Ultroner Alieno Lite Mod Evaluate – A Good Performer?

Contained in the Field

• Ultroner Alieno Lite mod
• Instruction guide

Yup, it’s a fairly minimal choice. However actually you don’t want different “stuff” whenever you’re shopping for a mod.

Specs

• Dimensions – 30 x 39 x 88mm
• Weight – 85g
• Energy Output – 1-70W
• Battery – Single 18650
• Chipset – Sevo 70
• Modes – Wattage, Bypass, TC (SS, Ni, Ti)
• Materials – SS & ABS

Design and Construct High quality

The Ultroner Alieno Lite model is available in a spread of doable colourss.

Though Ultroner’s personal web site solely exhibits the Translucent Yellow, and Translucent Clear. I’ve additionally seen it on the market in White, Black, Translucent Smoke and even a Translucent Blue.

I’ve the Clear Translucent in for evaluation.

Ultroner Alieno Lite Physique

Lets get the elephant out of the room first!

There are two hearth buttons!

Not one thing I’ve seen earlier than, and it sort of is sensible. As regardless of the way you maintain it, you need to all the time have the ability to attain certainly one of them simply.

Having mentioned that, I did discover that that is arrange greatest for somebody that likes to thumb hearth. Undecided why, however I couldn’t discover any significantly snug approach to finger hearth this.

In all honesty, I believe that is extra a design characteristic for it’s personal sake, than truly bringing something helpful to the desk.

I examined out holding it as if it had a single hearth button positioned on the straight edge between the 2 hearth buttons, and it will have labored completely effectively like that.

Additionally when you have a look at it from the entrance, the hearth buttons kinda appear to be the eyes of an Alien, therefore the title!

Ultroner Alieno Lite Battery Tube

The battery tube is product of chrome steel, and there’s a reduce out within the ABS with the intention to see it.

One factor I didn’t discover to start with is that the battery tube is threaded on each the underside and the highest. This implies that you may unscrew the battery tube, and substitute it with one other.

In truth it seems as if Ultroner are already making some completely different battery tubes to alter up the look of your machine.

Ultroner Alieno Lite 510 Connector

The highest of your mod has your 510 connector (as you’ll anticipate!) and it has a raised lip of ABS across the facet that has the display on it.

Clearly it will limit the dimensions of the tank you’ll be able to placed on it, Ultroner state that it’s 24mm.

It’s a self adjusting connection, nevertheless it doesn’t really feel like it’s sprung. It’s both a really stiff spring or a a rubber washer that’s giving it some give.

Ultroner Alieno Lite Base

On the underside of the mod is your battery cap, that has your normal regulatory marks on it.

Extra on that in a second.

The bottom can also be the place you discover your adjustment buttons, that are two small ball bearing kind buttons.

Ultroner Alieno Lite Battery Cap

Yeah, it’s a screw down battery cap once more!

As I’m normally fairly a fan of those, and this one has some good factors, in addition to not so good.

Firstly it has a bit of deal with that you simply carry as much as assist make it simpler to unscrew, one factor I hadn’t seen earlier than is it truly has a tiny magnet in-built to it.

This implies whenever you’re completed unscrewing, it snaps again into place and received’t find yourself dangling beneath you mod.

Good…

You’ll additionally discover there’s a gold screw within the center. That is vital as a result of there isn’t a give on the high of the battery tube in any respect.

18650’s ought to all be the identical measurement, 18mm in diameter and 65mm lengthy. Nonetheless you can see that particularly in size, they’ll differ barely.

As a result of there isn’t a spring loading or motion within the high of the battery tube, this implies you must take up any slack by screwing down the tiny screw on the battery door.

Watch out to not screw this down an excessive amount of, as you don’t wish to danger damaging your battery.

As long as you stick to at least one kind of 18650 this shouldn’t annoy you a lot, set it and neglect it.

However when you usually change round your single batteries, you would possibly end up having to screw in or out this adjustment screw to take account of various lengths of battery.

Ultroner Alieno Lite Chipset – Sevo 70

The Sevo 70 chipset is a designed to be principally a drop in substitute for Evolv’s DNA 60 board, having very comparable dimensions.

I’m unsure who’s finally answerable for this chip, however SXK usually use it, well-known for producing merchandise which are “styled” to appear to be these from different producers.

