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I said the same exact thing a few months ago, about ready to pull the trigger on an Atmizoo Lab to keep the Roller, Poldiac and others company.
Except I don't have a REO. I have nothing against them, they just never appealed to me enough to buy one.
I didn't get into bottom feeders because I was looking for a better vape; I was entirely satisfied with my DNA-powered Kayfuns at that point. What got me into them was seeing pics of some of pdib's first mods. I got in the queue for one thinking it would be a beautiful but impractical mod that would probably sit on my desk most of the time. Well, I couldn't have been more wrong about the impractical part. It's almost never been out of my arm's reach since the day I started vaping it,
Now if only someone would make a REGULATED bottom feeder in that form-factor, that would be the best of all possible worlds. But nobody does. Which, at least for the time being, means DIYing it.
I was completely against the idea of dripping until I actually tried it, after trying it now 80% of all of my vaping is done with an RDA and dripping with the other 20% being done with a bottom feeder, I completely converted once I gave it a shot. For me, personally dripping more readily simulates actual smoking because there is a procedure and a decided "end" to the experience until you decide to drip more. Like with smoking, you don't just constantly pull and pull and pull on the same cigarette, you have to stop and find your lighter, pull out a cigarette, light it, smoke it down and you're done until you decide to light up another one. With a tank system I found myself basically constantly chain vaping on it until the tank was dry, with dripping I can more readily regulate the amount I vape and thus the amount of juice I go through. I drip everywhere, at work, out on the town, in the car(stop lights are your friend), walking around the neighborhood, pretty much everywhere you can use a normal tank style vape you can also drip. Once you're accustomed to it, it becomes no big deal really.
I understand and agree Froth, and I still drip too, but I mostly do it in bed on couch, ya know, most of the time in the dark making it that much more of a hassle.
The other side of the coin as far as procedures are concerned is that as I've gotten more aggressive with builds, I've nicked down a ton, and I consider going away from those procedures getting farther away from the smoking habit, ideally if I wanted to quit niv/vaping altogether I'd nic down to nothing, procedures are gone and I'm stepping away easier.
The other side of the coin as far as procedures are concerned is that as I've gotten more aggressive with builds, I've nicked down a ton, and I consider going away from those procedures getting farther away from the smoking habit, ideally if I wanted to quit niv/vaping altogether I'd nic down to nothing, procedures are gone and I'm stepping away easier.
I honestly thought the same thing when I first started vaping...until I started having nothing but issues with tanks and clearomizers. For me, why I primarily use rda's all the time is because unlike tanks, your not always at the mercy of gravity, and you don't have to deal with gurgling and leaks (unless you over-drip).
Personally, tanks are more of a hastle for me, and you can build coils that are fairly large in diameter that can hold a good amount of wick allowing you more time between drips. I guess it really comes down to personal preference and what you can and can't put up with.
Personally, tanks are more of a hastle for me, and you can build coils that are fairly large in diameter that can hold a good amount of wick allowing you more time between drips. I guess it really comes down to personal preference and what you can and can't put up with.
Because there isn't a tank on the planet that delivers anywhere near the flavour of a dripper or adds the convenience of swapping flavours every time you want, easily and without wasting juice?
This is simply false. Which goes back to my point about people not learning how to build a hard hitting genny.
I'm one of the biggest genny fanboys, while the performance of a genny is very close to that of a dripper.
I just cannot agree with your statement.
Well, what do you need for great flavor? You need the right wick, the right chamber, a good build and the right airflow. None of those things are exclusive to drippers. The one advantage to a dripper is a huge wick that you can soak in juice which really only lends to cloud chasing. Having that huge wick doesn't add to the flavor.
Your comment falsely assumes that i don't know how to build a hard hitting genny? I'll stick to my original point. We can agree to disagree?
If you truly believe drippers have some innate ability to produce more flavor than any other atty that I wouldn't say it's much of an assumption.
Two words : Magma FLAVOR
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If you truly believe drippers have some innate ability to produce more flavor than any other atty that I wouldn't say it's much of an assumption.
