No problem so far on mine. I've been using it since October 4th. Knock on wood. 
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Wow Ok I've read a zillion posts of people saying OMG it's so tiny, seen many pics and vids, just got mine and wow didn't expect it to be this tiny! Got here just in time too, my hana modz clone stopped firing today
Yea tiny really means tiny .... now you need to order the mini and see how tiny that is
I screw a Nautilus Mini onto mine. Sits nice and flush and works like a champ.
The iStick's battery life, overall power output and, most of all, its size, is what makes the device brilliant enough that we've put up with all of its baggage. The iStick's price is also very attractive. Most vapers do not want to walk around with a dual 26650 box mod capable of firing 150w.
I just received my second iStick from Central Vapors' Black Friday sale. $21, shipped. They threw in a USB cable and liquid sample for the extra wait. After the early demise of my first, it's great to have a working iStick in my hand again. It's a device you love to hate (or is it hate to love). In any case, treat the iStick gently and protect the 510 threads and it can be your goto vape for a while. I think I'll be disassembling my new 'Stick and reinforcing some with hot glue or epoxy...
I can't remember what happened to yours. Was that the one that had the charging plug yanked loose?
You summed up the istick quite accurately. I really think if mine died at 6 months, I'd probably just buy another one. It's size and convenience are both winners, and I've had no problems with either of mine.
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What bothers me about this picture is that nobody seems to know the circumstances of how it got that nasty in a week. What flavor juice was being vaped? What PG/VG ratio? And, most importantly, how many watts were pushed through it? I just looked down into my 1.6 Ohm coil, that has been running for a week at 8W, and has had few different juices run through it (Mr E's Blue Voodoo 67/33, The Collection Sapphire 40/60, and my own Banana Creme 50/50). I vape around 5ml/day and the center of my cool looks clean with a very thin light brown coating. This is the best picture I could get, but you can see the top of the coil wire, and it looks like that all the way down the inside of it. Getting light down that bvc that, at an angle that my camera could see, was nearly impossible. I'll pull this coil apart next week and will get better pictures then.
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Ok, so my coil hit the 2 week mark, and here it is in all it's glory.
The wick wrapped coil out of the sleeve. I looked for the grid I've read about and there was no sign of it on the wet wick.
Here's a shot of the cool right after unwrapping the wick from it. I think it looks pretty good for 2 weeks use. The black stuff you see on the cool isn't "cooked" stuff. It's fluffy and soft, and it appears to be just wicking material saturated with the various colors from the different juices I used. Some of that is probably due to the reaction nicotine has when heated, too.
Just to show that it isn't hard cooked on crap, I rinsed the cool under tap water (without rubbing the cool) and you can see how clean it came out in this picture.
Just to summarize...this is 2 weeks of use of a 1.8 Ohm (I incorrectly said it was 1.6 earlier) with around 5-7ml/day run at 8 watts on a regulated wattage PV. I know this is off topic for this thread, but we were discussing it, so I figured it's the place I should post it.
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as far as the mini is concerned verified members should take a look at a certain corner of ecf
thanks, that should be helpful to all bvc users!
any chance of rinsing the wicking material to see if it's really just juice particles?
that used to be our favorite exercise in the 'burning carto thread
If you look carefully at any device and how it works you wouldn't use it. I changed the bulb in my halogen oven today - how the wires don't melt I don't know. Great oven btw. Vaping stuff? I can feel that it's better for me than baccy, and that's what matters imho..
Unrelated to iStick-- check out Abe Lincoln vaping at around 6 min on The Colbert Report finale!
Great show--can't wait to see what SC does on NBC.
Great show--can't wait to see what SC does on NBC.
I'd like to see the Queen vaping. Anyone got a link?
Well, at least David Cameron, then.
Nick Clegg? (No, no, I've sunk too far).
Well, at least David Cameron, then.
Nick Clegg? (No, no, I've sunk too far).
The only idea I can think of how to get the 3/16"-1/8" long spring back into place is with a very fine tip pair of tweezer if not heing able to compress the spring and slip it back into place. After stuffing a piece of an old spring that used to hold flints for a Zippo lighter into the opening there and closing it I now no longer have any worry of it springing down while in the middle of vaping. It seems to be stuck in the locked upright position! So much for bending at least!
