Haha, sounds nice. I always thought gennies were a great idea. Don't see em much these days. I think vertical coils inherently have better flavor anyway. Don't you?
I had better luck with my first try at Ti than I did at Ni. But the tempered Ni is way better, almost like working with kanthal. I just like to keep things simple if I can.
I've heard that the ipv5 works well with ss, too. So you think your RX gives you a better ss vape in TC mode than in power mode?
Personally, I have never understood the attraction of the Gennys. Why on Earth would I want an tank that's guaranteed to leak if I knock it over? Why a top coil tank, where the wick must work against gravity, when bottom coil tanks are available? Now, the die-hard Genny fans will consider this heresy, doubtless, and maybe they're right. I haven't ever tried one, so that's all a guess. The true purists insist on SS mesh wicks as well. I recently bought a Fakir's Mods FX22/Troy2 combo, and the topper has a Genny-style deck, with two lower outer screws and a tall center post, and is obviously designed for vertical coils. And I thought, what the heck, so I put a set of mesh wicks in it. It was the first set I ever built, and I was very careful with them. Wonder of wonders, I accidentally got it right the first time, and didn't get the nasty metallic taste you have to work through if you fail to oxidize properly. I will say the mesh wicks are very clean tasting. I am told complex flavor profile juices, like the bakery flavors, are at their best on mesh wicks. It may be true, but you couldn't prove it by me as I prefer bright, simple flavors in my juice, like fruits and spices. I was doing DIY for over a year before I ever tried a juice with more than one flavor. The conclusion I have drawn is, while mesh wicks are ver clean tasting, they are no more so than rayon after the break-in period. If you oxidize them right, there's no break-in, but the extra effort required to build them, versus just vaping a piece of rayon for a while and waiting for the taste to go away, is not worth the effort. That's me, though, and others may have a different opinion.
I can't say I actually like the TC mode on the RX better than wattage. I generally don't use TC much at all. I have done enough of it on the RXs to say they have a really good TC system (with the V3.0 firmware), but my preferred mode is still wattage. I'm too Old Skool, I guess. I'm a mekkie from way back, and I just build the coil I want for the vape I'm looking for, at whatever wattage I intend to use. I do it without thinking. Regulated mods are a godsend for people who don't want to take the time to suffer the learning curve I have, and they're safer for everybody, but it's fair to say I don't use them to their full potential as far as adjusting the vape because I don't need to.
Regarding vertical coils and all other things being equal, I do think they offer better flavor
in drippers with side air flow, whether this be slots in the top cap, or through a central tube with vents, or top-and-turn designs like the Wotofo Sapor, and provided they are traditionally wicked with the wick pulled through the center of the coil. In bottom air drippers, and tanks so arranged, you're better off with horizontals using traditional wicking. The problem with this is it's beastly difficult to get sufficient juice flow to the coil save in low wattage builds because it's hard to have room to return the top wick tail to the deck to get the other half of the wicking the coil needs. Traditionally, the wick used with center pull wicks and verticals is a horseshoe, where the wick starts at the deck, goes through one coil, then the other, then back to the deck. That can dry out at higher wattages through inability to wick fast enough to keep up, although the juice "stored" in the horseshoe bend can help, especially if the coils are widely spaced. I tend to vape in the.5Ω, 30-50 watts range, and I have had this problem. I usually wick my Troy, which has to be build vertical as I said, with a horseshoe, but this forces me to build in the .65-and-up ohm range, and lower the wattage down into the 17-25 watt range on a mech. It's not a real problem, I know how to build and I can get better cloud out of a 1Ω 32ga coil at 17watts than a lot of people with their .3Ω 26/32 claptons at 50 watts. But it's not what I want to do, usually, and it forces me into smaller gauge wire.
It is possible to get huge flavor and big cloud at higher wattages using verticals in bottom air attys if you arrange the coils above the air towers and wick the outside of the coils, letting the air flow through the middle. I built an Indulgence MT tank like that, and it blew me away with the flavor and cloud. It's coiled at .41 and will keep wicking at least up to 80 watts, which is the highest I have ever taken it. I had to build a special tool for the mandrel as the air holes in the MT are oblong, not round, so the coils are shaped, in cross section, like a rectangle with rounded corners. Here's some pics; the thing under my finger in the second photo is the mandrel tool:
