well you are doing a lot more maintenance than I want to do what would you recommend? Something that is simple but good and I would be very interested in your article (when you get around to it LOL) on making your own e-juice. I really don't understand the difference between PG and VG one is vegtable and the other a chemical? anyway looking forward to your writing more. thanks for your replies.
Well, it's just kinda the way I do anything I get interested in -- I was that way with gardening, when I first got into that about 15 yrs ago. I used to watch that show House, and he said something so profound, I've never forgotten it: "I'm an addict. I have to find something to do that I can turn up to 11 and not destroy my brain." That's me, to a T.
I can't really make any recommendations as to tanks; the technology changes on a weekly basis, and I've been into the Kayfuns and cartotank for so long now, the 'starter' tanks I used are now considered "old tech" -- Kanger T3S, Mini Protank II. I learned early on that I MASSIVELY prefer single coil to dual-coil, and all the new ones seem to be some version of dual-coil, in which I have zero interest. Those "old" Kanger tanks -- T3S and Mini Protank II -- are still sold, and they're pretty cheap now; they were very good when I first started out, but they have their limitations -- which can't really be overcome until you get enough familiarity and experience to start learning the rebuilding thing, and then move on to tanks like the Kayfun -- a peerless vape. I do recommend cartos and cartotanks for new folks; they're easy to use and maintain, and provide an excellent vape, particularly for those just switching from smoking who enjoy a tighter draw; I suppose the "massive airflow" is an acquired taste -- I haven't yet acquired it, that's for sure, and may never; I want to feel some resistance when I take a draw, or otherwise I just feel like a kid play-smoking with an empty straw -- or going back to those empty straws as a sort of placebo when trying the patch -- didn't work.
For ease of maintenance in a PV, I'd recommend either the iTaste vv/vw v3 or v4 (the v4s are new and still kinda pricey though), or the iTaste MVP2, if you can wrap your mind around a box mod -- I haven't yet, but I hear those are great. I'm still thrilled with my vv3s, and my stainless one was my very first "real" mod -- I'm using it right now in fact, with a carto. the great thing about those is no removable batteries, you just plug a micro-USB cable in it and the other end into a USB port on an AC wall-wart, and charge that way; the vv3s don't have long battery life, just 800mAh, but they can be used in "pass-thru" mode, you can still vape even when they're plugged in to charge -- same for the MVP2, but it's 2600mAh, so it wouldn't often be necessary. 2600mAh will last a whole day and then some; my removable batteries are 2000 and 2250, and those last a full day. With the vv3s, the short battery life is why I got more than one; although you can vape while they're charging, it takes them a long time to charge if you do.
VG and PG are both organic chemicals, with very similar properties -- they make visible vapor, and they're both safe as a 'carrier' for other things; PG is used as a carrier in asthma inhalers and nebulizers, and has been used in that capacity for upwards of 40 yrs. It's used in hospital-wide ventilation systems, to purify the air, as it has strong anti-microbial properties. VG is in a GREAT many foods, beverages, and personal care products; it binds, it thickens, it sweetens, and it even makes excellent soap.
In short, there is no particular serious hazard to either one, though each has its drawbacks -- I have asthma, and I find VG much too thick to use more than 15%-20% in my ejuice. PG can be quite irritating; I found it very irritating to my throat and sinuses when I vaped 90% PG for several days in a row, and some people react that way to it at much lower levels -- everyone is different, and there seems far more difference in how people react to the basically-inert PG and VG, than to the nicotine.
Andria
