Vaporesso Polar Kit With Casscade Baby SE




A.     First impression for physical appearance :

a)       The Polar 220W vape mod comes in a white cardboard box with a large picture of the device on the front, and a list of package contents, some technical specifications as well as company information, on the back. Inside the box, we have the Vaporesso Polar and the included micro-USB fast charging cable sitting in a plastic holder, and underneath that we have a thick and very nice-looking user manual, with hard covers and color pictures, as well as a small envelope containing a warning card an a warranty card.You can also find the Vaporesso Polar as a kit, bundled with the company’s Cascade Baby SE tank on Retail.
a)       Design and Build Quality: If you’ve ever owned a Vaporesso Revennger you will probably find the look of the new Polar 220W mod very familiar. The two devices share the same general design, as well as the same style of elongated fire button and even the same adjustment and selection buttons. They’re not identical, but it’s pretty obvious that Vaporesso went for the same design line. It looks like the follows:
                                                                                
The Polar 220W measures 90mm x 45mm x 28mm, which puts it in the compact dual-battery category of vape mods. I can actually wrap my hand around this device completely, which cannot be said about the GeekVape Nova or the VooPoo Drag box mods. It’s also very comfortable in the hand, thanks to the rounded edges and corners, so if ergonomics are an important criteria when selecting your next mod, the Polar is right up there with the best on the market.Like most other vape mods these days, the Vaporesso Polar is made primarily of zinc alloy and comes in a variety of colors. For this review, I received the metallic grey one, which is probably the least exciting of all variants, but works great if you’re trying to keep a low profile. The main frame of the mod features a matte black finish, while the front and back panels are glossy, which makes them prone to fingerprint stains.At the top of the Vaporeso Polar, we have a centered 510 connection with a spring-loaded, gold-plated pin. It doesn’t come with a protective plate and it’s raised from the mod ever so slightly, so you are likely to scratch the paint around the connection if you screw on your atomizer too tightly.

, both the top and the base of the mod are considerably narrower, so any atomizer over 25mm in diameter will have a bit of overhang. We’ve seen this same situation on the Vaporesso Revenger, and while it’s not a deal-breaker, it would be nice to use this device with larger tanks without overhang.
The fire button is located on one of the narrow sides of the mod. The button is shaped like a large, vertical rectangle and features a nice texture, but only the upper half of it is actually pressable. I’ve tried pressing the lower half as hard as I could, but I couldn’t get it to fire. That’s not necessarily a con, but more of an observation, as once you get used to it, the button is easy to find and press both with the thumb and with the index finger.
On the front, the Vaporesso Polar has a bright, gorgeous 2-inch color display, the ‘+’ and ‘-‘ buttons, as well as a selection button right between them. Underneath those buttons is the micro-USB port  for on-board charging and firmware upgrades. On the back, we have a magnetic battery door with geometric pattern and the ‘Vaporesso’ logo in the middle.
The battery door has a very discrete notch in one of the lower corners, and you’ll have to put your fingernail in there and pull to remove the door. It is held in place by three pairs of magnets, two smaller ones near the top, and a large one at the bottom. The battery compartment is nice and clean, features spring-loaded contacts at the top, as well as clear polarity indicators. Even though it’s magnetic, the battery door is very sturdy, doesn’t rattle at all, and has minimal wobbling in the hand. At the base, we have some battery venting slots, just in case something goes wrong and the battery has to vent. 
Menu System and Navigation : I have to admit that the first time I went into the menu of the Vaporesso Polar 220W i felt a bit intimidated. There’s a lot going on on screen and there are so many features, some of which I had never seen before. For the first time in a long time, I actually checked the user manual to see what some of these settings did. So if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed, I feel you. To turn the Vaporesso Polar vape mod on/off, you have to press the fire button five times in rapid succession. To access the menu, there are a couple of things you can do: you can either keep the selection button – the one between the ‘+’ and ‘-‘ buttons – pressed for one second, or just press it three times rapidly. I don’t know why there are two ways to access the menu, but there are. The first icon in the menu is ‘Home’ which will take you out of it, then we have VW-H, VW-N and VH-S, all of which stand for ‘variable wattage’ with the last letter representing a different preheat: ‘High’, ‘Normal’ and ‘Soft’. So instead of having a submenu where you can choose the preheat, the Vaporesso Polar presents you with all the options on the main menu screen.
Moving on, we have CCW, which is a custom curve mode for wattage, where you can adjust the power output for five seconds, in 0.5-second increments. Just adjust the power with the ‘-‘ and ‘+’ buttons, and press the fire button to move to the next 5-second increment. When you’re done, just press the selection button two times. Interestingly, you can access this particular feature directly from the home screen by pressing the ‘-‘ and ‘+’ buttons at the same time. Next we have one of those modes I hand’t seen before, SP. That stands for Super Player, and is supposed to allow you to fire down to a resistance of 0.03Ω, which is a bit too low for my taste, and, depending on kind of 18650 batteries you are using, potentially dangerous. So it’s safe to say I will not be using the Polar in SP mode.
The next icon is VV, which stands for variable voltage and allows you to use the mod in voltage mode. Then there is CCV, a custom curves mode for variable voltage, which works just as CCW. Then we have SS, NI and TI, which represent temperature control modes for all three supported materials (stainless steel, nickel and titanium). Each of these icons will take you to a submenu, where you can set the TCR for your material, adjust the power output, create your own custom temperature curve – by adjusting the temperature in degrees, instead of the power – and lock the resistance of your coil.
Then we have two memory modes that you can customize, a Bypass mode, which should essentially fire the available power of the batteries, but apparently only outputs 4V, regardless of how much power is left in the batteries. That’s not really how bypass mode works generally, but I guess Vaporesso decided to try something new?
Finally, we have a settings menu, where you can set the time and date, adjust the screen brightness, reset the puff counter, change the main color of the display with one of 5 available ones, select how long the stand-by screen should stay on before the mod goes to sleep, check the software and hardware versions of your device, and revert back to factory settings.
There are a couple of features that I omitted, because I wanted to present them in greater detail. The first is ‘Smart Mode’, which essentially allows the mod to set the power output based on the resistance of the atomizer. This is great for beginners who don’t really know what they should set power at – even though they really should – but if you’re not happy with the selection, you can still tweak it manually with the ‘-‘ and ‘+’ buttons.
The second feature is ‘Auto Mode’, which, as far as I understood, should automatically apply a boost in power, based on your resistance and set power, so you don’t have to manually select from the available pre-heat settings. I don’t really see the point of something like this, so I haven’t used it.
As you can see, there is a lot going on the menu of the Vaporesso Polar, but, once you figure out what all the icons symbolize, it doesn’t feel so overwhelming anymore.



