I’ve had one for a couple of months and there are some strong positives, the most significant for me being the shape. It fits my hand perfectly – and I mean perfectly! Perfect curves, perfect fire button location, and the non-slip finish (which has held up very well) adds to the ergonomics. Nice screen layout and clarity. No button rattle and nice tactile feedback. The recessed “cup” 510 looks great with 22mm attys (the pic is with a 22mm Vector), and you can easily replace it with the included flat top for larger attys.
However, there are enough downsides for me to give it just a ‘meh’ rating. The battery door hinge is a pain – it does not open wide enough to get the second battery out unless I really tug on it. Since the hinge itself feels weakly made, that’s concerning every time I swap
batteries. My flat top adapter was improperly threaded. I did get a replacement but it took 4+ weeks and a few emails to get Envii to take care of it.
Initial performance was not good at all since there was a significant firing delay. That was fixed with a firmware update. But, at the time, to get the firmware update you had to know about it and ask Envii for it, and they would only send it via a FB message. You would think a company would readily announce and make available updates. I think since then they have made it a little easier to get the update but the process is still poorly managed compared with other brands.
Even with the firmware update TC performance has been less than impressive. It’s horrible with Ni – way overshoots the set temp. It’s better with Ti and SS, but still significantly lags the performance of most other boards. Although much of my
vaping is normally in TC mode, this is a mod I only use in wattage mode given its TC performance.
I like the boost feature in wattage mode – nicely done. I don’t like how, when the
batteries are low, it cuts the power without displaying a message. I’m fine with a power cut if the batteries can’t handle what is asked of them, but I want a message to be displayed when that happens (such as the Evolv “weak battery”) to let me know that’s going on.
Sorry to be so negative – don’t mean to dampen your anticipation of your new mod. I know some people really like theirs. But for me it’s only been a so-so value for the price paid (I think it ran me about $80 from ecig-city).
