Anybody Using A Kabuki?
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It -wood- seem to me that the Provape-1 was unregulated, at least in the sense that it had the normal battery droop at the end of its charge...which is what I consider unregulated. It DID, however, end up having some regulation on the safety side of things, which may qualify it as a regulated mod for some of you...
Manual for Provape-1
http://e-cigareta-shop.com/userfiles/fck/file/Provari/ProVape1Manual.pdf
Old link for Provape-1/Provape-1 "v2.1"
ProVape-1 3 7V Electronic Vaporizer in a satin silver
Manual for Provape-1
http://e-cigareta-shop.com/userfiles/fck/file/Provari/ProVape1Manual.pdf
Old link for Provape-1/Provape-1 "v2.1"
ProVape-1 3 7V Electronic Vaporizer in a satin silver
Thanks HB...
I kinda miss you over in the Provi thread.
Wood you consider coming back?
Signed: A Forum Member Who Enjoys Your Banter!
Jim
For Jim's purposes, and for most vapers, it's definitely unregulated. Regulated would be something like the Evod, that is fixed at 3.7 (at least supposedly) through the entirety of the battery usage. And I only pulled the Evod out of my orifice. It's just example of a common theme, and the one that happened to pop into my head.
Protected, definitely (P1). But not regulated.
Good info, HB. Thanks for the retrospective look. It had been awhile...
I think you can chock that up to 100% certain... The ProVape PV was not regulated for voltage, though it did have current limiting that shuts it down if it approached a dangerous condition at the output.
Not as clumsy or random as a mechanical; an elegant device for a more civilized age.
Probably not.
At least not until certain ECF members are permanently banned from any thread with the words Provari or Provape in it.
I sure do know that!
And it pains me to have things the way they are, but I can't buckle my beliefs for nobody! Not no how, not no way!
Well, HB, rest assured that Jim speaks the truth. You are indeed missed.
So I thought this was a really good idea...my SnP steel tank didn't fit and I ended up having to order from the USA (nowhere has them in the UK). Decided the best thing was to get it from provape and to justify the shipping cost by adding another provari
(I like my purchases to be cost effective 
)
After listening to Zen on Vape Miser's YouTube channel and reading this thread, I bought a Kabuki in P3 threading from ProVape. I've been playing with it now for about a week. I'm finding using the tank on a P3 in 18350 mode at 7.6 watts with my "normal" 50-50 juice and the Nautilus 1.8ohm coil works the best for me. This setup produces great flavor, doesn't burn through juice like it's free and produces enough vapor to make it look like something is going on rather than so much vapor it sets off the smoke alarm down the hall. I'm about to the point of ordering at least one more, maybe two, and another P3, so I can have three setups at once. My only reservation, other than cost, is the Nautilus coil.
I started vaping about 18 months ago, quit Black and Mild cigars in one day, and stumbled upon the Nautilus Mini and the BVC coil. I'm embarrassed to say how many full-size Nautilus tanks and Minis I wound up with, but my tank stand from vaporstands.com holds 29 tanks, plus I have other stands from Tim and Diana that hold another two dozen or so mods all with tanks mounted. I shudder to think how much money I've spent or in many cases just blown. I keep telling myself: but you are not smoking and no longer have that $75 or more a week habit.
Anyway, I never paid much attention to how long the Nautilus coils lasted. When things started tasting nasty, I'd wash the tank and change the coil. Several months ago I noticed the coils were not lasting very long, sometimes not even a full 5ml tank. And it wasn't like I was going at huge power. 10 watts on my normal 50-50 juice and 12 or so on higher VG juices. I'd remove the coil and there'd be this nasty glob on the end of the coil and the bottom chamber wouldn't be full of juice, but there'd be enough that I'd use several Q-tips to clean it out or just had to wash it. I figured my problem started about the time I ran out of the old ceramic coils and began using the cotton coils.
