Do you prefer to use a vape pod system or a mod and sub ohm tank?

[Shenzhen XTAR]

Pod systems, also called vape pods, pod vapes and pod mods; are the newest generation of vaping products. Easy to use and simple to maintain, just replace the pod.

Tanks are the component of your vaping device, or rig, which include a reservoir to hold additional vape juice, and the coil to fire and create the vapor. Coils are attached to and held within the tank, which wicks vape juice from the e liquid tank and heats it up to produce vapor.

So which one do you prefer to use?

 

[Don29palms]

Neither

 

[Rhianne]

A tank and mod. Pods are plastic. I have a few AIOs that I use that have glass tanks, like the Aspire K3 and K4, and the Smok Nord AIO 19 and 22.

I really like these for the simplicity of them. And as a “wake and vape”, they’re great. Sometimes, first thing in the morning, I want to vape but a sub tank may be too much. So these AIOs are a little easier to vape. Maybe it’s because there’s less vapor.

Also, for nic salts, I use an Aspire Nautilus Mini with plus ohm coils and a mod set for low power, like maybe 10-13W. It works great for me.

Plastic pods don’t seem like a good idea to me. But plenty of people seem to love them. Especially recent quitters who haven’t vaped so much.

 

[Synphul]

Pods are just ego pens with new clothes and a price bump. That's my opinion on them. Simple to use and maintain in theory maybe, every time I turn around people getting burnt hits, dry hits, leaking pods, pods that won't fit or lock properly in the battery unit, using tricks like folding up foil to get the contacts to connect.

Moved on from ego's to mods and rta's, rda's, rdta's. Relying on premade coil heads, paying full price for bunk factory coil heads, internal batteries that crap out. They're just not reliable for me. No more janky coil heads. I know some people find a use for pods, some like them. If I want to gamble I'll go to vegas. If pods truly worked well and as intended they'd be simple for helping new vapers coming off cigs. The reality of them being so cheap and glitchy I don't think helps, not if that's someone's first impression of vaping.

Mods and rebuildables offer anything I need. Tanks, cloud production, better coils and flavor, compact atomizers, mouth to lung.

Just the way I feel about the whole 'pod craze', my own personal opinions. Pods suck and they're a cancer to the vaping industry. About they only thing they do is offer a quick cash grab for cheap chinese junk now that no one wants fidget spinners anymore.

 

[Smigo]

@Synphul
The lol was for the fidget spinner comment funny.

I like my sub ohm tanks and various mods.
But anything that gets a person off of cigs is good.

 

[Syythe]

I do not own a sub ohm tank or a pod. I use mech squonks and rdas exclusively.

 

[Rhianne]

I do not own a sub ohm tank or a pod. I use mech squonks and rdas exclusively.

I think it’s ironic that this thread attracted mech users.

 

[Syythe]

I think it’s ironic that this thread attracted mech users.

I didn't see the full title before clicking on it. I thought it was just pod vs mod, until I started reading it. Since the mech/rebuildable category was left out, I felt obligated to represent.

 

[Rhianne]

I didn't see the full title before clicking on it. I thought it was just pod vs mod, until I started reading it. Since the mech/rebuildable category was left out, I felt obligated to represent.

I’m glad you said something. I’ve never used a pod. And it’s likely I’ll be building in the new future!

 

[Ruppy_bear]

I don’t like being closed out when it comes to flavour, aka stuck with a few flavours. But I totally love pods.

Now I don’t like how pods have taken over the whole vape industry, but seriously it gets ppl vaping. I’m in a country where barely have ppl vaping to now quite a lot of ppl vape now. I think pods are great and I need to find a reason to keep one. I lost my last pod due to the fact that I didn’t really use it and have no idea where it is.

Plus I like big clouds flowing around, that’s how I started smoking in he first place lol.

Also fid spinners are invented in the states lol

 

[Carambrda]

I only use mech mods nowadays, and, I have a big and expensive (mostly exclusive high end, and some entry-level high end) collection of way more than a hundred authentic mechs and multiple hundreds of authentic RDAs, and just a small bunch of high-end-and-authentic RTAs. I shudder the thought of using pod systems or tanks with factory premade coils... I only use top quality handbuilt complex coils such as aliens, and that I can build myself by using a cordless drill and a swivel tool with a ball bearing. The specific type of rebuildable atomizers that can accept mesh strips are not for me, either. I am a flavor chaser who only vapes at high power levels so, typically, I never vape at below 100 watts of power. In fact I often vape at above 200 watts, only for the flavor, not for cloud chasing. For me, however, flavor performance can not in any way be separated from all the other important factors that also are part of the so-called "vape experience", which also includes the warmth, wetness, density, texture, rampup speed of the coils, and speed of inhalation linked logically to speed of vapor production in cohort with airflow characteristics and numerous types of other important tweaks. Sub ohm tanks all FAIL, miserably, in THAT department. Sorry, but that's just the reality of things.