Could The Chuck possibly be more of a ripoff of the Prodigy?

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Dr. Russell Fell

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Do you mean like this mod?

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holy crap whose is that????

also, since it seems you've owned every high voltage mod, which would you say is the smallest one in the market in the 5v-6v range?
 

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The Chuck obviously has some sort of electronic regulation which makes it distinctly different than the Prodigy. It's probably some sort of "pulsed" regulation, so I assume it wouldn't increase runtime like a "true" regulator would. I suggested a long time ago that Steve look into true regulation for a future product - advantage is you're not throwing away voltage as heat so runtime increases. But whether it would be enough to matter I don't know.

Another positive aspect of regulation is it could be setup so the user could choose his output, but the only devices I've seen like that used PMW or something so back to no increase in runtime. Cool to be able to dial in just what you wanted for output though.
 

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I think the Chuck is like the Prodigy in function only. The Chuck is the ONE and ONLY PV that I can buy that I know will be hand build (with pride and quality workmanship) just for me, to my custom specs.
Just my 2cents.

personally speaking, the only pv high volt mod i've seen that looked legitimately like it was worth every penny was the super-t1. thing looks like it could outlast us all, and it's 100% mechanical. that, and it looks pretty sharp compared to the prodigy and the chuck (no offense to either product or their manufacturers).
 
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holy crap whose is that????

also, since it seems you've owned every high voltage mod, which would you say is the smallest one in the market in the 5v-6v range?

That mod is one I made out of Magic Sculpt. As for questions about products, please PM me. It would not be proper to talk about someone else's products in the Puresmoker forum. HINT HINT HINT to the people doing it with no shame. It's bad form.
 

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The Chuck obviously has some sort of electronic regulation which makes it distinctly different than the Prodigy.

The Chuck has no electronic regulation outside of a manual switch you can regulate with a finger or other body appendage. It's a straight connection. This is obvious if you read the product description.
 

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The Chuck has no electronic regulation outside of a manual switch you can regulate with a finger or other body appendage. It's a straight connection. This is obvious if you read the product description.
Maybe I'm not even looking at the Chuck - like I said, I don't deep up. I was looking at the thing the guy in this thread posted with the multiple switches. It has two outputs, and when I saw a pcb and no resistor I assumed it was a regulator board. Must be a resistor on the bottom? I dunno, but it's disappointing to me that no one has pursued regulation if you're correct. Still, with whatever the multi-switch design is, you get to choose your output and that's cool (although clunky in this case.)
 
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