so glaus, whats going on with the new SS Zmax? Is it calibrated correctly or not? And from what I have heard, smoktech made the 1st run Zmaxes run hotter ( a little off ) because the company was getting a huge amount of contact letters saying the 1st Vmax was calibrated to be less powerful than the american VV mods on the market at that time. So smoktech decided to hot rod the Zmax and make it more powerful at each LCD point as compared to the US made mods. I don't know how much substance there is to this hypothesis but I can see smoktech trying to make up for the bad press by putting out a mod that is actually "more powerful" (when compared V to V to a US VV mod) than the US vv mods. Silly, but I guess I could understand where they were coming from in doing so.
As far as the new SS Zmax's... IDK if you are right, or if you are wrong, buzz, but from what I hear, it is calibrated correctly now and most ohm readers do not have the capacity to properly read RMS. It sounds like you have a meter designed specifically for RMS. So, IDK. I can't say I know because I dont. But, what I can say is that the Provari is more like a specialty made fishing lure. And, the Zmax is more like a specialty made fishing lure sold at ....'s Sporting Goods and Cabella's. You cant buy a Provari at your favorite online
vaping superstore. They have NO resellers. They are the sole dealer's of their product. Thats a craftsman product. A specialty product made and sold by the developer and maker. The Zmax was made to be sold in a reseller setting. Its not on the same level as the Provari and its not supposed to be on the same level, I dont think. The provari is the best Varable Voltage
device I know of.. Sure. But the price reflects that specialty stamp and its out of a lot of people's price ranges and thats just capitalism, yknow? Just like a hand-painted birdhouse, sold by the man that made it and painted it, out of his garage work-shop, is probably going to be $200-400... Where-as the same birdhouse made in a factory is going to be sold at Walmart for $10-15. lol. And SOMETIMES the walmart birdhouse will be of the same quality as the hand made birdhouse, sometimes, it wont be. Very rarely will walmart stock a hand painted birdhouse, but its possible. lol (walmart comes in and pays businesses that are under-performing for their year's budget, bulk prices, for their products.. Just enough money to keep them out of the hole, but not always enough to give them a profit. In that way, walmart "helps" the company, and is able to give us the products for a reduced price.. BUT, a lot of people say that store like Walmart are usually the reason the small shop is under-selling for their budget for the year, lol) ANYWAYS.. I'm off track...
I've read people say that the Provari shouldn't be compared to the lavatube or the zmax, and its true. They are different types of products. The provari is an extremely expensive, well made product. The LT and the Zmax are cheaper and mass produced products. The Zmax has more features, the Provari is basically hand made, with attention to detail. The Zmax can adapt to the ohm of your cartomizer or atomizer, the Provari cannot. Its up to the buyer to weigh his options. But they aren't the same TYPE of product.
I'm interested to know if anyone else can go against what Buzz's reader is actually saying?