For that motive a wide range of producers make two variations of a mod, the costlier one having a DNA 60, and the cheaper utilizing the Sevo 70.

Even famous e-pipe maker Créavap has gone down this route!

Ultroner Alieno Lite Display screen

The display on the mod is lengthy and skinny, with the textual content operating from the highest to the underside (with out inverting it).

It’s an amazingly sharp and clear display, very brilliant and really simple to learn.

It has your resistance within the high proper, with the volts being draw whereas firing and your battery standing beneath.

There’s a pleasant huge wattage indicator on the correct facet of the display, along with your mode indicated beneath this and a puff counter.

No extraneous info or particulars and it’s very simple to learn.

Ultroner Alieno Lite Controls

As talked about you could have 2 hearth buttons on this mod, certainly one of both facet.

And no, you don’t get double the vapour when you press each of them! (I did test!)

On the bottom of the mod you could have 2 ball bearing kind buttons to your + and –

• 5x Hearth – Flip On/Off
• 3x Hearth – Change Mode: Wattage, Mech (Bypass), Ti, Ni, SS
• “+” and “-” – Energy Lock
• Hearth and “-” – Menu

Not a lot to say about all of those besides Energy Lock. After I noticed this I believed it was simply going to lock the adjustment buttons. Make sense proper?

No. What it truly does is lock the entire mod, so you’ll be able to’t hearth it till you press the 2 adjustment buttons to unlock it.

Genuinely unsure why you’ll wish to do that, when clicking the hearth button 5 instances to change is on/off is simply as simple, if not simpler! So not a really helpful operate.

Going into the menu you’ve acquired a couple of choices

• Variety of Puffs
• Style Adjustment
• Display screen Off
• Display screen Rotation

There’s no apparent approach to exit the menu, however I discovered that urgent the hearth button rapidly twice, will get you out.

Choosing variety of puffs means that you can reset your puff counter. Additionally it means that you can set a most variety of puffs, and whenever you attain that it received’t hearth anymore till you go into the menu and reset it.

Not actually certain why you’ll need this? But when anybody has any concepts let me know within the feedback!

Style Adjustment is a fundamental curves kind adjustment to regulate the ability vs time.

Display screen off, does what you’ll anticipate! Principally it’s a stealth mode, the place the display received’t mild up whenever you’re firing.

Curiously it doesn’t reset whenever you energy on/off the mod, so you have to open the menu once more to change it again on.

Lastly my largest bugbear is with Display screen Rotation.

Because the display is a sideways show on the mod, you’ll anticipate that the the adjustment button on the “top” of the display show could be your Plus adjustment. So the one on the backside is your Minus adjustment.

Nonetheless flipping the display doesn’t change the buttons over. So when you rotate your display from the default. It’s essential do not forget that the Backside button (as you have a look at your display) is Plus, and the highest button is now Minus.

It’s a bizarre quirk of this chip, and so I by no means bothered rotating the display because it simply feels odd.

Ultroner Alieno Lite – Wattage

Talking of bizarre quirks. One other factor to concentrate on is that the urgent you “+” or “-” button adjusts in 0.1W increments… all the best way to 80W!

It does spherical robin whenever you get to 1W or 80W, however I actually can’t see any motive why somebody utilizing this at something greater than 30W would wish to modify in 0.1W increments.

It additionally make scrolling by the entire vary very sluggish!

Ultroner Alieno Lite Temp Management

I didn’t spend an awfully very long time testing out temp management. It appears to work OK, with a few issues to concentrate on.

There’s no full TCR operate. So you might be on the mercy of what Ultroner has set because the TCR for the assorted completely different supplies. You’ll be able to nonetheless go in modify this.

Whenever you’re in a temp management mode urgent Hearth and “+” does assist you to “adjust” the worth on a 1 to 100 scale… however I’m actually unsure how this corresponds to an precise TCR worth.

Stainless Metal 316 has a TCR worth of 0.000915, which I suppose corresponds to 9 on the Alieno’s scale, which is the place it was set by default.

Titanium in the meantime has a TCR of 0.00350, whereas the Alieno had it set to 55.

You may also set the utmost wattage that shall be equipped when vaping in Temp Management mode by urgent the hearth button twice.

To regulate your temperature you employ the + and – buttons as you’ll anticipate, however there’s some weirdness even right here!