Even with the bending adapter on i added the 510/eGo adapter at first since I was running the pair with the SMOK Tumbler eGo threaded tanks until the Nautilus Mini tanks were in. I since ordered the stainless steel replacements and have on in use now while waitng for a second coming from a different vendor. Those will protect the gllass from damage in case the mod falls for any reason like bumping off of a table or having it fall onto pavement out of a pocket while out somewhere.
That's what that is the 510/eGo adapter since the mod itself is strictly 510. Eleaf simply added the adapter in along with the beauty ring to make up the kit.
Great pictures, thanks Charlie.
The coil doesn't look bad at all. What I would be concerned about is the fact that what you found isn't baked on stuff, like we would normally see on a gunked up coil covered with unvaporized particulate from your juice flavoring, coloring, sweetener and such. That kind of cooked-on juice gunk is normal and usually stays solidly attached to the heating coil and can be removed by dry burning only.
However, loose fiberglass particles (assuming that this material indeed is fiberglass as stated in the lab report) floating freely in the tank have been my main concern wrt BVCs from day one. I have been told by many users that that can't happen because that material only crumbles (disintegrates, falls apart, whatever) when the said material is dry; once wet, it stays intact and there is no chance of any fiberglass particles getting into the juice, my mouth or my lungs. Your observations, if correct, seem to prove otherwise.
Again, this is just my opinion. I may be dead wrong, and those coils may be perfectly safe to use. I simply don't know enough. Aspire pulled all the information from their website and there has been no official statement on the subject since. Except from a strange statement, made in passing by the presenter in this video, that the material in Atlantis coils is cotton.
Really? Since when? Every reviewer who took the Atlantis coils apart confirms that they are made out of the same material as BVC coils. So why would this guy say that it's Japanese cotton???? Another lie from Aspire? Another mistake? Translation error? Or are they planning to move away from the fiberglass to Japanese cotton stealthily in the future? 4:29 min.
thanks, that should be helpful to all bvc users!
any chance of rinsing the wicking material to see if it's really just juice particles?
that used to be our favorite exercise in the 'burning carto thread
I didn't rinse the material, but I did smell the blacked part (human nature?) and it didn't smell or feel like it had been burnt. It was very soft and didn't stink like anything other than juice. My guess is that the ceramic wick probably helps prevent it from burning when/if it dries out. I have accidentally heated one of these BVCs without priming it properly, and I will say that it didn't taste as harsh as it did when I did the same thing with an iClear 16.
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Great pictures, thanks Charlie.
The coil doesn't look bad at all. What I would be concerned about is the fact that what you found isn't baked on stuff, like we would normally see on a gunked up coil covered with unvaporized particulate from your juice flavoring, coloring, sweetener and such. That kind of cooked-on juice gunk is normal and usually stays solidly attached to the heating coil and can be removed by dry burning only.
However, loose fiberglass particles (assuming that this material indeed is fiberglass as stated in the lab report) floating freely in the tank have been my main concern wrt BVCs from day one. I have been told by many users that that can't happen because that material only crumbles (disintegrates, falls apart, whatever) when the said material is dry; once wet, it stays intact and there is no chance of any fiberglass particles getting into the juice, my mouth or my lungs. Your observations, if correct, seem to prove otherwise.
Again, this is just my opinion. I may be dead wrong, and those coils may be perfectly safe to use. I simply don't know enough. Aspire pulled all the information from their website and there has been no official statement on the subject since. Except from a strange statement, made in passing by the presenter in this video, that the material in Atlantis coils is cotton.
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Hi Katya. You misunderstood what I wrote (or I just didn't explain it well enough). The "fluff" wasn't loose...it just wasn't burnt to the coil. It took warm tap water and some shaking to get it to come off of the coil. The consistency of it would be comparable to the consistency of single ply toilet paper that has been soaked in water and pulled apart. I'm thinking the fiber"glass" wording in that document was probably more of terminology than an actual definition of the material used. Certain types of ceramics are defined as ceramic glass, so it could be that the material is still considered a fiberglass material, even though it's ceramic being used and not actual silica glass.
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This is what I know:
http://srs.unm.edu/industrial-hygiene/media/docs/silica.pdf
And since we don't even know what kind of fiberglass/ceramic paper they are using...
Again, it's just me.
I know that others disagree. I'll stay with amorphous silica wicks and Japanese organic cotton--at least for now.
http://srs.unm.edu/industrial-hygiene/media/docs/silica.pdf
And since we don't even know what kind of fiberglass/ceramic paper they are using...
Again, it's just me.
I know that others disagree. I'll stay with amorphous silica wicks and Japanese organic cotton--at least for now.
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