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Packaging SANTI Pod Mod

SANTI is for sale in a simple white cardboard box, absolutely not decorated with any marketing and advertising inscriptions: on the front side there is only a photo of the device in the current color and the name. On the sides are the address of the site Smoant and a "side view" schematic drawing, on the reverse side - the package, manufacturer's address, several certificate icons and a sticker with an authentication code.

What's in the box

The package, unfortunately, is also very minimalist: a mod with a pre-installed vaporizer in the tank, a USB Type-C cable for charging, a quick guide, a warranty card and a certificate of passing the internal quality control service. Everything seems to be there, but why not put at least one spare evaporator? "O" - optimization and "E" - economy.

SANTI Pod Mod. Design

Appearance for fashion SANTI is familiar to such devices and at first glance even boring - just a zinc alloy rectangle with a plastic cartridge-mouthpiece on top. However, upon closer acquaintance, you begin to pay attention to small but pleasant additions: the sides are decorated with dots-hollows of various sizes (which, in addition to a pleasant tactile sensation, will be guaranteed to collect anything from your hands and pockets), a large strip of textured plastic is glued on the reverse side, quite very similar to rubber (which gives +3 tenacity, but will also greasy over time). Controls and indications are separated: the Fire button is located on the glossy front side just above the center, just above the small screen and under the company logo Smoant , and the volume rocker power is placed on the side of the phone mod. The engineers placed the Type-C socket on the second narrow side of the mod, which is also quite high, which does not add stability to the device during charging, so this process is best done immediately in a supine position. In general, it is convenient and even pleasant to hold the device in your hands, but for comfortable use you will have to get used to the design features. The problem is that the battery pack is wide and narrow, the Fire button is just located on the wide part, and the mouthpiece also has a narrowing “in width”. It turns out that you will have to hold the mod strictly with the button towards you, or with the button away from you, otherwise it will be uncomfortable to use a wide and narrow mouthpiece. In the first case, this will make you not very conveniently turn the brush towards you, in the second case, hold the mod with your fingertips, well, you just have to forget about the “fisted” grip. I won’t say that it’s completely inconvenient, but in the first place it’s annoying.

Dimensions	140 x 28 x 18.5 mm
Battery	Integrated
Battery capacity	1100 mAh
Output voltage	3.2 - 4.2V
Power output	1 - 40 Watt
Charging current	5 Volt / 1 Amp (Actually 0.7 Amp)
Support resistance	0.3 - 3 Ohm
Cartridge capacity	About 3.5 milliliters
Possible evaporators	S-1 (0.4 ohms, loose, 30-35 watts) S-2 (0. 6 ohms, medium draw, 18-25 watts) supplied with S-3 (1.2 ohms, tight puff, 7 - 12 watts) RBA
Shield	Color TFT, 0.96"
Features	Change interface colors, power curve setting
Material	Zinc Alloy, Plastic
Available colors	Gun metal, steel, black, iridescent
Official store price Smoant	$33.99 Base Kit $4.00 Empty Cartridge $6.00 Three S-1 Coils $6.00 Three S-2 Coils $6.00 - three S-3 coils $6.00 - RBA base

The cartridge is held (and pretty well, for this plus) in fashion through two pairs of magnets, it is covered from lateral displacements by protruding parts of the case, and electricity is transmitted to the evaporator through two pairs of spring-loaded contacts inside the case. As you can see in the photo, there is no noise sensor, and activation occurs exclusively with the Fire button, which adds viability in view of the absence of a possible microphone flooding with liquid, but may repel those who like to soar without pressing any buttons at all.

The bottom of the mod has nothing at all but a plastic insert with ventilation holes and a couple of badges (permission for sale in the countries of the European Union and a ban on disposal with household waste).

There is nothing special to say about the charging process, there is no expected 1 Ampere stated in the instructions, but even at real 0.7A charging will take no more than an hour and a half, which is generally normal. And the disappointment with the lack of “quick refueling” can be brightened up by the pleasant appearance of the red wire with white contacts, which you will not find anywhere else.

The operation of the hearth is quite simple, but with a couple of interesting features. The mod is turned on and off by pressing the Fire button five times. The rocker on the side changes the power supplied to the evaporator from 1 to 40 watts in 0.1 watt increments, and with a long press - in 1 watt increments, which is convenient. Simultaneous pressing of both side buttons blocks the possibility of accidental power changes. Pressing all three buttons immediately resets the puff counter. If you quickly press Fire three times, a small menu appears on the screen in which you can select one of two operating modes - VW (normal wattage) or DVW (manual setting of the power curve), as well as choose one of five interface colors. The only thing missing is the ability to turn off the screen altogether and at least slightly extend the life of the battery from a single charge.

