Getting away from my typical RDA reviews, I bring to you the Victoria Bamboo Style Mechanical Mod 1:1
Specification:
SIZE
DEPTH: 22MM
HEIGHT: 102MM
WIDTH: 22MM
WEIGHT: 220g
SUPPORTED BATTERY 18650
CONNECTION THREADING
510
COLOR Black
MATERIAL
Stainless Steel
PACKAGE CONTENTS
Victoria Bamboo Mod
FEATURE
18650 Mechanical Mod
Smooth Magnetic Button
Copper Contacts
510 Connection
battery rattle hybrid adjustable pin
Two adjustable positive pins
Very short threaded
locking ring (1/2 Turn)
Serialized for your personal touch
So starting from the top!
You got the packaging, and the mech mod inside of the packaging, clean simple and secure.
Following the opening of the box, I took the pieces apart, here you see from left to right…
The Mod housing it’s self for the battery, with a nice logo, Black with silver rings around it which sort of looks like “Bamboo” right?
Then you got the bottom piece, showing off the 4 vent holes, the copper contact, and inside of that which you can twist off is one of the 2 magnets.
As well as the top piece for your RDA with a adjustable center pin, and as well as the outer ring being adjustable as well. As it will make contact with your battery if you adjust just that and do not want to adjust your RDA Positive screw.
Next up, You see the same setup, but showing off the numbering, and the inside of the top piece for your RDA positive screw where they meet contact. Being more of a smaller circular piece instead of a fat screw, which is great for certain RDA’s.
Now getting into some more the RDA technical features…
The bottom piece of the mech Mod the piece inside of the mech mod has a copper contact as well with the other magnet to make the connection.
Now onto the tear down.
This is the bottom piece for the magnetic switch, You got your bottom housing, the locking screw, the actual switch, the magnet, and the copper contact.
So just jumping in giving my thoughts….
The main thing I love about this, It’s super light, like bamboo hence the name of a bamboo mod. You feel the weight of the battery over the mod, it’s just really light.
The locking mechanism being half turn, well yes it does, but if its not completely locked, it still fires, so make sure you lock it completely though it’s really just a half turn.
Regarding the dual copper contact for the positive connection, this personally is terrible to me, As I do like how it touches the entire top. The reason being is that this is a VERY TIGHT enclosure for your battery, so in my eyes I see it as a safety issue, as we all know our batterys over time the casing “heatshrink wrapping” around the battery tends to get holes and tear apart ect. so this could end up making contact with both the positive and negative. We wouldn’t want that.
My suggestion? possibly a button positive battery would do the trick perfectly, or you can just simply use the Atomizer adjustable contact at the bottom, Though atomizers without one you have to adjust to use, and this is why I mentioned I did not like this.
There could have been a VERY SIMPLE solution and add 2 extra threads of length onto the center pin that is adjustable and made this work flawlessly. Even 1 could have improved it.
Moving onto another discussion, the magnets in this, It’s very powerful, and well… you feel the magnets power when you wear it in and you feel your button sliding because of the magnets force. It just feels weird, though you know a quality magnet was used.
As Mentioned above regarding the tightness of this for the battery housing, it is because there is the negative contact in the mech mod that is tightened or stuck in there by some glue or something, I did not want to ruin the mech mod but I honestly liked this feature, as no battery rattle is a great thing.
The sleek and bamboo like style of this mech mod was simply gorgeous to me, I think both man and ladies would love this.
Threading was smooth, no issues with RDA’s and and stripping, it was just a good mech mod all around besides the issues I did not like personally.
Voltage drop I won’t get into this besides saying, I didn’t notice much at all and I think it performed perfectly. One reason can be because the negative contact being inside the mod not connected to the chamber/bottom firing pin, creating lower VDROP.
Overall I would give it a 3.5/5
Pro’s:
Simple but gorgeous look
Tight battery fitting
super light setup
smooth threading
2 ways for flat RDA to mech mod “no gap”
short locking turn
Con’s:
dual positive adjustable contacts
no easy negative contact removal inside mechmod
firing button slipping from possibly strong magnet/not secured enough.
has to be completely locked to not fire
Don’t let the rating fool you, it’s a great mod, but personally 3.5/5 is what it should get from me, as I had concerns about a few things though they all work, it just isn’t practical for me as the design could have been slighty tweaked for better functionality. You can’t go wrong buying it, but there was just those things that bugged me that could have been easily fixed.
Purchasing link: http://www.angelcigs.com/victoria-bamboo-style-mechanical-mod-1-1.html
Reviewed by Cody~