I’m back again! I’m bringing you a mod straight from Sourcemore while it’s still hot, which is Lost Vape’s newest product, the Centaurus BT200 box mod! This one was released with the Quest X 3.0, it can be powered by 2x 18650 batteries and supports a maximum of 200 watts. Furthermore, it is equipped with Bluetooth 5.1, which is necessary so that we can tweak the settings using the Centaurus application on our phone. It received a 2.4" display which the manufacturer describes as vibrant, although it’s not really that vibrant, but at least it’s easy on the eyes. It is made of aluminum alloy, which was obvious from the first touch as the mod itself is cold. It is capable of cooling down even if we don’t use it for 5-10 minutes.
Fortunately, they weren’t too wild with the colors. Sometimes less is more, so I think it’s good that it is only available in 5 colors, which are Pink Purple (pink-purple gradient), Platinum Ridge (platinous shimmering black), Platinum Crest (platinous shimmering grey), Silver Carbon (carbon patterned matte silver), Black Carbon (carbon patterned matte black). The Silver Carbon version arrived to me. Now let’s take a closer look!
Lost Vape Centaurus BT200 Review
Box Contents and Getting Acquainted with the Device
The BT200 arrives with only the usual minimalist equipment. We get a USB cable which we will probably never use, because it is advisable to charge the batteries in an external charger. Furthermore, there is a user manual, a warranty paper, and another user manual for the Centaurus app.
On the front panel, besides the huge 2.4" display, we only find the Centaurus inscription directly underneath it. On the back, the Centaurus logo with the Lost Vape inscription is visible.
On the left side of the BT200 is the 3-in-1 stepping dial interface rotary knob, which is exactly the same as the one found in the M100 back in the day. It is 3-in-1 because it contains the battery status LED, we use it to adjust the wattage by rotating it, and of course, it also serves as the fire button. Below this, we find the button labeled Set, which, when pressed once, allows us to adjust the mode, wattage, preheat, and whatever else is on the display, and of course, we can also enter the menu with it. If we press it 3 times, we can turn off the display. A little further down, we find the slide switch used for turning the device on and off, beneath which is finally the USB connector. Regarding the latter, the manufacturer did not provide any information about charging, which implies that we should rather not charge the batteries in the mod! On top of the mod, there is a spring-loaded 510 connector reinforced with three points, which protrudes a few tenths of a millimeter from the mod, so we cannot scratch the mod with the tank. There is nothing on the right side or the bottom of the mod, so I won’t bore you with that.
There was a user manual in the box for the buttons. This is not as strange as it might seem at first, because this information is very useful for a beginner. In short, if we press the interface button, it fires; if we rotate it, we adjust; if we press and hold it, we confirm, although a short press works the same way. Pressing the Set button once allows adjustment, pressing it 3 times sends the display into sleep mode. The slide switch, or Switch Button, turns the device on and off.
It has a menu, which we can access by pressing the Set button once, navigating to the Menu label with the interface button, and then pressing the fire button once to confirm. What awaits us are 6 menu items, named Bluetooth, Brightness, Theme, Wallpaper, Reset, and About. And as is usually the case, the BT200 menu also has a way to go back, which is FINALLY called Return, as this literally means stepping back or returning.
Let’s look at the first menu item, which is Bluetooth. Here we can enable the Bluetooth function on the mod. It immediately offers direct access to the Centaurus application for iOS and Android systems. But we can also search manually in the App Store or the Play Store. If we download the app, we must enable Bluetooth on both our phone and the BT200, and then we can use our mod via the app, which I will write about below.
The second menu item is Brightness. Nothing extra, just the brightness level. It is set to 100% by default, but fortunately, the screen is not too bright even at this setting; it is just pleasant for the eyes.
The third menu item is Theme. Where we can choose from 5 themes, characterized by futurism. But there is also one that resembles a dashboard.
The fourth menu item is Wallpaper. These are not as futuristic, but there are 1-2 that are really cool and one would gladly see them when looking at their mod. What you see in the second picture is the result of pressing the +Picture label, and as it turns out, we can upload a custom photo to the BT200 via the app.
The fifth menu item is Reset. The mod only asks us if we want to restore the factory settings.
