New Leo from Boge

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REGGAEGEEK

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I love this device! The battery produces good voltage and on a fresh charge my meter reads 3.688 volts unloaded. Jackal3 posted that Boge states the voltage at 3.3 volts under load. I can tell you is this is the best performing production device to come out of China that i have tested and i have tested almost everything. The atomizer looks like a redesign of an 801 atomizer but the bridge has increased in size considerably, the atomizer wall thickness has increased too and this device wicks like a sponge. I personally never liked the super light draw of an 801 atty, either 2-hole or 4-hole versions. They were just too light for me but this device has a very nice draw, not too easy but not too firm. The cartridges that came with my unit are the hard plastic 801 style tips and i had a hard time getting them to push in all the way. This caused air to get in around the cart and produced a draw too light for my taste. I simply swapped to the softer rubber style tipped carts and the fit is perfect now and the draw is now perfect for me. This device literally produces unholy amounts of vapor on even short draws! Where as a normal draw on a 501 takes 4-6 seconds to produce a nice inhale, this device does it in a 2-3 sec draw. I have only been using the first atomizer for 3 days so i cannot state how long the atomizer will produce this performance but Jackal3 posted that he has been using the same atty for 1 month and it is still pumping out vapor. I hope I get the same results. I am a heavy vaper (7-10ml/day) and the battery lasted between 6-7 hours before depleting. This is as good or better than my large battery mod and in a much smaller package. The atomizer that came with it reads 2.5 ohm (net) on a 2-wire meter but i can tell you the output from this device exceeds the norm for this configuration. If you like TH then you will like this device. It has TH better than my normal high-drain large battery (1600mAh) device with a LR 510 atty. I am also impressed with the flavor the atty produces, but perhaps i am just accustomed to the lack of flavor the LR Attys produce. It may be the first time i actually tasted many of the juices i use. The snap on cover is a nice feature and i am sure we'll be seeing knock offs with this feature soon. I wish they had put a pen clip on the cover like a fountain pen has so it could be clipped on a shirt or pocket but maybe next generation... My ONLY dislike with this unit so far are the absolutely silly colored crystals on the end caps ;O) I just don't understand the Chinese need for bling, nor their definition of "fashionable". I personally would like to see Boge quickly offer solid metal end caps and put some knurling on them so they are easier to screw/unscrew as the ones now get slippery when a bit of juice gets on them. Overall I can recommend this device highly if you don't mind the flat cart tips or a larger form factor but the vapor production, flavor, TH and longer-lived attomizer (hopefully) are the deal-sealers for me.
 

REGGAEGEEK

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You're really getting good TH at 3,3v? I've found that anything under 3.7 doesn't satisfy me.
I normally don't either but with 24mg PG juice it hits really well with a new atty. After using the original atty for 5 days straight it lost some punch as most do but with after a good sonic cleaning (old sonic jewelry cleaner with baking soda and water) it vapes again at about 85% of new. With 3.3v & 2.5ohm atty the power is about 4.4 watts but it vapes like more. I don't know if it's the fact that the walls of the atty are thicker and perhaps don't rob as much heat from the coil or there is some design factor i won't see until i disect one but i am a TH junky and this device hits well with 24mg juice. On my HV / LR devices there is definately more TH but as i said, also much less flavor and none of the harshness the HV/LR devices produce.
 

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Whats your view on the switch? i have been told that its very light and therefore u cant risk it in your pocket.
I saw Dave's (sublime vapors) review about having the switch fire while pocked but i have not had any issue with it. It is basically the same switch on the Hello 016 and the smaller soft-touch switch on the RIVA and i have only had issues with the RIVA's smaller and lighter touch one. This switch takes a good bit of pressure to activate and there is a safety cutoff so i really don't have any issue with it.
 
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