Steampugs
Vendor
- Joined
- Nov 14, 2016
- Messages
- 716
I'll admit right now, I was more than a little intrigued when I first heard about the items I am presenting to you today...and why?....well when a company brings out a 'thing'.....and 'that' thing tends to be in the top 5 'things' of 2017 ....in almost every vapers 'my favourite thing of last year' list then.....you can't not be interested in what they're going to come out with next.....because whatever that thing is....it could either build on the success of that last 'thing'.....or just turn out to be that 'awkward second album', thus labeling you a one hit wonder....your failure only bolstering the success of other people's 'things'....while they look down on you...and shit on your once impeccable reputation.....
The company I am talking about is OBS, and more specifically their 'home run' RTA of yesteryear....the Engine. The Engine sat high in the best RTA's of 2017 list for a vast swathe of vapers, and deservedly so....that thing was a leak proof flavour machine, almost perfect in every way, and is indeed still enjoyed to this day by vapers the world over, however....trends change, there is a 'fashion' to vaping and like any fashion it continuously evolves, and if your RTA ain't day-glo purple with bubble glass and a matching swirly resin 810 drip tip....it ain't considered as....'sick'.....anymore....
Form over function unfortunately....sells.
So....a change of direction was needed....why make another 'thing'..when the 'thing' you made was good enough?!...As the new designs came in for the next 'thing' ...OBS's choice was simple....
FUCK IT!......we're making a mod....
.........................................................................................................................
Greetings once more my gloriously smoggy Gothamites, back again with more barely legible claptrap about some stuff that you probably don't need, but will more than likely buy anyway because you are indeed..... bat shit crazy, and while we're on the subject of bats.....(we were?) ....it would appear that the Dark Knight himself has had more than a little influence on one of today's offerings...not officially of course...because that would be expensive and probably impossible to obtain....but it's about as official as China gets ....kinda like covering a mod in spider webs, giving it a logo similar to Spider Man's but instead.... calling it the Wall Crawler......(cough-Vaptio-cough)....so....not official in the slightest then....
Courtesy of the gift that keeps on giving from Heaven....Heavengifts (?) ...slipping into view menacingly from the shadows.... The OBS Bat 218w Box Mod Kit with Damo Sub Ohm Tank....and because I don't particularly like sub ohm tanks...I am also presenting the OBS Crius RDA......because I can....it's my review....
Quite surprised they didn't call the Crius the 'She-Bat' and the Damo tank the 'Red Breast' .....would of made a nice little set together....
SET!.....I said SET!!......(sigh)......moving on...
The Lowdown (Bat 218 Kit)
The OBS Bat mod is a dual 18650 powered, 218w heavyweight power-house of a device that comes complete with the Damo Sub Ohm Tank......nothing particularly unusual going on on the surface of things, nor is it particularly unusual under said surface....either...
I think you'll find that it is.....we'll come to that.
First things first, the packaging on ALL of the new OBS gear is nothing short of impressive, the retail presence is absolutely next level, so ample kudos to them for that, and once you open the kit and pull out the Bat mod...you start to get a real sense that OBS.....have not lost their edge when it comes to build quality....as a matter of fact....they're even better than they used to be, and that's saying something, this thing is SOLID, you'd almost believe it came with batteries already installed it's that heavy.....and chunky too.....think more Ben Affleck and less Adam West....even Batman has suffered a little...shall we say....middle aged spread of late.....
The Bat is kind of reminiscent of the Alien/Predator/Ravage style, but without the trigger bar, instead you get a very nice large fire button, right where you'd expect it to be....
And it's nice too, very satisfyingly solid with a barely audible click....super butch...like Batman...
And the manliness continues when you take a crowbar to the battery door .....which...on it's own could very well be used as a shield to ward off any impending dangers.....from....baddies.....and such like....
All held in place by 4 super bat magnets.....no doubt......and complete with menacing mesh vents top and bottom....grrrrr.
The centered spring loaded 510 looks very solid and well threaded too with a decent throw on the spring, and as a very nice added bonus it will take up to a 28.5mm top without overhang....good news for my Sherman RDA's ...and even a 30mm doesn't look unacceptable....you'd think I would of taken a picture of that....
