Do you like your limelight?

[The_Professor_2019]

I used to make my own tube mods years ago. And because I owned an engineering company back then, i had access to high end machine Tools, and materials.

But I have no artistic skills at all. I know my limitations.

As a pipe smoker I want a pipe, and today I ordered a Limelight Orchid.

This is a bit of a self indulgence, and an incentive to kick the bad habits.

What are your thoughts on limelight as a company?
If you have a pipe, how happy are you with it?

 

[r77r7r]

Never heard of them. Might get good feedback from an old epipe thread on here somewhere.

 

[bombastinator]

I’ve never heard of em either, but I googled the thing and I’ve seen them before.

It’s gorgeous.

No, really. I went to art school and that’s one of the nicest looking vaping devices I’ve ever seen.

Now the really unfortunate question: can you return it and get your money back? You may want to.

Issues: the thing is an unvented protruding button mech that uses 18350 batteries. That’s ten year old tech and not particularly safe ten year old tech even back when it was modern at that.
18350 batteries are not the most common thing any more. Plus they hold relatively little juice. You are not going to want to subohm DL on that thing. You’re also not going to want to put it in your pocket ever, or even allow it to tip over when it’s got batteries in it.

I personally burned holes in two pairs of jeans using an old SMOK mod of extremely similar design that luckily had low reactivity batteries in it both times.
Those old batteries are to my knowledge no longer available.
If I’d had modern batteries in the thing I would have wound up with a fist sized hole in my thigh.

Treat the thing like a live grenade when it’s got batteries in it, because that’s not super far from what it is. Use a nice mild MTL atty simply for power savings because you don’t have a lot of amps to play with and you don’t want to overdraw the battery on a mod that can hurt you.

 

[Doffy]

Great mods. Though limelight now focus on squonkers.

Lifetime warranty

Great finish. I bought a wax finish walnut of that pipe for a friend. Really earthy and good

 

[The_Professor_2019]

I’ve never heard of em either, but I googled the thing and I’ve seen them before.

It’s gorgeous.

No, really. I went to art school and that’s one of the nicest looking vaping devices I’ve ever seen.

Now the really unfortunate question: can you return it and get your money back? You may want to.

Issues: the thing is an unvented protruding button mech that uses 18350 batteries. That’s ten year old tech and not particularly safe ten year old tech even back when it was modern at that.
18350 batteries are not the most common thing any more. Plus they hold relatively little juice. You are not going to want to subohm DL on that thing. You’re also not going to want to put it in your pocket ever, or even allow it to tip over when it’s got batteries in it.

I personally burned holes in two pairs of jeans using an old SMOK mod of extremely similar design that luckily had low reactivity batteries in it both times.
Those old batteries are to my knowledge no longer available.
If I’d had modern batteries in the thing I would have wound up with a fist sized hole in my thigh.

Treat the thing like a live grenade when it’s got batteries in it, because that’s not super far from what it is. Use a nice mild MTL atty simply for power savings because you don’t have a lot of amps to play with and you don’t want to overdraw the battery on a mod that can hurt you.

The warranty is one of the things I like about the mod.

And I know what you mean regarding the batteries.

But this mod is one that will never go in my pocket unless it is in my pipe roll which will prevent pressing the fire button.

It will normally sit on a pipe stand when not being vaped.

I will be also using a battery fuse as well.

As far as resistance goes I am a fan of plus-ohm attys.
I'll pop

 

[bombastinator]

The warranty is one of the things I like about the mod.

And I know what you mean regarding the batteries.

But this mod is one that will never go in my pocket unless it is in my pipe roll which will prevent pressing the fire button.

It will normally sit on a pipe stand when not being vaped.

I will be also using a battery fuse as well.

As far as resistance goes I am a fan of plus-ohm attys.
I'll pop

Okie dokie. Forewarned is forearmed is all. I was surprised to be seeing a mod of this type sold new at all after the second unventilated mech mod death. I suppose it’s too expensive for nonafficinados to mess with. Security by obscurity.

 

[The_Professor_2019]

I guess it is the device styke I am used to over the years.

But I do understand the danger.

The batteries I have chosen are protected.

