VW: truly set it and forget it?

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I go through periods of trying a lot of flavors, and periods of concentrating on a few - either way I still prefer vw over vv myself. I really do find it more convenient - and I have a number of pvs that have both options.

Goes to show every one is different, I rotate between 2 or 3 flavors during the day I've experienced no benefits to my vaping style using VW over VV.
I ended up fiddling with the VW devices I've owned just as much as VV devices to get what I want out of a PV.
 

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Now, if the manufacturers can ever get the devices down to a form and size that doesn't resemble a tactical nuclear weapon, I'll be in the market.

That'll happen as soon as battery technology progresses to the point where they can miniaturize a 3.7v cell that has 900mAh capacity and is rated for 20A max continuous discharge. That's MY dream anyway. ;)
 

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I suspect folks change their wattage as much as they changed their voltage. People are finicky that way. I don't see one as better than the other.

This has been my exact experience. It's fine, but that "Set & Forget" thing has been non-existent for me. I change volts with different juices, and I change watts the exact same way.
 

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That certainly sounds promising. I like the cruise control analogy, too.

Now, if the manufacturers can ever get the devices down to a form and size that doesn't resemble a tactical nuclear weapon, I'll be in the market.

;)

Seen these? $39.54 iTaste VW V3.0 7-in-1 Variable Voltage Rechargeable 800mAh Electronic Cigarettes Set - vv-3.0 at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping

I've got one (express kit, bought from a US online shop for the same price as the full kit I linked, but got mine in 3 days instead of two weeks, so I don't mind that I paid more) and it's a tremendous upgrade from a twist without any real size increase.
 

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Goes to show every one is different, I rotate between 2 or 3 flavors during the day I've experienced no benefits to my vaping style using VW over VV.
I ended up fiddling with the VW devices I've owned just as much as VV devices to get what I want out of a PV.

2 or 3 flavors isn't much. I'd hardly call that fiddling if its set on vw. Not for me anyway. May be different for you. Actually that's what I was saying - some juices will mean you change the watts. Its variable. Which is pretty much what you said back on the thread. On the other hand - I have more than 1 juice that I can stay on the same watts with too. In fact more so I stay on the same watts than not as it happens. The argument about completely setting and forgetting and never changing the setting is one that came from vv only vapers and frankly is a silly argument. Of course the settings get changed sometimes. I might click up or down a bit a couple of times in a whole day - so what? That's not the real point of it and has been bandied about by a few people who seem to crusade against variable wattage for no good reason. The advantage is being able to use any ohms and stay at the same watts without changing anything. I have both variable voltage and variable wattage and for me I prefer the wattage. I know a lot of vapers do these days.

But none of that has anything to do with what the OP asked. He knows what watts he likes to vape at and for him it will be set and forget - because he knows the watts settings he likes. That's what he wants - to set it at those watts and he can use any attachment he wants without calculating or worrying.
 

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VW for me has been less finicky and more fine tuned than VV. Let me elaborate on that... Regardless of the juice I have...my sweet spots have always been 7-7.5 watts. Adjusting my watts by 0.1 finely tunes the voltage needed; be it, 3.8, 3.84, 3.88, etc. VV devices can only be adjusted to 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, etc. I have a variety of atomizers/cartomizers with different resistance/ohms. So setting at my sweet spots of 7-7.5 watts makes it less finicky for me to find the voltage I want/need for different atomizers/cartomizers.

Here's the calculation: volts squared, divided by resistance, square root = watts

The end result is always watts. Why not be at the end and stop calculating how to get there?
 

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For me, the difference will be no more having to check the ohms of every new coil/carto, do the math, and then adjust my volts accordingly to vape. Just screw it on and go :) Facilitating my laziness is the bottom line here :D

Agree w/crawler65 here. I'm fairly new to vaping & real new to vw. I'm a bit fiddly right now but, I'm just finding out where I like my vape for each juice I use. I'm actually keeping track of this using a spreadsheet at least till I can get it straight in my head.
 

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VW for me has been less finicky and more fine tuned than VV. Let me elaborate on that... Regardless of the juice I have...my sweet spots have always been 7-7.5 watts. Adjusting my watts by 0.1 finely tunes the voltage needed; be it, 3.8, 3.84, 3.88, etc. VV devices can only be adjusted to 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, etc. I have a variety of atomizers/cartomizers with different resistance/ohms. So setting at my sweet spots of 7-7.5 watts makes it less finicky for me to find the voltage I want/need for different atomizers/cartomizers.

Here's the calculation: volts squared, divided by resistance, square root = watts

The end result is always watts. Why not be at the end and stop calculating how to get there?

This makes sense to me, I find with mass produced cartos and coils you get .1-.3ohm variances. Not having to manually adjust my device to try and compensate would be great, and with VV it's just not that fine of control.
 
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