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rosesense

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    All depends on how much juice you use per year how long that cube you have will last. There's 4,000 ml of vg or pg per gallon. Just an example, If I make 3,000 ml of 50/50 juice per year using 10% flavoring with zero nic the cube's going to last me about 6 years. :)
    Thanks, I was too lazy to figure it out. I think I will pass, I am good for a very long time even with using it as body lotion.
     

    ad356

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    call me nuts. i just bought 20 batteries and a charger from lightning vapes. brown style LG 3000 MAH batteries. the kind that sells in the vape shops for $10 a piece. $118 total bill
    so here is where i stand the last few days:
    separate orders
    3 kbox mods from eciggity $95
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    ad356

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    i must be nuts just placed another order. 20 brown LG 3000 MAH 18650 batteries along with a 4 bay nitecore battery charger $118 from lightning vapes. this is getting absurd but i have never seen stuff so cheap, and it will never be this cheap again if you can even get it. it used to be that i would hold off buying because i knew better would be around the corner and the products that had been on the market a little while would go down in price. well that's just not the case anymore. there wont be anything new if ever again.
     

    ad356

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    so here is where i stand:
    ecigitty total:$485
    mfs nic $640
    lightning vapes $118
    ebay cotton 180 sheets, $13.50
    ebay 100 ft of kanthal 26 AWG $6.20
    total:1260
    for $1260
    i have 16L of 100 base nicotine, 3 kanger kbox 200W, 8 relux 2/3, 4 drip tips, 1 billow V2 nano, 2 additional aromamizer RDTA, 1 limitless RTDA, 180 sheets of japanese cotton, 100ft of 26 AWG kanthal, 20 brown LG 3000 MAH batteries, and a 4 bay nitecore battery charger.
     

    ad356

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    i have a total of 12 spare mods AND 1 good working provari

    how am i doing. i should be close to being caught up, and the expensive stuff should be just about covered. i think i need to buy some more RTDA tanks, spare parts, a used freezer, and glass bottles. total damage less then $2k. DONE enough to survive decades into a ban. even if stuff doesnt get banned i shouldnt have to buy too much more if i take good care of my stuff.
     

    rosesense

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    what is the best way to store my batteries long term?
    Sounds like you are set. I think Opoholik posted about reading battery university for info on storing batts earlier in the thread. Probably is an ecf thread, maybe do a search.
     

    ScandaLeX

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    what is MVP?

    MVP

    zINK-MVP2-2T.jpg
     

    quittingvegas

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    I should have quoted.
    Thanks ScandaLeX

    No remorse for me either. A lot of what I bought was at crazy, low clearance, or sale prices. Even the Nic was bought with coupon codes. Since it's all stuff I can personally use, and some friends probably also will...nothing will be a waste of money.

    Funny how this just came up, because I got finished placing a $140+ order from a website that's selling all their MVP 2.0 mods (regular ones, Shine Editions + Energy Editions), and their MVP 20W mods...plus a bunch of other types of Innokin stuff, a variety of mech. mods, JoyeTech 510 double starter kits, etc., etc....for just $9.99! Neighbor and I went together to place 1 order for stuff we each wanted. Helped us get free S/H!

    I know the Innokin MVP mods have internal batteries, and many wouldn't want them now. But when I've been using a well-used 1 (traded in at a local vape shop) for over a year and it's still going strong, and another new 1 has no problems either...I figured $9.99 for something that I know I'll get at least 2 years out of, was a no-brainer! Neighbor, who works at a vape shop thought so, too!

    They also had some DCT tanks, cartos, and some other "old-school" stuff, vape bands for $.49, 510 atties for $.99, etc.

    what is MVP?
     

    Robert Cromwell

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    Sounds like you are set. I think Opoholik posted about reading battery university for info on storing batts earlier in the thread. Probably is an ecf thread, maybe do a search.
    do not charge them. check the voltage on them if around mid 3 volts just store them away.
    Check voltage every 3 months or so if voltage above 3 volts no action if under 3 volts charge up to mid 3 volts and re-store. If any of the drops Way down in voltage compared to the others just discard that one.

    You are looking at maybe 2-3 years of storage time max I would think.

    Never long term store fully charged batteries.
     

    ad356

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    spending this much on vaping hardware seems overwhelming but its pretty darn close to lifetime supply. realistically how long does $1250 last a pack per day smoker buying tax stamp cigarettes every day. $11x365=$4,015 per day. just shy of $2k to have enough stock to last decades, cheap

    we should print this entire thread out and send it to the FDA. here you wanted us to read your 500 page document that belongs in the trash. here is 688 pages for you to read on how we are grouped together to circumvent your terrible regs. in short go to !@##
     

    puffon

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    it might be an un-realistic fear but im afraid they will try to mess with the higher powered batteries. what flashlight on the planet needs a 3000 MAH battery with a 20A current discharge level.

    heck $100 for 20 of them is cheap
    Lots of uses for the batteries we use.
    There have been no batteries developed only for vaping. (unfortunately)
    Lot's of info about batteries here:
    How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries - Battery University
     

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    it might be an un-realistic fear but im afraid they will try to mess with the higher powered batteries. what flashlight on the planet needs a 3000 MAH battery with a 20A current discharge level.

    heck $100 for 20 of them is cheap

    Quite few use 18650s batteries... Cordless Drill battery packs, computer battery , some home made electric motors for bicycles etc.
     

    ad356

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    i knew they had other uses but i did not realize that they were using the high powered batteries like we use. anyways they might try to prevent us from buying individual cells and we might someday be stuck buying a drill battery only to strip the batteries out of the pack.
     

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    Okay question for the group - while it isn't going to happen, at least not in its entirety- If tomorrow they backed off of everything taxes included and you were already stocked up - Would you feel any remorse? Would you sell and rebut or just go with what you have?

    Ok two questions...
    No remorse whatsoever. I have very little money and can happily vape the rest of my life for virtually nothing.
    I think the vendors aren't sure what is going to happen either. Maybe they are trying to liquidate the older stuff while they can.
    A lot of the sales are just the usual sales. But, some of them are companies dumping old stock that they don't want anymore.

    I just bought 250 spare coils for my Vision Victory clearos for just $25. Why so cheap? Because the Vision Victory never got very popular and is old stuff they don't want anymore. As a matter of fact, I've only found one vendor, one single vendor, that even still carries the Vision Victory, Heaven Gifts. They're only a dollar each and come with 3 coils included, a needle-tip bottle, the clearo, and an adorable little reusable plastic box.

    Gotta love clearance sections!
     

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