Just wanted to post the few things I experienced with the E1. Seems like Discount Vapers is the only place these are available; that's great! Customer satisfaction seems to be top priority in their operation. Always got great ship and response times, and always got what I ordered. Great job!
Anyway, I got a couple E1's and some replacement innards (which I haven't had to use yet). Tightened up the screw connection on the bottom, filled it up with some cigar juice I like and which has good vapor, screwed it on my ego battery and gave it a go. Good easy draw. Much better draw than the Stardusts; more in line with a Boge cartomizer. Even after vaping it a while, I wasn't satisfied. Just wouldn't get warm enough and produced very little vapor. Did a little reading and some measuring, and discovered that the resistance was higher than expected. Mine measured out to be 3.2 ohms. Just a little high for the ego to get cranking. I then put it on my VV and started cranking it up. Got up to about 4.5 volts and it worked OK, but I had to draw on it like a vacuum, or the juice would burn. Just didn't seem like it was wicking good enough for the amount of air which these would allow through. Kept using it, since it not only looked good and held a fair bit of juice, but if you hit it hard at that voltage it wasn't all that bad. Still liked the Stardusts better.
Got in the truck today and hit my PV with my hand. Busted loose the E1 tank from the base and juice went everywhere! Quick like I kinda pushed it back together and laid it in the seat with a rag until I got home. Took it inside, and the thing had gone back together so well I really couldn't tell it had ever loosened. While I had it apart, I took off the innards and washed them off. I was noticing that it had two very small wicks protruding from each side. VERY small wicks. Pulled the silicone cap off and the top wick was as I figured, just a dummy wick laying on top of the coil. To do my modding, I finished rinsing the wicks and coils, and then removed the small dummy wick. Grabbing an inch long piece of wick from an old clearomizer, I then replaced the small dummy wick with a larger one. I then took and cut two small notched on the sides of the silicone cup where it goes over the wicks to prevent any restriction. Put it back together, and filled it with GV gummy bears juice.
Oh yeah, now this thing started to come alive. Wicked super well and doubled the vapor. Using this juice, I could take any kind of hit at 4.5 volts that I wanted without any burnt taste or juice destruction. Turned the voltage down to 4; no good. Started turning the voltage up, vapor got better and better. Finally stopped at 5.5 volts! The hit at this level would knock your socks off! Still no burnt taste. Doing my calculations, this turns out to be over 10 watts. Haven't tried it yet with other juices; a sweet juice will probably go south at that level. But, I'm gonna do this to my other one also as it seems to suffer the same problem.
If you have VV, give this mod a try next time you have your E1 apart.
Anyway, I got a couple E1's and some replacement innards (which I haven't had to use yet). Tightened up the screw connection on the bottom, filled it up with some cigar juice I like and which has good vapor, screwed it on my ego battery and gave it a go. Good easy draw. Much better draw than the Stardusts; more in line with a Boge cartomizer. Even after vaping it a while, I wasn't satisfied. Just wouldn't get warm enough and produced very little vapor. Did a little reading and some measuring, and discovered that the resistance was higher than expected. Mine measured out to be 3.2 ohms. Just a little high for the ego to get cranking. I then put it on my VV and started cranking it up. Got up to about 4.5 volts and it worked OK, but I had to draw on it like a vacuum, or the juice would burn. Just didn't seem like it was wicking good enough for the amount of air which these would allow through. Kept using it, since it not only looked good and held a fair bit of juice, but if you hit it hard at that voltage it wasn't all that bad. Still liked the Stardusts better.
Got in the truck today and hit my PV with my hand. Busted loose the E1 tank from the base and juice went everywhere! Quick like I kinda pushed it back together and laid it in the seat with a rag until I got home. Took it inside, and the thing had gone back together so well I really couldn't tell it had ever loosened. While I had it apart, I took off the innards and washed them off. I was noticing that it had two very small wicks protruding from each side. VERY small wicks. Pulled the silicone cap off and the top wick was as I figured, just a dummy wick laying on top of the coil. To do my modding, I finished rinsing the wicks and coils, and then removed the small dummy wick. Grabbing an inch long piece of wick from an old clearomizer, I then replaced the small dummy wick with a larger one. I then took and cut two small notched on the sides of the silicone cup where it goes over the wicks to prevent any restriction. Put it back together, and filled it with GV gummy bears juice.
Oh yeah, now this thing started to come alive. Wicked super well and doubled the vapor. Using this juice, I could take any kind of hit at 4.5 volts that I wanted without any burnt taste or juice destruction. Turned the voltage down to 4; no good. Started turning the voltage up, vapor got better and better. Finally stopped at 5.5 volts! The hit at this level would knock your socks off! Still no burnt taste. Doing my calculations, this turns out to be over 10 watts. Haven't tried it yet with other juices; a sweet juice will probably go south at that level. But, I'm gonna do this to my other one also as it seems to suffer the same problem.
If you have VV, give this mod a try next time you have your E1 apart.