Battery Life and Performance :There’s no point in going over battery life on a mod like this, as there are countless factors that can affect your experience, from battery capacity to set power output. What I can tell you is that the Vaporesso Polar features fast charging technology and can charge the batteries at a rate of 2.5A, which is pretty insane. You also have vape while charging, so you can use the device while the batteries are charging. Another cool feature of the Polar 220W mod is that when charging the batteries, it actually displays both the battery life of each battery in percentages, as well as the time left before they are full. It’s pretty neat! Now, in terms of performance, there are some things I love about the Vaporesso Polar, and some that I’m frustrated about. All in all, I’ve had a positive experience with it, but there are a few things that could be improved.
They did this every time I pushed the fire button once the Polar had went into sleep mode. After this happened a few times, I started getting a burned taste from the RTA and that let me know that something was wrong. I didn’t have the tools to check the power output of the mod but I knew it wasn’t the 48W I had it set at.

After doing some checking online, I found out that the board inside the Polar actually fires at close to its maximum wattage for a few moments when coming out of sleep mode, to heat up the coils rapidly. That’s great with low resistance coils that can take that sort of power (around 200W), but it will eventually burn your wick and simply obliterate, higher resistance MTL type setups. I’ve noticed that it only does this in VW-H, VW-N modes, so I’ve been using it in VW-S (soft preheat) even though the power ramp up is a bit slow.
Otherwise, I’ve had no issues with the Polar, no misfires or weird errors, none of that, but I wish it didn’t give me more power than I need unless I specifically set it to do that.


Pros: (as many as you can provide)
1. compact
2.Good Design
3.Ergonomic
4. Fast firing
5. Many many features
6. Strong Magnet Battery Cabinet Lock

Cons: (as many as you can provide)
1. Narrow Base
2. Extreme Power Ramp - up
3. Very Small Nail space to open up battery cabinet
4. too shiny so there are a lot of finger smudges
5. Better user manual

Other suggestion/What  would make it better.. The Rate is a little heavy for the indian market. Coils can be a tad cheaper I mean 1000 INR for 3 coils GT coils for baby se is a little heavy.



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