Thanks to Stephen Rowley a supplier here, I've been given the opportunity to evaluate the new screwdriver device. Stephen made a video on my screwdriver request thread but the picture quality doesn't do the screwdriver justice really. Before you have to ask "what is a screwdriver?" It is simply an e-cig/PVthat looks like a screwdriver. You hold the handle (which contains the battery) in your hand and you vape from the tip. The screwdriver is a type of e-cig/PV which generally is classed as a modified or modded device. Not all are modded though, some are factory made but all of them are high battery powered devices which deliver the most vapour and throat hit of all the e-cigs/PVs.
The ECS Screwdriver looks like a high tech screwdriver. I personally found it elegant and beautiful. It comes in a box a little less than half the size of a shoebox. First thing you notice is how shiny it is. It's all silver. It's really pretty. It doesn't look big at all. I would call it a mini screwdriver. If one stacks it next to the Janty Stick aka Twisp Stick in South Africa, the ECS screwdriver peeks up a little above. Placed next to the DSE 801 penstyle, the screwdriver is a plastic mouthpiece shorter than the 801/M201 Penstyles.
Lift it out of the box and it just feels right in the hand. It has a sensual feel. Once you place the charged battery inside it gains a bit of weight, but it's not heavy. One can close their hand around it. I could carry it around all day. It's just one of those things that once you have it in your hand it feels nice. Put it this way. Why do we need to vape something that looks like a cigarette anyway? It kind of defeats the purpose of wanting to get the heck away from those things. Why can't we all have our PV's/e-cigs in other colours and finishes - any other finishes except white? I have an M201 in white, an 801 in a beautiful burgundy and several in white. The Janty is metallic and black plastic. Burgundy and Silver, however, ooze, well, class. We forget the little things in life that enhance our vaping experience and luxury finishes define an elegance.It's a personal thing. It's a subjective thing. The ECS Screwdriver reminds me of the Art Deco period. It is simple, functional, solid, and effective. Yep. It's an art Deco Screwdriver. It even has a neon red ring which lights up. It's the kind of thing I'd expect to see Leonardo Di Caprio vaping in The Aviator as he flies his Lockheed around Los Angeles with his lover on a carefree joyride.
The atty stem is about as wide as the penstyle battery and a peek inside reveals an atty shaped like the St. Louis gateway arch except it is in Lilliput land. I mean, honestly, in all my born years I've never seen such a ridicuolusly small atty and in a screwdriver no less. How could something this size even power a mini e-cig? The plastic disposable mouthpiece is almost half the size of normal penstyle mouthpieces. The cart filler looks like it will only hold two drops. Maybe this device is for dripping only.
Ah. Looks can be deceiving. They are here. Things are not what they seem. First you can add at least 10 drops into the empty filler in the cart. That's about the same as I'm adding to my penstyles! Then once the battery is charged and in, power button touched on the bottom and then the manual button touched to start the steam...well nothing really happens. It is a brand new atty. So I drip a couple and the atty gets a kick out of bed then I replace the cart and the throat hits start and start and start and they don't stop. They don't have the choking power that the janty stick has but as the atty burns itself out of its coma the throat hits become consistent and strong, time and again. More punch than the M201 for sure. definitely more punch than the 801 on an all being carts basis. Dripping will see the M201 and even the 801 and the Janty running rings around the screwdriver but while these other models might outperform for a short while-they are limited by their batteries and the voltage drops away as quickly as the bombs left the planes over Dresden while the Screwdriver is the Energiser bunny of them all...It just keeps on ticking. To date I have vaped around 6-7 hours on the one battery and it is still going strong. I've been through several cart loads of e-juice and the throat hit is there every time. It might take one draw or tops two or three. Maybe the atomiser hasn't broken in yet completely because it doesn't produce excess clouds of vapour like the janty (but to be fair the Janty has USB power and the screwdriver is strictly battery powered and the Janty and the Penstyles have far bigger attys) but wow this little wonder of a screwdriver does the job
You get the throat hit after a couple of puffs because little of the vapour is wasted as a visible spectacle.
