Yes,didn't feel like having a battery short out.
Peachy mango is my current favorite. Cranch'i is good there too. Good luck on your adventure.
Newport Vapor Room
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Yes,didn't feel like having a battery short out.
Peachy mango is my current favorite. Cranch'i is good there too. Good luck on your adventure.
Newport Vapor Room
WooHOOO...I did it! The button was a tad hard to push but a lot easier with all of your great input and suggestions.
I will soon be a Provari initiate....now to stalk the delivery man....be vewy vewy qwiet!!!!
I will soon be a Provari initiate....now to stalk the delivery man....be vewy vewy qwiet!!!!
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I can't over-stress the importance of using plastic battery cases to carry your spare batteries in.
A case in point, the above picture is of a failed AW IMR battery which a novice vapor was carrying loosely in his book bag. It apparently touched something metalic in the book bag and went into thermal runaway. This just happened last week and was reported in the New Members Forum.
What you see is the silver battery casing, and the entrails of the battery's contents which mushroomed out of the battery as it vented hot gases. Imagine this happening in a pants pocket or purse when in contact with keys or loose change. Always practice safe battery habits by keeping your batteries in an appropriate non-metalic container.
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I can't over-stress the importance of using plastic battery cases to carry your spare batteries in.
A case in point, the above picture is of a failed AW IMR battery which a novice vapor was carrying free in his bookbag. It apparently touched something metalic in the bookbag and went into thermal runaway. This just happened last week and was reported in the New Members Forum.
What you see is the silver battery casing, and the entrails of the battery's contents which mushroomed out of the battery as it vented hot gases. Imagine this happening in a pants pocket or purse when in contact with keys or loose change. Always practice safe battery habits by keeping your batteries in an appropriate non-metalic container.
Good grief!!!!! Thanks for that tip! Case ordered...check
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Hands down, the best advice I ever took since I started vaping was to get a ProVari. I love it! There's alot of folks on here that like to bash ProVari, but dogs don't bark at parked cars! It's as close to a perfect device as you'll find. Great folks at ProVape too. Congratulations!
Well allow me to jump in on this thread. First welcome and congrats to you for posing such an interesting question--I have a feeling you'll be one of us sooner than later.
Here's my story....
I don't know where i first heard the term vaping but it piqued my interest and I began researching.
At the time, I wasn't quite interested in giving up cigarettes and then life events took me away from my researching and I found myself smoking more.
I started with a Blu e-cig which I ended up giving away. It tasted like nothing and felt like I was trying to suck a rock thru a straw.
One day I woke up needing to go to the store for cigarettes and once outside said to myself; either get some or hop on public transportation and take that 2 hr ride to the only store I was able to find that sold e-cig kits.
Sure, I could've gotten something online but that would mean also buying cigarettes and smoking until my shipment arrived.
In the course of 1 week I bought an eGo kit and an EVOD starter kit.
I probably would've been fine with both for who knows how long but then I started spending an obsessive amount of time here on ECF. It seemed I'd entered a universe I didn't know existed and I'm positive my bank account wishes I hadn't found this existence.
Just about in EVERY thread I read, someone mentioned ProVari--followed by newbies shouldn't start out with one.
So now here it is week 2 and I bought a Segelei Zmax--a variable wattage/variable voltage device.
Now my ONLY reason for buying this was due to many of us not being as slow as the newbie stigma carries--I mean how hard can ut be to adjust a device to taste?
Somewhere between week 3 and 4 I decided I wanted a mechanical mod and wanted to try out RBA/RDA's--something I initially had NO interest in doing.
Most of them looked very intimidating and with the little space to work with all I could think was my nails were too long to play with coils and I had no intention of cutting them down.
Well, I didn't cut my nails and got the Diablo (clone).
Now it's been 4 weeks of vaping, I've purchased everything under the sun and cant get rid of the feeling I should've bought a ProVari despite the nay sayers.
Part of me understands now where they were coming from in not pushing a $200 device towards new vapors.
Some stick with it; others give up and it's cheaper to give up on a $15 eGo with no regrets.
By week 5 I knew I was getting a ProVari Mini.
Some people need to use one to "get it."
Too much reading, too many youtube videos with nothing but praise for it....I got "it!"