There is another not very pleasant feature that can pretty much spoil your positive impressions, especially if you use an RBA base - every time you install a cartridge in the mod, the power you set is reset to the manufacturer's recommended for the current resistance (and most often it turns out to be too high), which by no means can be called a “great idea” and will definitely annoy those who like to play with magnets, periodically removing and inserting the cartridge into the mod.

SANTI Pod Mod. Cartridges

Cartridges are assembled from two large plastic parts - a completely black top (mouthpiece) and a translucent bottom (tank). The base is made with a cunning contour that repeats the protrusions on the battery pack and leaves the sides open, which is good, so you can more or less control the remaining liquid level inside without removing the container (remember about power loss when removing the cartridge). On its own website Smoant promises that the cartridges will definitely not leak, and this can be trusted: firstly, a double seal is clearly visible at the bottom, and secondly, the device passed a personally made full-scale leak test (fully charged, vaporized up to half, left for a day).

Airflow control! Yes, with an exclamation point. For this small lever on the side of the cartridge, or rather for the way it works, I am ready to forgive all those nit-picking and turn a blind eye to the shortcomings that were written about above. Remember, at the very beginning I wrote about the promises of manufacturers to make all the airflow options at once? So, this is that rare device where promises are actually fulfilled and work! Far left is loose, middle is just moderate, and far right is normal (tight) MTL. And it works. Everything.

Well, a few words about refilling: get ready to suffer a little, to fill the liquid you need to remove the cartridge (and then adjust the power again). The neck (hole) hides on its side and is closed with a rubber plug, the size of the hole is sufficient for confident refilling from any modern container and even through a glass pipette. The volume of the cartridge itself is not to say that it is very large (3.5 milliliters), but not flawed 2.0 from TPD either.

SANTI Pod Mod. Evaporators

Right at the start of sales of , Smoant presents three new (and seemingly incompatible with anything) maintenance-free evaporators on the grid (but gives only one in the kit).

• S-1 Loose and 0.4 Ohm (30-35 Watts)
• S-2 (complete) for medium puff and 0.6 ohm (18-25 watts)
• S-3 for tight draw and 1.2 ohm (7-12 watts)

The evaporator is installed in the complete adapter and only then in the cartridge. Naturally, we are not even talking about any replacement without draining the liquid.

I won’t dwell on each of the evaporators, they all give a normal taste transfer and work well in the power modes intended for them, I’d rather dwell on the fourth type of evaporators - serviced.

RBA for SANTI Pod Mod

RBA base is really the simplest here. It essentially consists of two parts - a base with racks and a dome of the evaporation chamber, and what you see on the right is an adapter for a 510 connector for burning your winding.

What frightens, and then causes certain difficulties, is its tiny size. Look at the photo above, the diameter of the mandrel for comparison is only 2 millimeters. The distance along the axes of the screws is 3 mm, the air duct is 2 * 2 mm. We immediately forget about trying to put something more complicated than a regular microcoil here, you simply cannot fix it under the caps of the microcoils.

The maximum that I was able to put in the racks is winding in five turns on a mandrel of 2 millimeters from 26Ga (0.45 mm) wire. After ten minutes of dancing with a tambourine and an almost lost screw from the rack (and there is no spare), the winding was installed and burned. Then it remains just to stretch the cotton and without touching anything else, carefully wind the dome of the evaporation chamber, while slightly adjusting the cotton tails so that they lie in the grooves of the base. Next, trimming the protruding parts and impregnation with liquid. As a result, it turned out 0.41 Ohm, for which mod SANTI offered to apply a power of 30 watts, and I limited myself to 15, further reducing them to 7 watts in general and setting the airflow to almost as tight as possible.

SANTI Pod Mod. Personal impressions

A very, very, very controversial device. Everything is fine with the appearance, but there are problems with ergonomics and grip comfort. A simple board and thoughtful controls, but the problem of power reset with each cartridge insertion. USB Type-C, but only 0.7 Amp of real current. Three types of different evaporators, but only one is included. There is an RBA base, but not the most convenient (albeit tasty), and even purchased separately. There is no automatic vaping function, but there is a power setting in 0.1 watt increments. Non-leaking cartridge, but a housing that collects dirt from almost all sides. But the unambiguous “Win” is the airflow adjustment, which allows you to really get from loose to MTL tight puffs. For myself (according to the results of five days of the test), I concluded that the device turned out to be still suitable, you can get used to the minuses and shortcomings, but the set of advantages and pluses clearly distinguish it from all competitors.

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