I received my new Yeti from Jay at www.electronicstix.com on Saturday. My shorthand review: Best. E-cig. Ever.
My thoughts after three days:
- Of course, the vapor. It's immense. Would never have expected so much from such a small e-cig. Blows my penstyle out of the water.
- The batteries: Yes, they only last a couple hours, but like Chris & Sean said in their review, they recharge in an hour and you can believe the light on the charger! When it's green, it's charged. Super! No more guessing! I really don't mind the short battery life, and here's why: With my other e-cigs, the battery is strong at the beginning, then slowly loses power. Toward the end of the charge, you're sucking on the thing, popping a vein, and wondering why you're not getting enough vapor. Does it need more juice, or is the battery dying? With the Yeti, there's no fade; when the battery runs out of power, it blinks when you hit the button. You're still getting good vapor up to that point, but after it blinks, the next time you push the button, you get nothing, no vapor, no light, no more guessing.
- This is a trifling thing, but this is my first e-cig with the flat ended mouthpiece, and it reminds me much more of an analog (in a good way) than the tapered tip. The tapered mouthpiece makes me feel like I'm using a cigarette holder.
- The manual battery rules in that there's no more atomizer leakage into the battery. I seem to always be overfilling my penstyle (usually because the battery is dying and I think I'm out of juice, see above, so I keep dripping) and getting e-liquid all over the damn place, having to run to the faucet because I use the 36 mg "throat blaster" juice and it's all over my hand. With the Yeti, no problem, except . . .
- The one downside: When I set the unit down, the liquid will leak out of the join between the mouthpiece and the atomizer. I've made a couple of e-liquid stains on the furniture from setting it down, not to mention occasionally getting it on my fingers. Now I keep a napkin handy to set it on. It's a little annoying, probably caused by my overfilling, but still annoying. Hardly a deal-breaker though. Anyone else noticed this with their Yeti?
Anyway, that's my two cent review. I want to give a shout out for Jay at Electronicstix.com. He's great, ships fast, and my batteries arrived fully charged. I will definitely be buying from him again. And big thanks to Sean & Chris; it was their review and their comments here that convinced me to get this bad boy. You guys rock.