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Satyricon
Niin kyllä tää laittaa miettimään, että miksi maksaa ~150€ atosta... Tilasin kloonin ja aikomus oli tilata aito samalla, mutta päädyin siihen, että katon ensin kloonin ja mietin sitten sitä aitoa. Jos vertaa noita Lite+ aitoa ja kloonia, niin ero ei kokonaisuutta ajatellen iso ole, hintaero kuitenkin on huomattava niissäkin. Klooni makso n.$15 ja aito n.€75 ja loppupeleistä en usko kenenkään pystyvän sokkotestissä niitä erottamaan toisistaan... Ja täsä yhden FTn kloonin ostajan arvio aparaatista:
Whilst a Taifun devotee, I do have an on/off love affair with Kayfuns, and bought this more out of curiosity than need - I already own about a dozen Kayfuns of various incarnations, in fact there was yet another KFL in the package with the V4. First impressions caused a hearty snork up my sleeve at how well China had replicated the packaging down to the silver authenticity sticker, which now adorns my tool box ironically. The atty itself is reassuringly hefty and nicely machined, and as soon as the glass tank was fitted instead of the hideous SS tank, it's far more elegant than pictures suggest; the paunchy belly is more curvaceous and sexy than I expected. The problems begin as soon as you take it to pieces, and discover that you have a total of 41 components. No, that's not a typo - the V4 is an exercise in showoff engineering. Like a band's awkward second album, the V4 is the victim of a need to lavishly innovate, when their first outing was really the magnum opus.
I've never needed instructions with an atty, nor have I ever accidentally bolted the wrong bit to another part, but this device is like doing a full tear down on an AR15. What's more, this clone is the oiliest atty I've ever used, and after half an hour in an industrial ultrasonic with a heat bath, it still tastes mildly greasy and metallic. The deck is essentially the usual KF fair, just with two pairs of screws for dual coils, which would be a challenge given the tiny inner chimney beneath that admittedly very sexy bell shaped 'evaporation chamber'. The juice channels actually come through the deck rather than under the chimney, and tend to cause it to over wick; my first build had to be padded out with extra cotton to stop it flooding and gurgling.
Sadly, despite the vast amount of complex engineering involved and the tiny chamber, the flavour is decidedly 'meh'; a regular KFL is a whole lot better, and a Squape or Taifun squarely kicks its ass - I'd say it's on par with an Orchid or Fogger. The airflow offers a good range, but adjusting it requires significant disassembly, and invariably involves the loss of the spring or retaining collar for the 510.
In conclusion, it's a sexy looking device, but about as user friendly as a teenaged valley girl, a 1980s Ferrari, or a bag of angry cats. I'll stick to my Taifuns.
Miten on aidon laita, päteekö nämä siihen...?