I recently got two SmokTech 510 LR Atties to try (1.7ohm)...but I'm not too impressed with them.
The vapor and flavor are nice, but only if they're really really wet and gurgley (about 5-6 drops to prime them, plus 2-3 drops to keep them vaping). As soon as the 2-3 drops of liquid is used up, watch out...this low-res atty tastes like a rabid forest fire and I start to choke as if I'm in a burning house. It tastes that bad.
I'm using a PumpCart with it now for steady feeding into the Atty, and it helps. However, the PumpCart looks & feels like a prosthetic and I can't use my favorite drip-tip because it has its own mouthpiece (a hard plastic one), so I'm not too fond of it either...and it's still difficult to tell when that "forest fire" will hit. So, I have to count how many puffs I take (which I often forget to do). After only a few puffs, maybe 4, I have to start taking short 3-puff hits during a vape as I try to anticipate the next fill (or pump). But sometimes, as if out of nowhere, I hit a dry spot when there's plenty of liquid in it...and poof...I start choking again. This can't be normal(??).
I'm a newbie with the Atty and only been vaping 2 months, and with an Atty one week. So I'm sure you'll get better feedback from those who've been vaping with atties longer than I have. But I too have been wondering what's the best low-res atty out there...for flavor, vapor production, reliability, and longevity, etc....especially since one of my SmokTech LR Atties completely fried on me just by pressing the switch on my eGo-T battery for less than a second to see if it was working. This was right after I opened the packaging and before I put any drops in them. I figured I just screwed up the atty, but then wondered why it had popped so soon with less than a second of burn time.
I had heard that Cisco LR Atties were the best low-res atties for the money...and I was just about to buy some to try. But now I'm glad I saw your post and the replies in here because I don't think I'll be buying them anytime soon. I'm gonna start looking at the Joye 510 LR Atties and the IkenVape before I try anymore atties.
BTW: I was using the SmokTech 510 LR Atty on an eGo-T battery (1000mAh), but haven't used it often on the eGo because it's not a high-drain device. I don't have a 3.7v Mod with a high-drain IMR battery yet, which I think would handle the pull better...but I don't think that would necessarily take care of the rest I mentioned above.
Compared to the SmokTech LR Atty...I get better overall performance and slightly more vapor from my 510 & 808 CE2x XL Clearomizers (2.5ohms), which I've tweaked to perfection so they vape like a chimney and are nice & easy to use and don't leak or gurgle at all...no problems there. I'm still using the first CE2x's I bought just over a month-and-a-half ago without having to buy anymore (they're RoyalSmokers from GotVapes), and so far, I've been able to refill them 8 times before they drop in vapor production and need some cleaning (they're 1.8ml capacity). I'm very pleased with these CE2x's (once they're tweaked and ready to go), and for me they've come to be like a "benchmark" for comparison against other carts I've tried.
So, in regards to vapor & flavor, the CE2x's at 2.5ohms also out-perform my Giantomizers, my VisionClearos, and lately the SmokTech LR Atty I've been trying as well...except that the SmokTech LR Atty does give a slightly better flavor, but not by much though, and only as long as the atty is really really wet & gurgly the whole time...otherwise the SmokTech LR Atty has been a real pain-in-the-throat to use...lol.
Thanks for this post hoku808pc.
Greeny
PS: I'm thinking of completely removing the bridge from my atty
and lowering the atomizer-coil slightly, then dripping directly onto
the atomizer-coil to see if that helps. Anyone in this post try that yet?