The sixth menu item is About. Only press this if you are curious about the manufacturer’s rambling about the Quest X 3.0 chipset. By the way, it is probably misspelled in the mod, as it says Quest 3.0 X here, but on the manufacturer’s website it is Quest X 3.0. I think the latter makes more sense…
If you want to download the Centaurus app, for safety, make sure that Lost Vape has published it in the store and that the app photo has the Centaurus logo.
The very first adjustable setting is the mode. It is currently in Power, but we can also choose between Turbo, SS316, TI, NI, Voltage, and VPC modes. The Coil is naturally not adjustable; it only serves to check the data. By the way, everything is blank on my screenshot because I was looking around the application line before use, and since it was there, I took a picture, so different settings are already valid than those shown in the picture. I don’t need to introduce the adjustability of the wattage. What is below it, i.e., Temp, or Temperature, which is only adjustable if we use the device in TC. The Voltage below it is, of course, adjustable when we use the mod in Voltage mode. The Boost, or preheating, can have 3 strengths, which are Soft, Normal, and Hard. Everything I have written so far can also be adjusted on the mod, it is just more cumbersome compared to the app. Finally, we can also specify the flavor of the e-liquid, but I think this does not add to the settings, it only makes it easier to distinguish the 3 user profiles, especially if these are needed due to 3 different tanks.
Actually, I think the same things are accessible on the app as on the mod, it’s just that one is easier to adjust than the other. I’m already writing down what I experienced during use.
Experience Report
Appearance and Material Usage
Let’s start with the exterior. First of all, I would call it quite robust and large, although not excessively so, but I certainly won’t put it in my pocket easily. Its weight is not heavy for a 2-battery device, nor are the batteries heavy enough to make it top-heavy if we put too heavy a tank on it. The design is clean, minimalist, which I don’t think is a disadvantage; it gives the impression of a more serious device. Only the back has a carbon pattern that blends perfectly with the logo and feels pleasant to the touch. The edges are slightly rounded, but I think not enough, so it might be uncomfortable at first, but you get used to it quickly. The 3-in-1 interface button is massive, fixed, and simply perfect! It is easy to press, rotates easily, has no rattle, and is comfortable to use. It wobbles during firing, which I initially noted as a negative, but the more I used it, the more comfortable it became because no matter how my finger slid across it, the firing did not stutter, and it activated no matter where we pressed the button. There is nothing special about the Set button; it is large enough to be easily pressed, but for me, it is too close to the fire button, so when I press it, my finger sometimes slightly touches the fire button, which is uncomfortable during one-handed use, but there is no such issue during two-handed use. There is nothing extra regarding the slider switch either; it does its job like all of them. The 510 connector is rock solid in place! And it’s a plus that it protrudes slightly from the housing, making it impossible to scratch around the 510. And the fact that it is reinforced at 3 points assures us that the mod will not suffer serious damage even in the event of an accidental drop. The magnets on the back cover are strong enough, hold superbly, and fit so perfectly that there is no rattle, even when moved forcefully. The display is large enough for all inscriptions to be clearly visible. The colors are not intrusive, and I think they are not as vibrant as the manufacturer portrays them. But this is exactly how it should be. The battery percentage is indicated numerically for each battery, which simplifies daily use, and the Quest X 3.0 keeps the two batteries in perfect synchronization. The only real negative I could mention is the lack of cooling holes on the mod. It’s not a problem yet, but it will be in the summer… Since the device has a rather minimalist design, I think we have covered the exterior aspects. Let’s look at the menu and usage.
