Prodigy Vs. Icon

[lexgar]

All of the battery tubes are just battery holders. The difference is in the aesthetics and the switch. I had a Protege and loved the look and size, but the switch (I had 3 out of 4) was not dependable at all. Tried a Chuck, but the switch was just too little and uncomfortable to use for me. Enter ProVape-1, great size, great switch that has not let me down. Ditto Black Silver Bullet (large) and BB from Altsmoke.

Recently got an Icon and it is a well built device with what seems to be a good mech switch. It is very small for its battery size and good for carry. I would not carry around a device as large as the Prodigy. I use my BSB in the car or house only due to size although I love the all day battery.

The ProVape-1 and Icon are both SS which I prefer to my aluminum mods. They are heavier, but very rugged. My BSB has quite a bit of powder coat loss from dings and drops. That is not an issue with the SS units.

3.7v vs 6v? Tried 6v on several devices, but keep coming back to 3.7 and Low Resistance attys. YMMV

 

[Goldenkobold]

Both of those are HUGE. I did like my saber touch, but the damned thing was massive. Also, its the button and wiring that you have to worry about breaking. The ICON and Prodigy have no electronics what so ever. You'd have to abuse the living hell out of one with power tools in order to break it.

True...but its button is not a real button but a circuit completion, I would trust that over a mechanical button any day of the week...but yea it is big

 

[Trioxin]

True...but its button is not a real button but a circuit completion, I would trust that over a mechanical button any day of the week...but yea it is big

Thats exactly how a mechanical button works, only without any wires, but yeah, the button on the saber touch does rock and I'd trust it to work for a very long time.

 

[Nisitiiapi]

I recently made my first mod purchase after doing a lot of research and having a lot of debates with myself. I considered the Prodigy and Icon, too. Ultimately, I decided variable voltage was the only way to go and I spent my time trying to pick one (at least until the new ∞ from NotCigs comes out -- but, now I see the ProVari, I'm going to have to do some more debating). I considered the Joker-AV and the SaberTouch and even looked at getting a mod and adding NotCigs terminator to it to make it a VV. In the end, I ended up buying a Buzz to get me through until the ∞ comes out next month (then it'll probably be the Buzz at home and the ∞ -- or will it be the ProVari -- out and about). The Buzz isn't the prettiest mod out there, but it's well built and seems to be very sturdy (people have dropped them, even to the point the LED doesn't work, and it still vapes great). It's not excessively large -- I can't palm it, but I can almost cover the entire body with my hand.

In the end, if you're going to put out the money for a mod, get something with variable voltage.

 

[Zen~]

In the end, if you're going to put out the money for a mod, get something with variable voltage.

The reality here is that most "Mods" are simply battery holders and a switch, and some of them are outrageously overpriced battery holders and a switch.

The thing that I find so attractive about the new wave of variable voltage devices as that your money is actually buying something... electronics! The price of the Infinity is laughably low, and the ProVari seems like a bargain for what you'll be getting. I have also noticed, by buying and selling mods in the ECF classifieds, is that these things, at least for now, hold their value remarkably well, so it's relatively inexpensive to try one, and if you don't like it, just flip it on the classifieds.

In the past week, I've sold a couple of box mods and a few tube mods and I have purchased another Protoge', a Mini Vapestack and a Bulli Slim, just to try them... At the end of the day, they all perform pretty much the same. A 14500 mod performs like any other 14500 mod, the same goes for CR123 mods and 10440 Mods... This is NOT the case with Variable Voltage...

a VV Mod REALLY enhances the vaping experience.