Controlling the Bat mod brought forward the only real surprise for me....I mean by today's standards it's almost a throwback to over a year ago (around 7 in vape years...or is that dogs..?) , it seems to be run by a very similar chip to the older Smok products, the menu system is almost identical to my Smok G150 that I have had for eons...3 clicks puts you into the menu, you get the icons for 'Light' (the bulb) 'Mode' (the pipe) 'Puffs' (the lips) 'Settings' (the cog) and 'power'.....you know the drill.....hold the fire button on any of these to enter the sub menus...leave alone to go back to the main screen.....I mean it works, and it gives you everything you need, you get the full TC suite for SS, Ti and Ni and with the full 218w at your disposal....plus a TCR setting, you also get VW with 3 settings for soft, normal and hard....it's just...in a time where full colour displays most definitely rule the roost with regulated mods....it feels a little...."Oh?"......don't get me wrong, I'm a simple man...the latest technology that lets you fine tune absolutely every aspect of your vaping is wasted on me anyway....
But still....for a brand new device?.....slightly odd choice I thought.
It does however...have LIGHTS!.... (sarcastic 'woooo' fist pump)
(shudders)...sinister...the vast majority of you will be pleased to know that as well as being able to choose from a handful of primary colours...you can also switch them off.....or just have them on when you fire...or for those amongst you that like to vape whilst mooching menacingly around the rooftops of a smoggy crime infested city at night....you can leave them on...all the time.....because...that's cool....
It's also available in the following very un-Batman like colours.....
The Tank that comes with the Bat kit version is the 'Damo' sub ohm tank.....I can only assume that it's real name is Damon...and it's from Liverpool......(kinda Regionalist) ....and as far as sub ohm tanks go...it's actually quite good... being a 25mm affair that holds an admirable 5ml of your finest.... the flavour and cloud production is very good indeed, and the dual bottom adjustable airflow is smooth and ample.....so if you like tanks with pre made coils...you'll probably dig it.
It also retains it's very nice top fill system, simply pull up the sleeve and pour your liquid into the large port....just like the Engine....love that.
That's about all I have to say about it though, it's good but not really my thing....so I swapped it...for another of OBS's newcomers.....something.....a little lovely....
The company I am talking about is OBS, and more specifically their 'home run' RTA of yesteryear....the Engine. The Engine sat high in the best RTA's of 2017 list for a vast swathe of vapers, and deservedly so....that thing was a leak proof flavour machine, almost perfect in every way, and is indeed still enjoyed to this day by vapers the world over, however....trends change, there is a 'fashion' to vaping and like any fashion it continuously evolves, and if your RTA ain't day-glo purple with bubble glass and a matching swirly resin 810 drip tip....it ain't considered as....'sick'.....anymore....
Form over function unfortunately....sells.
So....a change of direction was needed....why make another 'thing'..when the 'thing' you made was good enough?!...As the new designs came in for the next 'thing' ...OBS's choice was simple....
FUCK IT!......we're making a mod....
.........................................................................................................................
Greetings once more my gloriously smoggy Gothamites, back again with more barely legible claptrap about some stuff that you probably don't need, but will more than likely buy anyway because you are indeed..... bat shit crazy, and while we're on the subject of bats.....(we were?) ....it would appear that the Dark Knight himself has had more than a little influence on one of today's offerings...not officially of course...because that would be expensive and probably impossible to obtain....but it's about as official as China gets ....kinda like covering a mod in spider webs, giving it a logo similar to Spider Man's but instead.... calling it the Wall Crawler......(cough-Vaptio-cough)....so....not official in the slightest then....
Courtesy of the gift that keeps on giving from Heaven....Heavengifts (?) ...slipping into view menacingly from the shadows.... The OBS Bat 218w Box Mod Kit with Damo Sub Ohm Tank....and because I don't particularly like sub ohm tanks...I am also presenting the OBS Crius RDA......because I can....it's my review....