I've said in other post, internet pics don't do it justice.
I won't say all the other devices I purchased were a waste of money--they were not.
I look at them as stepping stones and learning tools for without them I wouldn't have the knowledge I've gained in such a short amount of time.
I haven't put my mini down since the day I got it and plan on getting other colors.
I saw the purple in a B&M store--wasn't feeling it.
Here's my story....
I don't know where i first heard the term vaping but it piqued my interest and I began researching.
At the time, I wasn't quite interested in giving up cigarettes and then life events took me away from my researching and I found myself smoking more.
I started with a Blu e-cig which I ended up giving away. It tasted like nothing and felt like I was trying to suck a rock thru a straw.
One day I woke up needing to go to the store for cigarettes and once outside said to myself; either get some or hop on public transportation and take that 2 hr ride to the only store I was able to find that sold e-cig kits.
Sure, I could've gotten something online but that would mean also buying cigarettes and smoking until my shipment arrived.
In the course of 1 week I bought an eGo kit and an EVOD starter kit.
I probably would've been fine with both for who knows how long but then I started spending an obsessive amount of time here on ECF. It seemed I'd entered a universe I didn't know existed and I'm positive my bank account wishes I hadn't found this existence.
Just about in EVERY thread I read, someone mentioned ProVari--followed by newbies shouldn't start out with one.
So now here it is week 2 and I bought a Segelei Zmax--a variable wattage/variable voltage device.
Now my ONLY reason for buying this was due to many of us not being as slow as the newbie stigma carries--I mean how hard can ut be to adjust a device to taste?
Somewhere between week 3 and 4 I decided I wanted a mechanical mod and wanted to try out RBA/RDA's--something I initially had NO interest in doing.
Most of them looked very intimidating and with the little space to work with all I could think was my nails were too long to play with coils and I had no intention of cutting them down.
Well, I didn't cut my nails and got the Diablo (clone).
Now it's been 4 weeks of vaping, I've purchased everything under the sun and cant get rid of the feeling I should've bought a ProVari despite the nay sayers.
Part of me understands now where they were coming from in not pushing a $200 device towards new vapors.
Some stick with it; others give up and it's cheaper to give up on a $15 eGo with no regrets.
By week 5 I knew I was getting a ProVari Mini.
Some people need to use one to "get it."
Too much reading, too many youtube videos with nothing but praise for it....I got "it!"
I've said in other post, internet pics don't do it justice.
I won't say all the other devices I purchased were a waste of money--they were not.
I look at them as stepping stones and learning tools for without them I wouldn't have the knowledge I've gained in such a short amount of time.
I haven't put my mini down since the day I got it and plan on getting other colors.
I saw the purple in a B&M store--wasn't feeling it.
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Hi Bassnorma and welcome.
I just wrote my vaping CV for another thread, so if you're interested, here's the link.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...deal-these-high-end-mods-13.html#post10833394
Good luck and happy vaping!
I just wrote my vaping CV for another thread, so if you're interested, here's the link.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...deal-these-high-end-mods-13.html#post10833394
Good luck and happy vaping!
I started with a Blu e-cig which I ended up giving away. It tasted like nothing and felt like I was trying to suck a rock thru a straw.
I saw the purple in a B&M store--wasn't feeling it.
Wow, thanks for that story. It validates my decision. You said so many pertinent things but I had to laugh at the "rock though a straw". I felt this with my Red Dragon cigalike years ago!
Oh and glad I did not choose purple...I am more of a plum person, really
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Thanks Katya! I am glad I stopped lurking...it's just creepy.
BTW, read the CV...I like to hear others e-cig experiences and see how far we have come in nicotine delivery. Thanks for that!
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I chose a white mini too.
That tank is stunning! So creative....what is under the art?
BTW, if you're really interested in how far we've come, check out this thread. It's so bittersweet and hysterically funny--at least to us, who've been at it for a while.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo.../470502-i-remember-back-day.html#post10745454
Thank you.
Hello Neighbor!
Nice rig!
Thank you.
It is very VERY cool! Thanks again all for your help and explanations and to you Newport for the life saving case links and a juice suggestion as well. You folks know how to treat a poor noob right.
Off too bed before I get forum face!
Bookmarked for tomorrow, I am sure I will like this one from the title.
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