I thought I'd put this out there for the newb vapers who are still undecided as yet, my experience with Chinese knockoffs.
I wanted a cheap ecig for some experimental extracting stuff so off I rushed to a nearby mall(Canal Walk) to source something. I had done some reading on the web but hadnt found this forum with the wealth of info yet, so I'd already decided an eGo ce6 or better would do the trick.
Eventually, finding no eGo clones, I settled on an EVOD clone(R250) and calling it a clone is being kind too.
Once home I fired things up, ran some 0% cappuccino through it and was reasonably content. However once I charged it up again I noticed it was fully charged in approx 30min, kind of odd, because the packaging said from 2~3 hrs for a full charge.
Long story short, my curiosity got the better of me and I opened it up. There was no indication of battery capacity on the packaging, the little tick boxes on the back for 650ma 1000ma etc were all blank.
Well what I discovered when I pulled off the bottom cap(came off easily) was the back end of what looked like a penlight AA battery.
Naturally I couldnt stop there and so the whole device got disassembled... revealing a 3ma battery.
Im like, what? ...are you kidding me dawg? ...couldnt you even have given me a 150ma batt? seriously 3ma!
Im guessing this feeble battery is going to ruin vaping for a lot of newcomers to the scene, so too is Chinese manufacturing going to get a bad name.
Face it, these 3ma batts havent come from any other surplus device, they have been made specifically for this device as a cost cutting measure, hence no mention of the battery capacity on the packaging, its sneaky without being outright fraudlent about it.
Im not too butthurt about the matter, I'd already ordered a Kangertech Protank 3 mini and some 0.8ohm coils, and come Monday the search resumes for a SS VV EVOD or similar.
It shouldnt be a huge problem to aquire a decent 650ma 14500 battery to upgrade my EVOD knockoff, thats if I feel like tossing more money on the knockoff.
The battery section weighed 23.05g, the controller pushed out 1.05A @ 3.72V for what its worth. The pastel colored packaging is the most obvious giveaway you're getting a knockoff, prising off the bottom cap and seeing that AA style bottom seals the deal.
As an afterthought I checked the battery with a strong neo magnet and found virtually no magnetism at all, ie the case is aluminium and the battery is largely aluminium as well, in contrast my laser's 18650 cell is strongly magnetic.
So a small magnet in your pocket when shopping for a vape pen is a handy tool, just dont put it in the same pocket as your bank cards, it will erase them instantly.
My recommendation would be to get a VV (variable voltage) in either the ego twist or EVOD VV styles, it leaves you with much more options down the vaping road, which is a road you will be travelling if you're a smoker.
Update... turns out a proper 14500 800ma li-ion battery (International Power Products for R72) didnt even fit, some measuring with a vernier showed the battery to be a 13450. Its most likely the battery from a disposable ecig, but I dont really feel like wasting more money to find out.
If you look carefully (not in my pics, I mean on an assembled one in packaging) you can see that the battery section is slightly narrower than the upper atomiser part, let this be your cue that you're looking at a knockoff-ripoff because the geniune EVOD is a proper 14mm dia housing a 14500 battery.
I wanted a cheap ecig for some experimental extracting stuff so off I rushed to a nearby mall(Canal Walk) to source something. I had done some reading on the web but hadnt found this forum with the wealth of info yet, so I'd already decided an eGo ce6 or better would do the trick.
Eventually, finding no eGo clones, I settled on an EVOD clone(R250) and calling it a clone is being kind too.
Once home I fired things up, ran some 0% cappuccino through it and was reasonably content. However once I charged it up again I noticed it was fully charged in approx 30min, kind of odd, because the packaging said from 2~3 hrs for a full charge.
Long story short, my curiosity got the better of me and I opened it up. There was no indication of battery capacity on the packaging, the little tick boxes on the back for 650ma 1000ma etc were all blank.
Well what I discovered when I pulled off the bottom cap(came off easily) was the back end of what looked like a penlight AA battery.
Naturally I couldnt stop there and so the whole device got disassembled... revealing a 3ma battery.
Im like, what? ...are you kidding me dawg? ...couldnt you even have given me a 150ma batt? seriously 3ma!
Im guessing this feeble battery is going to ruin vaping for a lot of newcomers to the scene, so too is Chinese manufacturing going to get a bad name.
Face it, these 3ma batts havent come from any other surplus device, they have been made specifically for this device as a cost cutting measure, hence no mention of the battery capacity on the packaging, its sneaky without being outright fraudlent about it.
Im not too butthurt about the matter, I'd already ordered a Kangertech Protank 3 mini and some 0.8ohm coils, and come Monday the search resumes for a SS VV EVOD or similar.
It shouldnt be a huge problem to aquire a decent 650ma 14500 battery to upgrade my EVOD knockoff, thats if I feel like tossing more money on the knockoff.
The battery section weighed 23.05g, the controller pushed out 1.05A @ 3.72V for what its worth. The pastel colored packaging is the most obvious giveaway you're getting a knockoff, prising off the bottom cap and seeing that AA style bottom seals the deal.
As an afterthought I checked the battery with a strong neo magnet and found virtually no magnetism at all, ie the case is aluminium and the battery is largely aluminium as well, in contrast my laser's 18650 cell is strongly magnetic.
So a small magnet in your pocket when shopping for a vape pen is a handy tool, just dont put it in the same pocket as your bank cards, it will erase them instantly.
My recommendation would be to get a VV (variable voltage) in either the ego twist or EVOD VV styles, it leaves you with much more options down the vaping road, which is a road you will be travelling if you're a smoker.
Update... turns out a proper 14500 800ma li-ion battery (International Power Products for R72) didnt even fit, some measuring with a vernier showed the battery to be a 13450. Its most likely the battery from a disposable ecig, but I dont really feel like wasting more money to find out.
If you look carefully (not in my pics, I mean on an assembled one in packaging) you can see that the battery section is slightly narrower than the upper atomiser part, let this be your cue that you're looking at a knockoff-ripoff because the geniune EVOD is a proper 14mm dia housing a 14500 battery.
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