I can only go on my own experiences of owning numerous attys and drippers. I will however agree that some attys are very good and not far off with the right set up.
The Magma is the exception to the rule. I had given up on drippers until I found out about that one.
I must be an oddball as I prefer purity of flavor over tongue-numbing makes-water-taste-like eliquid flavor. My preferred "purity of flavor" is found (for me) with mesh wicks. Be it drippers or gennies or Kayfuns or whatever. I just prefer having a tank, and I favor the vape I get from my gennies over the vape I get from a Kayfun.
Since I don't need super-low resistance to get what I want, I get away with using 18350 batteries for outdoors use. Makes for some pretty small setups. Less than 10 cm tall, not counting drip tip. And that's with gennies that don't leak.
Hope we all see this as a fairly light hearted topic. We all like what we like. Often with a passion. Don't you be dissing them gennies!
Since I don't need super-low resistance to get what I want, I get away with using 18350 batteries for outdoors use. Makes for some pretty small setups. Less than 10 cm tall, not counting drip tip. And that's with gennies that don't leak.
Hope we all see this as a fairly light hearted topic. We all like what we like. Often with a passion. Don't you be dissing them gennies!
For me, I love my custards with a cup of coffee in the morning.. but putting Goose Juice in a Kayfun? Tried it. One tank through and the entire chamber was covered in gunk.
In a dripper, I can very easily change wicks without a mess when using particularly gunky juices.
So, basically.. low ohm dripper (Zenithv2, Magma are the current faves for me) in the morning. Kayfun/Taifun/Fogger on a 18350 on the road/at work. Gennie at night when I'm too tired to drip haha.
In a dripper, I can very easily change wicks without a mess when using particularly gunky juices.
So, basically.. low ohm dripper (Zenithv2, Magma are the current faves for me) in the morning. Kayfun/Taifun/Fogger on a 18350 on the road/at work. Gennie at night when I'm too tired to drip haha.
I've dripped for over 3 years... ever since I had a tank cut loose in my pocket. Ever have 3ml of sticky sweet VG in your front pocket of your jeans? I don't recommend it.
I run about 0.8 ohms on 16340 and 18350 mods all day... drip a few drops, vape an hour or 2, repeat. Swap batteries once or twice a day.
I run about 0.8 ohms on 16340 and 18350 mods all day... drip a few drops, vape an hour or 2, repeat. Swap batteries once or twice a day.
Disclaimer: I will start off saying that I am no expert when it comes to vaping. Only been at it for about 6 months. And I am not trying to start an argument here.
Here is what I don't understand ... Other than sitting at home with a bottle of juice in one hand and your mod with it's RDA attached in the other hand, what other times would you want to be using an RDA?
With an RBA, you fill the tank ... and that's it until the time comes when it finally needs a re-fill.
With an RDA, you are constantly dripping juice into the drip tip. Can't really do that when your driving, and it would be a pain in the .... to have to bring a bottle of juice along with the eye dropper when going out of the house anywhere. Again, one hand holding the mod and the other hand holding the bottle of juice. Seems like a lot of extra 'busy work' to me ... If you were out drinking beer someplace, I guess you would need 3 hands! ... 1 for the mod, 2 for the bottle of juice and 3 for the beer glass!
However, I can think of one time in particular that an RDA would be really nice to have, and that is when you are making DIY juice and want to test vape it as your making adjustments to the amount of flavorings your adding ... This is really impossible to do when your using an RBA.
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So, there you have my take on these RDAs ... To me, it just seems like a lot of extra work using them when your not setting at a desk at home and have all the time in the world to be dripping juice from an eye dropper while vaping.
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Maybe I just don't get the big picture
I think with the original small 510 type dripping atty's you'd probably have to drip almost for every vape,
but nowaday, with the big 20mm diameter dripper, they hold a lot more, and I guess you can probably squirt once, and it might last as long as a cigarette!! In which case, it's actually alot like a cigarette replacement, with a start and an end whereas with a tank system, we do tend to chain vape.
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