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Vaporesso Luxe-S Kit
For anyone who has anything even remotely resembling a vape 'collection', and when I say collection....I mean you've probably been vaping 7 or 8 years and have kept every single device (regardless of whether it works or not), this stopped being a way of quitting smoking the very moment you nervously peered down the vape 'rabbit hole'....and subsequently fell in...
You have a room dedicated to all things vape, all arranged on shelves and grouped in a way that makes sense only to you....as well as alphabetical....and probably chronological.....colour...and all with a subgroup order of which you like the best.....and those subgroups will maybe have a partition for those that work perfectly and those that need a little attention. You'll probably have a dozen little sets of drawers dotted around the place all with 'those special tools' in a similar kind of order, as well as cupboards chock full of all the original packaging and boxes that contain all the correct spares for any given device....and then there's your liquid supplies, boxes of steeping liquids and a desk that wouldn't look out of place in a laboratory.....in fact.....this room would look unnervingly 'problematic' to any poor unwitting non-vaping soul who was unfortunate enough to stumble into it....
For those kind of vapers....of which...I know quite a few, you will probably have that one device, for reasons that might not make a whole lot of sense to anyone else....that you have a real soft spot for. It might be a dripper that has just your kind of airflow and seems to give better flavour than any other, or a tank that has never once thrown up its contents all over your hand....or is just so easy to build and wick that you could do it with your eyes closed....or....as is the case with me...it could be a mod that has never....ever....done anything weird, as opposed to some of the other devices in your collection, which even though you've had them for years, you still look at with disdain and maybe a raised eyebrow...because to this day you cannot work out what the fuck they were thinking...they just sit there...as shelf ornaments....with a knowing look on their dumb fuck faces...
Now...there probably aren't that many vapers out there who have the same soft spot as I do. I mean, I don't have many devices that could be considered 'high end' other than my custom Whiterose Lipo mods...but most vapers who do, will no doubt have one of those as there all time favourite BFF's....but no...for me, there is a device that has gone everywhere with me, every time I travel abroad I have it with me, when I go for my weekends up in Snowdonia several times a year I never leave without it, it practically lives in my car because I know 100% that it will never let me down, it has all the power I need, takes a 30mm top, yet is one of....if not the smallest dual battery devices that I own. It's ergonomic, lightweight and has every function I need and many that I don't...I have what could be considered a rather substantial collection of vape gear, yet.....when I look at this mod....I look at it differently to the others....
And the truth is...I shouldn't...I mean not really. There was nothing particularly 'special' about it when it was launched...yet...it's everything I need, when I need it, no matter where I am. It's Mr Dependable, and it's made by a company that also released my previous Mr Dependable, one that is now well over 4 years old and still works perfectly fine...although...now looks really shit. So when I am asked to review something from this same company which could well be the son of Mr Dependable therefore....possibly....my next Mr Right......(?)......(no really...??)......I'm....really not sure where I was going with that.....
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Welcome once again my fine fog billowing BFF's, back again with more of the same.....and this time...it genuinely kinda is.
Today's offering comes from a company which, for me personally, has been one of the most consistently 'good' manufacturers to come out of Shenzhen. And it's no accident - Vaporesso has been in this game now longer than the vast majority of us have been vaping...well...maybe not actually Vaporesso as they've only been around for 4 years, but their parent company SMOORE has been supplying the world with magical wizardry since 2006....so in all that time...they've kinda learned a few things...
Now, my personal experience with Vaporesso has been nothing short of impressive. I used to rock two Tarot's back in the day, long before I started on this righteous path of award winning and internationally coveted literal wizardry....
Those things were out and out work horses and although they have now been put out to pasture I will always have nothing but respect and appreciation for their service. Then came the Tarot Nano, which I also still use occasionally as a back up in my car, and is by far my favourite mini mod due to the impressive power and unreal amount of features this lil fella possesses. The Switcher I probably could have lived without, the design was a little fussy for me, but the Revenger just had something about it. Yes, the screen was hard to see in daylight and the menu system was a tad finicky, but this was the ultimate pocket mod for me, and it would take something quite special to take its place as my guilty little pleasure. So....what's next? Well...how about I stfu and just show you.....(sounds like a plan).....rude....
Courtesy of my wise old friends over at Vaporesso, I present to you the Vaporesso Luxe-S kit with SKRR-S Tank...
Not the ugliest thing in the world...has to be said. In fact I'd go as far as to say that my first impressions right out of the box....had my Revenger glaring at me like a slightly unhinged and insecure girlfriend....