General Use, Menu, and App Usage
The menu is trickier here. I would describe it as if it were divided into two parts. Or rather! It is specifically divided into two. This is because we can access the modes, user profiles, preheating, and puff count outside the menu by pressing the Set button 1x and navigating to the option we want to adjust. This can be considered quick access because you don’t have to rummage through the menu if you want to change the mode. However, at the end of every adjustment, we must press the Set button again because the selection remains highlighted after we set something, and we cannot fire until we remove it. But the same thing happens if we exit the menu. Then we must press the Set button again to use our mod. Well, if something really annoyed me, this was it, because I consistently forgot to press the Set button at the end, so when I fired, nothing happened because it returned to the menu if I was last in it. Despite all this, I would call its use simple. I think the menu items are clearly defined, and you can’t get too tangled up; its use is also simple. By the way, the layout system is relatively clear because everything needed for use, i.e., the mod’s functionalities, is found outside the menu, while everything necessary for customizing the mod is located in the menu, so this is truly not a bad solution and is perhaps clearer this way. The settings available in the app do not differ much from those on the mod, because we find most of the settings available on the mod within it. Only the theme and brightness cannot be adjusted via the app. But I think it’s easier to adjust via the app because somehow, one gets used to it better, especially since we all use smartphones in everyday life. The ease lies in the fact that we don’t have to perform extra button presses, which we achieve with the Set button on the mod. On the app, after the settings, you just need to press the green refresh icon, and then select Yes for the Confirm sync to device message, and then the fun can begin. By the way, pressing the Set button on the mod seems more cumbersome because, due to the large display, we immediately compare the navigation on the mod to using our smartphone. This has a psychological reason, which we call Affordance-based schema transfer, but enough with the smart talk, let’s look closer at the BT200 modes, as there are some novelties.
ModesI guess I don’t even need to introduce the Power mode, it’s that fundamental. But there is a Turbo mode here, and when using it, I noticed that it sets a wattage value for the measured resistance and pushes it much more forcefully until the very end of the draw. It feels as if the preheat is set to Hard, but only by feel, because otherwise it is on Soft and you cannot adjust that, only the wattage. I note that this is a really cool mode, I just had to turn down the wattage set by the mode a bit because it was a little too much for me, but at lower wattage, we get a truly superb experience as a result, with no shortage of vapor either. So, ultimately, it’s something like Bypass, just with adjustable wattage.
TC is also available on the device, but it is separated according to the wire material, so it will be found among the modes as SS316, TI, and NI. Fortunately, we can adjust not only the temperature but also the wattage separately, making TC even more customizable. What I like most about TC is that you don’t have to lock the resistance, and since we don’t select one of the TC modes by pressing the fire button, there is no possibility of accidental firing, which results in even more accurate TC. That is, the resistance won’t drift if the coil’s heat increases slightly, because it doesn’t increase in the first place. Preheat cannot be adjusted in any of the TC modes.
Next in line is the Voltage mode. I guess it’s easy to figure out what this is for, but I’ll describe it anyway because not every device has one. With Voltage, as the name suggests, we can adjust the battery’s output voltage, i.e., the volts it sends to the coil. By the way, I think this is the most battery-saving mode of all. And of course, the preheat cannot be adjusted here either.
I saved the most exciting one for last, VPC. The three letters are short for Variable Power Curve, which is useful for setting a continuously varying power curve that the device will switch automatically. This can result in much better flavor if set correctly… First, I’ll attach an image and then explain the situation with VPC.
First of all, although we can select VPC mode on the mod, the power curve can only be customized via the app, which the mod then remembers. As we can see, there are 8 such curves that the mod will switch between. However, a vital piece of information is that the numbers in the top row of the left image are the minimum wattage values, and in the right image, I pulled the values up to the maximum, so those are the maximum wattage values the mod is capable of. So, the only task is to set the preferred wattage values using the curves. This isn’t too difficult, but it can cause surprises during use if, for example, the power difference between two consecutive curves is too large. By the way, I consider this a very good thing too, because it allows us to coax truly enjoyable flavors out of the liquids. I’ll add one more thing here, I don’t know how much I emphasized it, although I tried, but I’ll write it again, a bit simpler: The preheat can only be adjusted in Power mode! Since we were just talking about enjoyment, let’s see what the experience is like with the BT200.
Experience
As an MTL user, I can state that the BT200 functions perfectly well with MTL tanks too, but this mod was still designed more for DL use. Although I was able to calibrate all modes for my MTL setups, I still think it suits DL tanks better. But if I disregard that, I have to say that it turned out to be a device that is quite robust in size but becomes tame over time. I was indeed able to customize every mode to bring out the maximum from my MTL setup, but due to its size, no MTL looks good on it. But let this not discourage anyone, because its customizability is second to none, so whether someone wants to use it with an MTL or a DL tank, they will be satisfied with it.
