SMOK NFIX Mate Assessment – Stunning Efficiency From a Tiny Pod System

SMOK got here out available on the market in 2010 and have an in depth line of merchandise, if I listed all of the sequence this assessment could be over 10 pages lengthy. To call just a few of the standout sequence it will be the Nord 2, SMOK Vape Pen V2, Thallo S, Rigel Equipment and TFV strains of sub ohm tanks such because the TFV16.

When you take a look at SMOK’s web site, you possibly can clearly see they’ve a robust grasp of the vaping world and might cater for all of your vaping wants.

What Can We Anticipate From The SMOK Nfix-Mate Equipment

The Nfix Mate is a variable wattage pod system (1-25W), with an very simple but modern method to giving the consumer the power to alter the wattage and switch the mod off with a single button situated on the facet of the machine.

It options an enormous 1100mAh battery which is excellent since it’ll solely use a most of 25 watts.

It comes with two totally different pods, the primary being a o.8-ohm mesh MTL pod and the second being a 0.08-ohm twin coil MTL pod. SMOK even have a single coil 1-ohm MTL pod you should purchase individually.

What’s within the Field

• 1 x SMOK Nfix-Mate machine
• 1 x Nfix Meshed 0.8-ohm pod (3ml capability)
• 1 x Nfix DC 0.8-ohm pod (3ml capability)
• SMOK lanyard
• 2 x Silicon Mud Caps
• USB to Sort C charging cable
• Person Guide
• SMOK Guarantee Card

Specs & Options

• Measurement: 74mm/46.6mm/13.36mm
• Weight: 52g
• Battery Capability: 1100mAh
• Energy Vary: 1W-25W
• Charging Present: Max 0.69A
• Charging Port: Sort C
• Pod: 3ml Capability
• Model of Vape: Draw Activation

The SMOK Nfix-Mate Equipment is available in a wide range of totally different colors as proven under.

Construct & Design High quality of The SMOK Nfix-Mate Equipment

General Look and Really feel

Previous to receiving I wasn’t positive concerning the construct high quality of this product, as they are saying photos could be deceiving. The mod itself is great high quality and the end distinctive for such a small machine.

The mod has a metallic shell which has a matt end to it which supplies it a excessive finish really feel.

The SMOK Nfix Mate suits completely within the hand, although I’ve smaller than common sized arms it’s an ideal match. I didn’t discover the machine when carrying it inside any of my pockets, even the little pocket on my denims is an ideal match.

Mud Cap

The silicon mud caps which can be supplied, gave me a sense that SMOK have thought deeper into the cleanliness of the machine. You may chuck it in your rucksack or purse and received’t want to fret about any lint or small particles that possibly floating round attempting to get into the mouthpiece.

I’m endlessly wiping the within of my drip recommendations on my common gadgets earlier than utilizing them as they’re a magnet for something to get caught on.

I want extra firms would spend money on related equipment, particularly with gadgets getting sufficiently small to suit comfortably inside your pocket or bag.

Lanyard

SMOK have additionally included a lanyard with the equipment. I wore mine underneath a jumper on a time out. To my shock because the pod could be very skinny and the lanyard shouldn’t be a thick piece of fabric, nobody seen I had a vape underneath my jumper.

I really feel this can be a nice accent for those who are on the go and don’t need a beefy mod or pod filling up their pocket. You may simply disguise it in an workplace surroundings and never have to fret about any ugly bulges in your swimsuit jacket.

Battery (Mod)

What can I say, the interior battery of this machine is way greater than what I used to be anticipating for such a small compact pod system.

It has an excellent ‘clicky’ fireplace button which I like, I’ve hung out clicking it to examine the wear and tear and tear and it has held as much as my expectations exceptionally.

This one button system I really feel is a brilliant but easy design component, it has the same old 5 clicks to show it on and 5 clicks to show it off.

To alter the wattage of the machine it’s a easy three clicks, look ahead to the wattage to begin flashing after which it’s one click on to extend the wattage in 1 watt increments.

As soon as It hits 25 watts it spherical robins again to 1 watt. When you will have discovered your most popular wattage depart it and inside 3 seconds it’ll lock into your most popular energy.

• 5 Clicks Turns It On
• 5 Clicks Turns it Off
• 3 Clicks To Change Wattage
• 1 Click on Will increase Wattage By 1

This easy design is nice, no want to fret about temperature management, bypass mode or some other features you could find on almost all mods these days.

Airflow

The mod doesn’t have any airflow rings, nobs or holes which can be noticeable on the machine, this baffled me at first till I put my detective hat on and took a deep dive into the design of the mod.

When the pod is fitted into the mod, there’s a hole between the pod and the mod which is the airflow “hole”.

Here’s a fast rationalization of the way it works.

While you take a pull on the pod, the air is pulled by means of the hole across the pod, this travels down the facet of the pod to the underside the place the airflow gap on the pod is situated. This then will get pulled by means of your coil head (within the pod) after which into your mouth.

