I just got a Triton VV battery last week. I've been tinkering with it, and I'm not sure if I'm crazy. Reading people's posts about VV (and I guess VW) batteries always sounded like some kind of debaucherous, unbridled flavor adventure, but am I alone in thinking that this is a little overkill? Like, it's not a big deal?
In the end, I still bought another because having a regulated battery is pretty darned sweet. <shrug> I guess I'm just wondering if I'm missing something with the VV-flavor aspect.
Yeah, it seems like variable voltage is just a matter of consistency. Regular Tritons, for example, start at about 4.2 Volts at full charge and slowly decline to ~3.3 Volts before you have to plug them back in. (All numbers pulled from memory.) So if you're the kind of person who notices a huge difference in flavor between a battery at full charge and a battery at half or lower charge, VV might be an end in itself.
But just adding a VV battery to your default tank isn't going to make a night-and-day difference otherwise. You're still getting regular-battery-type performance a good portion of the time. The flavor adventure, as I understand it, only happens when you
combine your ideally preferred voltage with the right delivery system. For some people, that requires delving into the murky (to me) world of rebuildables and/or extremely low-resistance coils.
Personally, I'm a bit torn about the whole thing. I'm tempted to just go whole hog and buy a Provari within the next month or so instead of messing around with other variable voltage devices - but on the other hand, I'm not really interested in turning into a delivery-system hobbyist or expert. The no-frills, no-issues, hands-off design of the Triton tanks really appeals to me, and although I know it's technically possible to use an adapter to attach a Triton tank to a Provari, that seems like an awfully unbalanced set up to me.
