Hi people,
I've been lurking around these forums for a couple months now and finally decided it is time to join in the conversations. I've smoked for 50 years and have tried to quit many, many times. I was successful a few times for around a year or more and successful once for over 5 years. However, I always wanted, craved a smoke.
Anyway, I've jumped into this vaping thing with both feet! My first ecig was a Crown Seven full flavor but that really didn't work very well for me. Size was nice but the vapor and throat hit seemed lacking. In addition, I still wanted analogs. That's when I started doing some research and decided I wanted to try a "mod" which I thought would provide more flexibility. However, each mod I decided to buy seemed to be totally unavailable, such as the GG, the Caravela and others. In addition, I wanted a good genesis style rebuildable atty (RBA) which also seemed beyond my grasp.
I finally decided on the provari with a z atty pro. Again, no luck since provape was out of the z atty pro. Therefore, I decided to just buy the provari and wait for the z atty pro to come available. In the mean time I just used a 510 regular atomizer and drip tip (I didn't understand the difference in the reg or LR 510 atomizer). This worked fairly well with my selection of juices but was kind of a pain to take to work and kept drifting back to analogs.
Finally, I searched most of the night one evening and found a couple other RBAs that seemed to have good reviews and bought them. One is the Bliss (which I love) and the other is a 5 ml cobra. The corbra seems just too big and the throat hit is way too powerful for me using the juices I currently have which are provape 80%PG/20%VG 25mg tobacco bold.
I erroneously thought I wanted a tobacco blend so that the vaping experience was more like smoking. Maybe a common noobie mistake but since I know analogs taste like an ashtray, I kick myself for buying several bottles of this blend/flavor.
It does make it a little easier to try out different combinations of battery mods, atomizers, tanks, RBAs etc since the different experiences must be attributable to the mod/atomizer combos rather than the juice.
In my never ending quest to try different hardware combinations I've since bought an EA battery mod (I use it the most now) with an aga RBA and my most recent purchase is a Metal Madness Temon full set. In addition, Provape finally has the z atty pro in stock so I bought one of those.
While all these purchases may seem a little excessive (or a lot excessive) it seems to be that there is a ready market for the items I've purchased if I decide to sell them. Therefore, this is mostly a deep dive into figuring out what combination is going to work for me. So far I learned the following:
I would love to hear recommendations for different flavors/brands of juice made in the US not China or perhaps the UK since I think our safety/quality may be better or at least more stringent than the Chinese equivalents at the moment.
BB
I've been lurking around these forums for a couple months now and finally decided it is time to join in the conversations. I've smoked for 50 years and have tried to quit many, many times. I was successful a few times for around a year or more and successful once for over 5 years. However, I always wanted, craved a smoke.
Anyway, I've jumped into this vaping thing with both feet! My first ecig was a Crown Seven full flavor but that really didn't work very well for me. Size was nice but the vapor and throat hit seemed lacking. In addition, I still wanted analogs. That's when I started doing some research and decided I wanted to try a "mod" which I thought would provide more flexibility. However, each mod I decided to buy seemed to be totally unavailable, such as the GG, the Caravela and others. In addition, I wanted a good genesis style rebuildable atty (RBA) which also seemed beyond my grasp.
I finally decided on the provari with a z atty pro. Again, no luck since provape was out of the z atty pro. Therefore, I decided to just buy the provari and wait for the z atty pro to come available. In the mean time I just used a 510 regular atomizer and drip tip (I didn't understand the difference in the reg or LR 510 atomizer). This worked fairly well with my selection of juices but was kind of a pain to take to work and kept drifting back to analogs.
Finally, I searched most of the night one evening and found a couple other RBAs that seemed to have good reviews and bought them. One is the Bliss (which I love) and the other is a 5 ml cobra. The corbra seems just too big and the throat hit is way too powerful for me using the juices I currently have which are provape 80%PG/20%VG 25mg tobacco bold.
I erroneously thought I wanted a tobacco blend so that the vaping experience was more like smoking. Maybe a common noobie mistake but since I know analogs taste like an ashtray, I kick myself for buying several bottles of this blend/flavor.
It does make it a little easier to try out different combinations of battery mods, atomizers, tanks, RBAs etc since the different experiences must be attributable to the mod/atomizer combos rather than the juice.
In my never ending quest to try different hardware combinations I've since bought an EA battery mod (I use it the most now) with an aga RBA and my most recent purchase is a Metal Madness Temon full set. In addition, Provape finally has the z atty pro in stock so I bought one of those.
While all these purchases may seem a little excessive (or a lot excessive) it seems to be that there is a ready market for the items I've purchased if I decide to sell them. Therefore, this is mostly a deep dive into figuring out what combination is going to work for me. So far I learned the following:
- The provari is great and I need the ohm meter functions when building the RBA coils for the genesis style RBAs I've purchased
- I love the size and function of the MM Temon best so far but I do need to change the battery at work (using the smallest battery)
- The EA mechanical mod is really nice and with the bliss attached it may be hard to beat. Need to figure out the juice for it.
- The AGA RBA is far more economical than the bliss, Cobra or Zatty and seems to work just as well. However, the build is not quite as nice if one is very concerned with aesthetics.
- Building the wick and coil for a genesis style RBA is very simple. Lots of utube videos of how to do them.
- I tried a tank system form Provape that was just a leaking mess as I flooded the carto and just really didn't know how to use a tank system yet (still don't really). This was a very inexpensive tank also..
- I love the hit and flavor when just dripping into my 510 atty with either the EA mod or the Provari. However, it is not convenient for work.
I would love to hear recommendations for different flavors/brands of juice made in the US not China or perhaps the UK since I think our safety/quality may be better or at least more stringent than the Chinese equivalents at the moment.
BB
