hey,
I don't know if its the same brand across the board, and i really wish i'd snapped at least a picture of it before finally getting ...... off at it and returning it (and getting my money back!!) I bought It last night, the initial kit and an extra pack of "cartridges". I don't have the brand in hand, will go back and find out the name of the brand for further data. I paid 60.87 after taxes for the atty, battery and 15 cartridges (original kit comes with 5 and pack of cartridges cmes with 10)
First impressions:
i get this small cigarette pack-like box. its wrapped in cellophane and impossible to get out of the cellophane without judicious use of teeth knives and a blowtorch (well... mebbe not the blowtorch). Upon Getting the cellophane off, i then spend 2 or 3 minutes trying to figure out where the tabs are and how to open it up... seriously? don't they want us to get at the product?? (apparently not!!!)
once the box is open, there is a tray to pull out with a foam protectant core. In it are the microscopic battery and equally small atomizer.
Physically, i'd say that they're about the size of the original 306 battery (yeah, 306's aren't just atties
) from size i suspect it might last as little as 30 min up to mebbe 2 hours, only because it draws such minimal power which i'll discuss later.
the connectors look like a cut down 510. it has the same physical ratio as a 510 only there are about half the threads missing(ie the connector end looks sanded down by about half) I was able to screw in my 510 atty but it stood at least 4-6mm above the rim of the battery connection. Conversely, when i tried to screw the atty from the lawtons kit into my Darwin it didn't go far enough down to make contact with the centre post of the atty.
it also has a cartridge system very much like a model 103. the cap has a small, tiny, resevoir in it that might hold 6-8 drops of fluid. it was covered with a film and had to be pierced by the bridge to access the 0 nic fluid that tasted just like what i expected... .... the bridge, being exposed to that kind of force, was ready to fall out the moment i saw it...
So i put it together, and... nothing... what??? i take the cartridge off and see that the metal foil that had sealed the cart was blocking the flow... so i carefully remove the foil, almost knocking the bridge off... and reinsert the cart.. give it a min to start flowing and vape... a taste... sorta... i vape again, HEY, theres' almost vapor... i vape again, there it is... 2 small whisps come out of my mouth... useless compareed to the plumes of smoke i am used to~!
i switch to my lr510 (1.7ohm) and vape it on the Darwin at 8.5w... yum... i take it off of the darwin, put it on the itty bitty thing and i get the same thing, just a very very very weak hit.. i don't think the thing is capable of producing much of a hit at all... it almost makes me feel like their products are drawn from the basement of 2008 stock that couldnt' go...
i fiddle a bit more to be sure its not me, try charging it (shows a full charge) and try again... nope... it doesn't work. I get angry... i figured, sure, there should be a bit of vapour and i can show people that while ....ty, you can still vape on it and be good to go...
i hold onto devices that don't really work that great so that I can show it off as something not to buy if you can avoid it... i couldn't justify doing that here... it just was way way too frustration and annoying to have a device that wouldn't even produce more that a waft of vapour... returned it to the store and then told them what i had already told them... that the vapour was almost non existant and that i coudln't use it.. demonstrated what the darwin can do (at 4.2w, wasn't going to completely dazzle them) and then they gave me my money back.
Conclusions... while i'm glad that there are devices in the stores now... i wish that they were at least a bit better devices, even off name 510's but to sell such crap is only goign to cause us to have issues with people hating ecigs.
I don't know if its the same brand across the board, and i really wish i'd snapped at least a picture of it before finally getting ...... off at it and returning it (and getting my money back!!) I bought It last night, the initial kit and an extra pack of "cartridges". I don't have the brand in hand, will go back and find out the name of the brand for further data. I paid 60.87 after taxes for the atty, battery and 15 cartridges (original kit comes with 5 and pack of cartridges cmes with 10)
First impressions:
i get this small cigarette pack-like box. its wrapped in cellophane and impossible to get out of the cellophane without judicious use of teeth knives and a blowtorch (well... mebbe not the blowtorch). Upon Getting the cellophane off, i then spend 2 or 3 minutes trying to figure out where the tabs are and how to open it up... seriously? don't they want us to get at the product?? (apparently not!!!)
once the box is open, there is a tray to pull out with a foam protectant core. In it are the microscopic battery and equally small atomizer.
Physically, i'd say that they're about the size of the original 306 battery (yeah, 306's aren't just atties
) from size i suspect it might last as little as 30 min up to mebbe 2 hours, only because it draws such minimal power which i'll discuss later.the connectors look like a cut down 510. it has the same physical ratio as a 510 only there are about half the threads missing(ie the connector end looks sanded down by about half) I was able to screw in my 510 atty but it stood at least 4-6mm above the rim of the battery connection. Conversely, when i tried to screw the atty from the lawtons kit into my Darwin it didn't go far enough down to make contact with the centre post of the atty.
it also has a cartridge system very much like a model 103. the cap has a small, tiny, resevoir in it that might hold 6-8 drops of fluid. it was covered with a film and had to be pierced by the bridge to access the 0 nic fluid that tasted just like what i expected... .... the bridge, being exposed to that kind of force, was ready to fall out the moment i saw it...
So i put it together, and... nothing... what??? i take the cartridge off and see that the metal foil that had sealed the cart was blocking the flow... so i carefully remove the foil, almost knocking the bridge off... and reinsert the cart.. give it a min to start flowing and vape... a taste... sorta... i vape again, HEY, theres' almost vapor... i vape again, there it is... 2 small whisps come out of my mouth... useless compareed to the plumes of smoke i am used to~!
i switch to my lr510 (1.7ohm) and vape it on the Darwin at 8.5w... yum... i take it off of the darwin, put it on the itty bitty thing and i get the same thing, just a very very very weak hit.. i don't think the thing is capable of producing much of a hit at all... it almost makes me feel like their products are drawn from the basement of 2008 stock that couldnt' go...
i fiddle a bit more to be sure its not me, try charging it (shows a full charge) and try again... nope... it doesn't work. I get angry... i figured, sure, there should be a bit of vapour and i can show people that while ....ty, you can still vape on it and be good to go...
i hold onto devices that don't really work that great so that I can show it off as something not to buy if you can avoid it... i couldn't justify doing that here... it just was way way too frustration and annoying to have a device that wouldn't even produce more that a waft of vapour... returned it to the store and then told them what i had already told them... that the vapour was almost non existant and that i coudln't use it.. demonstrated what the darwin can do (at 4.2w, wasn't going to completely dazzle them) and then they gave me my money back.
Conclusions... while i'm glad that there are devices in the stores now... i wish that they were at least a bit better devices, even off name 510's but to sell such crap is only goign to cause us to have issues with people hating ecigs.
