Hey all, I got out of the vaping world for a little while, my setup before taking a break was an MVP V2 and a nautilus. Since getting back in about a month ago I finally got into rebuildables and have been solely using mech mods. But I miss my VW. I'm about to build a DNA30, just waiting for a few more parts to come in, but I'm thinking about getting another MVP to use as a backup.
One thing I wanted to know before getting it: What is the minimum resistance coil you can use with the MVP? 1Ω? Lower or higher?
Thanks in advance, it's good to be back.
The lowest resistance coil that I've been able to get my MVP2 to fire with is a .8Ω coil that I built myself. However... It may be contrary to what other owners of the MVP2 might say but the ohm reading of the MVP2 is not exactly great IMHO. For example, I'll put a 1.8Ω coil in my Nautilus and check it with the Ohm reader on my MVP2 and it might (*might*) read to 3.9Ω, then I'll take a vape on it, and test it again and it *might* say 1.8Ω or 2.1Ω or any possible other reading. Eventually it seems to level out and on a new coil after doing a couple tests on it, it will settle in at what the mfg of the coil states the coil's resistance will be (i.e. 1.8 Ω). But when dealing with < 1Ω coils, and when nearing the threshold of what the MVP2 will fire on, then it seems to me that the resistance reading should / would need to be pretty reliable.
As another example, I did that .8 Ω coil and tried it on the MVP2 one day and it was reading that it was below .8 Ω so it wouldn't fire. Just on a whim I took it with me when I went to the local vape store since they have a dedicated box that tests the resistance of coils and on their device it was reading at .8 Ω. I put it back on my MVP2 and tried again and this time it was indeed reading at .8 Ω and it would fire again. So, when dealing with coils that are so close to the threshold of what will or won't fire on the MVP2 it's really not worth the trouble since (at least on my MVP2) the resistance checker can be quite flaky at times and so you could be out and about with a known good .8 Ohm coil and find that the MVP2 now thinks that it's less than .8 and won't fire up for you.
So, now I stick to at least 1 Ω coils when I build them myself for my RSST so that I don't get caught up in this flaky resistance checker on the MVP2. Even with a 1Ω coils could read below .8 and cause my MVP2 not to fire up but at least it leaves a little wiggling room for the flaky MVP2 resistance readings that can happen from time to time. Don't get me wrong there are other times where it will tell me that the new 1.8Ω coil that I just bought is reading at 1.8Ω but it isn't so accurate most of the time for me.
Like I said, it may be contrary to what other MVP2 owners experience, but I have actually seen it in a brand new freshly opened box of the MVP2 at the B&M store that we used to go to in our old city where we used to live as I took my MVP2 back to her telling her how flaky the resistance checking was and asked to test it on a new unit, which produced the same flaky results as my own MVP2. Worse case... They're all as flaky, best case... 2 units that I tried (my own and the stores new one) were flaky.
Still... A great unit to vape with regardless that the resistance checking is a bit flaky at times, fits my big hands, has enough battery life to only need charging every day or two and for the most part does what it's supposed to allow me to do... Vape.
I was all over this one but I vape ~3.6-3.7 and I'm not going to sit there and run the battery down until it is where it will vape properly for my needs. Without a step down, it doesn't kill the MVP, at least for a lot of peoples needs But I like sooooo many of its features. Hopefully a istick V2.
