OK...
I'll come right out and say what no other PV maker has ever said...
Are you ready for reality?
The single biggest factor in getting a good
vape is...
THE BATTERY...
A PV is a Battery holder with a switch and a way to hook up a heater element.
Your battery IS YOUR PV... The rest is all about getting the current from your battery to the heater coil. Every PV on the market does this reasonably well. Some are better than others, but all do it acceptably well.
When a PV maker that has a clue sets out to design a PV, he(or she) has the task of finding a way to
safely house a battery and
turn the power on and off.
Everything else is window dressing... all of it.
If you go to the mad vapes site, and buy a Bolt PV for 40 bucks, and stick an AW 18500 battery in there it's going to vape EXTREMELY well... if you stuff a cheapie battery in there it will become lackluster in performance and safety is out the window.
Changing ONLY the battery makes the difference between a super safe and well performing device and a dangerous pipe bomb that doesn't vape all that well.
Interesting thing though... that Mad Vapes Volt PV is USUALLY sold to folks on a budget... and those same people are likely to buy the cheapest battery that will fit in the thing, so they will, in all likelihood, never get to see what that PV can REALLY do!
The Bolt isn't as robustly built as many others out there, but with a great battery, it's a great little PV.
So now let's look at the high end mechanical PVs... Super T, GG, Galileo, The Don, and even Puresmoker Icons and Prodigy PVs... these higher priced PVs frequently end up with Higher end
batteries such as the AW IMR
batteries because THESE folks can easily afford them, and they are chasing the end-all vape. Most would feel silly to spend 250 bucks on a PV then go to eBay and end up with trustfire or ultrafire counterfeits.
The users of the high end devices RAVE about the performance of their PVs... they attribute the high performance to the PV design, instead of seeing the reality that they are using FAR superior batteries in the power supply.
I don't mind if batteries are a topic in here, though I don't want it to be a battery thread in general... because I build a battery holder with an atomizer built into it... and it's the best battery holder I can personally design given my present level of knowledge... and I KNOW if you put an inferior battery in it, you will suffer from inferior performance.
On a mechanical designed PV... THE BATTERY IS YOUR PV.
Discussions about batteries are OK... ARGUMENTS about them are so very NOT ok!
OK?