanical device. It's really not a problem but more of a fun routine, much like building a new coil, or trying out a new wick.

On my Reo, I can simply change out the battery in under 2 seconds should the need arise, it's really not a big deal for me.

 

[whatalotigot]

All Mechs I have owned have given the same issue at some point, By not firing or firing weakly due to arcing or a bad connection.

Trust me, I am the type to take things apart and mod maintenance is definitely my all time thing.

What im trying to say is. I dont have to worry about these things with a regulated device. put my batteries in. Close the door, press the button and BOOM! it is a constant vape all day. No sickling with locking rings, Buttons sticking, bad connections etc.

 

[JackalR]

Thanks gents for all the info, I fired up the SMPL with the airek and it chucks clouds like made with pure VG. Guess that's the only thing I'm going to use it for is the odd occasion so apologies to @Average vapor Joe But I have found a new love for it albeit not for flavor, then again I'd never really use a mech for flavor (Reonauts please don't ban me for that heresy )

Got all three devices running at the moment and entirely happy with everything

On a side note how low ohm can you build on the istick 20w. For some reason I cant find its brochure

Thanks again

 

[BumbleBee]

how low ohm can you build on the istick 20w. For some reason I cant find its brochure

The istick 20w has a minimum coil resistance of 1.0 ohm

 

[Dr Phil]

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh????? Cleaning battery contacts on a reglated mod ok that's a 1st

 

[Silver]

Hey Guys,

Hope everyone has gotten over the Monday blues after witnessing the Bulls and the Sharks losing

Anyways enough of that and let's get down to business.

I have been using electronic devices since I started my vaping journey back in November 2014. Started off with a MVP 2.0 with its iclear atty which was useless and just sits in its box, then went onto the istick 20w with nam which gets used somewhat but not as much, then got a sigelli 150w with subtank mini, which is slowly losing to the golbin mini which I believe it the cat's pajamas.

Now before the Sigelli I was interested in getting into mechs so I bought a SMPL SS mech clone and a Dark Horse Clone, later on a Airek Comp RDA. I've got 3 vtc4 greenies and 2 efests purples batterries.

I use both drippers on the Sig seeing as I feel alot safer knowing that the circuitry will shutdown the mod if there's an issue with the coil shorting or battery draining too low.

Thing is I probably only built two coils on the dark horse for the smpl until a friend sent me a pic of someone's whose smpl blew in their hand and I pretty much left it at that. Thing is I'd like to get back into using the mech mod but just want to be cautious regarding turning it into a mini pipe bomb.

Obviously I've had issues before on the building coils front on the sig (check atomizer errors) and quickly deduced either a coil that I screwed up coiling or it touched the rda chimney so I quickly learnt where to adjust and if I needed to do another coil and bin it.

Thing is I got everything to build for a mech (got the ohm meter, voltmeter)

Basically is mech dripping all that, will the vape be different on a mech even if I set the Sig to its equivalent wattage that would be acquired on a mech build. My brain says it wont really be noticeable but im pretty sure there are a few more deciding factors that would effect the vape

Anyways Im rambling now so Ill just leave it here

Any help and suggestions would be appreciated

Interesting question @JackalR - especially about the part concerning the difference in the vape with a mech and a regulated "at the same settings". I have also wondered about this many times and i have tested this and tried to notice the difference on many occasions

My conclusions (mostly with a coil around 0.8 to 1.0 and power of 16 to 20 Watts ) were quite interesting:
- no noticeable difference in the flavour itself
- but I do find the mechanical vape is more direct and feels "purer"

Overall, I do prefer the mechanical vape itself at these power levels.

As for other issues (not just the vape itself):
Yes, the vape intensity does reduce over time with the mechanical but bear in mind that at the power levels above, this is not a big issue and the battery lasts quite a while.

I stopped using mechanical tube mods many moons ago (nemesis, KTS etc). Didnt like the tube form factor or the bottom firing button.

But what I will say is that since I got my Reos (May 14), they are all in full daily service and i have not had a problem. I am probably lucky that i dont need the really low ohm coils. My singles are not lower than 0.8 and my lowest dual is 0.4. So my arcing and battery drop off is not bad. I get through about 4ml of liquid before noticing a drop off, which is the amount of fluid I would use in most tanks on my Sig100 anyway, before refilling.

Another thing i would like to mention is that when i build a coil for one of my tanks for a regulated device, the power i end up using is very similar to the "mech equivalent". Id maybe vary it by a few watts either way, but not by much.

I like both but the vape I get on the mechanical is still slightly better for me.

 

[GerharddP]

Thanks gents for all the info, I fired up the SMPL with the airek and it chucks clouds like made with pure VG. Guess that's the only thing I'm going to use it for is the odd occasion so apologies to @Average vapor Joe But I have found a new love for it albeit not for flavor, then again I'd never really use a mech for flavor (Reonauts please don't ban me for that heresy )

Got all three devices running at the moment and entirely happy with everything

On a side note how low ohm can you build on the istick 20w. For some reason I cant find its brochure

Thanks again

I agree to some extent with everyone but the most with @Alex . I build my coils in the for the reo for around 38W by the time i swap out bats( fine by me) im at around 35W. To me thats constant enough. I have never on all the mechs/regs i have owned(quite a FEW) had the same awesome smooth flavor i have had on the reo.

 

[spiv]

I've been looking at getting the Limitless mod because I have the Limitless Plus RDTA. They would look amazing together. Sir Vape has it at an amazing price. I don't build coils lower than 0.4 at most and use the brown LG "turds". I did my homework and the same build would work great on the mech mod, but I'm not sure if it's going to be any better than any of my regulate mods.
I can definitely see the appeal of mech hybrid mod, but honestly not sure it's worth it if I have the regulated mods.

That said, I'll probably pick up the mod to try it out. Who knows, I may just take to it.

 

[KimVapeDashian]

I've been looking at getting the Limitless mod because I have the Limitless Plus RDTA. They would look amazing together. Sir Vape has it at an amazing price. I don't build coils lower than 0.4 at most and use the brown LG "turds". I did my homework and the same build would work great on the mech mod, but I'm not sure if it's going to be any better than any of my regulate mods.
I can definitely see the appeal of mech hybrid mod, but honestly not sure it's worth it if I have the regulated mods.

That said, I'll probably pick up the mod to try it out. Who knows, I may just take to it.

Different strokes for different folks... You will never know until you try, well - you will forever believe what you have read until you try it for yourself