I've been playing with this mod for 2 days now, I haven't really gone into too much detail with the Escribe software just yet, just playing with the simpler stuff. This is in no way a detailed review, it's just my initial impressions, you guys are more than welcome to chip in and give your thoughts and findings too.
Firstly, the build quality is great. Right out of the sturdy black box you can see that this is a premium quality mod, it feels great and the paint finish is flawless, the gunmetal grey paint is especially nice with it's shimmering but not overdone glittery effect. The mod feels solid even without batteries installed. Once the batteries are loaded up it really does put on some weight, but in a good way. Flinging this at someone will do damage.
Every atty that I've tried on it fits well and snuggles comfortably in the slightly recessed juice well. The magnets on the door hold on like sh!t to a sheep's ass. The one top corner of the battery cover sits slightly proud of the main body on mine, very slightly, it doesn't bother me. Wiggling the door around on mine produced no movement in any direction and absolutely no rattle whatsoever, that thing is on there!
I installed 3 brand new 25R's in mine, the very last cell to go in wouldn't make contact because that little safety ring thingie on the battery sled touched the insulator on the battery, it looks like that little plastic ring is supposed to slip inside of the battery wrap. A bit of wiggling and spinning of the battery seems to have sorted the issue out though.
Now, on to some of the stuff that I found very disappointing, things that I should have found out about first but kinda expected to be standard on a device in this price bracket. These things may not bother others or may just be minor nuisances but these things bug me. I realize that they are not limited to this mod only but are limitations of the DNA200 chipset.
1. You can't set up a power curve for Kanthal, so you can't set an initial boost of power to warm up your coil quicker. So if you set your dual clapton build to 100W you will get it.....eventually. There are no "Soft, Normal, Hard" modes like on the SX Mini and you can't set up a curve like most Smok devices.
2. I can't find a way to change the temperature limit on the mod, it has to be done on your pc and then uploaded onto the mod. So if you set up your profile for a Nickel build at 60W and 230C you may be happy with it but an hour or two later you're away from your pc and feel the need to up it to say 250C you're screwed, all you can do on the mod is change the wattage setting.
3. Every time you plug the mod into the pc to change settings or upload a new profile or whatever, it starts charging the batteries. I'm no expert here but it can't be good to do that too many times, giving it a 5 or 10 minute charge while the batteries are only at 70 or 80%
4. I'm used to clicking the fire button 5 times to turn a device off, doing this only locks the device and the screen stays on and still reacts to button presses.
5. If you've set up a TC profile and set the screen to show the Temperature setting and decide to use a kanthal build on a different profile the screen info doesn't change, you will just get ---C which to me is a waste of space, I'd like to be able to set that section of the screen to show Amp Draw instead when in a power profile.
I do hope that these things get updated in the software soon because I'm starting to wonder if the RX200 wouldn't have been a better choice for me.
Overall I am really enjoying the Rolo, I like the weight, I like the shape, I like the ridiculous amount of power under the hood, I like that I have been vaping on a 0.35 dual claptonned TFV4 at 65W since last night and the batteries are still at 3/4 full.
Firstly, the build quality is great. Right out of the sturdy black box you can see that this is a premium quality mod, it feels great and the paint finish is flawless, the gunmetal grey paint is especially nice with it's shimmering but not overdone glittery effect. The mod feels solid even without batteries installed. Once the batteries are loaded up it really does put on some weight, but in a good way. Flinging this at someone will do damage.
Every atty that I've tried on it fits well and snuggles comfortably in the slightly recessed juice well. The magnets on the door hold on like sh!t to a sheep's ass. The one top corner of the battery cover sits slightly proud of the main body on mine, very slightly, it doesn't bother me. Wiggling the door around on mine produced no movement in any direction and absolutely no rattle whatsoever, that thing is on there!
I installed 3 brand new 25R's in mine, the very last cell to go in wouldn't make contact because that little safety ring thingie on the battery sled touched the insulator on the battery, it looks like that little plastic ring is supposed to slip inside of the battery wrap. A bit of wiggling and spinning of the battery seems to have sorted the issue out though.
Now, on to some of the stuff that I found very disappointing, things that I should have found out about first but kinda expected to be standard on a device in this price bracket. These things may not bother others or may just be minor nuisances but these things bug me. I realize that they are not limited to this mod only but are limitations of the DNA200 chipset.
1. You can't set up a power curve for Kanthal, so you can't set an initial boost of power to warm up your coil quicker. So if you set your dual clapton build to 100W you will get it.....eventually. There are no "Soft, Normal, Hard" modes like on the SX Mini and you can't set up a curve like most Smok devices.
2. I can't find a way to change the temperature limit on the mod, it has to be done on your pc and then uploaded onto the mod. So if you set up your profile for a Nickel build at 60W and 230C you may be happy with it but an hour or two later you're away from your pc and feel the need to up it to say 250C you're screwed, all you can do on the mod is change the wattage setting.
3. Every time you plug the mod into the pc to change settings or upload a new profile or whatever, it starts charging the batteries. I'm no expert here but it can't be good to do that too many times, giving it a 5 or 10 minute charge while the batteries are only at 70 or 80%
4. I'm used to clicking the fire button 5 times to turn a device off, doing this only locks the device and the screen stays on and still reacts to button presses.
5. If you've set up a TC profile and set the screen to show the Temperature setting and decide to use a kanthal build on a different profile the screen info doesn't change, you will just get ---C which to me is a waste of space, I'd like to be able to set that section of the screen to show Amp Draw instead when in a power profile.
I do hope that these things get updated in the software soon because I'm starting to wonder if the RX200 wouldn't have been a better choice for me.
Overall I am really enjoying the Rolo, I like the weight, I like the shape, I like the ridiculous amount of power under the hood, I like that I have been vaping on a 0.35 dual claptonned TFV4 at 65W since last night and the batteries are still at 3/4 full.
