I've started using Clearomizers as well very recently and after having a not so great experience with some a month or more ago from another reputable vendor, tried one from LiteCigUSA.net that is a Mega sized Ego clearomizer with a blue LED light (you can choose from several colors or get the ones without the light which are a couple of bucks cheaper). I had only bought one to try them out since they are so pricey and have to be purchased individually and WOW!! I loved it! However, after about a week of use I started getting a slightly burnt atty taste.
Several days into using it I did drain out the remaining
e-liquid in it and refill it with all fresh liquid (as opposed to continuing to just top it off) which helped tremendously, however as I said it started tasting burnt even when full and even when waiting at least 5 seconds between inhales. I still have it but just received another order of them as I ordered 7 more as soon as I started using the first one and loved it so much. I got them yesterday and opened one only to find it looked slightly different!
The casing is actually opaque rather than totally clear (less brittle type plastic) and the interior wires are placed a bit differently on each one. Other than that they are identical with the same mouthpiece tip and white non-removable insert which has two fairly large openings in it which allows me to fill it without the use of any special equipment such as syringes, blunt tip syringe type filling tools, etc.
At first I was a bit upset thinking the manufacturer (not the vendor) of these clearomizers had gone with cheaper materials in order to increase profits and that it would be a sub-standard replica of the first one I had ordered and received. However I was pleasantly surprised at the increased amount of vapor production (although this one seems to burn through the e-juice a lot faster as a result!) as well as a better overall taste right from the start than the previous model.
I had previously tried methods described to clean and re-use clearomizers I found on this forum (somewhere, lol) when I tried the standard sized pack of 5 clearomizers that I had tried a month or so ago but that ended up being a complete and utter failure as every one of them ended up with small cracks where I had to pull the plastic holding tube off of the threaded metal piece in order to clean them according to the instructional video.
I did manage to re-use them for a short while by flipping the plastic casing over so that the end that now had a dozen or so hair line cracks in it was where I placed a drip tip instead and then used carefully cut electrical tape in order to create a seal around the cracks. However I found that not only was performance severely compromised, but that overall taste was not good so I simply tossed them and discovered Joye brand carto's (which work far better than any other regular carto I have tried thus far and is the only regular carto that will work at all on my fairly brand new Joye Ego 650 mah batteries for some odd reason)
I currently have 2 sets of Riva batteries (just received the chrome set yesterday as well) at 750Mah, at least I know the chrome set is 750mah, the white set was the first large batteries I ever used and I received those in a generous PIF package many months ago. I also have a pink set of Joye 900 Mah batteries as well which I purchased shortly after buying the Joye 650mah batteries. I have noticed that with my 4 sets (2 batteries per set) of Joye Ego and Riva (Ego) batteries that some carto's work great on one model but won't work at all on another. Or some batteries make specific juices taste far too strong while other juices have almost no taste or vapor production on one specific set of batteries but have loads of taste\vapor production on others.
You would think the larger the battery the stronger the taste and the larger the vapor but I have found that to not be true 100% of the time as of yet! Lots of experimentation has went on for me to figure out which equipment works with what. LOL Sorry so long, I guess I got way off track here!! Will be checking this thread again to see if anyone has any good ideas on how to keep these (expensive but worth it) Ego mega clearomizers going strong for a while. BTW I have the single coil models and they are NOT Low Resistance in case that makes a difference.
~Darlene~
