another n00b from Carolina

[wwwmarty]

Enjoying all the great advice on this fine forum!

iStick 30w, Subtank Mini 0.5 is my daily vape, but I'm looking to upgrade to a dripper. So many gorgeous mech mods out there, but I will only afford a clone I'm afraid. (maybe the Doge V4 and Panzer MM from fasttech?)

Then i read about batteries and coil ohms and safety and think, maybe the pre-builts are the way to go for me... not much of a DIYer' and if I did get the clone mentioned above I would take it to the shop for a proper build.

Just tired of throwing away the OCC coils every 5 or 6 days... they seem to burn up after about 40ml or so...

Suggestions welcome.

PS: SMAX Pony on Acid is the bomb-diggity.

 

[wwwmarty]

On the nicotine thing, I find I need less and less over the course of the day. I keep a bottle of plain VG handy, and mix down over the course of the day. In the morning 9 or 12mg, but by 9PM when I'm puffing just for the heck of it, 6 mg or below.

Started at 18mg 3 months ago, and will stop buying 12 soon, and mix down from 6mg. Who knows how things will go from there.

 

[BrotherBob]

looking to upgrade to a dripper

Suggest you start with a deep well dripper to start. Should hold around 1-2 mil. I would suggest one, but I see flavor is not you main desire. If you vape a sub mini, the cloud production desire often over shadows a flavor RDA output.

pre-builts are the way to go

To save money and have more control over your vape, building your coils are simple. You need to do a little research with regards to building a coil esp if you sub ohm.

I tootle puff, so someone should be able to help a cloud user regarding a RDA and directing you to how to build sub ohm coils for cloud chasing.

PS: Some folks think cloud chasing and flavor chasing are not mutually exclusive. I heard the argument both ways, who knows.

 

[nyiddle]

Huge fan of the Doge RDA's, my all-day-vape is a Doge V1. I'm not a cloud chaser or flavor chaser (I vape flavorless) but the Doge definitely chucks. I vape at around .6 ohms/6V on a regulated box.

As for the mech mod route.. I highly suggest regulated mods these days. Safety features, variable wattage, and (for me) comfortable form factor. If you are going to go the mech mod route, don't get a Panzer clone. I own one and, while sometimes it worked fine, it often had hot-button issues. I think the spring was to blame, so you could replace that probably but uhh.. Just spare yourself the effort. No Panzer.

 

[Frenchfry1942]

A lot of YouTube videos for building coils.

 

[Eitje]

Enjoying all the great advice on this fine forum!

iStick 30w, Subtank Mini 0.5 is my daily vape, but I'm looking to upgrade to a dripper. So many gorgeous mech mods out there, but I will only afford a clone I'm afraid. (maybe the Doge V4 and Panzer MM from fasttech?)

Then i read about batteries and coil ohms and safety and think, maybe the pre-builts are the way to go for me... not much of a DIYer' and if I did get the clone mentioned above I would take it to the shop for a proper build.

Just tired of throwing away the OCC coils every 5 or 6 days... they seem to burn up after about 40ml or so...

Suggestions welcome.

PS: SMAX Pony on Acid is the bomb-diggity.

I'd stay away from mechs nowadays. They are a pita if you are just looking for a quick reliable vape.
Building your own coils and using an RDA however has little to do with mechs and is definitely worth it. Its also a lot safer on a regulated mod than on a mech and although you still need to learn a little about ohms and coil building, the risk of doing things 'catastrophically' wrong is a lot smaller.
Buy a RDA, some cotton and some kanthal and you good to go. For less than 20$ bucks fasttech will drop it off at your doorstep and you'll be set for a year or so with a nice velocity clone to enjoy.

It will take you a day of fiddling and you'll be a coil building expert.

 

[wwwmarty]

Ok I've added the Velocity clone to my Doge cart and removed the Panzer, but now am stumped for a power unit. Just like juices, too many choices. And I don't know what my requirements will be, until I've tried different builds? is that correct?