Quite surprised they didn't call the Crius the 'She-Bat' and the Damo tank the 'Red Breast' .....would of made a nice little set together....
SET!.....I said SET!!......(sigh)......moving on...
The Lowdown (Bat 218 Kit)
The OBS Bat mod is a dual 18650 powered, 218w heavyweight power-house of a device that comes complete with the Damo Sub Ohm Tank......nothing particularly unusual going on on the surface of things, nor is it particularly unusual under said surface....either...
I think you'll find that it is.....we'll come to that.
First things first, the packaging on ALL of the new OBS gear is nothing short of impressive, the retail presence is absolutely next level, so ample kudos to them for that, and once you open the kit and pull out the Bat mod...you start to get a real sense that OBS.....have not lost their edge when it comes to build quality....as a matter of fact....they're even better than they used to be, and that's saying something, this thing is SOLID, you'd almost believe it came with batteries already installed it's that heavy.....and chunky too.....think more Ben Affleck and less Adam West....even Batman has suffered a little...shall we say....middle aged spread of late.....
The Bat is kind of reminiscent of the Alien/Predator/Ravage style, but without the trigger bar, instead you get a very nice large fire button, right where you'd expect it to be....
And it's nice too, very satisfyingly solid with a barely audible click....super butch...like Batman...
And the manliness continues when you take a crowbar to the battery door .....which...on it's own could very well be used as a shield to ward off any impending dangers.....from....baddies.....and such like....
All held in place by 4 super bat magnets.....no doubt......and complete with menacing mesh vents top and bottom....grrrrr.
The centered spring loaded 510 looks very solid and well threaded too with a decent throw on the spring, and as a very nice added bonus it will take up to a 28.5mm top without overhang....good news for my Sherman RDA's ...and even a 30mm doesn't look unacceptable....you'd think I would of taken a picture of that....
Controlling the Bat mod brought forward the only real surprise for me....I mean by today's standards it's almost a throwback to over a year ago (around 7 in vape years...or is that dogs..?) , it seems to be run by a very similar chip to the older Smok products, the menu system is almost identical to my Smok G150 that I have had for eons...3 clicks puts you into the menu, you get the icons for 'Light' (the bulb) 'Mode' (the pipe) 'Puffs' (the lips) 'Settings' (the cog) and 'power'.....you know the drill.....hold the fire button on any of these to enter the sub menus...leave alone to go back to the main screen.....I mean it works, and it gives you everything you need, you get the full TC suite for SS, Ti and Ni and with the full 218w at your disposal....plus a TCR setting, you also get VW with 3 settings for soft, normal and hard....it's just...in a time where full colour displays most definitely rule the roost with regulated mods....it feels a little...."Oh?"......don't get me wrong, I'm a simple man...the latest technology that lets you fine tune absolutely every aspect of your vaping is wasted on me anyway....
But still....for a brand new device?.....slightly odd choice I thought.
It does however...have LIGHTS!.... (sarcastic 'woooo' fist pump)
(shudders)...sinister...the vast majority of you will be pleased to know that as well as being able to choose from a handful of primary colours...you can also switch them off.....or just have them on when you fire...or for those amongst you that like to vape whilst mooching menacingly around the rooftops of a smoggy crime infested city at night....you can leave them on...all the time.....because...that's cool....
It's also available in the following very un-Batman like colours.....
The Tank that comes with the Bat kit version is the 'Damo' sub ohm tank.....I can only assume that it's real name is Damon...and it's from Liverpool......(kinda Regionalist) ....and as far as sub ohm tanks go...it's actually quite good... being a 25mm affair that holds an admirable 5ml of your finest.... the flavour and cloud production is very good indeed, and the dual bottom adjustable airflow is smooth and ample.....so if you like tanks with pre made coils...you'll probably dig it.
It also retains it's very nice top fill system, simply pull up the sleeve and pour your liquid into the large port....just like the Engine....love that.
That's about all I have to say about it though, it's good but not really my thing....so I swapped it...for another of OBS's newcomers.....something.....a little lovely....
I think that was the most entertaining review iv read. 
) but it's really rather good too.
