I have the istick 20w and it runs all my low power stuff fine, even old single coil evods. Although now I'd get the improved 30w, I'd replace my ego's with them. Very handy and hold a charge forever - which is the main value I see in them. I have a 50w on the way. From what I can tell so far, the longevity appears to be holding up fine. Care needs to be taken with the micro usb but that's nothing new.
I've also looked at the cloupor and it seems the heating issue was due to the chip in the original batches - and it's probably a good idea not to recharge most of them through micro usb or use them as a pass through. That's not an issue isolated to cloupor. I don't know if sigelei 30w is similar - that's a hard one to find in stock at a good price. Maybe it's time for another SJ "friends and family" unmentionable???
I'm not sure if you saw the comment that the Mo'Vapes V3 is a flat top and it includes protank (full kit) even though it's not mentioned in the ad. Hard to go wrong. I passed those kits out as Christmas presents this year to help get some of my friends going. I figured if nothing else, I was stocking up on spare parts. I still sorta wish there was someone into collecting and repairing these or stocking old parts for them (including Vamo's).
If your ok with 15w, there are a heck of a lot of great deals on provari's in the classies right now. Those never die and I don't see provape pulling support for them, of course I don't know what's going to happn if that WA 95% tax goes through. But that's still the longest lived, dependable, built like a tank regulated mod around imo.
Why would your regulated mods be loosing power? I thought power depended on batteries, not the electronics .... ???
Well the vv3's have the internal, integrated battery -- and a couple of mine are right around a year old, one just over, one just under; that first one was my exclusive vape for quite a while, until I got the sigelei zmax, so it's seen some pretty hard use. The 2nd one, I don't actually know if it's losing power, haven't tried it recently, it might still be ok.
The Vamo, I have no idea what's up with it, but its mode that corresponds to RMS just doesn't get the job done, so I went to its "AVG" mode, similar to Mean I think, and it works fine that way.
I did see the comment about the Zmax being a flat-top, and that's a good thing, though I have no earthly use for a protank. Since going to Kayfuns, I just can't make a clearo work at all anymore -- all of mine are in the "retired" drawer now. They might get PIFed one day, but I don't think I'll ever use another clearo; they just don't compare to Kayfuns in any way, shape, or form. The only "old tech" that i still find workable at all are cartotanks, but I got tired of the replacement cost of the single-coil, 3 ohm, punched cartos with the flange -- the ones without a flange won't work in my cartotank, so doing the self-punching to save money isn't workable. So my cartotank is also as good as retired. Think I'll just stick with my KFL+'s, the price on those has fallen a lot since the newer v4's came out.
Andria