Why not just get a Snow Wolf now? It's proven, built well & you know what it is. I'm done with the preorder thing personally, you have no idea what you're going to get & quite frankly it isn't uncommon for companies to introduce items that barely work as intended. Personally I've jumped on the Reo bandwagon & seriously contemplating selling all my chip based TC mods including my Snow Wolf but that's just me. I believe in TC, I won't buy a regulated mod unless it's TC based but how often do you really change temp once you find your sweet spot? I've got my Reo dialed in already, took me two coil builds & it hits as good as any of my TC devices without worrying about failure. Again this is all IMO, take it for what it's worth.