Twisted, once again, I thank you. The last tme, you saved me from the Spelling Squad that was ready to lynch me for a typo.
This time, you have brought sanity to a thread where the 510 promoters think we should all bow down to the wonderful 510 which gives many of us little or no relief.
Thanks again, Bro!
Rick.
I'm not a "510 promotor" as you put it. I like the 510 because it works for me and I suspect that part of the reason you get so many responses from "promotors" is because when they read your posts, they look down at their 510s and wonder what on earth you're talking about when what you write is basically the equivalent of the statement, "the experience you're having is a lie." It is only natural that most people find that uncomfortable.
On the assumption that you're not just an internet contrarian who stirs things up on threads for the sake of making responsive enemies, I'll tell you some of my experience and hope you find it useful.
For me, PV-use is all about replacing smoking. I smoked a pack a day for over thirty years and I still like to smoke. The only thing that made me look to e-cigs was the sickening social pressure being brought to bear by the anti-smoking movement in this country. The only reason I bought into PV's at all at first was to have a way of smoking that entitled yuppies couldn't smell and force you to stand in the rain in order to smoke.
My first PV was the Janty Stick (801), the second was an 801 penstyle, the third was a silver bullet with a 510 and the 510 with all its flaws made a lot of difference for me. It *did* produce more vapor than the 801 did unless the 801 was running at its absolute optimum (primer out, clean, seasoned atomizer, fresh batteries etc.). I found pretty much immediately that I had no problem with not smoking cigarettes so long as all my equipment and supplies were in orderI smoked less than a pack that first month and no cigarettes after thatand from then on, it was a matter of refining my experience. I did this in a number of ways.
I started making my own juices. I knew my brain needed 'smoke' to be happy and I found VG to be a godsend. When I finally found it in a store, I took it home and smoked a few drops of it straight: it was like being in a fifties political meetingheavy, persistent clouds of vision-reducing, vapor thicker than the most obnoxious cigar smoke. That was part one.
Part two was the strength of what I smoked. I started out with 36 mg liquid which is higher than high by ecig standards, but it definitely took all the edge off the cravings; actually, it did to the edge what a belt-sander does to a toothpick. I'm going to start gradually cutting down my nicotine levels to get back something like normalcy.
The third was switching to direct dripping; first on the 801 and then later on the 510 and finally on the 510 at higher voltages. This is where you and everyone else part company.
In a starter kit, a bran-new, unseasoned 510 is a pitiful thing. The battery is too weak to take the thing where it should be in terms of heat and even the manufacturers know it. None of the big boys even bothers putting auto batteries into 510 starter kits anymore. Even with fully charged manual batteries, if you're a heavy smoker, a 510 can take a while before it actually produces well and then the batteries leave you high and dry in less than two hours. Once you get past those problems however, there's nothing like it.
People with meters and time on their hands have found out that the 510 has a higher resistance than the 801 and the 901. That means that mathematics says it runs hotter than the other two on a volt-per volt basis. This translates to more vapor and, better still, to whatever you put into it being subjected to the kind of heat that boils the flavoring agents in the juice into the stream of vapor instead of leaving it to become part of the gunk that eventually gums up your atomizer.
As I sit here, I am using a 510 with a brass-tip from super-T, on a PureSmoker usb pass-through, smoking white chocolate, raspberry liquid that's 30% VG. It's warm. It tastes good (to me at least, it's not for everybody) and when I exhale, I can actually waft the cloud away so I can see what I'm writing.
If you're a heavy smoker like I am and you really need the vapor and the flavor as I do, you might try some of what I did: use higher voltages when possible. Use liquid with a lot of VG in it for the density of the vapor (to fool your brain into thinking, 'look, you're smoking!') and a ton of flavor in home-made juice to give your tongue something to do.
While you're at it, be very careful about liquid on your tongue while dripping, a 510 will safely hold three to four small drops before the liquid either goes down onto your hand or back up into your mouth. I've found that letting the liquid stay in my mouth for too long led to a bad time where food tasted alright, but my sense of taste for my vapor was so stunned that I'd have to ask some of the people at work who use vapor to taste it for me and tell me what my new mixes tasted likeI spent weeks unable to taste anything that came in the form of vapor. I was scared witless that I'd never be able to taste it again.
There you have my long two cents on the matter. Hope you'll get a better experience from the 510 or from whatever else you choose to get stuff in your lungs.
Happy holidays.
.
