The Pure SF + Knight v2 has become my most used portable vape. I bring it everywhere I go. I can vape at work, at bars, at parties, concerts and night clubs and it never draws any attention at all (apart from smell of course, but that's completely independent)
I don't use it at home, as it's not as good as my Zion. I need to take longer draws with the Project, exceeding 10 seconds (and with the Knight stock firmware I have to release and retrigger once per hit) in order to get the kind of hits I'm after. Taste also degrades faster for some reason, don't know if it's due to the nature of the 14mm bowl or something else. At the same time it extracts faster, which is a plus when I'm outside and definitely a desirable trait for a portable.
But it's already so much better tasting than any of the conduction vapes I own, there's no comparison. I can't detect any parasitic smell or taste, contrary to the Eraser, and the silicone o-rings are very minimally exposed to the air path, being located below the intakes.
I've been using the exact same stem in the Pure SF, the MistVape Touch and the Milaana, so I'm able to make direct comparisons. And the temperature regulation is clearly more comfortable. No need to count mentally, no need to think about draw speed too much, the mod is able to cope and adapt.
The screen above the coil can be a pain in the ass sometimes. I never ever managed to make it sit as perfect as when I received it. I can get it close enough, but it's always wobbly shaped. But as long as it prevents any bits from falling under, it does the job and it's only an aesthetic detail.
An interesting point is that I don't have to adjust the set temperature to be able to fully extract. And it's the case with all my glass stem based convection vapes (Zion included) The only convection vape that I have that gives me the "surgical temperature control" effect is the Swift-Pro. It does the same as the Ascent or the FM5-Pro: you can set a given temperature then deplete it fully until there's no vapor output at all, then as soon as you rise the temperature you start getting new vapor. Proof that their regulation is spot on.
But I don't get that with my glass stem based convection vapes. A combination of factors make that in practice you get some kind of automatic temperature climb and you just have to push it as far/high as you wish. Note that with the Project, sometimes (and it's rare) I might bump the temperature once at the end, but that's it.
For the Knight v2 settings, my coil reads 0.48ohm and is solid (I dedicated the mod to the Pure SF so it helps, I'm not wearing my 510 out by swapping often like I did previously with the evic VTC mini) TCR is set to .00180 on screen (which translates to 180 in other mods) and power set to 40W. I might even try lowering that last parameter to increase battery life, because as it is it's between my Milaana and my MVT, using the same set of cells (I have a pool for all my single cell vapes and one for my dual cell vapes)
This setting lands the set temperature somewhere at the middle of the scale (200°C) The usable range for me seems to be 210°C to 240°C and it doesn't correspond to the real bowl temperature but I strictly don't care. I usually do all sessions entirely set to 220°C. There might be a more optimal TCR setting that would give me either a more precise temperature display or a larger usable temperature range (because with 5°C or 10°F increments you don't get that many levels in practice) but as I said above, a single temperature appears to do it all for me.
