Uisgemann
Postman
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- Oct 4, 2013
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I had to pick up a new VW mod recently to replace my poor wee SVD (firing button issues, apparently I'm not the first with this problem). I really want to get a VTR, but decided to hold out til christmas for one, so figured I'd try to find a budget VW mod to tide me over until then. I found a review of the Kanger K-Simar which seemed promising, and at £28 I figured I was onto a winner 
At first it actually seems like a really decent wee mod. It's very well built, and although it's lacking some of the features of the SVD, it has all the ones I actually use on a day-to-day basis. Something the review did mention, and something I noticed quite early on too, was that if you're hitting your mod quite frequently then the bottom cap actually starts to heat up quite noticeably. It doesn't get too hot to touch though, so not really a problem (or so I thought, but I'll get to that in a sec.)
After the first week I had to double check how much juice I'd gone through, because although it didn't feel like I was hitting it more than usual, I was certainly going through my batteries at a vast rate of knots. Juice consumption turned out to be normal, so I started thinking about why the batteries could be dropping so fast. And then I came back to the bottom cap. Inside it, instead of the spring-loaded pin you find in an SVD there's a spring. Not an issue really, I have a Smok SID too, and that uses a spring in the bottom cap, but doesn't suffer from the heating issue.
Here's what's happening, as far as I can figure it: The spring in the bottom cap of the K-Simar simply isn't conducting well enough. It's effectively acting as a second - lower resistance - coil which is heating up (slower than the atomiser coil, but heating up nonetheless). The batteries are being tanked so quickly because they're basically being used by the mod to heat two separate coils at opposite ends of the mod.
Bit disappointing, because in every other way this is a brilliant wee piece of kit for the money, but with a bit of luck they may come up with a revised bottom cap or a replacement spring which doesn't offer such a resistive path when firing.
EDIT: Spellins and stuff
At first it actually seems like a really decent wee mod. It's very well built, and although it's lacking some of the features of the SVD, it has all the ones I actually use on a day-to-day basis. Something the review did mention, and something I noticed quite early on too, was that if you're hitting your mod quite frequently then the bottom cap actually starts to heat up quite noticeably. It doesn't get too hot to touch though, so not really a problem (or so I thought, but I'll get to that in a sec.)
After the first week I had to double check how much juice I'd gone through, because although it didn't feel like I was hitting it more than usual, I was certainly going through my batteries at a vast rate of knots. Juice consumption turned out to be normal, so I started thinking about why the batteries could be dropping so fast. And then I came back to the bottom cap. Inside it, instead of the spring-loaded pin you find in an SVD there's a spring. Not an issue really, I have a Smok SID too, and that uses a spring in the bottom cap, but doesn't suffer from the heating issue.
Here's what's happening, as far as I can figure it: The spring in the bottom cap of the K-Simar simply isn't conducting well enough. It's effectively acting as a second - lower resistance - coil which is heating up (slower than the atomiser coil, but heating up nonetheless). The batteries are being tanked so quickly because they're basically being used by the mod to heat two separate coils at opposite ends of the mod.
Bit disappointing, because in every other way this is a brilliant wee piece of kit for the money, but with a bit of luck they may come up with a revised bottom cap or a replacement spring which doesn't offer such a resistive path when firing.
EDIT: Spellins and stuff
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