building a cig-a-like

[Vapoate]

now this maybe/is a dumb question but has anyone here tried to make a better cig-a-like? i personally love cig-a-likes but they never worked out for me and was just wondering if anyone has one that they had built.

 

[turbocad6]

anyone who takes vaping seriously enough to think about building there own is probably not going to build something so very limited in usage time and vapor production. the real limitation in a form factor like that is going to be battery capacity and juice capacity

 

[Norrin]

OK from someone who has never used one and to be honest think they are a really bad thing. They make the association between vaping and smoking much easier for those trying to suppress us for starters.
So what are the good points you like and the reasons they didn't work for you? Can't build a better one without knowing the issues although I think the battery is going to be the problem ever time.

 

[cadcoke5]

I am actually investigating a similar thing myself. Though, probably for a different reason that the original poster.
Higher power cigarette scale device?
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ower-cigarette-scale-device.html#post14651672

I found there were some commercial e-cigs that perhaps meet your own needs for a higher power e-cig. I suspect that an improvement on anything commercially available would simply be a charging stand that you set your e-cig onto, and it would charge. It may even be viable to make some sort of base with the juice in it that would automatically re-fill the e-cigs juice.

The re-juicer is idea I just had. It is the inventor in me that wants to constantly come up with ideas like this. So, let me think it out a bit more. Perhaps the e-cig could be the same form factor as the traditional old-style e-cig. But, omit the plastic cap on the end. Then, the base has a reservoir of liquid juice, with a wick in it. The user sets his e-cig down so that that wick comes in contact with the internal batting in the cartomizer. It will hopefully absorb the juice as much as it can hold, and not overfill.

Note that I am unlikely to ever pursue this idea myself, but I may be able to offer more details to someone else, if they are interested in pursuing it. Here is a drawing of what I was thinking.


-Joe

 

[asdaq]

OK from someone who has never used one and to be honest think they are a really bad thing. They make the association between vaping and smoking much easier for those trying to suppress us for starters.
So what are the good points you like and the reasons they didn't work for you? Can't build a better one without knowing the issues although I think the battery is going to be the problem ever time.

If you reverse this theory, a lot of smokers feel comfortable switching to something familiar to them. I get a lot of opinions from smokers and non smokers that go along the lines of 'why does it need to look like that?' or 'Oh, I saw an ecig someone had and it looked _just_ like a real one.' To them mods just seem clunky and big.

If they were not so fiddly and high maintenance, A slew of 10 or 20 cig-a-likes would probably be satisfying enough for a lot of vapers for a day, and could have a modern enough delivery system, but refilling and recharging all those sounds just horrible, to me.

 

[1mouse3]

something small and at 4.5-5v with a atty/carto at 2.3-2.5ohm, would be nice to have. I have been tempted to get a v4l zeus battery, rip it apart an find out how it works. I dont mind carts but several I have try dont seemed to be packed right, like too tight so that they wick too slow. I more have been attracted to ~16mm devices, like the taifun gs I got an a aiolos that I should be getting soon with a nemi nemisis

 

[1mouse3]

32g 13 rap 1.7mm at 4.1ohm coil on a dub stack of 10280 for 7.4, would make not a half bad setup. just kicking a ideal, let me see what type of amp limit these batters got