Now going on week 4 of tobacco free! But I did and am making mistakes.
I soon discovered the key to happy vapping is lots of batteries (more correctly amperage) and lots of loaded cartos. Now experimenting with cartomizers and mega 510's.
Managing E Cigs requires a change in lifestyle: managing batteries, cartos, supplies, etc. You cannot run into the nearest shop and buy "stuff" the way you can an anolog and just light up.
Dripping is just not for me. In fact, if dripping were my only alternative, I would be back on tobacco. My hectic, mobile lifestyle, and personality won't permit it.
I have not been happy with the amount of vapes out of 510 cartridge, simply because they do not hold a lot of juice. Been messing with tea bag, fluval-with only marginal improvement. The problem is that the atty side is a dry as a bone, and the other side is dripping. After adding a few drops of fluid, you get pooling which tells me that the wick is saturated.
I have noticed that dried out carts will caugh up a few more vapes if left overnight.
There are two straw mods that I have seen. One stuffs the bottom with coffee stirers cut at an angle and leaving some space for the wick. Capillary action will then feed the wick.
Another shoves a steel tube down the side, which allows venting, and allows the wick to work much better. Could try a coffee stirer for this, but having the plastic so close to the atty might cause melting. The demo I saw used a piercing needle, but I need to come up with a tube that is easier to find.
Both capillary improvement and wick venting make sense from an engineering point of view. Both capillary action and wicking are well defined and studied in the engineering literature.
I will have to find out which one applies more.
Will try them both and let you know.
Tony
I soon discovered the key to happy vapping is lots of batteries (more correctly amperage) and lots of loaded cartos. Now experimenting with cartomizers and mega 510's.
Managing E Cigs requires a change in lifestyle: managing batteries, cartos, supplies, etc. You cannot run into the nearest shop and buy "stuff" the way you can an anolog and just light up.
Dripping is just not for me. In fact, if dripping were my only alternative, I would be back on tobacco. My hectic, mobile lifestyle, and personality won't permit it.
I have not been happy with the amount of vapes out of 510 cartridge, simply because they do not hold a lot of juice. Been messing with tea bag, fluval-with only marginal improvement. The problem is that the atty side is a dry as a bone, and the other side is dripping. After adding a few drops of fluid, you get pooling which tells me that the wick is saturated.
I have noticed that dried out carts will caugh up a few more vapes if left overnight.
There are two straw mods that I have seen. One stuffs the bottom with coffee stirers cut at an angle and leaving some space for the wick. Capillary action will then feed the wick.
Another shoves a steel tube down the side, which allows venting, and allows the wick to work much better. Could try a coffee stirer for this, but having the plastic so close to the atty might cause melting. The demo I saw used a piercing needle, but I need to come up with a tube that is easier to find.
Both capillary improvement and wick venting make sense from an engineering point of view. Both capillary action and wicking are well defined and studied in the engineering literature.
I will have to find out which one applies more.
Will try them both and let you know.
Tony
