I couldn’t find any reviews online about these pens except for a youtube video that just showed a guy taking a hit, and another showing a girl loading wax into an oil pen and saying it tastes like burn paper so I decided to share my anecdotes as I don’t have enough experience with all the vapes yet to call this a review. i am fairly new to vaping but id like to share my experience so far with the atmos optimus v2 and atmos jewel. Being new to vaping I only have experience with these units that I've been playing with for about a month…
some background: I was always previously an opponent of vaporizers due to their perceived poor performance. Friends of mine had bought things like box type vapes and g-pens but we were dumb and didn’t realize they were made for was/oil. Needless to say they didn’t really work and we quickly broke them filling them with herb. I decided that vapes are total bullshit and are just a novelty. Years later my roommate showed me his oil dabbing rig which made me realize I was wrong about vaping. I quickly learned that it is basically impossible to smoke in public or while driving which made me pursue electronic means again.
I still can recommend vaping straight weed though, even if you have a volcano or raw or w/e. for no other reason than that once the weed has be vaped I feel like the thc isn’t completely gone yet so I end up smoking it anyway instead of wasting it…. Defeating the purpose of vaping.
Anyway, I didn’t some internet research on vapes. I found one I liked called the atmos optimus V2 and got one from lighter usa for $60. Also got some extra cartridges because I figured I was new and going to accident one or two. When I got it I filled in up with some flavored oil I ordered as well and tried it and exhaled a cloud of grape vapor. There was exponentially more vapor than what I would get off a herb vaporizer. Oh man I couldn’t wait to try some co2 oil I had ordered.
(tank in pic is stained brown from oil experiments. It was originally tinted gray)
The optimus v2 cartridge it better looking than anything on the market as of this writing. Its shaped sort of like a laval lamp that perfectly matches. The battery also has that rubber coating on high end electronics. Atmos assured me that they are disposable but they look and feel like high quality reusable tanks. The bottom metal part is heavy and generally feels much higher quality than the optimus v1 cartridges. The cartridge is a “wickless” design. There is a wick but it is internal, hidden behind the holes in the center pipe. They seem to work about the same as wicked cartridges but they look nicer…even though the wicks are invisible when in oil. Also the cartridges do not leak at all, even when shaken. They don’t require drip tip caps and I felt comfortable carrying them loose in a pocket. I'm not paying your dry cleaning if one does leak though.
(optimus v2, optimus v1, generic)
After I got my co2 oil in, I quickly learned that it needs to be thinned in order to be smoked. This was not as simple as adding PG to wax and heating. I broke a few carts in the process however but this gave me the chance to take them apart. They are surprisingly resilient. I had to hit it with a hammer pretty hard in order to get the plastic loose then use vice grips to wiggle the plastic sleeve off then hammer everything else to see what’s inside. Atmos says the tank is glass but that is clearly wrong. It is some kind of acrylic that doesn’t crack when hit directly with a hammer. You can see in the pictures they barely distorted. You can also see the internal wick which I burnt accidently.
I unfortunately broke all three of my cartridges doing oil experiments and they are on backorder currently so I have been using optimus v1 cartridges. They work great just don’t look anywhere near as good. Atmos threads and g-pen threads are the same so g-pen attachments work great and vice versa. The edges are not flush however but it doesn’t look terrible. The optimus v2 battery lasts about 1 ¾ tanks of oil (PG) in my experience.
(optimus v2 battery w/ optimus v1 cartridge)
(optimus v2 battery w/ g-coil attachment)
I became frustrated trying to make e-liquid out of my wax and I figured that I should just use a wax attachment until I figure out e liquid (reading many threads on it now). My local head shop doesn’t carry atmos only g-pen but no big deal because they are compatible. I picked up a g-coil and immediately put it to work. It worked great……for a while. After a few rounds with the g-coil it began to be really hard to pull. When I opened it up a found the mouthpiece screen to be completely caked with resisn/waxi tried cleaning it with alcohol and also with a lighter, trying to smoke it like a roach (not recommended); and while it was better, it was never as good as new. I finally decided to drill it out only to discover a charcoal filter in the tip. As you can imagine this basically turn into concrete after absorbing wax and cooling. Reinforcements were needed….
This is the atmos jewel. I ordered one to act as a temporary while I figure out my oil supply problem. It is quickly becoming my favorite thing ever. The pictures on websites are misleading, this thing is tiny. It can easily be cuffed in a hand and discreetly smoked as it just looks like you are holding your fist to your mouth. It has the same high end rubber coating as the v2 and the rubber tip is soft like an eraser.
Judging from the online photos I was expecting the jewel to hold more wax, like over .5 gr. I was way off, it hold nowhere near that amount. It still holds significantly more than a g-coil does though. I wanted a unit that can make I through a day of constant smoking without repacking. This was a pipe dream. The most it realistically holds about a bowls worth. Like 3-4 solid hits, or around 10 girl hits. As with most vapes, you can feel the inhale until it’s too late.
The heating coil is relatively large. It is shaped like an electric stove flat coil that I assume increases surface area and thus vapor. I've learned the best way to load the camber is to take your wax and squeeze it into a small round ball no bigger than a small pea, having a ball shape burns the most efficiently. If you simple pack wax gently into the camber it will clog as there isn’t enough room for the air to pass through. In retrospect, I was probably using too much in the g-coil, causing it to clog as well. More on that in a minute.
(the ceramic bowl on the jewel is gigantic compared to the g-coil.)
Keep in mind that only the white part of the heating camber is the ceramic part. On the jewel it extends all the way to the top of the camber while the g-coil barely extends past the coil. Actually I think the coil from the jewel is larger than the whole g-coil ceramic chamber.
The jewel also has much less restrictive air flow. You can see in the pic that there are many holes in the jewel that go directly to the heating element and the mouth piece has five large open holes. By comparison, the g-coil pulls air from 4 holes on top that travel to the bottom of the camber first. The main culprit is the mouth piece however. The g-coil mouth piece will clog very quickly as mentioned before. The jewel mouth piece pulls apart and can be cleaned easily. Also, as common sense might tell you, you have to hold the wax pens vertically so the wax melts into the heating coil and not your mouth. Both pens will immediately clog if you do that. Both mouth pieces will clog from regular use too as some wax splashes up when inhaling.
There is a bit of a learning curve to this as the heating element only gets to full temp after about 10 seconds. I usually hold button for 5 sec before inhaling let go and repress to reset safety and inhale until I collapse. After your 3rd button press (20+ sec) it gets really intense. It reminds me of one of those video game weapons that starts really weak but gets stronger the longer you shoot it. At this level the hits are as strong if not stronger than dabs. Also as with any vape the slower you inhale the less air gets mixed with the vapor and the stronger the hit. The battery is relatively short lived but it works out because you don’t really hit this as much as an oil pen.
TL;DR
I like atmos optimus v2 and jewel because they look good perform decently and are very discreet. I also made pictures
I hope this helps