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Hi All, Anthony Vapes back here with my review of the Wismec Luxotic Surface Kit. Please see bottom for disclaimers and links. Note: This is marked as a sample.
Introduction:
The Wismec Luxotic Surface Kit is the latest kit from long time vape manufacturer Wismec. For anyone who isn’t aware, they are a sub brand of Joyetech (along with eleaf as well) so have been around many years most famous for their jaybo RX line of products. I’ve reviewed a ton of their stuff over the past 2 years and sadly can’t really say much good about them these days as they have fallen way behind the curve compared to other companies and maybe like 1 out of every 10 mods is decent but haven’t really made anything work running out to get in a long time so we’ll see if the luxotic surface can change that. The surface is a single 18650 battery squonk mod rated at 80 watts and comes with the Kestrel Tank. It’s available in 4 colors Unistar, Honeycomb, Linear, and Basketball and the included Kestrel is always black in all 4 kits. Looking around online I see the mod for around 35-45 USD and the kit for around 50-65 USD for pre-order only and only out of china.
Manufacturer's Specs: Mod
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Initial Impressions and features
When I first got this kit, 1st off i’ll flat out say the tank looked like a disaster but we’ll go over more of that later. The mod however I thought look pretty cool. They are all mostly black mods with a plastic colored/designed battery door and a matching squonk bottle. The pics make it look like the tanks resin tips will match but mine didn’t I got a blue tip with the purple mod. Anyway the mod itself is just like the luxotic BF designwise and really small except this one comes with a fully adjustable chip and a silicon bottle instead of the plastic bottle on the original. I did like the small size but part of that is because it’s 18650 only and i’m sure many would have prefered a bigger battery options but nonetheless overall i liked the design of the mod and just kind of laughed at the tank.
Watt Mode Performance (chart and spreadsheet in picture album)
Now let’s get into some data. I ran my normal testing. I used Sony VTC5A batteries for the testing. Testing resistances were done at .13, .15, .2, and .62 ohms. wattage points were max (80), 60, 40, and 20. At .13 ohms it maxed out at 67 watts and 23 amps. For the rest of the testing it struggled quite a bit which is actually uncommon for single battery mods. It was 3-11 watts low. At .15 it maxed out at 76 watts. The rest of the testing here was good, running only 1-2 watts low. For the .2 test it maxed out at 72 watts. For the rest of the tests though 7 watts low at 60, but below 60 only 2-3 watts low. For the .62 testing it maxed out at 85 watts and 7.258 volts. For the rest of the testing it was a little high 1-4 watts. The volts shows there is a boost circuit in this mod like all single battery mods should have
Overall I felt the performance of this mod was just ok. It struggled with builds at .13 ohms and .2 ohms but was pretty good at .15 and .62 ohms. I was able to get 85 watts max, so it is rated well at 80 watts but note you need to be above .2 ohms to get that. The 7.258+ volt limit shows there is a boost circuit as there should be. Their manual list a voltage limit of 9V which is plausible since I was capped off by the watt limit in my testing, Volts shouldn’t be any issue for anyone here. They don’t list an amp limit and I wish they would list all 3 personally. On this mod and the most amps i got was 23 with a .13 ohm coil which is below average for a single 18650 mod (most are 25-30). So overall just ok performer and good enough ratings.
Simplified TLDR Power Performance summary
Mod performance is just ok overall. Good rated for watts (85), Yes boost circuit, low amp limit of 23. Hits a little weak and performance at .2 ohms or less is mostly a struggle
Temperature Control Performance
Using SS316 wire and SS mode, i’ll keep this pretty short and sweet. I think at this point we all know the answer and that they are going to ignore this anyway so it’s whatever but not good for TC. If you wanted the details i used 4 builds 2 simple round single coil and 2 fancy single coil. Mod runs a little weak needing about 470-510F for a warm vape so about 20-60F weak. That’s not the big deal, the big deal is that it’s badly inconsistent and i have to keep fiddling with the temp to get the same vape i had. Dry burn protection is iffy at best and the throttle back is very pulsey and pulls back way to hard. Just not a good vape at all, but i guess on the plus side i never got kicked from TC? IDK i’d rather be kicked then to deal with this. I think it’s time for wismec to just remove TC from their chips since they can’t do it right and seem to have 0 interest in fixing it. I must have said this in at least 20 reviews over the past 2 years and they ignore it so whatever. Long story short, typical wismec, TC is no good.
