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It came from battery modification, as in they take something that holds some batteries and modify the thing to run a atomizer connection, like laser pointer mods or flashlight mods...the term stuck and now a mod is a mod even if it isn't a modified anything but was built for the purpose of vaping.
Generally a mod has removable batteries....but don't tell that to the Darwin...
Don has a good post on them somewhere here on ECF ... http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...5-wonderful-world-mods-illustrated-guide.html
Generally a mod has removable batteries....but don't tell that to the Darwin...
Don has a good post on them somewhere here on ECF ... http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...5-wonderful-world-mods-illustrated-guide.html
I think most consider it a stock batt now.
Oh, and mod means heaven, or at least the e-cig mod does. What does the other kind mean? Well, that depends on just exactly how bad you've been that day.
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Yes. It didn't turn into a weak battery, slim tube mini PV while we weren't looking. If 50,000 people buy an Infinity, does that NOT make it a mod?
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I would have to say no. Anything that is stock, mass produced, and sold at a number of retail outlets shouldn't be considered a "mod". Where's the modification in ordering a stock device or starter kit from a manufacturer? There isn't one. That would be like calling an Iphone or a Blackberry a "mod" just because it isn't the same bulky bag phone that started the cell phone movement.
To make something a mod, a user or reseller has to take a tool to it and change it in some way, it has to be distinguishable from the way it was when it left the factory.
I like to think of a mod as something you can change the batteries in....but then came the ...DARWIN
Im just playing wv2win.
Im just playing wv2win.
The eGo was just a "mod" of the first mod, the Screwdriver by Trog in the UK. I don't agree with your definition of a mod because I was vaping when the first mod ever came into existence. But if I follow your thinking, then the Darwin is not a mod. The user changes nothing with the Darwin, the battery is self contained and rechargable and the Darwin is manufactured in a factory with robotics.
Actually, the Darwin does have a battery you can change out, it is not a disposable unit. It just isn't changeable in the traditional sense. Although the term mod has been modded, it generally is assumed that a non mod (ego, etc) is a unit that is disposable once the battery dies whereas a mod is a unit that has removable batteries thus saving you from having to buy a whole new unit. Not exactly termed correctly, but that is now the norm assumption, I believe.
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Sent from my ADR6300
I think the discussion in another thread (which shall not be named) comes into play here. I think we need to stop calling them mods. We could term the ones with a battery built in one thing, and the ones that we have to supply our own batteries for something else. Then the main thing you use to describe them is shape and size. We who have been here since there wasn't anything but the screwdriver got in the habit of calling them all mods because that's what anything other than the little batteries that lasted no time were. Now, many of those original mods have been reworked, and revamped and made better by multiple people. Some of them are being mass produced, some are being less than mass produced, others are being handmade by people I consider artists, whether in metal, plastic or wood. It's all an improvement on the wonderful invention of e-cigarettes. Aren't these folks who don't have to start with the stock batteries that only lasted an hour apiece lucky. Even people looking for a complete kit and starting with an Ego or one of the mega Batteries don't know how good they have it compared to the people who started with these 2 years ago. I would have danced a jig if there had been something that lasted half a day and held a mil of liquid. How much time did I spend trying to mod carts before going to dripping, and now moving on to a bottom feeder.
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