Well, since they (LRider) only make, and only ever made, the original version, it would have been hard for them to come out with the versions produced by Young June or J. Lin. That's the confusion. There really is no "version 1.5 or version 2". They are totally different manufacturers.
Other than their overstated current limits, not turning off when they're supposed to, and a couple of spontaneous firing issues that forced some vendors to recall them and refund the customer, they've been working fine. They're using PWM and hold the power much better, but not perfectly.
BTW, the much ballyhooed BuzzPro has a similar drop and, other than at 1.5ohms, a bigger drop under load than the V1 Lavatube, so that's another thing that's been grossly blown out of proportion.
Pretty much all sites explain the 2.5 amp limit. They DO work with all the attys/cartos on the market. Just not at ALL voltages. Neither does the Provari, or anything else with a current limit. These were supposedly intended for "advanced vapers". Apollo, for one, states so right on their site. If you don't know that a 2.5 amp current draw precludes the use of a 1.5ohm carto at 4 volts, you are not an "advanced vaper". They're not obligated to hold your hand, and the specs were never a secret. Most of the people who complained about this issue didn't bother reading the spec or didn't know what a dual coil carto actually was. Ironically, many of them were happy to suck on 1.5ohm DCs attached to their eGos. But if you buy something and expect it to do what it never claimed it would do, expect to be disappointed. That's not a reflection on the device, it's a reflection on you.
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