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Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO

Antony starts his New Year health kick early by checking out the "Power Gym" variant of the Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO. Whilst it may not improve his fitness, it certainly looks pretty cool!

by Antony Lord
Dec 31, 2020

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Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO

Healthcabin got in touch recently and asked me to take a look at the Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO, a 40 watt pod kit. This is available in five funky colour options, I was sent the green “power gym” variant which has a graffiti style finish.

Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO Power Gym

Specifications

Size 105 x 26.5mm
125 grams
1500mAh internal battery
Output 0.5~4.2 volts / 1~40 watts
Resistance range 0.15~3.0Ohm
3.5ml PCTG pod
Adjustable airflow

Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO specs and contents

This comes in a small box with your colour choice indicated on a label at the back. Also in the kit is a spare coil (with one already pre installed in the pod) and a usb-C charge cable.

Hugo Vapor are probably better known for their plastic box mods so I was expecting this to be a bit “plastic fantastic”, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it’s actually metal, possibly aluminium judging by the weight. The quality control could be a bit better though as I found a stray piece of metal/wire and traces of what appear to be glue in the pod recess whilst taking photos! Other than this, the build quality seems to be pretty reasonable with a soft finish coating and a small but reasonably bright screen nestled between the power and up/down buttons and zero button rattle.

Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO details

The pod is held in place with six magnets and this easily passes the shake test, no low flying pods here. One of the selling points is that this has adjustable airflow, simply twist the pod to the desired setting on the two cyclops style inlets on the main body and this works particularly well even if it is a little difficult to see at times. The fact that the pod is completely covered by the chassis also means you can’t see your e-liquid levels either.

The board is a fairly simple affair with only wattage being available, the only other options being “power lock” (hold + and -), “rotate screen” (power and up) and “clear puffs” (power and down). It seems snappy enough though with no discernible delay in firing and it has the usual safety protections.

Hugo Vapor claims 1 amp fast charging with a full charge in under 90 minutes via the usb-C port on the bottom, but this seemed far from reality in my test achieving just 0.78 Amps and taking a whopping 2 hours 11 minutes to charge. On the plus side, I did record a final capacity of 1563 mah and vape whilst charging is also supported.

Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO pod and filling

The 3.5ml PCTG pod uses coils which are press fit from the bottom and has a generous sized fill hole so filling isn’t an issue. I did occasionally find it tricky to get the fill bung back in place though. Two coils are included and these are both 0.4Ohm BX Mesh coils, 0.3 and 1.0Ohm coils are also supposed to be available but I haven’t been able to find these anywhere, and coil material isn’t stated.

The coils looked very familiar, and they are in fact identical to SMOK RPM coils so you can use those if you have a favourite. I believe RPM coils are made of stainless steel so the BX Mesh coils are likely to be the same. This also means that you should be able to find the coils virtually everywhere.

I haven’t used any RPM coils for a while and I’d forgotten just how restricted they are compared to a lot of the more recent pods which have an almost “sub ohm tank” draw to them! This gave quite a satisfactory vape though with plenty of flavour, and this was further enhanced by closing the airflow down to around the halfway mark which is something you can’t do on a lot of the older Smok kits.

Pros

Compatible with SMOK RPM coils
Adjustable airflow

Cons

QC could be improved
Only one type of coil included in the kit
Slow charging

Conclusion

The Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO is a decent budget alternative to the aging SMOK RPM line with the added benefit of adjustable airflow. The build quality is pretty good although the quality control could be improved, I wasn’t impressed to find a stray bit of metal in the bottom of the pod recess. Having said that, it’s all worked flawlessly so I can’t complain too much on that point.

Many thanks to Healthcabin for sending the Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO out for review. They asked me to mention that it’s available from them at just $19.65 and that you need to be logged into your Healthcabin account to see the lowest prices.

Hugo Vapor Boxer AIO handcheck

Antony Lord

Reviewer at POTV

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I was a twenty a day smoker for 25 years and like most smokers I was always going to quit "next week". Having hit my mid forties and having the usual smokers cough and difficulty with anything more than moderate exercise it was obviously time to give up the cancer sticks. I bought my first e-cigarette in 2013 when they were expensive, difficult to find and quite frankly... crap. I used it for about a week then went back to the roll ups, mark up another failed quit attempt. The fact that I had just changed jobs and was under quite a lot of stress probably didn't help. Move on to 2016 and whilst I was browsing eBay I noticed that one of the suggested items that would occasionally pop up was for a cheap e-cigarette. It looked similar to the one I'd bought 3 years earlier but it was only £5 (about 8 times cheaper than before) so I decided to give it another go on a whim. Once the kit arrived I managed to gradually replace the cigarettes with my new kit over a two month period and got into watching YouTube reviews for newer kit. My cheap and cheerful kit was replaced by a more upmarket affair, and being a noob I made a mistake once it arrived... I put in the supplied direct lung coil, this was of course a complete revelation and I haven't touched a cigarette since. Oh and I no longer spend the first five minutes of every day having a coughing fit either.