Hi illandreth,
Just curious how you've faired out with your quest........
Give us an update !
VapeOn,
Greg
Sorry for lack of update.....
Two wonderful people on this forum who shall remain nameless unless they choose to name themselves sent me free samples to try of 2 different models of 2 piece e-cigs. One was an older model and although I had some minor problems with it, it did show me what it was like using a 2 piece rather than a 3 piece and I liked it. The other was a newer (current) model of the kr-808-d-1 from Vapor 4 Life and I absolutely LOVED it. The flavor was great and the convenience of just popping on a new cart was nice. My mother, who also hated refilling, also liked the 2 piece and also liked the menthol flavoring of the sample despite the fact she normaly hates menthol. In the time the sample lasted I used the V4L model to replace analogs more so than I have with a 3 piece since I started refilling rather than using pre-filled carts.
My mother and I are currently waiting for a shipment (shipped out on Monday) of 2 ultimate ultimatum manual kits and a dozen packs of carts from V4L. If HC even gets it's collective brain turned the right way and gets rid of the idea of banning e-cigs with nic, and I can come up with the funding then I will be looking into becoming a Canadian supplier of 2-piece e-cigs. I believe the 2-piece would be more popular with the larger masses who don't want to mess with re-filling carts or messing with cart mods. Convenience is what will take e-cigs more mainstream. Yes, a 2piece with cartomizers is more expensive than refilling with juice, but still much less expansive than analogs.
In regards to how long a cartomizer lasted, I used half a pack less analogs using 1 24mg cart of menthol then it started to have the slightly burnt taste of a dried up cart but still also had a good menthol flavor and good vapor production. Because of that slight burnt taste I stopped using that cart at that time but went back to it the next day and repalced another half pack of analogs before getting the slight burnt taste again. As a pure guess I'm thinking that the 12 or so hour rest the cartomizer was given helped the liquid in the cart re-distribute itself. Based on this I'm thinking rotating carts, in the long run a cart will equal about the same as 1 pack of analogs for me. Keep in mind, this is just based on my experience and based on the way I vape. I know other people vape differently than I do. My personal vaping style is not a constant non-stop vape that some people seem to do, but rather taking 3-5 puffs of the PV every half hour or so.
To summarize, I found the 2-piece to work much better for both myself and my mother and think I will have a much batter chance to get off analogs using this rather than a 3-piece where I have to mess and fool around with juice. I will however be keeping my 901 and 510 as well as the juice I currently have for use in emergency if I run out of cartomizers or have trouble with shipping and also considering using the 3 piece for 0mg vaping for times I'm on the computer and don't really need the nicotine but light a smoke anyway just out of boredom and habit.
