Wotofo Manik Mini Review by Marcus

Firstly, I would like to thank Sue from Healthcabin for providing me with the opportunity to review this item. Secondly, for my obligatory disclaimer… As I’ve just mentioned the hardware was supplied to me free of charge for review purposes. I have no affiliation to Healthcabin or Wotofo. I do not receive payment for my reviews and what follows are my own opinions based on my own experience. Let’s get started the Wotofo Manik Mini Review below.

I know a lot of you eagle eyed apes out there will have seen that I only received the kit Thursday last week, but I knew it was coming some time back, so I jumped in and done my ground work before hand, so when it did arrive, I could spend my time putting it through its paces and edit where needed. I can assure you that since I got this in my grubby little mitt, it’s been well used and abused.

Introduction to the Wotofo Manik Mini

The Manik Mini is a compact Pod System aimed towards the new vaper or maybe the established vaper looking for a discrete alternative whilst out and about (007 style).

Lots of manufacturers seem to be following suit in the Pod market with the detachable Pods being held to the Mod via magnets and this is no different, with this one the Pod has a built in coil, once exhausted you replace the whole pod and throw the old one away. The WEEE Symbol on the Pod (picture of a bin crossed out) suggests that as an electrical/electronic item, it should not be disposed of in your wheelie bin and should be recycled in the appropriate manner, but we all know where the majority of them will end up really.

MOD

The specs are impressive for such a tiny device, 1000mAh battery for a variable wattage unit up to a maximum of 30 Watts, each charge provided me with a days worth of vaping and only took an hour or so the charge. Not something to be sniffed at.

Specifications

• Dimensions – 92mm (H) x 28mm (W) x 16mm (D) – with Pod fitted
• Weight – 64g
• Display – 0.69” OLED Black & White Screen
• Battery Capacity -1000mAh Built-In Battery
• Power Output – 1 -30 Watts
• Charging – Micro USB (5V@1.2A) Flat to full in 60mins

Colours

The Mod is available in a wide range of colour options that should suit most tastes, the Pods are all the same, translucent smoked grey.

Controls & Display

As far as controls go, this is one of the most simple out there, as it incorporates an auto draw feature (you suck, it puffs) there is no need for a fire button. There is a single button on the side, below the display, 5 quick clicks to turn on, 3 quick clicks to unlock the wattage setting, then 1 click at a time cycles through the available wattage setting, 1W to 30W then back to 1W again. Hold the button resets the puff counter. 5 quick clicks to turn the unit off. That’s it!

The display provides the following information

POD

The concept of the “throw-away” pod! I understand that for some folk, this will be a benefit, not needing to concern yourself with changing fiddly coils or the pod leaking liquid everywhere because the coil wasn’t seated properly. But they also have their drawbacks, apart from the obvious ecological one with more unrecyclable waste hitting the bin, cost of running will be a bit more as it’s not possible to clean the coils to extend their life. Coil options are restricted to the two types manufactured by Wotofo.

Apparently, the Pods mouthpiece’s curves are fine-tuned to best fit between your lips, I’ll hold reservation on this one, I had no issue with the mouthpiece shape, I will add that I like my 810’s better. We don’t all have the same shaped mouth and we all have our own preferences to the size and shape of things we suck on. “YOUR THUMB!!!”

I would have expected the cost of replacements coils/pods to be a bit higher than your normal type of coil due to the fact you’re replacing the complete thing, but Healthcabin have the Pods listed under £5 for 3, so no significant difference compared to others.

Specifications

Capacity – 3ml (Standard) 2ml (TPD)
Coils – M11 Parallel Coil @ 0.6ohm
– M12 nexMESH Coil @ 0.6ohm
Filling – via rubber bung on side of Pod

Coils

I’m not sure on Wotofo’s thinking here. The two pod types available for this unit house 0.6ohm coils the option being nexMESH suggested best between 15-18W or a parallel wire coil suggested best between 18-22W. From the look of these coils the mechanical structure of the housings are identical, from the bore of the airflow to the wicking slots. The only difference being the form of the hot bit. This restricts the range of use for this device, especially with no airflow control. If Wotofo would look into releasing other coil options, it may make this kit more attractive to a wider audience. I guess Wotofo have possibly made the decision to mass produce only two types of coil in order to keep costs low and the re-sale value down.