If I may give this a comparability throughout the cigarette world it’s extra like smoking on a pre-made cigarette than a roll your personal type of smoking.

OLED Display

The battery comes with an OLED display which is of an excellent measurement (20.2mm lengthy by 6.3mm excessive). Despite the fact that this does sound on the small facet it’s an ideal match for the machine.

The display is vibrant sufficient that even in direct daylight I had no points seeing my wattage or the battery share.

The Pods

The fill port is on the facet of the pod and it has a rubber gasket to fill. SMOK should have taken customers recommendation on board and have made their pods see by means of sufficient to allow customers to see their liquid stage.

This can be a large bonus as most pod techniques make it almost inconceivable to see your liquid stage the place you run the chance of dry burning your coils. They’re additionally clearly marked with the coil kind so you understand what every pod is.

These pods are magnetic and have underneath coil airflow which give the pod a extra restricted airflow however not so restricted that it’s uncomfortable.

The magnets which maintain the pod in place are greater than satisfactory for this technique, I’ve put this poor machine by means of its paces with pulling it out of my pocket by the pod and it has not come aside within the course of.

I’ve spent many hours while watching movies, pulling the pod out constantly to see if the magnets turn into free and to see if any points come up.

I need to say the magnets are good and I’ve discovered no points in any respect with the construct or design of the magnetic system for this pod.

Fill the SMOK NFIX Mate Pods

The pod filling system is very simple and simple to make use of:

• Take your pod out of your battery
• Flip pod so the rubber gasket on the facet is going through straight up
• Use your nail to tug the facet closest to the mouthpiece finish to show the fill gap.
• Fill the pod utilizing your e-liquid bottle while tipping the mouthpiece in the direction of the ground.
• It will guarantee your pod is totally full.
• Re-attach the rubber gasket, ensuring the rubber is flush with the pod.
• Place the pod again onto the battery and wait 5 minutes for the e-liquid to saturate the cotton.

How Does the SMOK Nfix Mate Carry out?

SMOK NFIX Mate pods are absolutely replaceable, the one distinction from different pod techniques is that you’ll have to substitute the entire pod not simply the coil head which is inside.

If you’re new to vaping and this might be your first machine this can be a nice plus for you.

There isn’t a must fiddle when attempting to suit coil heads. Fortunately with the SMOK Nfix Mate you solely have to recollect if you need the Meshed or the DC pod, it’s because most firm launch an enormous quantity of various pods for one machine.

Pod Efficiency

Firstly, I’m simply going to stipulate the varieties of e-liquid that I take advantage of to check the efficiency of those coils. I solely use e-liquids that I’ve been vaping on for a few years so I’ve a wonderful working data of the notes I ought to be getting out of the e-liquid.

I used Limey Slush by Joe’s Juice which is a 70VG/30PG at 1.5mg Nicotine for each pods, this offers me an amazing base to work out the flavour variations.

As I don’t use pod techniques usually, I additionally bought Fuji Tropix Nic Salt by Doozy Vape Co at 10mg of Nicotine. I take advantage of the freebase model of the Fuji Tropix, so I do know the profile and might evaluate precisely when utilizing Nic Salts.

DC 0.8ohm Pod Flavour & Cloud Manufacturing

I had no points with this pod, plug and play all day.

Flavour was on level as to be anticipated from a twin coil pod, Cloud manufacturing was good contemplating it’s such a small pod system.

When enjoying round with the wattage for this coil, the pod states 15 – 25watts, 15 watts didn’t deliver out a lot flavour from the e-liquid. It’s very very similar to once you put manner an excessive amount of water in orange squash the place it produces a really watered-down flavour.

Anyplace between 19 to 24 watts is the place the pod comes into its personal, flavour simply will get extra intense.

The rise of as little as 4 watts is excellent how the pod involves life. I spent the entire time simply floating between the 21 – 24 watts solely as a result of I needed to see how lengthy the pod would final on the prime finish of the advisable wattage.

I’m properly into week two on this coil after constant use (between 50 to 150 puffs per day) and it’s slowly beginning to lose flavour. That is unimaginable, after I began my journey vaping coil heads I used to be altering them between 3 to five days. Some individuals change on a weekly foundation, however I hated when the flavour would diminish.

On day 6 I made a decision to place the pod by means of its paces by altering the liquid which usually ruins the coil head. I modified from the 70/30 lime slush to the nic salt.

I used to be very sceptical that it will simply spoil the flavour and never carry out in addition to earlier than, to my shock the coil took it like a champ. As soon as the unique e-liquid made its manner by means of the cotton you may style the nic salt completely. There was no lingering notes of the earlier e-liquid which I used to be anticipating.

This pod is a dependable little fella with no points to report, by no means obtained a dry hit. Generally I let the liquid stage drop under the minimal line which is etched onto the facet of the pod itself, it didn’t immediately dry fireplace and burn the cotton.

The pod is depraved in such a manner that you could style the cotton drying out. I’ve solely ever discovered this to occur when utilizing an RDA, which brings me to say how properly SMOK have accomplished on producing a better construct high quality to their coil heads.

