Smoant Knight 80W Pod Mod Review

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The Smoant Knight 80W Mod Pod was sent from HealthCabin for the purpose of review. It is another mod pod powered by single 18650 battery, while the pod capacity is 4ml. There are 6 coils compatible with the new Knight, including the Pasito coils. Let’s see what make it different compared to other 18650 mod pods in this review.

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Specifications

• Size: 90 x 45 x 27mm
• Power Range: 1-80W
• Temp Range: 100-300c / 200-600f
• Modes: VW, TC (Ni, Ti, SS316), TCR, DVW, Bypass
• Resistance Range: 0.1-3ohm (VW, DVW, Bypass) / 0.1-2ohm (TC, TCR)
• Battery: Single 18650
• Charging: 1A USB Type C
• Capacity: 4ml
• 0.96 inch OLED screen
• 5 colors

In the Box

• 1 x Smoant Knight 80W device
• 1 x 4ml Pod
• 1x 0.3ohm mesh coil (installed)
• 1x 0.4ohm dual mesh coil
• 1x USB C cable
• 1x User manual, battery safety card, warranty card

Design & Quality

The Smoant Knight 80 takes broadly the same design as a lot of other mod pods we’ve seen last year, like Wellon Beyond AIO, Dotmod Dot AIO. While it is much bigger in size, especially the thickness.

The body comes in 5 different colours, Stainless Steel, Bronze Blue, Tiffany Blue, Night Green and Black. These have differently coloured printed panels that are matched to the body.

Without a battery, it’s a surprisingly lightweight device made of zinc alloy. It doesn’t feel cheap though, and there’s no looseness to it’s construction. On one side you have you 0.96″ OLED screen, with the brand name printed below, and then your + and – buttons. The other side of your device has the removable panel for you battery. On the base there’s a little notch to help you get a fingernail in to take this off, and it’s held in place by two strong magnets.

The battery compartment has clearly printed + and – indicators, and a sprung positive connector. No battery rattle, and no looseness to the the panel, so a big thumbs up. The base has your regulatory marks, and a decent amount of venting. On the longer edge you have your fire button near the top, and the words Knight 80 printed below. The fire button feels a little plasticky, but is nice and clicky in operation, and I never had any moments where I wasn’t sure whether it would fire or firing accidentally by brushing against it.

In the hand it’s a comfortable block to hold, thanks mostly to the beveled edges. However due to where the screen is, if you want to be able to easily see it after firing, I found that it suits being held in the left hand for thumb firing, and the right hand if you finger fire.

Knight 80 Device

The screen is a little 0.96″ OLED, that provides all your important information. There’s no information overload here, and it shows you:

• Your mode and battery level at the top
• Wattage (or temp)
• Volts being drawn when you fire
• Resistance of the coil
• Puff counter
• Seconds fired

For the working modes and operations, I will not write them in details, just follow the user manual.

The Pod & Coils

The removable pods hold up to 4ml of e-liquid, are only slightly tinted, so you should see the level of juice inside at all times, and are held in place by magnets. And let me tell, you these are some of the strongest magnets I’ve ever seen on a vape mod. I actually had to check the manual because I couldn’t remove the pod from the mod, and even after that it required a bit of an effort. They are so strong that when taking the photos, the pod was pulled onto the mod from over a centimeter away, so you really shouldn’t worry about the pod coming off accidentally.

To fill the Smoant Knight 80 pod, you need to first detach it from the mod, as the fill port is located on the side facing the device. It is sealed with a rubber plug that’s easy to remove and plug back in, and the size of the fill port is decent. I’ve never had any leaking issues, and as long as you pop the plug back in after refilling, you shouldn’t either.

One of the many neat things about the Smoant Knight 80 pod is the adjustable top airflow system. It’s a fairly straightforward design, but one that works very well. You basically have a metallic airflow ring at the base of the removable 510 drip tip, and that connects to two relatively large cutouts in the pod itself. These are really the top ends of two hidden channels that reach down to the base, from which the air goes up through the coil. Ok, maybe it’s not that simplistic of a design, but it sure works well.

The Knight 80 AIO was designed primarily with direct lung (DL) vaping in mind, so it’s not surprise that the airflow let’s you adjust between an airy and a restricted DL draw. However, with the airflow completely closed – rotating the metallic ring until the slots no longer align with the cutouts on the pod itself – does restrict the draw quite a bit, allowing you to do a very loose mouth-to-lung (MTL) pull. Still, for a true MTL experience, I suggest getting the Pasito adapter and trying the Pasito’s 1.3Ω coil-head. That should work really well with the airflow completely closed off.

Performance

If you’re looking for an enjoyable direct lung vaping experience, you can’t go wrong with the Smoant Knight 80. Whether you go for the two included coil-heads – a pre-installed 0.3 mesh coil, and a dual-mesh 0.4Ω coil – or the RBA section, this thing performs splendidly. The two mesh coils actually perform quite similarly, with the single mesh coil offering a slightly more airy draw, and they both deliver excellent flavor and more than enough vapor, provided you provide them with enough power.

That reminds me of another cool feature of the Knight 80. It has a smart sensor that detects what coil-head you attach to it, and recommends a wattage range on the display. It doesn’t work with the RBA, but all the other coil-heads, including the Pasito one should be fine. It’s not something groundbreaking, we’ve seen similar systems on the VooPoo Vinci X, but it’s a nice feature for beginners.

The one thing I wouldn’t recommend the standard Knight 80 kit for is mouth-to-lung vaping. Although you can get away with a very loose draw if you close out the airflow completely, neither of the included coils are designed for MTL, and the RBA is even airier. If you want a tight, authentic MTL draw, you just have to spend extra on the Pasito adapter and used Pasito coil-heads or its own RBA.

Other than that, though, this is a really solid piece of equipment. I’ve mainly been using it in variable wattage mode, and I haven’t even touched temp. control, but from my experience I think this is one of the best all-in-one devices available on the market right now.

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Where to Buy?

If you like this big AIO and wanna have one, you can buy from HealthCabin, which is a trustworthy vendor. You will get a much better price after log in there.