Just dropping in to share a shot and some impressions of my new, 3-day old baby... my first (lol) regulated box setup ever after mostly staying on my array of beat-up mech clones (18350 Con-vela/Chi-pu + Tipufun) and squonkers (Vmod 2.0s) for about 2-3 years.
Portrait of a Pico by
Eirakkun, on Flickr
Do excuse the un-clouds bro wattage. I'm a old-timer MTL/RL guy so I don't really crank up the power much.
For a removable battery 75 watter the Pico is really not bad IMHO. For one it's absolutely tiny as mods go nowadays - an RX200 looks like a monster truck next to it and even the Balrog/VTC Mini seems needlessly large. Heck, mine's barely bigger than my colleague's eGrip.
Even being that small, it comes loaded with most of the things that the VTC mini has (sans the cool display and some other small stuff). So yeah, great size/feature ratio right there.
A shame for the Pico that the name is gonna get lotsa people confused. I've been in a few shops so far where asking "Pico?" will get me the tank rather than a mod lol.
Maybe later I should get a (Tipu) Pico tank and turn it into the Picoco. Or Pico2.
Right now the GobMiniV2 I have on top is doing a great enough job (despite being made largely obsolete with all the Velodecks coming out) so I'm in no hurry though.
Cons? Click spoiler below if you wanna know (otherwise I'm gonna make this post even more TL;DR).
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I haven't had the "no-fire-on-first-click-when-below-50%-batt" thing... yet, but the wattage displayed does drop on its own from time to time (by 0.1-0.2). I'm thinking it's just my coils being funky and ohmmoprhing... but apparently the VTC/Cuboid does this too after the latest update, so yeah, Joyetech being funky might also be why.
And yeah, no 23mm atties/tanks - my Tipufun won't even clear the batt cover. Even my GMv2's tiny AFC knobs *barely* fit the space. It's 22mm or less only here folks.
That said, you can actually use a 510 spacer/hybrid adapter and a 18500 batt to be rid of the battery cover bulge thus allowing you to use whatever tank/atty you want WITH good TC. However, that spacer *will* have a hole in it so that's gonna need modding too unless you want stuff getting into your battery compartment.
Also, the bottom +- button design means that if you stuff it into a tight pocket with the +- unlocked/mod not turned off, be prepared to either vape 1W or 75W the next time you bring it out... Though I think mods with normally (front?) located +- buttons have this issue too... no?
Finally, the finishing... well, it's an RM hundred-plus-ish iStick, of course it can't hold a candle to a VT40 or a VapeFlask. Unfortunately, it doesn't even feel as "premium" as stuff from the Joyetech stable either, which isn't even *that* much more in price.
For example, the paint on the Pico (mine's silver) scratches easily... even the chrome-y parts have numerous micro-scratches already. The buttons are wobbly, mushy and they tarnish quick. Et cetera.
At least it feels solid in the hand, doesn't rattle and the buttons don't "autoclick" too easily (too much force/tightness in your pockets and it will still auto-whatever though), so that's good.
Additionally, I haven't gotten TC to work well enough yet though. Tried TI, but that ended in a dry-hit parade so quicky went back to kanthal. Thinking of trying SS next, if I can find time to tinker with it. Not planning to try NI though... coz it makes things taste funky (or so the Internetz says).
Oh, and the GobMiniV2? It works well enough, but likes to leak unless wicked/filled right. Also, non-Velo deck.
This post has been edited by Eiraku: Apr 29 2016, 04:34 AM 
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