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I have come to think of 'mod' as anything thing larger than an eGo. What i dont understand is the word 'personal' as in PV. Is there a non-personal vaporizer?
eta: Having just wrote that, Maybe they are thinking as opposed to a vaporizer that you set on a table top to humidify the air in your bedroom at night when yo have a cold, or such. nevermind.
eta: Having just wrote that, Maybe they are thinking as opposed to a vaporizer that you set on a table top to humidify the air in your bedroom at night when yo have a cold, or such. nevermind.
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I think the term mod is just a hard habit to break. Before the manufacture of APVs really got started, every device that was larger than a cig-a-like or an eGo was a mod. It's as if those three terms got set in stone then. I agree that there should be another term, but it doesn't bother me that much because APV just doesn't roll off the tongue like mod does.
Here's what I originally considered a mod to be. I "modified" a 510 fitting with two flashlights, a variable voltage chip and some various parts...
Here's what I originally considered a mod to be. I "modified" a 510 fitting with two flashlights, a variable voltage chip and some various parts...
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Even after over 2 years vaping; I still have trouble with referring to my MODS as vaporizers - personal or otherwise. Google "vaporizer" - the vast majority of results aren't about mods 
I find PV a worse term than electronic cigarette for what we are using, IMO.
I find PV a worse term than electronic cigarette for what we are using, IMO.
Even after over 2 years vaping; I still have trouble with referring to my MODS as vaporizers - personal or otherwise. Google "vaporizer" - the vast majority of results aren't about mods
lol. I use "PV" all the time. Guess it's because I need a generic term...and "mod" bugs me for the same reasons the OP mentioned.
OTOH, my "box mod" is just that....I changed out the stock button from the kit before assembly. lol. If I hadn't changed the button, could I call it a "box mod" if it's stock parts? Maybe because I assembled it from a kit? So is a kit a "mod"? What if I had purchased a pre-assembled "box mod"?
"Personal" was a wisely selected term. It was meant to distinguish the e-cig from the tobacco cigarette and its 'second hand smoke' connotation. "Vaporizer" was similarly chosen to make the distinction from the smoke created by combustion.
PV is a well thought out term. Back in the early days, and still today, many of us despised the e-cigarette term. We want nothing to do with the "c" word. =)
As others have mentioned, I assumed a "mod" was originally a modified e ciggalike. The section on this forum called "modders" is basically folks like those original inovators that continue to tinker with e ciggs that have gotten us to here.
Then i thought PV and APV was coined my manufactures that didn't want to call their products "Mods".
My 2 cents
Ken
Then i thought PV and APV was coined my manufactures that didn't want to call their products "Mods".
My 2 cents
Ken
Google "vaporizer" and see what results you get. And when someone comes up to you and asks "Is that one of those vaporizers?", what do you say? (Happened to me a couple of weeks ago)
i can see that. That makes sense. Ty. As my Grandmom used to say, learn something new every day!
+1 for Vapor Thing.
"Dude! Turn the car around...I left my Vapor Thing on the table." or "Would you mind holding my Vapor Thing while I find the car keys?"
I think its much the same reason many people call the metal boxes that modern firearms use to feed ammo "clips" (which they are NOT--they are "magazines")
A LONG time ago, semi-automatic rifles were actually fed with ammo that WAS held by "clips". The M1 Garand works like this. Because these guns were made by the tens of millions, and used by nearly everyone who served in the military in the US from after WWI until Korea, it became "common knowledge" that semi-auto rifles were fed with "clips". By the mid-1960s, we'd changed over to magazine-fed rifles in our military, but old habits die hard, and anti-gun folks tend to be pretty stupid and don't have any issues playing "fast and loose" with technical terms (or the truth when it comes to ANYTHING about guns), so the usage sort of "stuck"--even though anyone who uses that term for a "magazine" is instantly recognized as an uneducated idiot.
A LONG time ago, this term actually DID apply to anything that wasn't a stick battery, because the only devices that were available that weren't stick batts WERE "mods"--flashlights, laser pointers, mint boxes, whatever--that people MOD-ified to be power sources for using with e-cig cartos and atomizers. Eventually, the manufacturers caught up with the demand for advanced devices, and well, vapers are a pretty lazy lot, and tend to have a lot of techno-geeks in their ranks, and so they tend to like short, cute code words and jargon, so the term "mod" sort of "stuck". Rather than call these devices what they ARE, we continue to call them "mods" because, well, we're basically to lazy to vocalize 3 letters as an acronym (APV) or even TWO syllables (PV).
So why do we call them "mods"--because vapers are lazy... ;-)
A LONG time ago, semi-automatic rifles were actually fed with ammo that WAS held by "clips". The M1 Garand works like this. Because these guns were made by the tens of millions, and used by nearly everyone who served in the military in the US from after WWI until Korea, it became "common knowledge" that semi-auto rifles were fed with "clips". By the mid-1960s, we'd changed over to magazine-fed rifles in our military, but old habits die hard, and anti-gun folks tend to be pretty stupid and don't have any issues playing "fast and loose" with technical terms (or the truth when it comes to ANYTHING about guns), so the usage sort of "stuck"--even though anyone who uses that term for a "magazine" is instantly recognized as an uneducated idiot.
A LONG time ago, this term actually DID apply to anything that wasn't a stick battery, because the only devices that were available that weren't stick batts WERE "mods"--flashlights, laser pointers, mint boxes, whatever--that people MOD-ified to be power sources for using with e-cig cartos and atomizers. Eventually, the manufacturers caught up with the demand for advanced devices, and well, vapers are a pretty lazy lot, and tend to have a lot of techno-geeks in their ranks, and so they tend to like short, cute code words and jargon, so the term "mod" sort of "stuck". Rather than call these devices what they ARE, we continue to call them "mods" because, well, we're basically to lazy to vocalize 3 letters as an acronym (APV) or even TWO syllables (PV).
So why do we call them "mods"--because vapers are lazy... ;-)
I don't use the term "Mod" because I remember the day when a Mod was Built by an Individual out of Misc. Parts.
Here is a Good Example of a "Mod". The Infamous (and Somewhat Laughable) Vapezilla that some may Remember
I use the term PV for a Fixed Voltage Device. And VVPV for a Device that the Voltage can be Changed. Not sure what makes a PV or a VVPV an "APV" so I don't use it.
Here is a Good Example of a "Mod". The Infamous (and Somewhat Laughable) Vapezilla that some may Remember
I use the term PV for a Fixed Voltage Device. And VVPV for a Device that the Voltage can be Changed. Not sure what makes a PV or a VVPV an "APV" so I don't use it.
Vapers lingo. For example : "This clearo mutes the taste of my juice".
The word mute isn't appropriate but it's the word vapers use to describe a dull taste usually created by silica wick. Why it came about is a mystery, I still use the word "dull"
The word mute isn't appropriate but it's the word vapers use to describe a dull taste usually created by silica wick. Why it came about is a mystery, I still use the word "dull"
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BTW - Here is a Hysterical Thread that points out some of the Highlights of the Vapezilla...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-smoking-discussion/257305-whats-homer-ecigs.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-smoking-discussion/257305-whats-homer-ecigs.html
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