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Ultroner x Fallout Vape Gaea 200w Box Mod
Collaborations, I do love a good collaboration and it feels that unlike last year, this year is a little spartan in that particular area. There was a time not too long ago where pretty much every single 'decent' device to come on the market had more than one name attached to it - whether it was an infamous designer who had gone rogue on their previous employers or a top tier vape reviewer, everyone was jumping on the bandwagon.....except me....by all accounts (sigh). Hey....don't give up hope, I still have my design for the Underdog RDA that will probably never see the light of day but you never know, someone might just get desperate enough, I mean I could try and construct it myself....but.....I'm really not sure how that would go....
Probably best to leave it to the professionals.
Anyway, today we do have another collaboration, a collaboration no less of one company who used to collaborate with another collaborator but is now collaborating with a different company who is known better as someone completely different, yet has chosen to collaborate with these other collaborators who no longer collaborate with their old collaborators and have instead chosen to collaborate with an all new collaborator who now has a separate part of their company with which to collaborate with other collaborators......you get me?
Honestly?...I never know (shrugs) BUT....I will explain, so...a little less fucking around today, we're going straight for the jugular on todays piece because things are a tad busy around these parts just lately...and that too....I shall explain in a little while.....ooooh....so mysterious today ..(dick)
Shall we?
Welcome back once more my curiously cumulus cloud cretins, back once again for the renegade master, D4 Damager with the ill behavior.....man I'm old, I actually turned 50 since we last spoke.....that's just some kind of bullshit right there. Anyway, that has nothing to do with anything, but then...when does it, really? HOWEVER....I will try, like the brave little soldier that I indeed am, to explain what in the holy fuck I was waffling on about in the intro, because it's a tad confusing, even for someone as intellectual as me...
You see, today....we are looking at a device from a company called Ultroner. It's a new one on me I have to be honest, but not particularly a new outfit in general.
Some of you will already be aware of this company as a sort of 'side kick' of the better known company Asmodus, as they used to build the internals of their mods right up until last year, at which point they parted company. Ultroner decided they could make a better name for themselves by going it alone, releasing a very nice range of 'high end' stab wood devices onto the market which were received by the wanting public with a certain level of appreciation. The reason why they went solo?....Honestly?...It was probably an amicable business decision.....the contract was up, and Ultroner left the building in floods of tears with nothing but the shirts on their backs and a worryingly uncertain future...not really wanting to leave at all I would imagine...
But in my mind however....their departure was ever so slightly more dramatic...
Whatever the reason, it appears it's us, the vaping children, who have benefited from this parental divorce, because now we get two presents on birthdays and Christmas, and lets be honest....it's all about the presents.
Apart from that however, I really don't have a whole lot I can tell you about Ultroner. It's not like they're exactly forthcoming with any tangible back story or indeed....any story at all....as their own site can attest to...
What I can tell you however, is that once they released themselves from the shackles of Asmodus and marched on their solo mission of proving to the world that they are a company that can stand on their own two feet and be taken seriously in this industry, without the need of another brand to bolster their success....one of the first things they did after releasing a very successful line of high end stabwood devices is ....team up with another company.
I said it was confusing.
Enter Fallout Vape, no...I'd never heard of them either, but for those amongst you that reside in good old Blighty, you may just have heard of the company that owns them - Ecig-one. That's right, the online retailer. These guys decided they wanted a piece of the pie and starting manufacturing their own range of vape goodies under the guise of 'Fallout Vape', and it's this sister label that caught the eye of Ultroner. So, a new relationship was born - Ultroner knocked up Fallout Vape almost instantly, who pretty soon after gave birth to what we are reviewing today.....there....all caught up. So, let's get balls deep into the heart of the matter (what?) and see what in holy fuckballs they have offered to the world...courtesy of my good friends at Heavengifts, the Ultroner x Fallout Vape Gaea 200w Box Mod....
Before I tear into this thing, I have to say I love the design. There's almost something 'industrial Art-Deco' about the front of it, and I dig the shit out of that kind of thing. Thankfully, the design is largely unchanged from Ultroner's original stabwood Gaea, a device I very much love. I mean, it would be nice if they named it after something that people didn't have such a hard time pronouncing, but then it's named after the Greek personification of the Earth as a goddess, or god of all things beautiful, which can either be pronounced 'gay-er' of 'gi-er' and can either be spelt 'Gaea' or Gaia....or 'Ge' ...Look, there's absolutely nothing about this whole debacle that isn't utterly fucking confusing....but I do know that these days you can't go around saying 'gayer' without upsetting someone, and I do quite well in that area without any help so....it's 'gi-er' ....not that you can hear me say it anyway COZ IT'S A WRITTEN FUCKING REVIEW.......sometimes....I exasperate myself...
SO....before we all lose the will to live...let's see what is indeed...what.
