Well I've been vaping on the Luxyoun 100w wooden box mod all day and I'm really liking it and only finding a few issues to bring up none of which really bother me.
One on the up side... how long the eFest 2500mah 30a battery has been lasting when compared to the Vaporshark DNA 30 w/1300mah... it's been a night and day improvement on battery life. Typically using a 1.8Ω coil on the VS and set to 12.5w... I come home with about 1.3-1.2 of the battery remaining... On the Lux, I've been vaping with a 1.2Ω coil ( in the Subtank ) set at 25w and so far I've only used about 6% of the battery up which would be only about 25% of the capacity that the VS has.
The wood has been really nice to feel in my hand... soft and warm instead of cold like the metal box's are. The Lux is about a 1/4" longer and taller than my Smok XPro BT50 and about the same width ( 25mm )... so bigger which to me is a slight negative. The corners are about the same radius as the BT50 but not quite rounded as much as the VS has... so another slight negative but just barely. The door uses screws to fix it... they should have gone with magnets which would have helped avoid the next negative... Being made of wood, it lends to warping and the battery door already has a slight warp when I got it... I won't call it a negative because I'd expect wood to behave that way.. but it could have been avoided if the door hadn't been held on with screws.
Now to function... The buttons are a little rattly... but not bad since I need to shake it pretty good to hear them. The screen is great... it has a battery graphic as well as the actual remaining voltage, the voltage, ohms and wattage are all shown and it has a puff counter with a duration of the last draw shown. The up/down buttons are nice and my preference but for those that may want a menu item... you can also use the gravity sensors to set the output, reset the puff counter and turn off the device. Three clicks on the fire button locks the device and 5 clicks to get into the system menus which are controlled by tilting left/right.
When the screen goes out to sleep... you don't have to wait for it to wake up or click more than once... it fires right away. The wattage setting is an area that it lacks a little in, at least on the lower side... it only adjusts in 1w increments and I'm used to being able to adjust in 0.1w on my other devices. On higher wattages that isn't bad since it still equates to about a 0.1v or less change but on lower wattages it may mean 0.3v changes. At the 25w range I'm vaping my Subtank at... 1w changes are fine... but if I were to vape my Aerotank v2 where I often vape at 11.5w-12.5w it would make quite a difference.
I think I may have focused a little too much on the niggly bits which may make this come off too negative... but my opinion is really pretty good on this mod... I like it much more than the Smok BT50 even though it's a little larger, the comfort that the wood brings make up a lot for any minor size issue I have. The ability of it to fire immediately also is much nicer than the BT50 but the VS does that also. The VS is better in the size department but it lacks in battery capacity. I suspect the BT50 will now gather dust and from now on, I'll carry both the VS and the Lux... one for the size and convenience and the other because of how long the battery will last and the feel of the device.
One on the up side... how long the eFest 2500mah 30a battery has been lasting when compared to the Vaporshark DNA 30 w/1300mah... it's been a night and day improvement on battery life. Typically using a 1.8Ω coil on the VS and set to 12.5w... I come home with about 1.3-1.2 of the battery remaining... On the Lux, I've been vaping with a 1.2Ω coil ( in the Subtank ) set at 25w and so far I've only used about 6% of the battery up which would be only about 25% of the capacity that the VS has.
The wood has been really nice to feel in my hand... soft and warm instead of cold like the metal box's are. The Lux is about a 1/4" longer and taller than my Smok XPro BT50 and about the same width ( 25mm )... so bigger which to me is a slight negative. The corners are about the same radius as the BT50 but not quite rounded as much as the VS has... so another slight negative but just barely. The door uses screws to fix it... they should have gone with magnets which would have helped avoid the next negative... Being made of wood, it lends to warping and the battery door already has a slight warp when I got it... I won't call it a negative because I'd expect wood to behave that way.. but it could have been avoided if the door hadn't been held on with screws.
Now to function... The buttons are a little rattly... but not bad since I need to shake it pretty good to hear them. The screen is great... it has a battery graphic as well as the actual remaining voltage, the voltage, ohms and wattage are all shown and it has a puff counter with a duration of the last draw shown. The up/down buttons are nice and my preference but for those that may want a menu item... you can also use the gravity sensors to set the output, reset the puff counter and turn off the device. Three clicks on the fire button locks the device and 5 clicks to get into the system menus which are controlled by tilting left/right.
When the screen goes out to sleep... you don't have to wait for it to wake up or click more than once... it fires right away. The wattage setting is an area that it lacks a little in, at least on the lower side... it only adjusts in 1w increments and I'm used to being able to adjust in 0.1w on my other devices. On higher wattages that isn't bad since it still equates to about a 0.1v or less change but on lower wattages it may mean 0.3v changes. At the 25w range I'm vaping my Subtank at... 1w changes are fine... but if I were to vape my Aerotank v2 where I often vape at 11.5w-12.5w it would make quite a difference.
I think I may have focused a little too much on the niggly bits which may make this come off too negative... but my opinion is really pretty good on this mod... I like it much more than the Smok BT50 even though it's a little larger, the comfort that the wood brings make up a lot for any minor size issue I have. The ability of it to fire immediately also is much nicer than the BT50 but the VS does that also. The VS is better in the size department but it lacks in battery capacity. I suspect the BT50 will now gather dust and from now on, I'll carry both the VS and the Lux... one for the size and convenience and the other because of how long the battery will last and the feel of the device.
