Why do you guys keep calling your PVs "mods"

[Leothwyn]

It seems like the word has been sometimes been used inaccurately from the start. If you pretty much make a device from scratch, it seems like you're giving yourself too little credit by calling it a modification... while people calling something that they bought, ready to vape, are giving themselves too much credit. I suppose the ownership status of the device was modified when they bought it though.

 

[DancingHeretik]

No one is saying that they modified anything.

It's a modified version/style of an e-cig. It doesn't look like a cigarette or a cigar. That's all it means. No one is claiming that they modified anything. It simply is not a battery manufactured to look like a cigarette or cigar.

Am I not explaining this right?

 

[Demigodzx]

nothings worse than it being called a hookah pen

 

[anavidfan]

Ive really enjoyed reading thru this thread. Thanks for the great descriptions and photos.

I too have a hard time referring to my devices. E-cig still sounds easiest for me, because most non-users are familiar with the term.

I have become most comfortable with the use of vaporizer, because simply put, its what it does. MOD, though used widely never sounded "right" to me. In my way of seeing things, using the term mod would imply that I bought a device and modified it in some way from how it came from the factory.

It was a term used for the early vaporizers that were not cig-a-likes, mostly because they were made up by people wanting more out of the cig-a-like. WHen they were commercially available the term just became descriptive, to distingish it from the cig-alikes, even if they were bought in that way.

Heck as long as we all understand what we are using , safety precautions, etc. I think we will all be fine.

I love my tube style vaporizers and rebuildable tank atomizers.

 

[MaDeuce]

If I ask you what "mod" you're using and you say a Provari, then you know what I meant when I used the term "mod". It's like someone saying to me "what kind of chopper do you ride?" I don't own a chopper, I have a Road King, but I knew what he meant and I also know he used the term "chopper" very loosely. Most of the time the lingo used in different sub-cultures isn't so literal that's part of why they're considered "sub-cultures".

 

[unsure]

It is what it's called. Trying to explain it can make someone new MORE confused. I have a MOD as my avatar which is only one kind/type. A rose by another name.

 

[AttyPops]

So everyone knows what it means when we say:

"Hey! That ECF forum mod has a real go-mod mod, and is very active in the modding section?"

?

It's over used. I just say PV because...well, it's vapor and it's personal. PV covers it all generically. Like it or not.

 

[TomCatt]

I understood everything but "go-mod" what's that?

 

[candimccann]

It's just hard to let go of terminology that you get used to using. For example, I still say "cell phone". It isn't cellular technology anymore, so it should be called a mobile phone...can't seem to help myself though.

If it helps you, think of mod as short for model. What model should I get next? Have you seen the new model by Smok?

Personally, I'm with Fizzpop and really don't like PV/personal vaporizer as a term at all. I think many others feel the same way, therefore hang to the old term instead of switching.

Tom-ay-to, Tom-ah-to.

 

[tricci]

I didn't read the whole tread, but here's some vaping history for you newer vapers. In the early days of vaping the first big battery pvs were things that were modifiedinto vaping devices such as flashlights, plastic project boxes, etc. When people started manufacturing actual pvs (sliver bullet, reo, The Megalodon, etc) the term mod stuck. Many vapers who started a few years ago still use the term mod as we are used to it and the terms pv and apv are more recent. Thus mod, pv, apv are interchangeable terms. I prefer using the term mod.

 

[unsure]

I didn't read the whole tread, but here's some vaping history for you newer vapers. In the early days of vaping the first big battery pvs were things that were modifiedinto vaping devices such as flashlights, plastic project boxes, etc. When people started manufacturing actual pvs (sliver bullet, reo, The Megalodon, etc) the term mod stuck. Many vapers who started a few years ago still use the term mod as we are used to it and the terms pv and apv are more recent. Thus mod, pv, apv are interchangeable terms. I prefer using the term mod.

+1

Can't argue with that. It says so in my sig (short for signature)

 

[goonie]

I've always thought the word "mod" could have meant "model". Model as in 501, 801, 306, kr8, ..... provari? But I understand that mod is usually used for "modified" or "modded".