The Lowdown
The Luxe-S kit comprises of the Luxe-S mod....obviously, and the all new and improved SKRR-S Tank, something which...I can't say.....without sounding like I'm having a funny turn....or incredibly drunk, but we'll come to the tank in a bit. The mod itself is a 220w dual 18650 powerhouse implementing the new and improved Omni board 4.2 chipset which boasts a firing time of 0.001s...which obviously I tested with my finest counting skills....have you ever tried counting in 0.001s increments?....
It's quick.....let's just leave it there....
The chip-set boasts a full complement of functions to suit absolutely everybody. To be perfectly honest, almost all of them are completely wasted on me, but I have always admired just how much Vaporesso cram into the Omni board chip set. You get variable wattage obviously, and a full TC suite for all you tinkerers out there, but you also get variable voltage, variable wattage curve AND variable voltage curve, TCR mode, bypass mode and something called 'Super Player mode'...
For those of you lucky enough to have it swinging past your knees, you can broaden your resistance spectrum from 0.03 ohms to 5 ohms....but I'll be keeping my one-eyed spitting womb weasel right in the VW mode....thank you very much.
And this cornucopia of information is all displayed on a 2" TFT colour screen...which by the way, is not a touch screen, not really anyway... despite all of China's mainstream suppliers trying to tout it as one.
The display itself is very easy on the eye and is navigated via a central menu button in between the plus and minus buttons...can't see them?.....That's because ....there aren't any...(pause for dramatic effect)
What you get instead, is those two tiny white lights either side of the Vaporesso 'V' logo, and these are touch sensitive...and the V logo itself...is in fact....the touch sensitive menu button....
Oh....as shell shocked as I'm sure you all undoubtedly are, and probably somewhat...(what?)...the witchcraft and fuckery doesn't stop there. Because these little magical areas...also vibrate - they literally violate your finger every time you touch them......do you know what it feels like to have your finger violated...?.....Do you?.....Here....let me show you...
As pleasurable as I'm sure some of you will find it, it wasn't really something I felt like investigating further - due to the fact that I am actually banned from playing with anything that vibrates since the last time I discovered something that did.. when I was looking for my juice bottle which had rolled underneath the bed.....but that's a story for another time perhaps....you can turn it off anyway.
Up top we have a very nice bolted on 510 plate...
Which once again has enough real estate to accommodate some girth - always a plus in my book - and a nice and springy gold plated pin.
The fire button is a nice size and has a very satisfying click to it...
But don't be fooled by what looks like another tiny white light, it's just a white dot...which is perfectly acceptable, because although I have seen tiny lights on fire buttons before which activate when you press them, they're completely pointless unless you have transparent thumbs or fingers....which I don't.....and if you do...well....
The battery compartment, I'm glad to say, is largely unchanged...
Ignore the fact that the mod has 'Omni Board 4.0' stamped into it just above the batteries. I did notice this straight away and wrote a mildly strongly worded email to Vaporesso to see what the fuckety foo that was all about.....and after a brief bout of small talk from them...
It came to light that actually....they just hadn't changed it. I have to be honest, the reason was mildly anti-climatic.
But, I do however love the battery warnings on the back of the door - we should really see more of this on today's devices I think.
As for the overall design of the Luxe-S, I really dig the one I got. This one is called 'Iris' and is supposed to represent a part of the eye, but there are a whole host of designs to choose from...
The only downside to opting for one of the designs with a black alloy body, is that it is painted, and even though I have only had mine a month...and been relatively careful with it...the sharper edges which run down the side, as well as the fire button, are already showing signs of wear. Not much, but the silver alloy underneath is showing through in parts and you wouldn't have that problem with the Stainless bodied variations. As much as I'm absolutely confident that my Luxe will always perform...I'm not quite as confident that it will age well...
Now...the tank in this particular kit is the unpronounceable SKRR-S Sub-Ohm tank...
The SKRR-S tank......
Really...literally can't....
Is a 25mm tank that comes with a pre-installed bubble glass which houses a whopping 8ml of liquid -even the included straight glass replacement has an impressive 5ml capacity, love that.
It's a fairly straight forward tank, screw off sealed top cap for the top fill...
Which only has one hole, although it's kinda big so I'll let that slide...
and an AFC ring along the bottom which controls the triple air intakes. Nice and smooth and doesn't round robin....no complaints there...
And following in Smok's footsteps, it even comes with its own mask to wear at those special parties which I've only ever heard about but never been to, not even once...