The draw is remarkably light for such a small atty and tip. An emphesema victim in the end stages of suffering could probably manage a draw with relative ease.
The cut-off kicks in after several seconds of draw but I've found I don't need to reach the cut off point like I did with the Janty Stick quite as often. Two to three vapes does it for me.
The device grows quickly on you. It's small enough to cart around and to use in public and it's powerful enough not to need the M201 or the 801. Sometimes one will need the huge throat hits of the M201 and janty which the screwdriver will not deliver, but that's ok because in the main the screwdriver does deliver in an adequate way but it's not the Nuke of the screwdrivers.
It's easier to use than the Janty Stick. There is far less plastic and the button is easier to depress and it feels more solid. I'm sure with a bigger atty and a USB passthrough this mini screwdriver will leave the Janty in the dust, not that it already does in many cases already.
I'm just not sure where this device slots in. I'd place it somewhere between the M201 and the Janty Stick, however I personally would use this more than I will ever use the Janty because I like consistency and this device delivers. I notice I get hardly any burnt taste- something I often get in the Janty and the penstyles- and during this test both the janty and the 801 had new attys too. The M201 is awaiting scarce as hens teeth new attys, but I'm working off memory. The burnt taste could well be the amount of filler used in the attys- in the screwdriver, the amount is less than half than the others and finally, the atty runs warm, it doesn't run hot hot like the M201 and M801. Sure it gets peaks but it cools pretty quick but it runs nowhere near as hot as those other attys.
I tried juice at 16mg, 18mg and 24mg. There was no discernable difference in throat hit or vapour output.
Flavours do seem more intense in the screwdriver. You will pick up the differences in juice quality between different suppliers pretty quickly.
I'll be keeping you posted hopefully on the atty lifespan.
Meanwhile I'd give this mini screwdriver a recommendation to own. Just remember devices are subjective things. If it's monster truck throat hits you seek you will not find it here. But if you seek a good jack of all vapes this is it. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, My Trusty DSE801, I now consign you to rust... way up on some forgotten bookshelf, RIP
The ECS Screwdriver looks like a high tech screwdriver. I personally found it elegant and beautiful. It comes in a box a little less than half the size of a shoebox. First thing you notice is how shiny it is. It's all silver. It's really pretty. It doesn't look big at all. I would call it a mini screwdriver. If one stacks it next to the Janty Stick aka Twisp Stick in South Africa, the ECS screwdriver peeks up a little above. Placed next to the DSE 801 penstyle, the screwdriver is a plastic mouthpiece shorter than the 801/M201 Penstyles.
Lift it out of the box and it just feels right in the hand. It has a sensual feel. Once you place the charged battery inside it gains a bit of weight, but it's not heavy. One can close their hand around it. I could carry it around all day. It's just one of those things that once you have it in your hand it feels nice. Put it this way. Why do we need to vape something that looks like a cigarette anyway? It kind of defeats the purpose of wanting to get the heck away from those things. Why can't we all have our PV's/e-cigs in other colours and finishes - any other finishes except white? I have an M201 in white, an 801 in a beautiful burgundy and several in white. The Janty is metallic and black plastic. Burgundy and Silver, however, ooze, well, class. We forget the little things in life that enhance our vaping experience and luxury finishes define an elegance.It's a personal thing. It's a subjective thing. The ECS Screwdriver reminds me of the Art Deco period. It is simple, functional, solid, and effective. Yep. It's an art Deco Screwdriver. It even has a neon red ring which lights up. It's the kind of thing I'd expect to see Leonardo Di Caprio vaping in The Aviator as he flies his Lockheed around Los Angeles with his lover on a carefree joyride.
