The istick tc100w. I wanted to like it, it wasn't fancy. It's age is showing by how narrow the little bastard is, almost anything from the past couple years will overhang like mad. It was a nice shape, comfortable to hold, slim. Even the tc wasn't too bad on it. That fucking fire button though. Yea let's solder a small sister board to the main pcb, a little board that all it does is attaches the internal fire button. And we won't fix the fire switch to the main board with anything but the solder. Oh and lets put all the solder points on one side so it's like a little solder hinge that flexes with ever press of the button. Then play a game of 'how many licks does it take' (or presses in this case) before the solder snaps the fuck off. Such a cringey weak point.
The drag 2. Overrated overhyped to say the least. It has a sloppy battery door, the batteries are kind of a pain with that strap, all the buttons rattle. So what's so great about the mod? Well as it turns out, it can fire a coil in wattage mode. Yep, that's about fucking it. Eleaf did a better job in 2014 or 2015 than voopoo did in 2019. The tc is garbage, tcr's seem to have no effect, the gimped 80w power limit in tc mode doesn't even work. At 80w with ss316L coils the closest comparison I could make in terms of vapor production and heat was 45w in wattage mode.
The geekvape ammit, whatever the original one was. Single coil, 3d airflow. Had good flavor when it worked, so props for that. Otherwise an engineering fail. The top fill cap locks down tighter than the split chimney sections that hold the glass in place. So when loosening the fill cap to add more juice instead 9x out of 10 the whole fucking tank separates in the middle loosening the glass and letting any remaining juice piss all over. The posts are so close to the chamber walls when it's screwed together even flush cuts can't keep the coil leads from touching and arcing, there's that little clearance. So you have to kind of position the coil where you think you'll want it, push it through a little further, snip the leads, then gently back the coil out so the leads are resting just inside the posts. Then tighten it down because they can't extend past the posts even a little. Then of course the juice well in the deck. Nice big deck for the wick tails on top, big open juice ports slotted in from the side. But the actual hole between the juice ports and bottom of the deck is so tiny hardly any juice gets through. If the wick even so much as pokes into that tiny hole, dry hits. Chokes it off completely. So you moved the wick tails away from the tiny holes in the deck - oops, now it's flooding and dripping everywhere. Such good flavor when it worked, such a shitty design on so many fronts that makes you question if they even vape.