Frustrated to the point of wanting a smoke.....
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The 510s on mine didn't last long, they got loose and pretty much became stripped threads - but then my battery side threads were salvaged off old cigalike batteries. Changing to bought mods components ego battery threads appears to have solved the problem, even though I'm still using a LF Vivi-Nova V2 which is 510.
Its well worth persevering against any difficulties with vaping, I've just lost a close relative to cancer, last time I visited they were completely out of it on the pain meds - the visit before that, it was obvious they needed that much pain meds.
The cancer had spread to their spine and caused paralysis - so if they'd survived, it wouldn't have been a pleasant existence!
Sorry to hear that Ian..we've got a friend on round six of chemo with stage four lymphoma ..it's not pretty.
the girlfriend of mine in end stage emphysema (not approved for transplant due to her diabetes) did it for me.
glad you got it fixed OP!!!
the girlfriend of mine in end stage emphysema (not approved for transplant due to her diabetes) did it for me.
glad you got it fixed OP!!!
Sorry to hear that Ian..we've got a friend on round six of chemo with stage four lymphoma ..it's not pretty.
the girlfriend of mine in end stage emphysema (not approved for transplant due to her diabetes) did it for me.
glad you got it fixed OP!!!
You really need to see first hand what cancer does to people - then persevering with less than perfect vaping technology takes on a whole new determination.
Sorry to hear that Ian..we've got a friend on round six of chemo with stage four lymphoma ..it's not pretty.
the girlfriend of mine in end stage emphysema (not approved for transplant due to her diabetes) did it for me.
glad you got it fixed OP!!!
This shows the importance of having backups, the road back to smoking only leads to the above, Im so glad I quit, Im 39 and I hope my body will repair itself.
Stoked it worked my friend. Also, Rixsta nailed it, I go nowhere without at least 2 full set ups. The first time I broke a tank while in the middle of work on that deserted island with no backups I started digging in the sand looking for a smoke. I travel with at least 4 set ups for quick flavor changing and that once in a while catastrophe.
How do you manage battery state of charge with that many spares?! Lithium holds a charge orders of magnitude longer than nickel chemistry, but they do self discharge eventually.
There's a LF ego set in my jacket pocket, but last time my regular packed up and I opted to break out the spare - the battery was flat.
Luckily it was the coil gone open circuit on my regular, so I was able to put the spare carto on the battery I'd been using.
The moral of the story seems to be; don't over do it with spares, but make sure everything's compatible so you can mate together whatever parts still work.
Better to wait and charge batteries than having nothing at all.
Wait for what?
Half way somewhere my coil failed open and the battery on my spare had sat in my pocket long enough to go flat.
Having compatible parts meant I could use the carto from the spare on the battery that was taken off the charger that morning.
What I need is some kind of routine that makes sure I periodically check/charge the spare - how someone with 4 spares keeps ahead of it all is difficult to imagine.
It seems like a good idea now to carry a snuff tin with a few spare atomiser heads - and of course a small bottle of juice to refill after replacement.
It's always a good idea to have a spare mech mod just in case. I recommend a mech cause they are dirt cheap. So say that you switch to sub ohming and buy a fancy new mod and subohm tanks, and then your new mod dies. You can still use the same 18650 battery in a mech mod until you can replace your ipv or whatever.
Anything under 1R and the battery on my spare is just enough to make it home.
There's a manufactured 1.8R head in the tin - that should give a reasonable time if I have to use the spare battery.
I don't have the spec on my spare - but it looks about 1100mAh ish.
My regular use batteries are at least 4Ah, anything over 2Ah lasts me all day, so these could possibly last an extra day if I forget to change them over in the morning.
Well, I carry the quiver when traveling. I carry a Lucv4 charger, 5 sets of paired 18650, Crown and Herakles for my sig150 when lucky enough to use or in the hotel and at least 2 minis on 2 isticks for working. One is always in my pocket and another with juice in my backpack while on the job. The hotel holds the rest. I left an istick fully charged that I just found again hidden in a drawer and after a month it was still 75% charged. The 18650s dont sit long since at 60-80w I kill a pair easily in a night in the hotel. Now if you dont want to spend your kids college savings on gear, get 2 istick 30ws and 2 nautilus minis with metal sleeves. I guarantee if you recharge every 3 days both of them, you cant kill both of them no matter how much you vape.
I don't spend much on batteries at all - but if I start describing them here, this thread will get shunted into "not advisable".
But its still the bought battery that let me down - I don't expect the 10 years or so you can store a non-rechargeable lithium, but I doubt it had been in my jacket pocket more than a couple of months.
Occasional maintenance charging seems to be required, but I worry that I'll forget to put it in my jacket before I go out.
I worked at MD Anderson Cancer Center during the mid to late 90s and still smoked ..that's a testament to the addictive qualities of nicotine/smoking.
but absolutely.
On a recent visit at the hospital I saw a group of nurses standing just outside the hospital perimeter smoking - there's no smoking allowed anywhere on hospital grounds.
It crossed my mind to go over and advertise vaping, but they were chatting away happily and I had my own worries.
I spent about a year visiting at a hospital on and off and noticed that everyone who works at a hospital smokes lol its crazy
I see a few people a year in our local shop being referred by a few knowledgeable Dr.s to vaping to try and quit smoking. The hospital is across the street.
My friend is a tech in a hospital and he said all the nurses are intrigued by his vaping. If every new vaper converter 3 people, bt doesn't stand a chance lol.. I converted 5 from smoking so I did my part!
Yeah, I'm actually ordering another one Monday. A friend who owed me money that I completely forgot about just paid me back this morning, so I'm putting an order in Monday.
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