For anyone who has anything even remotely resembling a vape 'collection', and when I say collection....I mean you've probably been vaping 7 or 8 years and have kept every single device (regardless of whether it works or not), this stopped being a way of quitting smoking the very moment you nervously peered down the vape 'rabbit hole'....and subsequently fell in...
You have a room dedicated to all things vape, all arranged on shelves and grouped in a way that makes sense only to you....as well as alphabetical....and probably chronological.....colour...and all with a subgroup order of which you like the best.....and those subgroups will maybe have a partition for those that work perfectly and those that need a little attention. You'll probably have a dozen little sets of drawers dotted around the place all with 'those special tools' in a similar kind of order, as well as cupboards chock full of all the original packaging and boxes that contain all the correct spares for any given device....and then there's your liquid supplies, boxes of steeping liquids and a desk that wouldn't look out of place in a laboratory.....in fact.....this room would look unnervingly 'problematic' to any poor unwitting non-vaping soul who was unfortunate enough to stumble into it....
For those kind of vapers....of which...I know quite a few, you will probably have that one device, for reasons that might not make a whole lot of sense to anyone else....that you have a real soft spot for. It might be a dripper that has just your kind of airflow and seems to give better flavour than any other, or a tank that has never once thrown up its contents all over your hand....or is just so easy to build and wick that you could do it with your eyes closed....or....as is the case with me...it could be a mod that has never....ever....done anything weird, as opposed to some of the other devices in your collection, which even though you've had them for years, you still look at with disdain and maybe a raised eyebrow...because to this day you cannot work out what the fuck they were thinking...they just sit there...as shelf ornaments....with a knowing look on their dumb fuck faces...
Now...there probably aren't that many vapers out there who have the same soft spot as I do. I mean, I don't have many devices that could be considered 'high end' other than my custom Whiterose Lipo mods...but most vapers who do, will no doubt have one of those as there all time favourite BFF's....but no...for me, there is a device that has gone everywhere with me, every time I travel abroad I have it with me, when I go for my weekends up in Snowdonia several times a year I never leave without it, it practically lives in my car because I know 100% that it will never let me down, it has all the power I need, takes a 30mm top, yet is one of....if not the smallest dual battery devices that I own. It's ergonomic, lightweight and has every function I need and many that I don't...I have what could be considered a rather substantial collection of vape gear, yet.....when I look at this mod....I look at it differently to the others....
And the truth is...I shouldn't...I mean not really. There was nothing particularly 'special' about it when it was launched...yet...it's everything I need, when I need it, no matter where I am. It's Mr Dependable, and it's made by a company that also released my previous Mr Dependable, one that is now well over 4 years old and still works perfectly fine...although...now looks really shit. So when I am asked to review something from this same company which could well be the son of Mr Dependable therefore....possibly....my next Mr Right......(?)......(no really...??)......I'm....really not sure where I was going with that.....
......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Welcome once again my fine fog billowing BFF's, back again with more of the same.....and this time...it genuinely kinda is.
Today's offering comes from a company which, for me personally, has been one of the most consistently 'good' manufacturers to come out of Shenzhen. And it's no accident - Vaporesso has been in this game now longer than the vast majority of us have been vaping...well...maybe not actually Vaporesso as they've only been around for 4 years, but their parent company SMOORE has been supplying the world with magical wizardry since 2006....so in all that time...they've kinda learned a few things...
Now, my personal experience with Vaporesso has been nothing short of impressive. I used to rock two Tarot's back in the day, long before I started on this righteous path of award winning and internationally coveted literal wizardry....
Those things were out and out work horses and although they have now been put out to pasture I will always have nothing but respect and appreciation for their service. Then came the Tarot Nano, which I also still use occasionally as a back up in my car, and is by far my favourite mini mod due to the impressive power and unreal amount of features this lil fella possesses. The Switcher I probably could have lived without, the design was a little fussy for me, but the Revenger just had something about it. Yes, the screen was hard to see in daylight and the menu system was a tad finicky, but this was the ultimate pocket mod for me, and it would take something quite special to take its place as my guilty little pleasure. So....what's next? Well...how about I stfu and just show you.....(sounds like a plan).....rude....
Courtesy of my wise old friends over at Vaporesso, I present to you the Vaporesso Luxe-S kit with SKRR-S Tank...
Not the ugliest thing in the world...has to be said. In fact I'd go as far as to say that my first impressions right out of the box....had my Revenger glaring at me like a slightly unhinged and insecure girlfriend....