And I was looking at vape fuses. As this is custom made, I have requested that they make the bowl deep enough for me to be able to fit the device (something we didn't have years ago)

Smoktech Magnet 7A Safety Fuse UK

Not advertising, just showing what I am going to be using

 

[B2L]

I used to make my own tube mods years ago. And because I owned an engineering company back then, i had access to high end machine Tools, and materials.

But I have no artistic skills at all. I know my limitations.

As a pipe smoker I want a pipe, and today I ordered a Limelight Orchid.

This is a bit of a self indulgence, and an incentive to kick the bad habits.

What are your thoughts on limelight as a company?
If you have a pipe, how happy are you with it?

I don’t own one of their pipes, but if I did the Orchid would be the one. Nice pick up!

I am however very familiar with Limelight. Their craftsmanship and customer service are top notch. I don’t know if you are on FB but Maja, the modders wife, is very responsive and they have been nothing but awesome to deal with.

I hope you enjoy it!

 

[dripster]

To me it looks like your average ersatz vape experience dressed up in a mighty cool jacket, but that's me. (I much prefer the real vape experience dressed up in a mighty cool jacket because I generally don't like compromises, at least if I'm capable to avoid them.)

 

[The_Professor_2019]

To me it looks like your average ersatz vape experience dressed up in a mighty cool jacket, but that's me. (I much prefer the real vape experience dressed up in a mighty cool jacket because I generally don't like compromises, at least if I'm capable to avoid them.)

Could I ask why you refer to it as Ersatz?

 

[B2L]

To me it looks like your average ersatz vape experience dressed up in a mighty cool jacket, but that's me. (I much prefer the real vape experience dressed up in a mighty cool jacket because I generally don't like compromises, at least if I'm capable to avoid them.)

What exactly is the “real” vape experience?

 

[Falconeer]

I was a pipe smoker for many many years and a Mod on a pipe smokers' forum - the handle Falconeer dates from those days as my mainstay when out and about was a pipe by Falcon.

It was a Kamry 1000 E Pipe which my daughter gave me which initially got me off of smoking.

Oddly enough the other night I was poking about researching E Pipes, and found a company in Cumbria, NW England, which specialises in these, although not hand made customised ones.

The smaller sized 18350 batteries are still sold by them as are heads for the Vivi Nova tanks which many of their pipes use.

Actually I didn't find the Kamry too bad but as I was using flavoured coloured juices at the time and lacked experience I quickly wrote off the threads on the plastic tank "glass" but replaced the tank with a Nautilus Mini which worked fine.

Battery life wasn't brilliant with those smaller ones - I got through two a day vaping the pipe full time whereas with a 18650, one battery will last me one to one and a half days.

I never carried the pipe in a pocket - I found a hard sunglasses case which I always used when I was out. (sorry I must have hit a wrong key somewhere and the typeface has jumped to Italic)

The Limelight looks very nice and I'll read your impressions of it with great interest as I am considering an Epipe for use in the house of an evening and when reading.

 

[Falconeer]

By the way, again back in my smoking days I came across Chinese Water Pipes ( which were used for smoking tobacco as well as opium ) and always liked the look of them.

It was quite easy to knock up a modern homage with a Pico, Nautilus Mini and a long E Pipe stem -I do use use this when I am reading indoors.

 

[The_Professor_2019]

It was a Kamry 1000 E Pipe which my daughter gave me which initially got me off of smoking

I have a couple of Kamrys on order as well for when I am at work.

Just as I used to have multiple pipes for different times of the day, I used to have a pipe which was only used at home, and it was my favourite. That pipe was like an excellent aged single malt. The pleasure came not just from the smoking, but from the feel, the smell, the taste.....

This is what I hope the limelight will become.

For many years I used a 618C
That was almost perfect, but the auto-fire function was both it's best feature and biggest Achilles heel.

I used to get through them so fast.

But I must admit I am feeling so impatient for them all to appear.....

Have had an email to say they have started my pipe, and it should be ready for final dispatch in just two weeks....


Two weeks

 

[Falconeer]

Yes, I was so taken with the Kamry that I bought a full bent wooden E-pipe which fired when you drew on it and the imitation tobacco glowed ( can't now remember the make )

I loved the look and feel of it; it wasn't cheap and it worked well, but it died within two weeks...I'd bought it in Scotland took it to Spain where I was going to be for six months so I sadly consigned it to the bin and chalked it up to experience.