I looked on this forum and couldn't find many or any with my exact problem, but the Aspire forums were loaded with ...... off users. When it didn't appear a fix was coming from Aspire, I slowly phased over to a Kanger Subtank Mini base with a bell cap tank from Sweet Vapes and the new 1.5ohm coil. That combo is affordable, but has a different set of issues. I tried the Triton and the 1.8ohm coil. Great coil, terrible tank. But that coil in an Atlantis 1 tank works wonderful, but really runs through the juice.
So my questions to you guys are do you have similar problems with the Nautilus coils in the Kabuki and do you worry that Aspire will stop making the Nautilus coils anytime soon? As much as Zen seems to be a great guy and run a first-class outfit, I'd hate to spend another three or four hundred bucks only to discover the coils don't last or are no longer being made.
Thank you for your opinions.
I started vaping about 18 months ago, quit Black and Mild cigars in one day, and stumbled upon the Nautilus Mini and the BVC coil. I'm embarrassed to say how many full-size Nautilus tanks and Minis I wound up with, but my tank stand from vaporstands.com holds 29 tanks, plus I have other stands from Tim and Diana that hold another two dozen or so mods all with tanks mounted. I shudder to think how much money I've spent or in many cases just blown. I keep telling myself: but you are not smoking and no longer have that $75 or more a week habit.
Anyway, I never paid much attention to how long the Nautilus coils lasted. When things started tasting nasty, I'd wash the tank and change the coil. Several months ago I noticed the coils were not lasting very long, sometimes not even a full 5ml tank. And it wasn't like I was going at huge power. 10 watts on my normal 50-50 juice and 12 or so on higher VG juices. I'd remove the coil and there'd be this nasty glob on the end of the coil and the bottom chamber wouldn't be full of juice, but there'd be enough that I'd use several Q-tips to clean it out or just had to wash it. I figured my problem started about the time I ran out of the old ceramic coils and began using the cotton coils.
I looked on this forum and couldn't find many or any with my exact problem, but the Aspire forums were loaded with ...... off users. When it didn't appear a fix was coming from Aspire, I slowly phased over to a Kanger Subtank Mini base with a bell cap tank from Sweet Vapes and the new 1.5ohm coil. That combo is affordable, but has a different set of issues. I tried the Triton and the 1.8ohm coil. Great coil, terrible tank. But that coil in an Atlantis 1 tank works wonderful, but really runs through the juice.
So my questions to you guys are do you have similar problems with the Nautilus coils in the Kabuki and do you worry that Aspire will stop making the Nautilus coils anytime soon? As much as Zen seems to be a great guy and run a first-class outfit, I'd hate to spend another three or four hundred bucks only to discover the coils don't last or are no longer being made.
Thank you for your opinions.
Nautilus is a pretty popular platform right now, as to the future, who knows??? I get about ten to fifteen mls through a new cotton Nautilus coil, and I am done, the flavor changes for me, goes off. I have dissected many of them and found that the coil is loading up and the cotton that is against the coil is black, this is what affects the taste and makes the coil unacceptable to me at that point. They are disposable, ( I dissect the coils and unwrap the no res - res - no res wire and make new coils for my Protank 2s 
) which it seems fewer and fewer vendors are carrying. I think that if the Aspire coils ever go the way of the dinosaurs, it will be because something better comes along, and everybody will be chasing after that new unicorn. The merry go round of vaping and where all of our expendable income flies out of our hands seems to be a never ending circus. I eagerly await the day when a product gains lasting market stability, as in years instead of months...
P.S. I love my Kabuki, it is a really sweet setup, hassle free, awesome flavor, spot on performance...live for the moment.
) which it seems fewer and fewer vendors are carrying. I think that if the Aspire coils ever go the way of the dinosaurs, it will be because something better comes along, and everybody will be chasing after that new unicorn. The merry go round of vaping and where all of our expendable income flies out of our hands seems to be a never ending circus. I eagerly await the day when a product gains lasting market stability, as in years instead of months...P.S. I love my Kabuki, it is a really sweet setup, hassle free, awesome flavor, spot on performance...live for the moment.