The Lowdown
The Luxe-S kit comprises of the Luxe-S mod....obviously, and the all new and improved SKRR-S Tank, something which...I can't say.....without sounding like I'm having a funny turn....or incredibly drunk, but we'll come to the tank in a bit. The mod itself is a 220w dual 18650 powerhouse implementing the new and improved Omni board 4.2 chipset which boasts a firing time of 0.001s...which obviously I tested with my finest counting skills....have you ever tried counting in 0.001s increments?....
It's quick.....let's just leave it there....
The chip-set boasts a full complement of functions to suit absolutely everybody. To be perfectly honest, almost all of them are completely wasted on me, but I have always admired just how much Vaporesso cram into the Omni board chip set. You get variable wattage obviously, and a full TC suite for all you tinkerers out there, but you also get variable voltage, variable wattage curve AND variable voltage curve, TCR mode, bypass mode and something called 'Super Player mode'...
For those of you lucky enough to have it swinging past your knees, you can broaden your resistance spectrum from 0.03 ohms to 5 ohms....but I'll be keeping my one-eyed spitting womb weasel right in the VW mode....thank you very much.
And this cornucopia of information is all displayed on a 2" TFT colour screen...which by the way, is not a touch screen, not really anyway... despite all of China's mainstream suppliers trying to tout it as one.
The display itself is very easy on the eye and is navigated via a central menu button in between the plus and minus buttons...can't see them?.....That's because ....there aren't any...(pause for dramatic effect)
What you get instead, is those two tiny white lights either side of the Vaporesso 'V' logo, and these are touch sensitive...and the V logo itself...is in fact....the touch sensitive menu button....
Oh....as shell shocked as I'm sure you all undoubtedly are, and probably somewhat...(what?)...the witchcraft and fuckery doesn't stop there. Because these little magical areas...also vibrate - they literally violate your finger every time you touch them......do you know what it feels like to have your finger violated...?.....Do you?.....Here....let me show you...
As pleasurable as I'm sure some of you will find it, it wasn't really something I felt like investigating further - due to the fact that I am actually banned from playing with anything that vibrates since the last time I discovered something that did.. when I was looking for my juice bottle which had rolled underneath the bed.....but that's a story for another time perhaps....you can turn it off anyway.
Up top we have a very nice bolted on 510 plate...
Which once again has enough real estate to accommodate some girth - always a plus in my book - and a nice and springy gold plated pin.
The fire button is a nice size and has a very satisfying click to it...
But don't be fooled by what looks like another tiny white light, it's just a white dot...which is perfectly acceptable, because although I have seen tiny lights on fire buttons before which activate when you press them, they're completely pointless unless you have transparent thumbs or fingers....which I don't.....and if you do...well....
The battery compartment, I'm glad to say, is largely unchanged...
Ignore the fact that the mod has 'Omni Board 4.0' stamped into it just above the batteries. I did notice this straight away and wrote a mildly strongly worded email to Vaporesso to see what the fuckety foo that was all about.....and after a brief bout of small talk from them...
It came to light that actually....they just hadn't changed it. I have to be honest, the reason was mildly anti-climatic.
But, I do however love the battery warnings on the back of the door - we should really see more of this on today's devices I think.
As for the overall design of the Luxe-S, I really dig the one I got. This one is called 'Iris' and is supposed to represent a part of the eye, but there are a whole host of designs to choose from...
The only downside to opting for one of the designs with a black alloy body, is that it is painted, and even though I have only had mine a month...and been relatively careful with it...the sharper edges which run down the side, as well as the fire button, are already showing signs of wear. Not much, but the silver alloy underneath is showing through in parts and you wouldn't have that problem with the Stainless bodied variations. As much as I'm absolutely confident that my Luxe will always perform...I'm not quite as confident that it will age well...
Now...the tank in this particular kit is the unpronounceable SKRR-S Sub-Ohm tank...
The SKRR-S tank......
Really...literally can't....
Is a 25mm tank that comes with a pre-installed bubble glass which houses a whopping 8ml of liquid -even the included straight glass replacement has an impressive 5ml capacity, love that.
It's a fairly straight forward tank, screw off sealed top cap for the top fill...
Which only has one hole, although it's kinda big so I'll let that slide...
and an AFC ring along the bottom which controls the triple air intakes. Nice and smooth and doesn't round robin....no complaints there...
And following in Smok's footsteps, it even comes with its own mask to wear at those special parties which I've only ever heard about but never been to, not even once...