 

[mare ze dotes]

I saw someone call a vape-device a Vapor Wand. I rather wish that term would catch on.

Just sittin' here puffing on my vapor wand...

I like to puff on my pouf stick. Aka, puffer.

 

[E_DeCastro]

a long time ago there were no fancy APVs there was just cigarette looking things. than people started modding flashlights to hold LI batteries. so if it wasn't a cigarette looking thing, it was a mod.

 

[Xcighippy]

I just fell out of my chair laughing at this, and scared this crap outta my dog. I'm thinking this means I'm too tired and should finally go to sleep since its 4am and I have a ton of cooking to do today.

By doing "a ton of cooking" do you mean modding? lol

 

[Bill's Magic Vapor]

Because everybody else here does?

 

[spudz]

It bugged me too. I got over it, but I prefer to use APV because I have not modded anything.

 

[stormwench]

Guess it comes down to a rose is a rose? And for most, I guess if they know what it means in light of the conversation it does not matter. And while a mod now has the definition that the OP put forth it once meant something else entirely and had nothing to do with changing anything - electronic or not.

I originally thought that it meant anything more 'advanced' then the basic stick - any change a manufacturer made was a modification of the original ... and so on. Found out that that was not really quite accurate and that 'mod' meant some very different things - often only discovered exactly within the contents of the post or discussion. Then it was really confusing when I saw people calling handmades that had not had a prior versions mods, when I learned of the hang over from the days when any homemade was considered because there were no factory made options...Then there were PVs which seemed a straight forward approach to a term that worked but then APV came along and no one really made a clear line in the definition of things about what made something a PV vs an APV.

I think it sometimes it is exceptionally confusing to a new vaper, as is a lot of the vaping lingo. There are many names for one thing and one word sometimes that can mean very different things and it all rolls into a somewhat confusing chatter. When I started vaping I felt like I needed a translation guide for the first several months and looking at how it is now - with so much more out there - maybe its time for a whole dictionary! I know we have all seen the newbie who decides that APV means he needs an advancement when he already has an APV but thought it was a PV, or one who wants to mod when he is holding one and so on.

When you add into all that people's own personal feelings on the use of some terms and not others, like I hate calling my mod/APV/battery an e-cig because its not a cigarette and does not use tobacco and I don't want to be associated with smoking while others feel just fine with denoting the difference between an analog and a mod with just adding an "e"; so I talk about a PV or an APV while someone else calls it their mod and a third is referring to e-cigs and while we all are talking about the same thing or things we have often confused the reader/listener. It can get really awkward when watching videos as the terms are often used interchangeably and when the video blogger starts talking about his e-cig and then discuss his mod (waving the same device) you are expectantly waiting for him to wave around a new piece of hardware or start tinkering with his e-cig.

Maybe it will all fall out in time and make more sense because I know it does not for the guy who walks in off the street trying to get a grasp on vaping. Just muddling through the lingo can be as daunting as selecting the best but most cost efficient starter model when asking people who have been through it all and now sit on some pricey hardware they love and want everyone to love as much as they do.

 

[RedhatPat]

If I ask you what "mod" you're using and you say a Provari, then you know what I meant when I used the term "mod". It's like someone saying to me "what kind of chopper do you ride?" I don't own a chopper, I have a Road King, but I knew what he meant and I also know he used the term "chopper" very loosely. Most of the time the lingo used in different sub-cultures isn't so literal that's part of why they're considered "sub-cultures".

RHP

 

[coho72]

The fact that you would waste your life posting threads about how much it bothers you , what people choose to call their VAMO is totally mind blowing. I'm not a physician but there might be a psych issue here? The best advice I think is , the next time you feel so upset about the rest of the world calling their VMAX a mod and you feel like posting your 5th post about how ignorant we all are and you are going to enlighten us on word definitions with your superior knowledge. When you feel that coming on , take a handful of benzos and call your therapist because you are in the minority of anyone that actually gives a sh@t. Now I'm going to grab my mod and fill it up with GVC and forget this ever happened.