Airflow

As previously mentioned, there is no airflow control on this unit, airflow is set by the bore within the coil, it is what it is.

My Experience

My first task I set myself was to compare the two different Pods, I filled both with a 50/50 Strawberry at 6mg and proceeded to test them side by side. Just to note at this point, I managed to fit in 2.9ml of juice in both Pods.

When filling the Pods I noticed there was a minimum juice line indicated, which presented me with a little gripe. When the pod is fitted and you’re chuffing away, it’s impossible to see the minimum line. To confirm that a dry hit is not imminent you need to remove the pod to check, no big deal as long as you stay wary of your consumption, but a pain if you’re a touch paranoid.

The manual said to leave for 5 minutes after the first fill, I left it for about ½ hour, I tend to air on the side of caution with stock coils as I’m normally far to over eager and go too hard too fast. “SSSHHHH”.

I set the nexMESH coil at 13W and the wire coil to 16W, according to the display the mesh registered as 0.57ohms and the wire coil registered as 0.62ohms. I then continued to increase the power by 1W every 10 puffs until I reached the high end of the recommended ranges.

The flavour produced by both coils was surprisingly good, no bellows of cloud being MTL, which was unusual for me, being a predominant DTL vaper, but first impressions were good.

I ended up running both coils at 16W as increasing the power past this didn’t make a significant difference to me. To be honest I found very little difference between the coils at all. The nexMESH may just sneak ahead by a whisker as far as flavour goes. I did notice the nexMESH emits a slight buzzing sound every time you draw on it that isn’t present with the wire coil. The only other difference I can comment on is that the wire coil vapes slightly warmer than the mesh and both coils kept up with me chain vaping without a dry hit in sight.

Now to push the boundaries a little, after removing the remaining juice and running both pods through with an unflavoured 50/50 mix. I took the NexMESH coil, filled with a 35pg/65vg Menthol at 11mg. I set the wattage at 12W, just to be cautious being thicker juice. Again, my instant reaction was of surprise, the flavour on it was more than adequate, I bumped the wattage back up to 16W which improved the flavour a little more and that done me just fine and again kept up with me chain vaping.

Now to push the boundaries even further with the wire coil. The juice I had put in the nexMESH Pod was too harsh for me to attempt RDTL being 35pg and 11mg, I like mine smooth. So with this coil I was intrigued to try it out with 25/75ish at 3mg just to see if it would work, so preceded to fill with one of my favourite juices of the large melon variety. I knew that if it didn’t work, I could thin it down a little with some PG. I set the wattage to 14W and away I went. I dove straight in and half way through my RDTL drag, my lunges tried to eject themselves out my mouth. I immediately came to the conclusion that I wouldn’t be trying that again and continued to cough my lunges up some more. After I had recovered and resumed back to my normal colour, I reverted back to MTL, surprisingly even at 75vg it seemed to wick ok and flavour was also good so didn’t need to thin the juice down. Bear in mind I was keeping the wattage low at 16W and being cautious with each puff as I didn’t want to risk burning the coil out, but it continued through a complete Pod’s worth of juice no problem. I continued to use this juice to see how long it would last, got 5 days moderate use out of it, flavour has now faded and suspect the coil is now caked up, so before I start getting burnt hits, I’m drawing my review to a close.

Pros and Cons

Wotofo Manik Mini Review Conclusion

This kit would suit a newbie, it doesn’t fit in with my normal style of vaping, but that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy doing this review, because I did, well apart from my RDTL failure.

As the ranking above suggests, this kit provides a loose MTL draw. I certainly think that Wotofo has aimed this more towards the consumer trying to give up the stinky’s that would benefit from a hassle free, easy to use, (almost) plug and play unit.

Thanks again to Healthcabin for sending this kit for review. In return, it’s only right that I remind you that this item is available from Healthcabin and to view their best prices you need to sign up and log in.

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This review was written by Squidgy-Marcus from POTV, click to view original review.