What's the definition of a Mod?

[jevans]

Is it any battery container or is it a specific class of battery container?

Jim

[Mev]

anything really... I think the term comes from the early days where people were Mod-ifying torches etc into ecigs.

[davetherayon]

This would be a start...

[Bobsbeer]

Glad you asked that question Jim jevans Hope to learn something.

[Deleted]

MOD – (Stands for "Modified") Are electronic cigarette devices that use removable, rechargeable batteries.  Most electronic cigarette batteries have the physical battery permanently enclosed in a casing.  The entire unit is then charged as a whole.  Mods, on the other hand, allow for the batteries to be removed from the casing and charged separately.  Although mods are generally much thicker and larger than standard electronic cigarettes, they do have their benefits.  Mods generally last much longer than standard batteries before needing to be recharged.  Also, the ability to remove the batteries allows the user to have a set charging while the other is in use, thereby permitting the user to always have a fully-charged battery at his/her disposal

[markm]

As MeV said, it's routes are from modified torches, in the days when only small cigalike stick batteries
Where commercially available. So it can be used fairly freely to mean the battery end.

[markm]

Dec 6, 2014 13:54:55 GMT @windows said:

MOD – (Stands for "Modified") Are electronic cigarette devices that use removable, rechargeable batteries.  Most electronic cigarette batteries have the physical battery permanently enclosed in a casing.  The entire unit is then charged as a whole.  Mods, on the other hand, allow for the batteries to be removed from the casing and charged separately.  Although mods are generally much thicker and larger than standard electronic cigarettes, they do have their benefits.  Mods generally last much longer than standard batteries before needing to be recharged.  Also, the ability to remove the batteries allows the user to have a set charging while the other is in use, thereby permitting the user to always have a fully-charged battery at his/her disposal

Historically the EGO battery was proto typed from a modified torch. So I think it can be included as a mod,
however most people will automatically think of something bigger, such as an MVP or Istick for instance, 
both having fixed internal batteries. So you can't claim that as a defining feature.

[Mev]

Yeah I also don't think the batteries being removable or not comes into it. Mod is just short for modified so it's kind of an out-dated term these day really but it stuck.

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Dec 6, 2014 14:04:06 GMT markm said:

Dec 6, 2014 13:54:55 GMT @windows said:

MOD – (Stands for "Modified") Are electronic cigarette devices that use removable, rechargeable batteries.  Most electronic cigarette batteries have the physical battery permanently enclosed in a casing.  The entire unit is then charged as a whole.  Mods, on the other hand, allow for the batteries to be removed from the casing and charged separately.  Although mods are generally much thicker and larger than standard electronic cigarettes, they do have their benefits.  Mods generally last much longer than standard batteries before needing to be recharged.  Also, the ability to remove the batteries allows the user to have a set charging while the other is in use, thereby permitting the user to always have a fully-charged battery at his/her disposal

Historically the EGO battery was proto typed from a modified torch. So I think it can be included as a mod,
however most people will automatically think of something bigger, such as an MVP or Istick for instance, 
both having fixed internal batteries. So you can't claim that as a defining feature.

Only quoting what i found using a google search. I can give you the link if you want to argue that point with the author.

[markm]

Dec 6, 2014 14:12:26 GMT @windows said:

Dec 6, 2014 14:04:06 GMT markm said:

Historically the EGO battery was proto typed from a modified torch. So I think it can be included as a mod,
however most people will automatically think of something bigger, such as an MVP or Istick for instance, 
both having fixed internal batteries. So you can't claim that as a defining feature.

Only quoting what i found using a google search. I can give you the link if you want to argue that point with the author.

Not looking to argue anything, just laying out some of the history of the term.
its not managed to gain an "official" definition, used by different people to mean
different things. Which is my important point.
almost all of the language of vaping is used in different ways by different people at
different times.
makes it all a lot more confusing for new vapers, but I can't see any easy way to resolve
that other than keeping it in mind when discussing things.
the whole language is evolving as fast as the devices.

[Deleted]

Dec 6, 2014 14:30:51 GMT markm said:

Dec 6, 2014 14:12:26 GMT @windows said:

Only quoting what i found using a google search. I can give you the link if you want to argue that point with the author.

Not looking to argue anything, just laying out some of the history of the term.
its not managed to gain an "official" definition, used by different people to mean
different things. Which is my important point.
almost all of the language of vaping is used in different ways by different people at
different times.
makes it all a lot more confusing for new vapers, but I can't see any easy way to resolve
that other than keeping it in mind when discussing things.
the whole language is evolving as fast as the devices.

Me neither. Was just trying to answer the orginal question as to what the term might mean in todays vaping world so a newby could get an idea what the difference is. After all most people either talk about a mechanical mod or a box mod, both apart from a few exceptions have a removable battery. I think there are very few people who really refer to something with a fixed battery like a spinner etc as a mod.
But i have to agree that the term is starting to lose its true definition.

[jevans]

Dec 6, 2014 14:40:26 GMT @windows said:

But i have to agree that the term is starting to loose its true definition.

You had better tighten it up then @windows
Sorry, but I just had to smile at this one.

I'll just go and get my coat!

Jim

[jevans]

Dec 6, 2014 14:10:37 GMT Mev said:

Yeah I also don't think the batteries being removable or not comes into it. Mod is just short for modified so it's kind of an out-dated term these day really but it stuck.

Exactly the same reasoning I got when I asked about the term "steeping".

It used to be "steeping" tobacco leaves!

Jim

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Dec 6, 2014 19:37:52 GMT jevans said:

Dec 6, 2014 14:40:26 GMT @windows said:

But i have to agree that the term is starting to loose its true definition.

You had better tighten it up then @windows
Sorry, but I just had to smile at this one.

I'll just go and get my coat!

Jim

I'll get your hat

[jevans]

Dec 6, 2014 19:47:12 GMT @windows said:

I'll get your hat

I can't fault you @windows , that was fully deserved!