Ego-T Type B (cylinder) LR Atomizers

[NaOH]

Hey All,

I just got a pair of these yesterday and set aside my original tapered LR tank atomizers to give these a run. After three hours of use I've got them broke in enough to give a first glance review.

I had a suspicion that these would offer better airflow as their non-tank ancestors did (original eGo mega atties), and this is definitely confirmed. I've had mixed results with the original tapered tank atomizers (LR and regular): A few of them rocked and a few of them just never burned as hot as they should have or had some mysterious impediment in the airflow even after cleaning and wick adjustments. Too early to know if that will be the case with the Type B's, but at least the two I'm currently running are neck and neck as far as performance.

Something to point out before continuing: I've come to expect having to adjust the wicks on any of the tank atomizers. Out of the 6 I've tried only one was satisfactory without some fiddling. This was true for the type b's; out of the package they burned harsh and dry but nudging the wick back somewhere around a sixteenth of an inch took care of that immediately.

So all that being said, boat loads of vapor! I think the airflow was the missing factor with the joye tank systems and with that taken care of these things really plume. I can finally say these hit just as good as my 510 LR setups. The added tank size is a plus too. I'm not sure what to say on juice consumption yet. When I get new hardware I tend to use it a lot more before settling back into my actual usage cycle. Considering how much vapor I'm exhaling I suspect these might be using a bit more than the tapered tank atties. The throat hit is great and I get no burnt taste or harshness. I still think the flavor is a little diluted, but to a much lesser degree than the original tank atties. I'm running the same juice in an ego 510LR setup and the 510 is still quicker to deliver the flavor. With the 1000mAH batteries these things are beasts, basically a cigar now.

At this point I'd highly recommend these to early adopters. Yes, you'll have to make some adjustments to get them where they should be, but that is the case with the majority of ecig hardware.

 

[johnnybass]

where did you pick these up??

 

[NaOH]

I got mine from vaporcrave.com.

 

[dejo]

I have some of the lr b's that will be here tomorrow from the wonderbabe at cignot, Vicky is awesome at getting stuff out the door. Heck, she is awesome at getting stuff in the door to get out the door

 

[triplec76]

My B LR atty is burning dry. Without writing a thesis on it, how do I adjust the wick? Do I pull up or push it down further? I've seen threads on the subject, but I've never been interested enough to sift through all of the information.

Nevermind, I just saw Vicky's video from Cignot. Perfect explanation.

 

[NaOH]

Glad you found that video, it's a life saver. Although I haven't found tweezers small enough to grasp anything in that little tube if you go too far with it. Small increments does the trick.

 

[mwa102464]

Same old same old though, not working out of the box to deliver a satisfying vape ! Why is it that a company making a product cant send it through it's paces to deliver the product to it's end user in a working order that is more then satisfactory possibly even good out of the box ? The heck with these things I can Mod anything I want but to pay somewhere around $20 for an Atty that doesn't work properly when I receive it out of the box tells me something and I'm not buying it.

I'm sticking with my tried and true Bottom feeders that deliver a great vape and much better flavor with regular Attys and also some good cartos. They still wont provide stainless steel tanks either which would be another thing that would improve flavor over this plastic junk up against a heating element. Once I hear people stating that they are working out of the box and have the best flavor they have ever gotten from one of these it will then be time to invest in one of them to try out, everyone can have there ABCDEFG tank Attys all they want. To me its more junk from over seas being thrown at us that hasn't been put through the proper testing paces to make perfect them in a way that would make them fantastic, same old same old

 

[Kelemvor]

every atty has its tolerances, even those for your bottom feeders, so whats the point?

from all tanks i like the T-B LR most, followed by the 510-T.

they work nicely and are well suited for beginners. i was not convinced with the first eGo-T ( Type A) but even those improved over time, still they lack on the flavor side.

in my opinion they clog a bit faster than standard atomizers, but they are easier to repair and adjust.
so everyone that at least fiddles a little bit with e-cig equipment gets a long lifetime out of the T atomizers.

the worst thing about the tank system was ovales introductory prices. at present the cost for a T Starter is ok, we just need a wider range of different starter-kits and cheaper replacement Tanks.