It adjusts in 10° increments for Fahrenheit (5° for Celsius), and when you use the minus button to go all the best way to the underside (200°F) it would change to Celsius.

Nonetheless when you scroll all the best way to the utmost in Fahrenheit, it would spherical robin from 600°F again to 200°F.

So it would solely change from Fahrenheit to Celsius (or vice versa) whenever you modify down. In any other case, when you modify up, it would spherical robin and hold the unit kind the identical.

Very bizarre!

I’m unsure why so many mod producers really feel a necessity to incorporate Temp Management capabilities nonetheless.

In my expertise there’s a small, however devoted following of folks that love Temp Management, and they’ll usually go for a tool that’s identified for high notch temp management functionally.

How Does the Ultroner Alieno Lite Carry out?

So I’ve been testing out the Alieno for a few weeks now.

I’ve used each mouth to lung, and direct lung tanks on it, principally rebuildables, together with a dripper to check out it’s temp management.

Ultroner Alieno Lite – Greatest Tank Measurement?

With a raised lip round one fringe of the mod, you’re restricted in measurement to 24mm tanks. Nonetheless relying on the tank, you should still run into some issues.

If the airflow ring is correct on the backside of your tank, it may be a ache to try to flip it.

Additionally I’ve discovered that at the very least one tank that purports to be 24mm doesn’t truly match.

This can be on account of detailing on the bottom of the tank making it barely bigger. However it’s one thing to concentrate on.

Ultroner Alieno Lite – Wattage

Except for the irritation of adjusting in 0.1W increments, I didn’t have any issues with vaping this in wattage mode.

It’s fast to reply, and there’s no noticeable delay between urgent the hearth button and vapour manufacturing.

Urgent the hearth button is value noting although. It could simply be my unit, however the two buttons don’t really feel the identical.

For me the one on the left is noticeably “mushier” than the one on the correct, which is admittedly clicky by comparability.

Doesn’t actually have an effect on something, however I can’t imagine it’s deliberate, and so my opinion of the construct high quality drops a bit of.

Ultroner Alieno Lite – Temp Management

Temp management appears to be comparatively correct, switching over to a dripper with a stainless-steel coil, it undoubtedly stopped firing because the cotton acquired dry.

Nonetheless somewhat than the conventional ramp down of energy that I’m used to with temp management, it will have a tendency to simply cease immediately when it determined it was getting too scorching.

Undecided fairly what’s going on with the chip, nevertheless it felt a bit of sudden!

The opposite factor I observed with it, is that particularly when it was firing at increased wattage, I used to be conscious of a “flutter” on the output. I can solely assume that is some pulse width modulation occurring.

However the truth I may really feel this occurring, simply reinforces my view that when you’re getting this for temp management vaping, there are higher mods on the market.

Ultroner Alieno Lite – Battery Life

Battery life appeared to be a bit of on the quick facet of a single 18650. Clearly it’s extremely arduous to provide you arduous and quick numbers on these items.

However whereas I can normally eek out a full day from most of my single 18650’s after I’m vaping MTL at round 25W, I used to be usually discovering myself operating out a bit earlier than the tip of the day on the Ultroner Alieno Lite.

So certainly not an actual science, however I really feel prefer it’s rather less environment friendly than a DNA 60 for instance.

Professionals

• Good Compact Design
• Tremendous sharp display
• Interchangeable Battery Tubes

Cons

• Chipset is a bit temperamental in Temp Management
• Adjusts in 0.1W increments between 1 and 80W
• Inverting display doesn’t change buttons over

Closing Evaluate Verdict

In order that was the Ultroner Alieno Lite!

I’ve to say that I actually love the look of this factor, particularly within the clear frosted I believe it pairs up superbly with a number of my 24mm mouth to lung tanks.

I’m much less impressed with the chip in it, as there are fairly a couple of oddities like the truth that locking it locks all of the buttons, or that when you flip the display the adjustment buttons turn into the unsuitable manner spherical.

It’s additionally not one thing I’d personally wish to use for any temp management vaping, however to be sincere I really feel like that’s not what that is arrange for.

It’s additionally value noting that as there isn’t a USB, even when Ultroner did resolve to replace the firmware on later variations, there’s no approach to replace it on machine.

As a single 18650 wattage mod, it does the job, and it seems good doing it.

Although it undoubtedly has a couple of odd quirks!