Which mod to use?

[Miguel2310]

Hey everyone i'm new here but i been vaping just over a year now. I have a couple of ego which are great and I still use a lot. I have also bought a vamo that I have had for about a month now and love it. Wondering what to try next, I'm interested in the mechs out there but they seem so expensive when there are vv/vw out there for the same price or less. So what do you guys like to use any opinions and pros and cons

 

[Baditude]

Unless you particularly like the aesthetics of a particular mechanical, or plan to do sub-ohm coils on an RBA/RDA, I don't see any advantage of a mechanical mod.

A mechanical is at the mercy of the battery and the atomizer chosen. As the battery's voltage gradually drops so does the quality of the vape. It will never be as good as when using a freshly charged battery. It's all down hill from that point on.

A regulated mod's processor will regulate the voltage to what the user sets for the entire time the battery is in use; from the time it's fresh until its time to be replaced. Voltage can be adjusted to whichever flavor you are using, and when you switch flavors you can adjust the voltage to that flavor's sweet spot.

Yeah, many mechs are better built to be more durable and don't have a processor or wiring that can wear out or go bad, but they also lack the built-in protection that a regulated mod has. Safety is a big factor to me since I had a battery vent in thermal runaway in a mechanical mod months ago. A fire button got stuck in the on position causing the battery to discharge too fast; the protected circuit on the battery failed and then the battery failed. This wouldn't have happened with a regulated mod with their time-based auto shutoff safety feature.

A regulated mod's processor can detect shorts in the atomizer, the fire button, or the battery and shut itself down, preventing a potential disaster. Unless you are using a Vape Safe Fuse in your mechanical, you're accepting a higher risk of an accident occuring.

Vent holes and a collapsable hot spring might be ineffective once a battery hard shorts and goes into thermal runaway. batteries swell in size and vent large quantities of hot gases as they overheat and can block the vent holes, theoretically turning a mechanical mod into a potential pipe bomb.



I believe that for novices who may not know proper safe battery practices or know how to use more advanced juice delivery attachments (ie Rebuildable Atomizers) safely, a regulated mod is the best option to help keep them out of trouble.