The Lowdown
The Ultroner x Fallout Vape Gaea 200w Box Mod is....unlike it's older brother....a dual 21700/20700/18650 powered device, which runs on the SEVO 200 chipset. I don't know who makes SEVO chipsets, I spent a good four and a half minutes researching it and came up with nada. All I know is that Ultroner used them in all their devices, and other companies such as SXK, Cool Vapor and Hugo Vapor also use them, but then..they could all be the same fucking company for all I know, at this point, I don't fucking care....this thing has already given me a migraine trying to work out the specifics, but....it does only offer VW, VV and Bypass modes, no TC to speak of....in the slightest...so...I'm sure that's going to give techno nerds everywhere a really happy time...
Which in turn, makes me happy, so there is that.
Now...with Ultroners stabwood devices being a little on the 'pricey' side, as they should be, the idea behind this particular 'Fallout Vape' variation is clearly to make the Gaea more affordable to more people, the construction is largely plastic, with alloy top and bottom making it extremely lightweight, something which is quite welcome when you load it with dual 21700's. Obviously, with it taking the larger batteries, the overall size of it is slightly bigger than it's predecessor....
This really is the only area where it differs, everything else is pretty much identical, starting with the SEVO 200 chipset which is displayed on the same front facing 0.96cm OLED full colour display..
Giving you readings for wattage, volts, ohms and a puff counter. Depending on what mode you are using, these readings remain the same just in a different order. Navigation could not be easier, 3 clicks to swap between the 3 modes, 5 clicks on and off, and the display is actually a fair bit sharper than these images - blame my photography skills.
Also down the front we have all the usual controls in all the usual places, up and down buttons at the bottom above the type C charging port..
and the fire button on the top...
I can say with quite some certainty that the manual for the Ultroner x Fallout Vape Gaea 200w Box Mod...will be right up there on the list of least read books in the world. Simplicity is key here, if you can't work out how to use it then you probably have no business being near a box mod....it's that easy.
Up on the top we have a whole lotta real estate...
Not exterior bolted which I normally look for, there's almost something 'Wismec' about it - which to be perfectly honest worries the shit out of me - but I have pushed and pulled this thing as hard as I can and it wouldn't budge, so I'm guessing it's bolted from the rear and not push fit. I'm not destroying it to find out, but regardless....the best thing is by far the fact that it is centrally located (hoorah!) ....honestly...I can't believe that some manufacturers still manage to fuck this up by putting their 510's off center. STICK IT IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE YOU DOUCHE BAGUETTES. 30mm is taken with ease on the Ultroner x Fallout Vape Gaea 200w Box Mod. Ok, ok....I'm going to let you into a little secret because I've gotta be honest, it annoys the shit out of me every time I do it.....there's a reason I keep referring to this thing by it's FULL name, and it's to do with SEO (aka Search Engine Optimisation). There's a little check list after you've done a written review which goes through and tells you how well it will score with SEO. It gives you a minimum amount of times that 'Ultroner x Fallout Vape Gaea 200w Box Mod' should be written, and it's about 8(ish) for a review the size that I tend to do....so it just looks a little odd when I keep referring to it as 'Ultroner x Fallout Vape Gaea 200w Box Mod' ...instead of just the 'Gaea'.....and I'm only telling you this so that I can waste at least another 4 'Ultroner x Fallout Vape Gaea 200w Box Mod' .....man I'm crafty....I should say that in every review....fuck it....'Ultroner x Fallout Vape Gaea 200w Box Mod'......now I can just call it the 'Gaea'..
Moving on....one thing that does differ with this version of the Gaea (yay) is these little slithers of sticky grippy loveliness....
Some may see this as a cheap kop out, but the truth is you don't have to use them, as it doesn't come with them pre-attached, but they do offer a substantial amount of grip should you fit them, you just peel off the back and slap them on the sides...
Honestly?.....I kinda like em, they feel nice, and the look doesn't bother me, but I would imagine it will with some of the more 'aesthetically fussy' vapers amongst you. I would also imagine that these same vapers might be slightly irked by the over branding on the back of the mod too....
Again....I like it, it breaks up the 'plainness' quite nicely. Just be prepared for people asking you 'How do you say that?' every time you use it, which usually results in a very awkward conversation.
And finally, we have the bottom.....
Very nicely put together, spring loaded battery door, it's thick and the catches are pretty chunky. I know this can be a bugbear with some people when it comes to bottom battery doors, but this one seems to be quite solid and I've no reason to believe that the catches would wear out or snap off, plus those ridges make it super easy to open and close.
Inside, we have clearly marked battery tubes, and included inserts should you wish to run the Gaea with 18650's if you don't have any 21700's or 20700's to hand....
. Good luck with the launch too, will be watching with interest 
....cheers fella, I'm hoping for a smooth launch, pretty sure it will be anything but lol....thanks for reading and commenting man 
