Has Smok had quality control issues or was that just me?
Do their mods perform as nicely as they look?
Have they found a way to make a coil that last longer than a week?
Are Smok tanks strictly for cloud chasers or is flavor in the mix?
Has Smok had quality control issues or was that just me?
Their quality control has somewhat declined. I wouldn't suggest this decline is outside of normal industry parameters though. That meaning it is kind of to be expected quality control will wain after doing so much.
Do their mods perform as nicely as they look?
This is dependent and will explain this a bit further on.
Have they found a way to make a coil that last longer than a week?
Again a bit of a dependent question.
Are Smok tanks strictly for cloud chasers or is flavor in the mix?
Alright a third dependent question. I'll now try to explain this simply. The answer to these questions is
subjective to the use of whatever product.
I had one mod by Smok and it never really gave me any serious issues save for after having it a bit over two years. It was well, just "nice" to me. I never thought it the greatest thing since sliced bread. These devices in my mind are things, I don't love things and so don't hold them with high opinion either. To me "does it function as stated" is a better question. Yep, the one mod of theirs I had did and those I used that others had seemed to do what the "tin says" so to speak.
I could make an old evod tank style, coil the Pro Tank universal coil assemblies last two weeks. I didn't use sweet juices, or VG heavy ones. Rinsing off a coil and putting in fresh wick often did the trick. I also got started on learning to rebuild on these despite the drudgery I found it to be.
I can get a happy medium using max Vg and a little PG with flavorings using my own DIY mixed, or just unflavored juice. By that I mean I get modest clouds but decent flavor ROI too. It comes down to your juice, your coil, your air, your wick and you see how the plethora of variables keeps coming to play. So ultimately this is what I mean by these questions being dependent.
It depends on how you use things, and depends on your perspective of things. Bearing that in mind one could say
these answers also rely upon subjective points of view or rather, opinions.
Opinions make questions difficult to answer as speculation is often inadvisable to offer instead of facts. Facts serve as a bit more of an objectively concrete answer. For example we can say light is white in color, but science proves it lacks any color at all yet is not black. People are seemingly adverse to facts. They rather watch the smoke (see light as white) and don't want to help build the fire (actually do the work to solve a problem, get an answer) to get smoke.
"By the by, here have an opinion, they're free."