whats the difference

[nedwood]

What's the difference between a box mod and a mech mod? And why are people getting them cloned?

 

[Tony16]

There are regulated or unregulated.
You can get either box or tube style in either.
Regulated has safety circuits built in.
Unregulated has no safety circuits,
You may see people say they want to upgrade to box mod. They may be looking to get something with more power.

 

[tpedwards]

A mech mod can come in any shape. Mech refers to the fact that the mod essentially has very little to no wiring and generally speaking your fire button when depressed will complete the circuit.
As to clones, certian countries ( China ) don't follow the same rules as everyone else. People keep buying so they keep producing. More or less anyway.

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[Tony16]

Clones are copies at cheaper prices.

 

[Vandal]

A box mod can be either regulated (has electrical circuits) or mechanical (no electrical circuits). Both types of mods can come as a box or tube mod. Cloned mods are are less expensive. Some are as good as or even better than the originals, but quality varies.

 

[Tony16]

Most regulated mods are variable watts and/or variable volts with display screen. Mech mods just use batteries power as volts drop from use so does power to the coil

 

[Baditude]

"Box" mod is just the shape or form factor of the mod (as opposed to a "tube" mod); it could be mechanical (no electronics) or regulated (electronic chip).

A mechanical mod is basically just a battery holder; no electronic chip to regulate the output from the battery, no variable wattage, and no protection circuitry. The atomizer is fired strictly by the battery voltage.

A regulated mod has an electronic chip to regulate the output, generally has variable wattage, and has protection circuitry. The atomizer is fired directly by the electronic chip, and indirectly by the battery.

A "clone" is a cheaper replication of an original model of mod.



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• From cigalike batteries, to eGo's, to mods. Another picture dictionary of terminology and form factors for beginning vapers. Covers both tube and box mods, regulated and unregulated (mechanical).

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[crxess]

Irrelevant Cloning debate - it all ends 8/8/16

Box unregulated is a Mechanical Mod, same as a Tube Mod.