Ok gang, here’s something I missed in the review. It was missed because 1) when I was looking at the start/stop pause time on the scope, I was at a high enough wattage where the issue didn’t appear, or appeared as a slight ramp which was mentioned in the review, and 2) when using it in wattage mode, I was at a high enough wattage where is was noticeable, but not that bad for me.
Looks like, when in wattage more the eVic-VT has a 30 watt surge when you first fire it after 1) you take your atty off and put it back on, 2) the device goes to sleep after 3 minutes and wakes back up, 3) you power the device off and turn it back on.
I read a bunch of comment in the YouTube video that it was burning people’s liquids and wicks. Finally, after discussing it with Edward Wolff (thanks Ed!!) on Facebook tonight, I decided to have another look.
Ed’s test scenario was a 2.0 Ohm coil set at 6 watts. He said he could “hear” and feel the surge. Sure enough…
This image shows the surge. Should be firing at around 3.5V (for 6 watts) yet is surges to 8.16V (around 33 watts) and then ramps down to the accurate setting.
Even set to 1 watt, it does the same thing…
Multiple button presses don’t help. It needs time to settle…
You can see here when set for higher wattage it becomes easier to miss…
It does it for a fair amount of time as well. The full 30+ watt surge lasts around .58 seconds and the total time to go from button press to an accurate setting is around 1.28 seconds…
I took a look at the .5 ohm, 1 ohm, and 1.5 as well. All peaking around 30 watts…
Now, if you vape at or above 30 watts, it’s something you’ll never notice. Here is is firing 30 watts after a power cycle against a 1 ohm load. No issue…
This has to change the overall rating from a “wait” to a thumbs down. Hopefully this is something they can resolve quickly and take care of those who are unhappy with the product due to this issue.
This will be added to the post review follow-up within the review posting found here.
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