the grumpy vaper
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As a matter of good housekeeping, let us shoot the giant elephant in the room with a giant elephant sized gun:
“WARNING: THE ASPIRE ATLANTIS IS DESIGNED FOR SUB-OHMING AND AS SUCH CAN NOT BE USED WITH EGO STYLE BATTERIES. YOU WILL NEED A BATTERY CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MORE POWER THAN TRADITIONAL EGO DEVICES. ASPIRE HAVE A RANGE OF BATTERIES DESIGNED FOR THE ATLANTIS WHICH CAN BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY.”
See, this is my main bone of contention with the new Aspire Atlantis sub-ohm tank and I see it becoming quite a big issue. The Atlantis comes in a very plain presentation box, presumably to keep costs down. In the box you get the tank itself with a 0.5 ohm coil head installed, a spare glass tank (should you shatter the original attempting to pry it delicately away from the top-cap) and one spare coil.
That is all you get. At first glance the minimalism is more than acceptable for the cost. What really isn’t acceptable is the complete absence of any instruction manual at all. Nothing. No warning like I placed above at the top of the review. No instructions on how to remove that very, very tight top-cap. Zilch.
The chances are if you’ve had a Nautilus before it, then the Atlantis will pose no problems at all regarding its general use, however – and this is quite a big however – for somebody new to vaping, new to the Aspire range and new to sub-ohming this could be potentially disastrous. If they go into the “wrong shop” to buy this beast and they are given no instructions over the counter and no warnings, well it doesn’t really bear thinking about.
A newcomer to vaping may well come along naively, buy The Atlantis from an unscrupulous vendor, take it home and attempt to fire it on a cheap Ego clone from the dreaded Market Man. And some of those cheapo Egos will fire this thing. Then we’ll have a nasty accident and all of a sudden a vaping media crisis. Again. We’re another week from another Sun headline telling us five people have had their heads clean blown off from e-cigarettes and that’s quite an issue to deal with.
It’s very kind of Aspire to leave all that dull safety gubbins squarely in the hands of the vendor then – let’s just hope they all do their due diligence when selling them.
Full review, here.
“WARNING: THE ASPIRE ATLANTIS IS DESIGNED FOR SUB-OHMING AND AS SUCH CAN NOT BE USED WITH EGO STYLE BATTERIES. YOU WILL NEED A BATTERY CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MORE POWER THAN TRADITIONAL EGO DEVICES. ASPIRE HAVE A RANGE OF BATTERIES DESIGNED FOR THE ATLANTIS WHICH CAN BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY.”
See, this is my main bone of contention with the new Aspire Atlantis sub-ohm tank and I see it becoming quite a big issue. The Atlantis comes in a very plain presentation box, presumably to keep costs down. In the box you get the tank itself with a 0.5 ohm coil head installed, a spare glass tank (should you shatter the original attempting to pry it delicately away from the top-cap) and one spare coil.
That is all you get. At first glance the minimalism is more than acceptable for the cost. What really isn’t acceptable is the complete absence of any instruction manual at all. Nothing. No warning like I placed above at the top of the review. No instructions on how to remove that very, very tight top-cap. Zilch.
The chances are if you’ve had a Nautilus before it, then the Atlantis will pose no problems at all regarding its general use, however – and this is quite a big however – for somebody new to vaping, new to the Aspire range and new to sub-ohming this could be potentially disastrous. If they go into the “wrong shop” to buy this beast and they are given no instructions over the counter and no warnings, well it doesn’t really bear thinking about.
A newcomer to vaping may well come along naively, buy The Atlantis from an unscrupulous vendor, take it home and attempt to fire it on a cheap Ego clone from the dreaded Market Man. And some of those cheapo Egos will fire this thing. Then we’ll have a nasty accident and all of a sudden a vaping media crisis. Again. We’re another week from another Sun headline telling us five people have had their heads clean blown off from e-cigarettes and that’s quite an issue to deal with.
It’s very kind of Aspire to leave all that dull safety gubbins squarely in the hands of the vendor then – let’s just hope they all do their due diligence when selling them.
Full review, here.
