Why watts?

[Completely Average]

Fixed voltage.

Don't you mean gradually dropping voltage?

 

[Completely Average]

Sure, VV mode does not have dry wick detection - that is where the users eyeballs needs to be engaged with the level of juice in the tank.

Using your eyeballs, how much juice is in that tank?

 

[GeorgeS]

While the overwhelming majority of my mods can do real TC mode I can also see the level of juice in all my tanks making any 'dry coil' protection unneeded. OCD kicks in at ~1/3 so there's little risk of running dry.

I still like making use of my VV mods with TC wire. I just added 4 more to my collection. IMHO it offers a more consistent vape that VW on Kanthal.

While both VV and VW modes generally will measure and display the coil resistance between fires and keep a constant voltage during the actual firing of the mod, unlike VW mode, the output in VV will remain constant.

I wish more mods had VV mode.

 

[daviedog]

Why watts?

Coils change resistance with use. The resistance will gradually creep up over time. Variable wattage will automatically adjust for the slight resistance changes, variable voltage will deliver the same voltage regardless of the change in resistance, resulting in a change in the way the coil works.

For example, let's say you start with a 1ohm coil at 4 Volts. You're resulting wattage is 16 watts being pushed through the coil. Now, after some use let's say your coil now reads 1.2ohms. With variable voltage you end up getting a gradually weaker vape as the wattage drops from 16 watts down to just 13.3 watts. With variable wattage the 16 watts is maintained despite the increase in resistance.


It is this very aspect of variable wattage that makes Temperature Control possible. Temperature Control wouldn't work with a Variable Voltage mod because VV ignores resistance changes.

excellent point, with the onset of TC, vv was tossed on the trash heap of history..

 

[Hobbs]

All I vape these days is Provari with a Kabuki tank, 1.8 Nautilus coils and 50/50 unflavored juice.

Depending on which Provari I'm using and its available features, I'll either set the watts to 9 or the volts to 4.1. Over the life of the coil, I don't see much difference in either using VV or VW but can understand how some might, depending on their set up. For me, it's set it and forget it either way.

That said, I find when given the choice of VV OR VW such as with the Provari P3, I go with wattage but not sure why. I don't think I have a reason. If I do have a reason, it's subtle and basically sub-conscious or something.

VV/VW is a done deal for me, with no fiddle or fuss. The only thing that changes is I like a big bore Kabuki tip during most of the day and a narrower/taller Nautilus tip especially at night when less active and more relaxed, to better concentrate the vape on the tip of the tongue and consequently slightly less on the throat. Regardless of tip, I mainly MTL.

 

[Bunnykiller]

Don't you mean gradually dropping voltage?

yup, thus a variable voltage...

 

[Bunnykiller]

Using your eyeballs, how much juice is in that tank?

ummm never enuf

 

[Ongeslepen]

We can make up any unit to set the power output of a mod.. If companies would create mods where you can adjust the amperage.. then we would simply use that to determine how high or low to vape.

Most likely it's all marketing anyway... first VV... and then VW.. it's new, it's amazing, it's a must buy!

 

[Yiana]

Using your eyeballs, how much juice is in that tank?

Haha, well met.