So after making this comment above, you're going to tell me I dont understand temp control?
Have you actually set your mod to 40 joules at 400 degrees and compare to 15 joules at 400 degrees? If you did, especially after they fixed the higher joule setting in the 2.21 firmware, youd realize the vape is exactly identical, the only difference being the coil takes 2 seconds to heat up at 15 joules versus 40 joules where it is (practically) instantly at temp.
Try it, put your Joules at 15-20, fire until the temp is where you set it and THEN take a hit. Then set your Joules to 40, fire until the temp is where you set it and THEN take a hit. Its identical. THAT is how temp control works, that is how it is supposed to work. Joules is not complicated and ffs, it isnt helping anyone to define this any differently. Its making this more complicated than it really is and frankly, its misinformation.
If we HAVE to use the car analogy, it doesnt exactly fit, but its pretty close, Joules is merely the amount of gas you feed to the engine (this is different from watts which would be more closely defined in this analogy to acceleration, ie. 1-60 in x seconds) and your temp is your desired speed. The more fuel spent, the faster the car reaches speed, ie. the more power transferred from the battery to the coil, the faster the coil reaches your set temp.
Once you hit your set speed, your cruise control kicks in, ie. it adjusts down the amount of fuel fed to the engine and constantly changes the fuel spending based on resistances, that might be road type, incline / decline, wind resistance, wet / dry conditions, etc.
The vaporizer 'cruise control' works much the same way accept there is far fewer factors that change resistance but it works much the same way. At 400 degrees on a .09 ohm cold coil, the device literally only puts out 8 Joules or so to maintain the 400 degrees, which, to be technical, actually, its maintaining the coil resistance while its under load (on a .09 ohm cold coil, its around .12 ohms while under load) which is why the car analogy doesnt quite fit. But, I tried.
Back to the menu system, this is a frequent conversation in our local vape shop where pretty much everyone has an SX Mini and everyone there has said the same thing I did above regarding menu changes.
Conveniently, most of the reviews have also stated that the menu system is convoluted, clunky, and with this current change, even adds redundant settings.
Ive even seen comments in this very thread making statements like 'once you get used to the menu system'. Why? Oh right, its perfectly fine, people are just saying it just because, no reason.
The very definition of fanboyism. *sigh*
The device works fine once youve navigated the clunky ui, in fact, I like it for the most part more than the Evolv chips.
That isnt to say that its perfect, no device is, the menu system is clunky (this is coming from someone who designs UI's for a living so Im not just talking out of my ... here) and could use some reworking.
Personally? I would change the entire system, hide the UI elements you never need to see a second time in a second menu accessed with a different button combination, say Power + down held for 5 seconds, note that unlike the current setup, as soon as the device recognizes you are pressing the down button WITH the Power button, it would stop firing the atty. In here, Id put the following menu options:
Temperature Unit (C/F)
Display (Left/Right/Auto)
Sensor (On/Off)
ADD Screen Timeout (1s-60s)
Link (On/Off)
Exit (On/Off)
Note that a Screen Timeout setting would be added in this menu.
Tapping the fire button five times would cycle between the following:
Coil Select (Ni200/Titanium/Non-TC)
Joules/Watts (5-40)
Temp (212-572) (100-300)
Exit (On/Off)
System (On/Off)
REMOVE the Power & Joule setting all together because we set that in the coil select menu setting above.
Unfortunately, the device is limited because we only have three buttons and the two small buttons when pressed together set your resistance, so the only other combo we can use is the fire button and the up or down button.
