Review: Ascent Vaporizer By DaVinci, The Best Portable On The Market?

Croc-skin Ascent. Image found on VapeForest.com

Anyone who has ever smoked dry tobacco out of a glass pipe and a corncob pipe know the difference. I'm one of those people and I can personally say that the glass is better. Why? Because glass is inert. You don't want the taste or flavor of your smoke distorted by the material you're smoking it out of so why would you want a vaporizer that distorted the taste of your vapor? My assumption: you wouldn't want that, you'd want a glass vaporizer and that's what DaVinci made when they designed the Ascent.

The Ascent's new glass-on-glass design was an original idea that should have come long ago in my opinion. I mean, I was waiting for this for a while. The idea is sound but it seems to take a bit of effort to pull off and that's perhaps why it took so long. Or maybe none of the manufacturers were thinking right, but who knows. Either way, the DaVinci vape company has finally managed to make it happen. The trick was getting the entire vapor pathway lined with glass.

First Portable Glass Vape

Lining the path vapor travels with glass instead of making a vaporizer almost entirely out of glass was probably a good idea because I think it adds to the durability of the product. Where it's not hard to break a glass pipe, it seems a bit more difficult to break the Ascent. How do I know? I'm clumsy and forgetful at times... which is to say that I've dropped mine more than a couple of times and it's still working. That's a good thing because it costs enough for me to not be all that psyched about paying for another. The glass didn't break and I'm assuming that's because the two removable glass pieces are encased in silicone sleeves. Pretty smart on the part of DaVinci.

Vaporize Everything

You can vape just about anything, I'm assuming, with it because it's got a design which allows for glass jars to be inserted into the heating area and this means that liquids are no problem. I assume you could use this with eLiquid but I've never tried it because I don't really trust that stuff. I'm into the loose leaf tobacco so that's what I use but I did try a liquid blend out of curiosity and it worked great. I tried the jar with and without the lid. I felt like the lid was a constraint and it didn't work quite as well with it so I mostly used it without the lid but doing so was a bit messy so I realized it's best to be careful. Careful in the sense that you should always keep it upright in order to not tip it and spill the liquid. With loose blends, it seemed to vaporize evenly and I didn't see any vapor leaking out so I'd say it's pretty efficient.

Temp Control

Stealth Ascent which has reached 430 degrees Fahrenheit.

The temperature controls on it aren't like anything else I've ever used. I've never seen another vape that let you set temperatures the way you can with this one. It has 3 temperatures you can program into a cycle and you can even adjust the time between each temperature to customize the vaporizing temperature throughout the cycle. This is a neat feature once you get a hang of how to use it because you can do what I did and that's fine a cycle that works with your preference and then there's no fiddling with the temperature while you're using it, you just set it and forget it. If you don't want to use your programmed setup, you can just adjust it on the fly and that works too.

Battery Saving Technology

Ascents have an OLED screen and that means less battery drain than normal LED displays. The "O" stands for organic, just so you know. That's right, I'm a nerd. The screen is really easy to see, but my eyes are relatively young so I can't speak for people with dimming eyesight. Seems bright though. The screen shows everything that's going on. There's even a little animation that lets you know the internal vaporizing temperature is where you want it and that it's ready for use.

References

Some of the information in this review I've written came from the Ascent vaporizer review that I was referencing on VapeForest.com but this is basically limited to facts about the device like the OLED which provides 3-4 hours of vaporizing time. Everything else I've said about this personal vaporizer from 2013 came from my own experience using it. This last paragraph is basically my disclaimer so you don't think I'm pulling the statistics out of thin air. That's right, I'm actually doing real research here. Crazy, huh? A blogger who does their research is truly a wild concept.

Would I Get Another?

If mine broke, I would seriously consider getting another one because I think it works that good. It's not a Volcano but it is portable and it does taste just as good so yeah, I would probably get another one.

About DaVinci

This company isn't some brand new vape company that's come out of left field with a winner. They're actually a company that's been into designing vaporizers for a while. I remember them for their walkie talkie looking vape, the DaVinci vaporizer. That was their original portable and while it was popular at the time, it's probably not as hot these days because there are so many newer vapes out now. Their company is known as Organicix and they seem pretty serious about their vapor. I mean, they did make the DaVinci and the Ascent and that speaks pretty loud to me. They're serious. They have a website (davincivaporizer.com) where they sell their own vapes. The company was the first to release a glass on glass portable but they probably won't be the last.

That's it for this review but it probably won't be my last because this isn't the only vape I've ever used. I've definitely used a few so you might want to check back in later to see what else I have to say about the vapes out there.