The atty stem is about as wide as the penstyle battery and a peek inside reveals an atty shaped like the St. Louis gateway arch except it is in Lilliput land. I mean, honestly, in all my born years I've never seen such a ridicuolusly small atty and in a screwdriver no less. How could something this size even power a mini e-cig? The plastic disposable mouthpiece is almost half the size of normal penstyle mouthpieces. The cart filler looks like it will only hold two drops. Maybe this device is for dripping only.
Ah. Looks can be deceiving. They are here. Things are not what they seem. First you can add at least 10 drops into the empty filler in the cart. That's about the same as I'm adding to my penstyles! Then once the battery is charged and in, power button touched on the bottom and then the manual button touched to start the steam...well nothing really happens. It is a brand new atty. So I drip a couple and the atty gets a kick out of bed then I replace the cart and the throat hits start and start and start and they don't stop. They don't have the choking power that the janty stick has but as the atty burns itself out of its coma the throat hits become consistent and strong, time and again. More punch than the M201 for sure. definitely more punch than the 801 on an all being carts basis. Dripping will see the M201 and even the 801 and the Janty running rings around the screwdriver but while these other models might outperform for a short while-they are limited by their batteries and the voltage drops away as quickly as the bombs left the planes over Dresden while the Screwdriver is the Energiser bunny of them all...It just keeps on ticking. To date I have vaped around 6-7 hours on the one battery and it is still going strong. I've been through several cart loads of e-juice and the throat hit is there every time. It might take one draw or tops two or three. Maybe the atomiser hasn't broken in yet completely because it doesn't produce excess clouds of vapour like the janty (but to be fair the Janty has USB power and the screwdriver is strictly battery powered and the Janty and the Penstyles have far bigger attys) but wow this little wonder of a screwdriver does the job
You get the throat hit after a couple of puffs because little of the vapour is wasted as a visible spectacle.
The draw is remarkably light for such a small atty and tip. An emphesema victim in the end stages of suffering could probably manage a draw with relative ease.
The cut-off kicks in after several seconds of draw but I've found I don't need to reach the cut off point like I did with the Janty Stick quite as often. Two to three vapes does it for me.
The device grows quickly on you. It's small enough to cart around and to use in public and it's powerful enough not to need the M201 or the 801. Sometimes one will need the huge throat hits of the M201 and janty which the screwdriver will not deliver, but that's ok because in the main the screwdriver does deliver in an adequate way but it's not the Nuke of the screwdrivers.
It's easier to use than the Janty Stick. There is far less plastic and the button is easier to depress and it feels more solid. I'm sure with a bigger atty and a USB passthrough this mini screwdriver will leave the Janty in the dust, not that it already does in many cases already.
I'm just not sure where this device slots in. I'd place it somewhere between the M201 and the Janty Stick, however I personally would use this more than I will ever use the Janty because I like consistency and this device delivers. I notice I get hardly any burnt taste- something I often get in the Janty and the penstyles- and during this test both the janty and the 801 had new attys too. The M201 is awaiting scarce as hens teeth new attys, but I'm working off memory. The burnt taste could well be the amount of filler used in the attys- in the screwdriver, the amount is less than half than the others and finally, the atty runs warm, it doesn't run hot hot like the M201 and M801. Sure it gets peaks but it cools pretty quick but it runs nowhere near as hot as those other attys.
I tried juice at 16mg, 18mg and 24mg. There was no discernable difference in throat hit or vapour output.
Flavours do seem more intense in the screwdriver. You will pick up the differences in juice quality between different suppliers pretty quickly.
I'll be keeping you posted hopefully on the atty lifespan.
Meanwhile I'd give this mini screwdriver a recommendation to own. Just remember devices are subjective things. If it's monster truck throat hits you seek you will not find it here. But if you seek a good jack of all vapes this is it. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, My Trusty DSE801, I now consign you to rust... way up on some forgotten bookshelf, RIP
HOT and burn you.
