Zen's are great, but before you shell out the cash, I would get a cheap mechanical, genesis and dripper to see if it's your thing. I would order a chepo mechanical, a genesis clone and a few different styles of drippers from fasttech. You could get a mech, batteries and a charger and 2-3 drippers and a genesis clone for around $70. If you decide it's your thing, than just trade off that stuff on the classes or keep it as a backup and splurge on a Zen. I can get my cheep mech and dripper from FT to preform almost as good as my Lux and Trident, just a slight difference and 90% cheaper setup. Although I do like my Lux setup more than my cheap stuff, it's nice to have a backup to take fishing so I'm not loosing $250 worth of mod. Or you can go ahead and splurge and just trade it off if you don't like it for something else.