It is simple to use, and even simpler via the app. The preheat does no harm to any MTL tank if it is paired with an appropriate or matching wattage value. The Turbo mode is perfect for exactly this. For me, it provided the best experience in terms of flavor. You have to play around with VPC a bit, but it can only get better with it. Honestly, I had most of my problems with Power mode, as it seemed almost bland in flavor compared to Turbo, Voltage, and VPC modes. If you don’t want to bother with VPC, then Turbo is the most outstanding in terms of both flavor and vapor! Overall, I liked the modes! They are adequate in both flavor and vapor, and with certain modes and a little time investment, the BT200 brings us an even much better experience!
Pros
- Simple operation and menu navigation. Since functionality and customizability are placed separately, the former is set by selecting the labels found on the mod, while the latter is found in the menu, making it clear and ensuring that only the most important things are directly in front of our eyes. This simplifies usage.
- 3-in-1 stepped rotary dial interface knob. I’ve really liked this type of knob since testing the M100. Its functionality is unparalleled and naturally space-saving. Not having to press navigation buttons makes the product unique and cool as an added bonus. The entire surface of the knob is suitable for firing, which makes it comfortable to use.
- Clean, minimalist design. I know many people dislike flashy things, so this mod can easily become a favorite for lovers of minimalist style. There’s no need to elaborate on this, as there is no unnecessary ornamentation on the mod.
- Lightweight. I found it light even with 2 batteries, which is not a disadvantage as it won’t weigh down your pocket at 150 grams. Of course, provided you have a pocket of the right size, as the device itself is a bit large. This lightness is mainly due to the aluminum alloy housing.
- 3-point reinforced, spring-loaded 510 connector. This is an important aspect, although it rarely happens, but for anyone whose 510 connector has broken out of the mod during a fall, I think this is an important point, as the device is nearly irreparable after such an accident. But this cannot happen with the BT200!
- Premium build quality. It’s worth buying just for the use of aluminum, as it is durable and long-lasting! The icing on the cake is that thanks to the fixed buttons and the perfectly fitting back panel, which doesn’t rattle at all, we hold a premium quality mod in our hands.
- Highly visible and readable 2.4" display. It’s not just cool because of the selectable themes and wallpapers, but since the display occupies more than half of the front panel, fortunately, all labels fit nicely, so not only is the display clearly visible, but all labels and data are easy to read.
- Bluetooth connectivity and app usage. Who doesn’t have a smartphone these days! So the time has come when we can set up our mod from our phone, as comfortably and quickly as we are used to in our daily lives. Although this app does have one drawback. Namely, it disconnects when the phone locks. But I think in today’s fast-paced and phone-obsessed world, we don’t expect too much from setting up our mod via the app either. Not to mention, it only takes 2 seconds to reconnect…
Cons
- Slightly robust. I think this mod is not for me. For me, it’s a bit large, which overshadowed daily use. Of course, it didn’t make it impossible, it just overshadowed it… I’m sure it would look much better in a man’s hand than in mine. For the same reason, it wasn’t comfortable to carry in a pocket either. Its dimensions expressed in numbers are 92.9 x 56.9 x 26.9mm.
- No cooling option. This is the biggest negative aspect of the BT200! They really could have drilled a few holes, say on the bottom, so that the heat generated by the battery could escape. This will be a bit tricky during DL use, especially in the summer.As a concluding remark, I’ll use a cliché phrase: The BT200 is the Rolls-Royce of the mid-range! Not just because of its ease of use, menu navigation, and the Centaurus application. But what truly impressed me was that I could customize the settings without issue to suit my setup! The experience is truly stunning and rich, both in vapor and flavor! Although I identify it as a DL mod, it also held its own perfectly with an MTL tank, so whoever likes it should definitely buy it, because it’s superb!
You can purchase the mod at the following link:
With the code LVBTM the price drops to $41.19
Thank you for reading! Have a nice day! 
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. And there was certainly something to write about this, it wasn’t a simple thing… the mod will surely find its target audience…
but my practical self: I won’t….
Thank you 
…check if it works for you…and if it does, for how much they sell it including shipping 
okay, it arrived at the beginning of January, and then it turned out that I had accidentally screwed over the wrong store badly