 

[mwa102464]

I run an Iken hv-510 3.5ohm Atty on my Bottom feeder and it doesn't have any tolerances, it takes anything I through at it up to my mods max voltage which doesn't even come into play at 7v, but I vape it in between 6-6.5v and it by far gives me the best vaping experience to date over everything else.

Now I'm not saying that's all I use,, I too enjoy Iken cartos, Boge Cartos, and even the newer Dual Coils, the deal with all of them is they perform, and they perform out of the box Kelemvor and all provide a very satisfying vape, Any beginner can use these as well, and there is no issues like there are with these Ego-T Attys. ! everyone of them I have tried so far has totally sucked with a muted flavor taste as well as a plastic taste sooner or later. The new Echo is however also very interesting looking and this is one worth giving a try by the way it looks, but again, all these Ego-T Attys have just not given me a satisfying vape what so ever.

I hope this latest and greatest one they just put out works though, hell for as long as they have been promoting and selling them it would be about time for as much money as they have collected from all the vapors out there on the ones that haven't worked. I hope the newer ones work, I'm just not buying into them until I hear from MANY people I know saying they are very good that's all

 

[Kelemvor]

everyone his preferences, but the Ts are not nearly as bad as they sound from your posts.

but i see that you are a candidate for a Genisis LV.

no plastic, SS mesh, selfmade kanthal coil, screw on-bottle tank. problem is that people outside of germany have to build their own, i had the opportunity to get 2 from a project of some ambitioned modders. they made it possible for the not so technical inclined vapers to get heir hands on a nice working Genisis device.

but if i have to give a beginner a hint for his 1st e-cig, i will still lead them to some eGo Type.

personally i use 80% of the time eGos, and the rest of the time my SilverBullets or the Genisis. all other mods are more or less lying around.

 

[DaveP]

I'm currently back to the same old Mega type B cylinder with a polyfill cart that I've had since early fall of last year. It was my favorite vape until a couple of months ago when I started with the Ego-T cone tank. I've been through 3 of those in a couple of months. I've been able to restore some flavor and vape by popping out the piercing plate, cleaning the wick, and doing a dry burn while I can see the glow. Even then, at some point the coil seems to coat over and past that point it's time to chunk and change to a new one.

The standard mega B atty just keeps on chugging away. I, too, think the tanks need some more R&D time. I haven't tried the cylinder tank. I'm waiting for someone to tell me that they are in their 4th month with no problems before I jump.

 

[Fernand]

Yes the LR restores the taste lost with the tank system. But they all degrade after X hours' use. Honest vendors like MikeUsa.com tell me the T-atomizers last "a week or two". I have found a fast workaround fix for all the tank atomizers' "clogging".

What seems to happen, after you get the atomizer washed out of initial yuck primer, maybe push the wick down a hair, and are enjoying a perfect billowy vape for a couple of days, is that it starts to go sour, and taste bad, sometimes leaks. As if poorly wicking and running dry. What I think happens is that unlike on a 510 style, the coil is smooshed up captive against the squid wick. Most of the fibers stay wet and cool, while some of them on the edges reach a higher temp and juice burns. This in turn makes those fibers stop wicking. You can see this caked dark deposit on the squid when you pull off the T-bridge. I've also had leaking develop along the caked wick. The standard solution is to clean and dry burn the atomizer and flame the wick. This is open-heart surgery. The wick often sticks to the coil when you remove the T bridge, and must be replaced and repositioned.

I was pleased to find an alternative that requires no dismantling. Remove tank cart. Drip 5+ drops of glycerin into the atomizer, onto the T-tube and down the sides. Pulse it to get the liquid hot and thin, seeping into the coil-squid area and boiling. Then snap-of-the-wrist eject the excess into a kleenex, and sizzle. Repeat flooding-sizzle-eject a couple of times. When you're done, you puff a clean and monstrous unflavored vapor. Put the cart back on. Good way to switch flavors too.

I've found glycerin flooding to be a good cleaning method for all atomizers. PG might work too.
It may not be quite as thorough as a dismantling and dry burn, but even that doesn't last, so I don't usually bother. The glycerin sizzle takes a minute and you're not messing with the structure. It also seems the wick unclogs and puffs up this way. All my atomizers are still going strong. YMMV. Just try it.

