So this arrived today and I've been playing about with it for a few hours or more now.
First impressions: it's about the same size as eGo/riva XL battery, the paint finish is good and the cone threads appear to be a decent quality also. The lights on this are bright though, very bright and do make this a rather 'flashy' looking battery. The red bars LCD for battery life indicator is a good feature, but are excessively bright. Switch performance is a little loose. It's not the usual soft sponge like silocne you get on riva bats, it's closer to a proper ego style bat switch, but looser and possibly a bit cheaper... It works though and dosent seem to mind the constant pressing for voltage change on the fly.
Under test the VV options... Now I'm totally inexperienced when it comes to variable voltage. I've never had a mod or device that went above 3.7 before or a device which I could change this on. So with this VV ego battery I was sorta experimenting in the dark a bit. I thought I'd try a mega eGo dual coil cartomizer first off. On the red setting (3.2 I think) it wasn't especially impressive. At 3.7 (the purple setting) it was much better and seemed about what I was used to from my standard eGo bats, maybe a touch more vapour, not much though. At 4.2 though these things were much better! Loads of vapour and I'd say a more pronounced flavour too! The
juice was a premium maple walnut from ENjuice (a good if expensive juice). In the dual coils at 4.2 they it really stood out well.
A small disclaimer I should point out. Another mega ego dual coil I tried (exact same make and type as my other smoktech one mentioned above) this time filled with janty elixir RY4 failed to fire up at all... On any voltage. I don't know why. This dual coil would only work on this VV bat with a 510 - 510 tornado adaptor. Tried it on my usual riva XL battery and no adaptor was required, fired up right away. A bit of a mystery really. Suffice to say, the janty also tasted a bit better at 4.2 also, though was also quite pleasent at 3.7 too.
The real star of this show however were some Janty Low Resistance 510 cartomizers from ivapour. On this VV bat at 4.2 they performed better then on any other device I've tried them. They really did sing on this voltage. Plenty of vapour, lots of flavour and a decent enough throat hit (though the ENjuice RY44 premium I stuck in one isn't big on T.H anyway) for the first time, since
vaping I finally got why people went a bit crazy for LW cartomizers, before they always seemed a bit lacking, but here on 4.2 I'd found a great sweet spot for me personally.
So overall it's an impressive bit of kit. Is £20 worth it for what is essentially a flashy eGo battery with some other features? I'd say yes it was. VV
vaping isn't cheap, an eGo booster is around £50+ to us uk Vapers. A pro vari or a Darwin is hundreds of pounds! Other mods are either likely equally expensive or require import from the states etc. The point is, this works with all your existing eGo kits and if, like me you didn't really want an entirely new P.V and wanted to try this VV stuff out,its not gonna be a total waste of your cash and time for £20 to try one of these. Sure 3.2-3.7-4.2 isn't the widest of ranges around, but it's enough to get you started.
I still need to experiment (like why and what I'd ever need to go below 4.2 for!) but even if, for some reason you didn't wanna use the variable volt, it's a decent, long lasting eGo battery with LCD indicator which will happily work as a back up battery for your existing kits. A thumbs up from me then.
EDIT: oops sorry, I just tried is on my arry tank mod at 4.2 - vapour production is exceeding my E-power! This is crazy. Think I love this thing!
