So the Sva DNA 75 clone arrived a few days ago.
I have had a chance to put some miles on it.
Overall it is a good buy, the DNA 75 chip is very good and with escribe it can be personalized nicely. I have three presets for my current IGO-w plus that's sits on it, a mellow slow ramp up, a Kick with fast hard ramp up and one in between. Same wattage and similar temp settings but very different experiences, depending on your mood or time of day
or driving in the car etc.
Size is as small as any DNA 75 squonker could be, SVA's original design copied here is super space saving.
Weight is light although a little heavier than I expected.
Delrin feels more like plastic and corners are a little less shamfered than I would like and feels very boxy in the hand at first.
Internals are ok although my contacts appeared to be glued in with cheap craft glue.
I dropped the mod at the supermarket and the aluminum side panel fell out and I later discovered both battery contacts had broken free.
I don't really like the Matt aluminum side panels as they scratch easy and become shiney in those spots. I lightly glued the errant panel back on with epoxy as I may replace the panels down the line.
I keyed/abraded the delrin under the battery contacts and epoxied those back in too.
The carbon door was scratched , so I polished/sander that out and wished I hadn't as the resin layer over the carbon is so thin it revealed the weave and left a slightly Matt finish in those areas.
The 510 is not spring loaded, but this is a plus as it's a reverse threaded adjuster and the atty can cranked down well for better Temp controle stability than a sprung loaded 510.
There is something numb about a regulated mod versus a mech or mosfet mech to me and that hasn't changed, but for the money this is a great mod with a few finishing touches likely required. A stab wood door and side panels should be easy to make using the originals as templates and would really lift the whole mod a tonne.
Reliability of the DNA board could of course spoil the party at any time and leave you with a paper weight.
I have had a chance to put some miles on it.
Overall it is a good buy, the DNA 75 chip is very good and with escribe it can be personalized nicely. I have three presets for my current IGO-w plus that's sits on it, a mellow slow ramp up, a Kick with fast hard ramp up and one in between. Same wattage and similar temp settings but very different experiences, depending on your mood or time of day
or driving in the car etc.
Size is as small as any DNA 75 squonker could be, SVA's original design copied here is super space saving.
Weight is light although a little heavier than I expected.
Delrin feels more like plastic and corners are a little less shamfered than I would like and feels very boxy in the hand at first.
Internals are ok although my contacts appeared to be glued in with cheap craft glue.
I dropped the mod at the supermarket and the aluminum side panel fell out and I later discovered both battery contacts had broken free.
I don't really like the Matt aluminum side panels as they scratch easy and become shiney in those spots. I lightly glued the errant panel back on with epoxy as I may replace the panels down the line.
I keyed/abraded the delrin under the battery contacts and epoxied those back in too.
The carbon door was scratched , so I polished/sander that out and wished I hadn't as the resin layer over the carbon is so thin it revealed the weave and left a slightly Matt finish in those areas.
The 510 is not spring loaded, but this is a plus as it's a reverse threaded adjuster and the atty can cranked down well for better Temp controle stability than a sprung loaded 510.
There is something numb about a regulated mod versus a mech or mosfet mech to me and that hasn't changed, but for the money this is a great mod with a few finishing touches likely required. A stab wood door and side panels should be easy to make using the originals as templates and would really lift the whole mod a tonne.
Reliability of the DNA board could of course spoil the party at any time and leave you with a paper weight.
I am aware delrin is a plastic , and I should have been more specific no doubt, I should have said it feels harder/more brittle than delrin, delrin has a kind of "silkyness" to it that less "elitist" plastics do not posses.
Managed to fit a twisted kanthal 28AWG, but no good on a mech. I think the VT Inbox will do better with twisted. 