I ran a take a look at and left the pod the other way up for a complete night time to see if there was any leakage, within the morning I couldn’t even discover a single drop of e-liquid. I examined the pod to see if the coil obtained oversaturated as a result of place of the pod.

No points in any respect it vaped like a champ.

I’m an actual stickler for good airflow, I assumed this pod would make the airflow too restricted and provides It a turbulent impact when drawing on the pod.

I used to be extremely stunned that the airflow was pleasantly easy, with extra of a restricted mouth to lung than a mouth to lung type of vaping. This goes for each pods that the place supplied within the equipment.

Meshed 0.8ohm Pod

Sadly, I’ve had main points with this pod, each time I inserted the pod it will not learn the ohms so in flip wouldn’t fireplace the machine.

I attempted cleansing out the contacts throughout the pod housing of the mod in addition to the contact of the pod with a microfibre material. There aren’t any screws on the pod so I couldn’t see if any screws the place free. This didn’t change the result because it nonetheless wouldn’t fireplace

Nevertheless, after fiddling round with the pod by taking it out and placing it again in additional occasions than I stored rely of, I obtained a connection and would learn the ohms appropriately to permit it to fireplace.

The 5 occasions it fired, the flavour from the coil is excellent. This coil took me to flavour city and I discovered that it introduced out the notes in my liquid that I couldn’t style on different pod techniques used beforehand.

I couldn’t take a look at out the opposite e-liquid as a result of it will not enable me to vape sufficient to deliver the liquid stage down within the pod so as to add the Nic Salt.

I’ve left the pod sitting upright on my desk for a minimum of every week and I’ve to say it has leaked e-liquid just about half the pod onto my desk. I took the chance to wash off the e-liquid and the pod and stuffed it with the Nic Salt, considering possibly I may get it to fireplace.

To my frustration it nonetheless wouldn’t fireplace.

The pod gave out an excellent quantity of vapour, way more than I anticipated. The vapour was extraordinarily flavourful and dense. You may all the time depend on mesh coils to offer a dense and extra flavourful vape in my view with regards to premade coils.

As these coils are mass produced, I should have acquired a dodgy pod, this doesn’t in any manner imply that every one the meshed pods are going to be like this. This can be a disgrace as a result of I’d have used the pod till it died on me after which gone and purchased a case extra.

Battery

The battery I really feel is a serious promoting level for this product, as said above I obtained 3 days use out of the battery earlier than needing to recharge.

I do know that most individuals which can be changing to vaping hate the thought of getting to cost the machine each couple of hours.

Having the TYPE C charging port, the battery is absolutely charged in a a lot faster time.

It took 83 minutes to full cost from 8% which I assumed was extraordinarily fast. The display reveals you the way lengthy it’ll take to cost, it provides you that piece of thoughts realizing you will have a full battery.

While you plug the machine in it’ll come up on the display the estimated time to totally charged, I discovered this a genuinely good added function.

The one draw back to the battery mod is that there is no such thing as a warning that there’s low battery, you could be puffing away then it’ll simply cease firing. I initially thought I used to be having an issue with the pod however on the display, it says “Too Low To Fire” until you look you wouldn’t know.

A small LED mild would have been nice as a warning or flashing display when battery is getting low.

Professional’s

• Small and compact
• Smooth and trendy
• Distinctive battery capability
• Mud cap is a superb accent
• Nice flavour from each pods
• Translucent pod to keep watch over liquid ranges
• Will be vaped while it’s charging over 20%

Con’s

• Charging port on the underside, would have most popular it on the facet (private choice)
• Had points with the Meshed pod, I’d have been actually upset if I purchased this and had this subject.
• The mouthpiece is a little bit of a lip crud magnet

Last Verdict

What can I say concerning the SMOK Nfix Mate. As vape starter kits go this can be a nice product that will help you give up flamable cigarettes.

The flavour and efficiency of this product exceeded my expectations. If I had this as my first machine when quitting I’d have discovered it loads simpler.

The easy and simple technique to go from opening the field to vaping it’s underneath 6 minutes and that features letting the cotton within the coil/pod saturate. This can be a main plus for me with no fiddling required.

The pricing of the pods I really feel is cheap as they’re cheap and would imply extra individuals are inclined to “give vaping a go” realizing that it isn’t breaking the financial institution

I’ve learnt that lots of people are delay changing to vaping as a result of all they see is large twin 18650 vape mods and huge sub ohm tanks that really feel like you’re carrying a brick.

This could be an amazing current for a beloved one who needs to give up smoking and desires a easy, modern, and compact type machine.

I’d advocate this machine as an amazing little again up vape, mine is at present within the centre console of my automobile. You may absolutely cost it and depart in your automobile in case your common machine runs out of battery and can’t change them up.

It’s good if you need a transportable little machine that may produce nice flavour in addition to a satisfying quantity of vape clouds.

It additionally is a superb starter vape for somebody who needs to surrender these smelly cigarettes with an amazing easy but efficient machine.

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