Introduction:
The Wismec Luxotic Surface Kit is the latest kit from long time vape manufacturer Wismec. For anyone who isn’t aware, they are a sub brand of Joyetech (along with eleaf as well) so have been around many years most famous for their jaybo RX line of products. I’ve reviewed a ton of their stuff over the past 2 years and sadly can’t really say much good about them these days as they have fallen way behind the curve compared to other companies and maybe like 1 out of every 10 mods is decent but haven’t really made anything work running out to get in a long time so we’ll see if the luxotic surface can change that. The surface is a single 18650 battery squonk mod rated at 80 watts and comes with the Kestrel Tank. It’s available in 4 colors Unistar, Honeycomb, Linear, and Basketball and the included Kestrel is always black in all 4 kits. Looking around online I see the mod for around 35-45 USD and the kit for around 50-65 USD for pre-order only and only out of china.
Manufacturer's Specs: Mod
- Size: 78 x 43.5 x 25.5mm
- weight 131.8g
- E-liquid bottle capacity: 6.5ml
- Cell type: high-rate 18650 cell (discharging current should be above 25A) (not included)
- Output mode: VW/Bypass/TC-Ni/TC-Ti/TC-SS/TCR mode
- Output wattage: 1-80W
- Resistance range: 0.05-3.5ohm
- Output voltage range: 0.5-9V
- Thread: 510 spring loaded connector
- Height: 36.7mm
- Weight 34.6g
- Diameter: 24mm
- E-juice capacity: 2ml
- Coil Type: Innovative mesh heater 0.25ohm
- Thread: 510
- 1pc Wismec Luxotic Surface Mod
- 1pc Kestrel Tank
- 1pc E-liquid Bottle
- 1pc Mesh Heater
- 1pc Cotton
- 1pc Warning Card
- 1pc Glass Tube
- 2pc User Manual
- Spare Parts
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Initial Impressions and features
When I first got this kit, 1st off i’ll flat out say the tank looked like a disaster but we’ll go over more of that later. The mod however I thought look pretty cool. They are all mostly black mods with a plastic colored/designed battery door and a matching squonk bottle. The pics make it look like the tanks resin tips will match but mine didn’t I got a blue tip with the purple mod. Anyway the mod itself is just like the luxotic BF designwise and really small except this one comes with a fully adjustable chip and a silicon bottle instead of the plastic bottle on the original. I did like the small size but part of that is because it’s 18650 only and i’m sure many would have prefered a bigger battery options but nonetheless overall i liked the design of the mod and just kind of laughed at the tank.
Watt Mode Performance (chart and spreadsheet in picture album)
Now let’s get into some data. I ran my normal testing. I used Sony VTC5A batteries for the testing. Testing resistances were done at .13, .15, .2, and .62 ohms. wattage points were max (80), 60, 40, and 20. At .13 ohms it maxed out at 67 watts and 23 amps. For the rest of the testing it struggled quite a bit which is actually uncommon for single battery mods. It was 3-11 watts low. At .15 it maxed out at 76 watts. The rest of the testing here was good, running only 1-2 watts low. For the .2 test it maxed out at 72 watts. For the rest of the tests though 7 watts low at 60, but below 60 only 2-3 watts low. For the .62 testing it maxed out at 85 watts and 7.258 volts. For the rest of the testing it was a little high 1-4 watts. The volts shows there is a boost circuit in this mod like all single battery mods should have
Overall I felt the performance of this mod was just ok. It struggled with builds at .13 ohms and .2 ohms but was pretty good at .15 and .62 ohms. I was able to get 85 watts max, so it is rated well at 80 watts but note you need to be above .2 ohms to get that. The 7.258+ volt limit shows there is a boost circuit as there should be. Their manual list a voltage limit of 9V which is plausible since I was capped off by the watt limit in my testing, Volts shouldn’t be any issue for anyone here. They don’t list an amp limit and I wish they would list all 3 personally. On this mod and the most amps i got was 23 with a .13 ohm coil which is below average for a single 18650 mod (most are 25-30). So overall just ok performer and good enough ratings.
Simplified TLDR Power Performance summary
Mod performance is just ok overall. Good rated for watts (85), Yes boost circuit, low amp limit of 23. Hits a little weak and performance at .2 ohms or less is mostly a struggle
Temperature Control Performance
Using SS316 wire and SS mode, i’ll keep this pretty short and sweet. I think at this point we all know the answer and that they are going to ignore this anyway so it’s whatever but not good for TC. If you wanted the details i used 4 builds 2 simple round single coil and 2 fancy single coil. Mod runs a little weak needing about 470-510F for a warm vape so about 20-60F weak. That’s not the big deal, the big deal is that it’s badly inconsistent and i have to keep fiddling with the temp to get the same vape i had. Dry burn protection is iffy at best and the throttle back is very pulsey and pulls back way to hard. Just not a good vape at all, but i guess on the plus side i never got kicked from TC? IDK i’d rather be kicked then to deal with this. I think it’s time for wismec to just remove TC from their chips since they can’t do it right and seem to have 0 interest in fixing it. I must have said this in at least 20 reviews over the past 2 years and they ignore it so whatever. Long story short, typical wismec, TC is no good.