I think AVG mode is better ...

[larktdl]

When I first got the Vamo, most information indicated that we should be using RMS mode with the Vamo.

And that is the mode I have been using until I got the following tip from a vendor:

If using DCTs, use the Vamo in AVG mode. Well, well what a huge difference using AVG mode.

As a matter of fact, I am finding that all of my cartos/clearos/tanks perform better using AVG.

 

[kiwivap]

I have a Zmax v1 that I keep for harder hitting vapes in AVG. Nothing wrong with AVG IMO - it just isn't what the display says it is.

 

[b0redagain]

You'd probably get the same result by just upping the voltage/wattage in RMS mode.

 

[kiwivap]

You'd probably get the same result by just upping the voltage/wattage in RMS mode.

Except at the lowest or highest settings.

 

[larktdl]

You'd probably get the same result by just upping the voltage/wattage in RMS mode.

I tried that ... AVG hits harder.

 

[larktdl]

I have a Zmax v1 that I keep for harder hitting vapes in AVG. Nothing wrong with AVG IMO - it just isn't what the display says it is.

Explain ....

 

[mrwilliams2]

AVE does hit harder. If you watch PBusardo's review, he shows that in AVE, you are getting more volts or watts that what you have it set to.

 

[b0redagain]

I guess for the people that like blind hard hits it would work...I prefer accurate hits.

 

[kiwivap]

Explain ....

I don't think I need to.

 

[eHuman]

LOL, if you knew WHY AVG hits harder, and WHAT RMS means/does with a PWM APV then you wouldn't poopoo RMS, you'd just turn up the dial and find your sweet spot.

If better is just hitting harder, stack batteries in a mech mod and have a blast. If you want to find your sweet spot somewhere between 0 and 100 and be able to repeat it on any Ω atty, then RMS is your friend M'kay?

Any caveman can say, fire hot, more fire better. There's technology out there that will aid you in setting the fire where ever you want it. It's not just an on/off button.

 

[larktdl]

Okay, I get it. Chill folks. Man, sometimes this forum gives me a very good chuckle.

 

[kiwivap]

Okay, I get it. Chill folks. Man, sometimes this forum gives me a very good chuckle.

Yeah.

 

[benjabin]

what is AVG mode? does that mean it can operate like a mech mod does? Im trying to do the pulsing(un oxidezed mesh) method on my genesis/vamo combo but it fails miserably cause it obiviously there will be shorts. Pls tell me

 

[volume control]

I think you are supposed to use ave if you stack batteries, am i wrong? Are you stacking? All i noticed was in ave i was getting over 4v with it set to 3.0v

 

[Disconnect]

AVG and RMS don't have anything to do with stacking or not stacking. It is just 2 methods of outputting the desired voltage. (Yes, even in VW mode, it just outputs volts.. its physics.)

This url has a description of how RMS works. (It talks about, for example, a 10V source for 50% of the time. Remember that Vamo uses PWM so it turns on 6V for x%..)

AVG says that 3V is "6v 50% of the time". This is actually wildly inaccurate.

RMS says:

This is what RMS Voltage is and means. It is the true voltage of a waveform that is not steady. You have seen above how it is distinctly different from the average voltage. The RMS voltage of a changing waveform is that voltage which would produce the same heating effect in a purely resistive load as would a pure DC voltage of the same level.

(Note that an atty is a great example of a "purely resistive load" exhibiting a "heating effect"..)

RMS basically does it's best to induce the exact same heating in the load (atty) as a mechanical/steady-voltage mod would at the desired voltage.