I have worked it out as follows– the kabuki & steel tank cost spread over a year = £1.50 a week. (I do expect it to last much longer). If a coil lasts a week it will cost me £1.50 for the kabuki and around £1.60 for the coil which means a maximum of £3.10 a week (or 6-7 cigarettes at UK costs). If a coil lasts a day it will be a maximum of £1.85 each day. (I was smoking a PAD which at today’s cost would be £10 a day).
My current coil is the old sort, has lasted 2 weeks (23 fills) so far and is still going strong (I do use high PG unflavoured in it though). Once I have tracked a few of the new coils and have an average I will stock up so I have at least a years worth. If it looks like they are going to be discontinued and I’m still as keen on it then I will stock up a few years worth. My re-buildables (e.g. kayfun) obviously work out a lot cheaper and I still use them and love them but the Kabuki is gorgeous, incredibly convenient and a comparable vape so I am very happy with the cost/ benefit ratio even given the nightmare, coil-a-day, absolutely worst case scenario.
My current coil is the old sort, has lasted 2 weeks (23 fills) so far and is still going strong (I do use high PG unflavoured in it though). Once I have tracked a few of the new coils and have an average I will stock up so I have at least a years worth. If it looks like they are going to be discontinued and I’m still as keen on it then I will stock up a few years worth. My re-buildables (e.g. kayfun) obviously work out a lot cheaper and I still use them and love them but the Kabuki is gorgeous, incredibly convenient and a comparable vape so I am very happy with the cost/ benefit ratio even given the nightmare, coil-a-day, absolutely worst case scenario.
I admit to not tracking closely, but believe I'm changing the coils in mine once every 7-10 days. My juices are 65/35 (PG/VG) and relatively light in color.
I'm thrilled with my two Kabuki tanks and will likely invest in more, once shades-of-black come into play. But it should be stated that my preference has clearly been toward Aspire coils, both BVC and Nautilus. I still enjoy a few Kanger tanks, but given an option, I'll always opt for one of the Aspire ones.
Taste, like size before it, matters.
I'm thrilled with my two Kabuki tanks and will likely invest in more, once shades-of-black come into play. But it should be stated that my preference has clearly been toward Aspire coils, both BVC and Nautilus. I still enjoy a few Kanger tanks, but given an option, I'll always opt for one of the Aspire ones.
Taste, like size before it, matters.
Thanks to everyone for the comments. Almost 100% of my vaping with Nautilus coils has been withe Space Jam Eclipse, which I'm pretty sure is 50-50, so higher VG juices are not the problem.
If the Kabuki turns out to be perfect tank for me, and I have to change the coil every day at $2~2.50 a pop, then I guess I just have to pay it. What I need to do, I suppose, is start on a Sunday morning and just vape with the Kabuki and Eclipse for a week and see where I am. Right now with seven juices going in lots of tanks and mods, I have no idea what I'm spending--and up to this point do not want to know!
I sure wish I knew of a dealer that still had the pre-cotton coils in-stock. I'd load up. I have 75 dealers bookmarked. I guess I could email all of them and ask? Anyone know of a dealer with the old coils?
I would also like a black Kabuki with dark grey glass to match my P3 Stealth.
If the Kabuki turns out to be perfect tank for me, and I have to change the coil every day at $2~2.50 a pop, then I guess I just have to pay it. What I need to do, I suppose, is start on a Sunday morning and just vape with the Kabuki and Eclipse for a week and see where I am. Right now with seven juices going in lots of tanks and mods, I have no idea what I'm spending--and up to this point do not want to know!
I sure wish I knew of a dealer that still had the pre-cotton coils in-stock. I'd load up. I have 75 dealers bookmarked. I guess I could email all of them and ask? Anyone know of a dealer with the old coils?
I would also like a black Kabuki with dark grey glass to match my P3 Stealth.
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