Got my Pulse Dual in this morning, which was a surprise given that it’s Sunday. I guess USPS is pulling out all the stops to get everything delivered before Christmas.
I’m loving the Pulse V2 RDA! I’m using it in single coil mode, and it’s been a real treat. Super simple to build, squonk action is perfect, smooth as silk airflow, and excellent flavor. My only quibble is that it comes with flat head grub screws, which I hate. There are hex head replacements in the spare parts bag, but they are gold plated which I also don’t care for. I replaced them with standard SS hex head grub screws from my parts bin (it’s an M3 size – either 3mm or 4mm length will work).
The mod is amazingly compact. I really didn’t appreciate how small it is until I had it in hand. It’s very comfortable to hold, squonk and fire. The bottle is a different size than the Pulse 80/90, but has the same feel and is easy to take out and refill sans mess.
The bad news is that with the brightness set at 100% there’s a lot of light leakage on the left side of the screen. Enough to be a significant irritation. It’s better at 80%, but still visible. The light leakage disappears at 50%. Since the latter setting leaves the screen bright enough for my needs, it’s livable.
The battery door is a major pain in the .... to get open and properly shut. I’m hoping it will get better as it wears in, but at present it’s a struggle.
Performance in TC has been very good. It seems to be just a little better than the TC performance on the 80w version with the most recent update, but I don’t have enough time put in as of yet to say that with confidence.
Got it in green which I think looks nice – it’s a frosted green bottle door with matching drip tip and a dark gray bottle. I have a few green bottles on order from FT to complete the look.