I just want to make this perfectly clear; I use mods and I love my mods! But it really bugs my .... when someone suggests one to a newbie. I'm not saying that new people aren't capable of understanding how to use a mod or even that they shouldn't. If they done the research, lurked long enough or display that rare understanding of volts, ohms, watts and amperage, then sure, I'll throw out some models. But most new people who come here are just that; newly born vapers.
Chances are they've never used a PV before or they're currently using something way overpriced and worthless. There's no way I'm going to tell them to get a mod, no matter how easy it is to use. "Easy" is about as subjective as taste. Some newbies come here and they've already spend hundreds of dollars on different crappy kits and they're about ready to give up. Some arrive here and only have so much money to spend, so they can't shell out a couple hundred bucks on a mod, batteries, cartos and atties.
I've seen threads where new people have purchased a mod and then want to know why they're popping atties or why they're getting a burnt taste when they use carts. And in a couple of cases, it's because they bought a mod that someone suggested in the Newbie threads. vaping already has a learning curve, there's no sense in making it higher. That just increases the odds that they'll become frustrated and give up altogether.
New people just aren't going to know this without some education and good old fashioned research. Period. I didn't know crap about mods when I first came to the forum. A lot of really nice people suggested the eGo and Riva, which I purchased and liked. But I wanted more, so I dove into the research. I learned about the voltage of batteries and ohms of atties and cartos. I learned how those two work together to produce watts and amps and create a different type of vaping. I learned how to drip (and discovered that I really liked it) because using a cart with an LR atty is a recipe for frustration. I looked at the different types of mods and then narrowed it down to the types that would fit into my budget. I watched reviews on YouTube. It took me a couple of months before I finally picked a couple that I really liked and, as luck would have it, one of them became available on the Classifieds. Thank you, Vaporologist, for the beautiful baby that you sold me and for taking time to make sure that I could use it to its full potential.
If someone had told me to buy a mod when I first joined I can honestly say that I probably wouldn't be vaping today. Learning is a gradual process. Telling a newbie to buy a mod is like jumping from basic math immediately into calculus. It just doesn't work. Even though I understood how my mods worked and which atomizers to use when, I still had some learning to do and I went through a few atties doing it.
The other reason I don't recommend mods to new people is that they might not like them. I'm not talking about not liking as in "I don't like the looks", I'm talking about not liking vaping at the voltages. I remember that a relatively new user started a thread complaining about how he bought a 5V mod and didn't like it. His first problem was using LR atties. Once that was out of the way, he decided that the vapor was too hot. Sell it on the Classifieds and take your losses. There are even people who don't like vaping at 3.7V. My fiance is one of them. Luckily, the mod I bought for him is now being used by me.
This is why I rarely, if ever, suggest a mod for the newly born vaper. Why overwhelm the already overwhelmed? That just doesn't make any sense to me!
Chances are they've never used a PV before or they're currently using something way overpriced and worthless. There's no way I'm going to tell them to get a mod, no matter how easy it is to use. "Easy" is about as subjective as taste. Some newbies come here and they've already spend hundreds of dollars on different crappy kits and they're about ready to give up. Some arrive here and only have so much money to spend, so they can't shell out a couple hundred bucks on a mod, batteries, cartos and atties.
I've seen threads where new people have purchased a mod and then want to know why they're popping atties or why they're getting a burnt taste when they use carts. And in a couple of cases, it's because they bought a mod that someone suggested in the Newbie threads. vaping already has a learning curve, there's no sense in making it higher. That just increases the odds that they'll become frustrated and give up altogether.
New people just aren't going to know this without some education and good old fashioned research. Period. I didn't know crap about mods when I first came to the forum. A lot of really nice people suggested the eGo and Riva, which I purchased and liked. But I wanted more, so I dove into the research. I learned about the voltage of batteries and ohms of atties and cartos. I learned how those two work together to produce watts and amps and create a different type of vaping. I learned how to drip (and discovered that I really liked it) because using a cart with an LR atty is a recipe for frustration. I looked at the different types of mods and then narrowed it down to the types that would fit into my budget. I watched reviews on YouTube. It took me a couple of months before I finally picked a couple that I really liked and, as luck would have it, one of them became available on the Classifieds. Thank you, Vaporologist, for the beautiful baby that you sold me and for taking time to make sure that I could use it to its full potential.
If someone had told me to buy a mod when I first joined I can honestly say that I probably wouldn't be vaping today. Learning is a gradual process. Telling a newbie to buy a mod is like jumping from basic math immediately into calculus. It just doesn't work. Even though I understood how my mods worked and which atomizers to use when, I still had some learning to do and I went through a few atties doing it.
The other reason I don't recommend mods to new people is that they might not like them. I'm not talking about not liking as in "I don't like the looks", I'm talking about not liking vaping at the voltages. I remember that a relatively new user started a thread complaining about how he bought a 5V mod and didn't like it. His first problem was using LR atties. Once that was out of the way, he decided that the vapor was too hot. Sell it on the Classifieds and take your losses. There are even people who don't like vaping at 3.7V. My fiance is one of them. Luckily, the mod I bought for him is now being used by me.
This is why I rarely, if ever, suggest a mod for the newly born vaper. Why overwhelm the already overwhelmed? That just doesn't make any sense to me!
