Coil/ejuice consumption help
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Yes, and No.
4-5ml is not very much. Funny how you never mentioned the watts. It's the watts what does it.. you must be quite gentle with your vape. I approve.
Sorry. I run it at about 35 watts.
Now, am I going in circles here in one sense? Would I be considerably smarter financially and experience wise to take the next step buying an RTA at this point. Say the Kanger Protank 4 for example?
Now, am I going in circles here in one sense? Would I be considerably smarter financially and experience wise to take the next step buying an RTA at this point. Say the Kanger Protank 4 for example?
I'm not the person to ask, as I use both factory coils and rebuildable atomizers.
Rebuilding saves money, but in the UK where smoking is so insanely expensive factory coils cost less than 1 cigarette a day.
We (UK) all need to DIY liquid and know how to rebuild to deal with the upcoming zombie apocalypse.
Protank 4 is at the bottom of my list. Not interested in dual coil tanks. Dual coil drippers or squonkers, yes. Dual coils need more power and vaporize more liquid... so not great i.m.o.
If I went dual coil tank, I might consider it.... after an Aromamizer....
I have a PT4 & a Smok Cloud Baby,,i use the RBA deck from both. While satisfying, not the performance of a proper RTA, there are Gobs of good RTAs in the 25-30 $ range.
The Aromamizer V1, i use every day..
The Aromamizer V1, i use every day..
What will reduce Juice consumption is single coil, higher resistance coil, or lower tge power level.
It's mostly the gunk in your cotton not the coil itself. Triton has a RBA section but it looks a little annoying. As stated above to save money stick with single coil. I like Haze dripper tank RDTA clone about $10 or UD Bellus with block but two new one out now suppose to be good Merlin mini RTA and Ammi or something I'd have to look.
As someone above mentioned 5 ml/day is not abnormal. Juice consumption obviously depends on how much you use. Jumping over frequency of draws & length of draws then usage comes down to how much is being vaporized. Folks use clapton coils and all the other fancy coils in an attempt to present more metal surface area to the juice, in other words bigger clouds and higher juice consumption. Also as pointed out two coils will burn more than one. The metal coil itself dosen't wear out and rarely actually burns out. The reason for replacing pre-made coils is normally that the wick is plugged and gunked up from the juice. So the question of whether SS coils will last longer is somewhat irrelevant. A smaller coil with higher resistance will reduce your clouds and consumption.
An RTA will allow you to build the coil you want and will allow you to rewick as necessary. Coil & wicking material is quite cheap so you shouldn't have to worry about the expense when building your own. Some RTA's are designed for big clouds while others will offer a single coil construction, sometimes both, designed for flavor over clouds.
Also be aware of your nic needs. Smaller clouds means less nic to your system so if you end up compensating for it by vaping more then you're not really any farther ahead. So consider higher nic juices and fewer, shorter vaping sessions.
You could also consider just cleaning the cotton. Run them under the tap with hot water a min then blow out as much water as you can by covering one end with your finger and blowing hard into the center pin. Cover in paper towel and let it dry. Your cotton will go from brown to white again and get 3-4 more uses out of them. Eventually the cotton around the coil itself will get to burnt from juice and you'll need to replace. I go though probably 15ml/day or more myself so I had to get into DIY everything pretty fast after switching to sub ohm. Under $2 for 30ml's and I use way more flavouring.
Darn straight!
I use a single coil Kayfun lite plus V2 built to .8-1 ohm i use about 3 mls a day.
I replace the wick when tge flavor goes wonky, and my coils lasts about 3 months.
Most of my atty's are dual coiled. I need a lot of vapor to chase those darn mozi's away when sitting out back vaping.
Well you can always clean your coil if it's financial you're worry about whether it's a pre-made or DIY in an RBA deck, and also your cotton just like the guy that mention it above.
As for performance or flavor in atomizers, even CHEAP authentic atomizers has great great great performance nowadays.
If you want to buy a RTA, I'll vote for the Merlin mini. Depending on how you build them u can solve or worsening your financial, sorry actually it's always been like that haha.
But I heard the Merlin mini has amazing flavor even with something like 1 ohm or 1.5 ohms with tight draw Lung Hit or Mouth To Lung. Saves your e-liquid, battery, and coils, saves money even more. Even I'm considering whether to buy it or not. I've always wanna try RTA that specialiced for MTL. But It's just that I don't like tanks, a pain to maintenance them.
As for performance or flavor in atomizers, even CHEAP authentic atomizers has great great great performance nowadays.
If you want to buy a RTA, I'll vote for the Merlin mini. Depending on how you build them u can solve or worsening your financial, sorry actually it's always been like that haha.
But I heard the Merlin mini has amazing flavor even with something like 1 ohm or 1.5 ohms with tight draw Lung Hit or Mouth To Lung. Saves your e-liquid, battery, and coils, saves money even more. Even I'm considering whether to buy it or not. I've always wanna try RTA that specialiced for MTL. But It's just that I don't like tanks, a pain to maintenance them.
I happen to love my pro tank 4... use the rba and ... well no, it doesn't reduce juice consumption, it does save me on coils lol.
Juice consumption should never be an issue as long as it keeps you off analogs. Its still cheaper than smoking. 30 dollar bottles of juice aren't necessarily better than 10 dollar bottles of juice. I personally did MtBaker for a couple of years till I learned to DIY. Just find what works for you.
If you vape a tfv8 at 100w and you like it then a single coil at 25w isn't going to do the same for you.
If you vape a tfv8 at 100w and you like it then a single coil at 25w isn't going to do the same for you.
Getting back to the original question, getting a week out of a factory coil vaping 4 to 5 ml per day is about right. IME, cleaning a factory coil rarely works well, and buys you very little additional functionality. Changing to SS will not extend the life of a factory coil.
Going with an RTA and building and wicking your own coils will result in savings. There you can simply rewick and dry burn the coil as needed, keeping your expenses down and extending the lifespan of your coil. The actual coil (the wire itself) may last weeks or longer depending on the kind of juice vaped and how gunked up it becomes before you clean it.
Oh, and no, you will not reduce your juice consumption by changing to SS either, although SS would offer you the ability to use temp control which might alter your vape pattern and maybe alter the amount of juice vaped. But probably not.
Going with an RTA and building and wicking your own coils will result in savings. There you can simply rewick and dry burn the coil as needed, keeping your expenses down and extending the lifespan of your coil. The actual coil (the wire itself) may last weeks or longer depending on the kind of juice vaped and how gunked up it becomes before you clean it.
Oh, and no, you will not reduce your juice consumption by changing to SS either, although SS would offer you the ability to use temp control which might alter your vape pattern and maybe alter the amount of juice vaped. But probably not.
I get about 3 months on each coil.
Building higher resistance will cut Juice consumption
The comment about Dry burning works but don't Dry burn Nickel or Titanium coils.
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