Just bringing up the price of Mountain Vapors - I do gotta say that MV's prices are pretty decent, I don't fully regret this particular purchase.... the CE5 was only like $7, the heads are $4 I believe - but I ended up getting 3 of them for $4 because the owner sent me a couple more for free after one of them was really getting dry very fast. Overall, this particular vendor experience has been one of the rather pleasing ones, I have gotten a product I can say works better than many - it's just, I'm not sure if it's the hemp, or just a design flaw, but this device is indeed still quite prone to dry hits that never really go away until you switch juices or wash the head.
However, the truth is, if this was the very first device I ever bought, I would have still been trying out Protanks and Aspires and everything because the vape just isn't that pleasing. I've been able to test with it and at least try to get in the pattern of vaping as opposed to smoking, but it's just something very off about this device. While the hemp is so less harsh and rancid upon dry hits than silica, the general taste of it across the board continues to have a wicky taste, and I'm still getting a lot of what seems like dust particles in my vapor - I can feel it when I swallow and vape - and this concerns me too.
And what really confuses me is that on the devices that allow it, I really have done everything possible to manipulate the experience of the vape - on devices like the Aspire, Protank, ect ect, I've used air-flow controllers, I've tried them at voltages high and low, I've used ohm ranges across the board, I've tried heavy inhales and soft inhales, I've tried removing flavor wicks, I've tried dripping juice inside the heads, I've tried screwing my tanks together tighter and looser, I've tried screwing the tank onto the battery tighter and looser - just everything you could imagine without rebuilding the head, I've tried it to my best ability. Nothing ever seems to get rid of a dry or burnt taste in the majority of the devices I've used.
That's good advice though about how a lower temperature could cause caramelization on the coils - I do notice that my coils turn dark very, very, very quickly, like instantly, and this may be what's going on, as I always start at 3.3V's no matter what, and I always tend to use a 2.5-ish coil. I'll notice that the first hit always tastes clean as pie, just lovely, and then second hit, blegh. I just don't know which voltage I should really start at other than 3.3V's that would also avoid just burning up the head.
But anyway, back to the RBA's, so much information to take in, but I am ready to look over each thing and decide what I really want to start out with. I'm just so ready to experience a tasty, smooth vape that doesn't taste a little contaminated by the wick or something else. I finally want to get to a day where I can sit in my house and simply vape and have it be something I enjoy to the point I don't think about cigarettes, and have it be something that tastes good enough that I know my friends would like it - hey, we all want to showcase our hobbies. It was like that back in the day when Blu disposables still worked right and tasted like buttered popcorn, I'd buy one and not touch a cigarette for hours, they were so smooth and tasty. It could be the Johnson's Creek changed up their juice formula, they had a big problem with that once, but I bought a Blu disposable last week, and for the very first time, it tasted burnt right out of the box - and I've bought dozens of them. Sad, sad circumstances in the vaping world - it's all like how when they started putting the fire safe chemical into cigarettes, the day they did that, I noticed that they tasted like rat poison to me. I didn't even know what happened, I had to go online and look and see if anyone else was noticing that cigarettes changed, and I learned about it. I just keep wondering if there's some sort of change in the juices or wicks or whatever that may be giving me a repeated problem.
Only one real way to find out though - building my own coil.
P.S. One thing that's also giving me a personal battle is that I just tried Malboro's Next, their version of the "Camel Crush", and I kid you not, the menthol bead in this particular line tastes like a York Peppermint Patty. It tastes just like the Chocolate Mint juice that tends to wick pretty well in my devices. I mean, the tastes are identical, and especially with the hemp wick I'm using now giving off some wicky flavors, it's almost an exact replica of this particular cigarette with the exception of the throat hit. It's uncanny. It's not a good thing though because I still think cigarettes are nasty and I really dislike smoke or vapor that tastes dirty by any extent. The vapor has to taste better than a cigarette or else I loose in the battle!