What I'll probably do, is get another K1000 kit, use it with a Nautilus Mini and a plastic stem which the firm I've found has in stock.

Like you I had pipes for work and knocking about ( Falcons) and a set of silver mounted Peterson 999s plus one gold mounted one for Sundays!

Vaping is cheaper!

 

[The_Professor_2019]

This is true, I used to have to drive a 40 mile round trip for tobacco.
I used the same chap for years, and would only buy from him. No mail order, only over the counter.

But whenever you walked in, he knew exactly which customer smoked what.


So you add fuel to the cost of smoking

 

[The_Professor_2019]

I bought a full bent wooden E-pipe which fired when you drew on it and the imitation tobacco glowed

That was the 618 series e-pipe.
Although marketed under different names.

I started with 618b that had great big cartridges the size of bullets that sat inside the pipe-stem.

I got through a lot of those. Then they brought out a 618c. It was the same electronics but had a glass tank with punched cartomiser.

The reliability was the issue. The longest a bowl lasted was maybe two months, and unfortunately 2 weeks was not uncommon.

In the end, I was buying 5 heads a time direct from China but it really was unsustainable.




(Just an additional thought.... I guess many people would wonder why I stayed committed to a device with such a bar reliability issue...... It was actually not bad for the time, quite unique and used bigger batteries than the 510s, Gammuchis and the like available at the time)

Just a little sideline story, my first device was an e-cigar. And 10 cartridges.

It was a cigar, because it was the smallest battery technology at the time.

It was given to me at a business seminar given by a group called business link. It was about building a business plan.

I was sat next to a very nice Chinese guy who gave me a sample box. During one of the lectures, he took his cigar out and started blowing 'smoke'.

Needless to say, the lecture stopped and he was told to put his cigar out. So he stood and explained that it was not smoke, but water vapour. He told everyone about this electronic cigar. And was allowed to carry on using it.

He was trying to get funding to start selling this new electronic cigar in the UK.

As far as I know, it was the first time a commercial vaping device had ever been seen in Britain.

 

[bombastinator]

I guess it is the device styke I am used to over the years.

But I do understand the danger.

The batteries I have chosen are protected.

And I was looking at vape fuses. As this is custom made, I have requested that they make the bowl deep enough for me to be able to fit the device (something we didn't have years ago)

Smoktech Magnet 7A Safety Fuse UK

Not advertising, just showing what I am going to be using

Iirc a protected battery already has a fuse in it. @Mooch would know more about that though. If you can get variable depth, you migh be interested in a kick $6.07 (Free Shipping) Authentic Sigelei Variable Wattage Kick Module for Mechanical Mod (Kick Module(VW)) at m.FastTech.com

 

[The_Professor_2019]

Iirc a protected battery already has a fuse in it. @Mooch would know more about that though. If you can get variable depth, you migh be interested in a kick $6.07 (Free Shipping) Authentic Sigelei Variable Wattage Kick Module for Mechanical Mod (Kick Module(VW)) at m.FastTech.com

Thank you....
I will certainty look at the batteries.

There is another thread I have started about chargers... Be grateful if you would have a look.

I did look at a kick, but I don't really need one.

I have got some reputable fuses coming. 15 years ago, there were many problems with venting and other battery problems.

At the same time, there were not many people vaping, so it never made the news.

The majority of people had never heard of electronic cigarettes.

There were problems with batches of bad batteries. People stacking unbalanced batteries, and poorly made mods people had cobbled together. We would hear of either an accident or a near miss at least once a week. So even if I were not an engineer, I still saw what happened when people got it wrong.

So although I am happy using protected batteries from a reputable supplier....
I am even happier that I ALSO have an independent fuse as well.
Double redundancy is always good

 

[stols001]

Have fun with your epipe.

I think we all know what the "real" vape experience is, and isn't. For dripster, it's anything that he does, and everything he doesn't is excluded.

He just needs to learn his pronouns. If he said "My" real vape experience that would be just fine.

In Spanish "Mi" not "el". Just practicing. LOL enjoy your pipe a lot I hope.

Anna