I'm not a carto guy. I've been around carto users and listened to a variety of complaints, so I never felt compelled to try any. But, the giantomizer for my eGo batts showed up and i decided to try it. The poor experience had me wondering if all cartos sucked and if I could expect all tanked cartos to suck too. So, I went on a small buying spree.
I bought several different cartos from several different places and I've been checking them out. Most of them, I used two in a box of five and threw the rest out (all the usual problems - wicking or leaking mostly) but out of all I tried, two really stand out. The LR Boge and the Dual Coil 510 mega cartomizer. Color me impressed with both... but since I got my dual coils from madvapes, I'll just talk about those:
First, they look like any other 510 carto (a little longer than some because these are mega holding somewhere around 2ml). They're a steel tube wrapped in a sticker and they have a tube of pollyfill wrapped around a straw on the inside (or at least that's what it looks like - I didn't tear apart). The filler is recessed quite a ways and covered with a silicone washer with a hole in the middle (pull the washer out to fill, of course). These are "drip the sides and rotate" to fill. I don't think the condom method would work well due to how far the filler is recessed.
They don't dry out easy while chain vaping. And the draw is very comfortable. As a test, I took 8 big long draws in a row, The carto was extremely hot on the outside, but I never got a dry hit or burned the filler. I can't say the same for many of the other cartos i tried. most of those went dry and burnt at 5 or 6 long drags in a row.
They look just like any other normal carto. But, their performance is impressive in comparison to everything else I tried. They get hot fast and deliver very warm vapor for a great throat hit. They also produce more vapor than any other carto I tried. The flavor stayed good longer than any thing else except for the aforementioned Boge LR. They do a great job of thorough atomization. (not many people talk about that on ECF, but some attys and cartos aren't so thorough and generate wetter vapor with larger vapor molecules). They do a thorough job of atomization so they also do a great job of nicotine delivery.
If they hold up for a few fillings and a couple of top-offs, I'll buy them again. In fact, I could see these becoming my "normal" vaping method. I peeled the sticker off one and popped on an aluminum drip tip and it really looks sharp on my rough stack. So, they look nice with my new favorite mod, they vape exceptionally well, they deliver nicotine like champs, they have a comfortable draw, and they produce good flavor consistently with an excellent throat hit. What's not to like?
I guess the only two drawbacks are that I don't know an easier, cleaner way to fill them and they do get crazy hot if you chainvape a few drags in a row. - For the consistently good vaping experience they've given me so far, I can put up with a little filling hassle and the occasional hot tube touching skin if I'm careless.
I bought several different cartos from several different places and I've been checking them out. Most of them, I used two in a box of five and threw the rest out (all the usual problems - wicking or leaking mostly) but out of all I tried, two really stand out. The LR Boge and the Dual Coil 510 mega cartomizer. Color me impressed with both... but since I got my dual coils from madvapes, I'll just talk about those:
First, they look like any other 510 carto (a little longer than some because these are mega holding somewhere around 2ml). They're a steel tube wrapped in a sticker and they have a tube of pollyfill wrapped around a straw on the inside (or at least that's what it looks like - I didn't tear apart). The filler is recessed quite a ways and covered with a silicone washer with a hole in the middle (pull the washer out to fill, of course). These are "drip the sides and rotate" to fill. I don't think the condom method would work well due to how far the filler is recessed.
They don't dry out easy while chain vaping. And the draw is very comfortable. As a test, I took 8 big long draws in a row, The carto was extremely hot on the outside, but I never got a dry hit or burned the filler. I can't say the same for many of the other cartos i tried. most of those went dry and burnt at 5 or 6 long drags in a row.
They look just like any other normal carto. But, their performance is impressive in comparison to everything else I tried. They get hot fast and deliver very warm vapor for a great throat hit. They also produce more vapor than any other carto I tried. The flavor stayed good longer than any thing else except for the aforementioned Boge LR. They do a great job of thorough atomization. (not many people talk about that on ECF, but some attys and cartos aren't so thorough and generate wetter vapor with larger vapor molecules). They do a thorough job of atomization so they also do a great job of nicotine delivery.
If they hold up for a few fillings and a couple of top-offs, I'll buy them again. In fact, I could see these becoming my "normal" vaping method. I peeled the sticker off one and popped on an aluminum drip tip and it really looks sharp on my rough stack. So, they look nice with my new favorite mod, they vape exceptionally well, they deliver nicotine like champs, they have a comfortable draw, and they produce good flavor consistently with an excellent throat hit. What's not to like?
I guess the only two drawbacks are that I don't know an easier, cleaner way to fill them and they do get crazy hot if you chainvape a few drags in a row. - For the consistently good vaping experience they've given me so far, I can put up with a little filling hassle and the occasional hot tube touching skin if I'm careless.