 

[Fernand]

I love the eGo Cylinder Mega atomizers with polyfill. The Mega cartomizers have weaker taste, but are very practical. I've tried the Joye eGo-T standard resistance Cone atomizers and the LR Cylinder ones. The latter have great taste (at last) and their big 2 ml carts are wonderful. The SR ones require a stronger flavor juice. All of these have pros and cons, but I'm mostly using the eGo-T LR cylinder atomizers now.

I think that if I told a nubie how to "regularly rinse them with drug-store glycerin", not a big deal, I'd feel comfortable recommending any of the tanks. An eGo with a 650 maH battery seems handiest. Pre-filled cartos are the best way for those with zero skills or no time. I guess only 510 cartos come pre-filled.

 

[Fernand]

I would love to hear how well the glycerin rinse is working for people. I've found it allows me to postpone a more thorough cleaning by many days, until the assembly starts leaking.

Oh, yes, one more "discovery". A plastic eyedropper seems to fit exactly over the T-tube. If you very slowly squeeze a dropperfull of glycerin through the tube this way it helps too.

 

[Katya]

I just vape a tank or two of unflavored (100% PG or 80/20 PG/VG mix) untill the juice in the tank runs clear. I find PG to be a good cleaner. That is my maintenance. I also use PG to flush my atties at night. Works great between cleanings (I use vodka in an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner, followed by a quick dry burn). Haven't lost an atty yet--since late January.

I like the type B on 3.7v and 510-T on 3.2v. I just ordered some LR 510-T atties from Good Prophets--he's having a sale right now.

 

[Fernand]

Oh, yeah, if you are driven mad by the mouthpiece top piece falling out, or into your mouth, the thing I've found works for a while is to run a red hot needle in from each side. That lightly cements the top in place, but you can still remove it. It works until your bite overcomes it, and then do it again until finally the whole thing becomes a chewed up sorry-.... mess.

 

[DaveP]

I tried Vickie's toothpick scrape (lightly) on a type A tank atty in between dry burns with the piercing plate out. It restores the coil to a bright orange glow and makes the atty work like new again. Even if you can't see dark spots, it gets the light coating of burned juice off. I haven't tried the pure glycerin burn yet.

My two type B tank attys came in a couple of days ago. This is the bomb. I vaped from 3pm til almost midnight on one 2ml prefilled tobacco cart (same price filled or empty from Cignot). The tobacco isn't bad and you get about 10ml of juice in a 5 cart pack for the same price, filled or empty. They offer several options in juice with the carts, menthol, regular, and various strengths, or empty.

 

[Aunt Cranky]

I'm going to have to try and fiddle with the attys, as I've tried both the Type A and Type B attys and they crap out after a week. The Type B was utter fail as the tanks leaked and flooded the attys twice (despite double and triple-checking the bottom was snapped into place.

Just ordered some of the 510-T attys to try them out. Totally happy with the tank system when they're fresh out of the package, and it's not like I'm running 100% VG juice through them, no chocolate flavors, I've just had some bad luck.

 

[Dunlap]

I haven't had any problems with my type A's. The first atty worked acceptably well but I thought I could tweak it to perfection and ended up shoving the wick way down in. My own fault. The next one has worked awesome right out of the box, great flavor, tons of vapor. It burns through the juice, but I reckon thats the price you pay for that kind of performance. The only time it's leaked at all was if I left a low tank spiked for a long time, and then it was just a drop or two. I'm a stickler on flavor so I try to rinse my attys every night and let 'em dry till morning. Keeps 'em fresh. That said I've only had it for a little over a week, so I can't speak to the longevity of it just yet. But if anything, it's gotten better with use.

I have some B's on the way this week and now you guys kind of have me worried they're going to be all terrible Really looking forward to the larger tanks. Finger crossed I guess.

 

[Vap0rJay]

All my LR tank attys ended up gettin the piercing plate removed and dewicked, tank carts tossed, drip tip added, and turned into a direct drip atty (because they were about to go into the trash)

If a tank were my first e-cig - with all the mess and leakage, I would have picked up a pack of smokes in a day or two and thrown the thing in my junk drawer.

I personally tell all potential new vapors to stay clear of tanks till you know you like to vape, then and only then try 1...