Hey all, just chiming in with a two month update. It's been over 10 weeks since my last regular cig, I took two puffs of a camel on day 7 and haven't looked back since. I can smell ashtrays and other smokers now and I want no part of it. Still crave them, got a little stircrazy the other night without any 24mg juice around! Pretty smooth sailing though for the most part.
Spent my first two weeks with a mini cig-style (Apollo standard kit). Wasn't that into the cartomizersreally hot vapor, juice in the mouth, a little fillery taste, hard to tell when/how much to refill. So I got a Janty Neo Classic (basically a 650mah ego in auto or manual paired with a ce2 style tank they call a puromizer)...
Which, aesthetically, I love. Functionally, it's not going as well as I'd hoped. I'm on my eighth puromizer, only one has actually died, but after a few days they drop in flavor and vapor production. They seem to randomly seep liquid all the time, I'm constantly wiping up little droplets of juice, sometimes a bit gets through the mouthpiece even. After about a week all the gurgling and weak hits and a sort of caramelized flavor gets to me and I crack a new one. Which, at a cost to me of about $20 apiece, isn't great, especially since they're advertised to last 3-6 weeks. $25 or so a week might be on par with the average pack-buyers spending, but as a former MYO user, it's about 4x my smoking budget. I've tried (and will continue) cleaning them but so far it hasn't bought me any significant amount of performance time. I've tried rinsing, soaking in water, soaking in vinegar, dry burning (which I'm not sure I'm doing right: I feel like I'm burning the wick or the silicone cap that goes over the coil), I'll try soaking in vodka next.
Janty's CS has been great. They happily replaced two batteries (both autos; one the thread cap popped off, another took too much force to activate) and a puro (clogged) for me on two separate occasions. Both times the tickets were answered the next day and they didn't wait to receive the defective parts before shipping the replacements. The first one took a few weeks regular post, the second I had them toss in with another order. The regular shipping is really fast! From France to Massachusetts in like 2 business days (placed on thursday, received monday, via DHL).
I'll probably buy a few more puros because I'm really attached to the look and feel of this unit. A little shorter than an ego, almost exactly the dimensions of a sharpie, feels great in my hand (and fits perfectly in the pen sleeve of my chef coat!) with a nice sleek and elegant look. But I'm eagerly awaiting to hear what Janty has coming next because right now this doesn't feel like a sustainable system for me. I'm also trying a couple Kanger T3 tanks (got em yesterday), which seem like they might last longereven if they don't they're 3x cheaper, even more so with replaceable headsbut they're bigger which I don't like and I've caught the first one dripping on my battery connector a couple times so far.
I'm interested in getting into stainless steel wicks, but the genesis style doesn't seem very portable to me. I need something that can get shaken around a bit or fall on its side without worrying that it'll leak. Plus, they're too big! I smoked 8-12 cigs a day, and now I'm using maybe 2 ml of juice and I'm estimating about 500mah a day (obviously battery usage is more complicated but you know what I mean). My batteries are never dead at the end of the day, the few occasions I've killed one I think it had been about 36 hours. So both functionally and aesthetically I'm not really inclined to go any bigger than what I've got. That said, if anyone has an extra hellfire mini, feel free to drop me a line
Anyway, those are my thoughts today. Happy vaping everybody!
Spent my first two weeks with a mini cig-style (Apollo standard kit). Wasn't that into the cartomizersreally hot vapor, juice in the mouth, a little fillery taste, hard to tell when/how much to refill. So I got a Janty Neo Classic (basically a 650mah ego in auto or manual paired with a ce2 style tank they call a puromizer)...
Which, aesthetically, I love. Functionally, it's not going as well as I'd hoped. I'm on my eighth puromizer, only one has actually died, but after a few days they drop in flavor and vapor production. They seem to randomly seep liquid all the time, I'm constantly wiping up little droplets of juice, sometimes a bit gets through the mouthpiece even. After about a week all the gurgling and weak hits and a sort of caramelized flavor gets to me and I crack a new one. Which, at a cost to me of about $20 apiece, isn't great, especially since they're advertised to last 3-6 weeks. $25 or so a week might be on par with the average pack-buyers spending, but as a former MYO user, it's about 4x my smoking budget. I've tried (and will continue) cleaning them but so far it hasn't bought me any significant amount of performance time. I've tried rinsing, soaking in water, soaking in vinegar, dry burning (which I'm not sure I'm doing right: I feel like I'm burning the wick or the silicone cap that goes over the coil), I'll try soaking in vodka next.
Janty's CS has been great. They happily replaced two batteries (both autos; one the thread cap popped off, another took too much force to activate) and a puro (clogged) for me on two separate occasions. Both times the tickets were answered the next day and they didn't wait to receive the defective parts before shipping the replacements. The first one took a few weeks regular post, the second I had them toss in with another order. The regular shipping is really fast! From France to Massachusetts in like 2 business days (placed on thursday, received monday, via DHL).
I'll probably buy a few more puros because I'm really attached to the look and feel of this unit. A little shorter than an ego, almost exactly the dimensions of a sharpie, feels great in my hand (and fits perfectly in the pen sleeve of my chef coat!) with a nice sleek and elegant look. But I'm eagerly awaiting to hear what Janty has coming next because right now this doesn't feel like a sustainable system for me. I'm also trying a couple Kanger T3 tanks (got em yesterday), which seem like they might last longereven if they don't they're 3x cheaper, even more so with replaceable headsbut they're bigger which I don't like and I've caught the first one dripping on my battery connector a couple times so far.
I'm interested in getting into stainless steel wicks, but the genesis style doesn't seem very portable to me. I need something that can get shaken around a bit or fall on its side without worrying that it'll leak. Plus, they're too big! I smoked 8-12 cigs a day, and now I'm using maybe 2 ml of juice and I'm estimating about 500mah a day (obviously battery usage is more complicated but you know what I mean). My batteries are never dead at the end of the day, the few occasions I've killed one I think it had been about 36 hours. So both functionally and aesthetically I'm not really inclined to go any bigger than what I've got. That said, if anyone has an extra hellfire mini, feel free to drop me a line
Anyway, those are my thoughts today. Happy vaping everybody!
