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Geiseric

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I'm a student from Minnesota, currently working on my Chemical Dependency Counseling license (LADC, in Minnesota), planning on going to grad school after getting licensed. I work and intern at a treatment center.

My fiance and I recently got into ecigs, around a month and a half ago. I smoked hookah for years after quitting smoking cigs (Tangiers shisha is my personal favorite), but I was starting to get really sick of the dizziness and nausea of inhaling all that carbon monoxide (even with natural coals). I toppled over and twitched for a few minutes around 2 months ago after an epic smoke session, and we decided to give ecigs a try. It wasn't really a try, more of a prolonged ridiculous spending spree. I can smoke in the house, now, at least.

After wasting ridiculous amount of time on those worthless Ego-T type As, (love the batteries, still use them and the Ego passthrough regularly), I started lurking around here a lot more. I just picked up a Lavatube, and between that and my Egos, I am pretty well covered with batteries now.

Cartos and tanks are now my new issue. I hated the Ego tanks, wasting tons of my precious liquid, wicking poorly, and muting the flavor pretty severely. The Joye 510 tanks are ok, same issues but not as bad. Cartridges aren't my thing, too much hassle and mess, and doubly so with dripping. I have 10 of the 6th rev. CE2 clearos sitting on my desk that I am looking forward to trying, but ordered the wrong thread by accident, so now I am waiting for an adapter first. After the headache of trying to make my giantomizers work, I am a little wary of CE2s, though. I love Boge LR single coils and Smoketech dual coils on my Ego batts, but with the voltage limiting on the Lavatube, looks like I'm going to have to order LR for my on the road/at work/school vape (gotta smoke two at once to get a good drag, though), and explore more for what works for me for at home vaping. I was planning on doing that anyways, but its kind of a drag to see how poorly the LR cartos perform on the lavatube. Dripping with it on a 3.0 atomizer is amazing, I'd stick with that if I didn't despise the hassle.

So now I am exploring Map tanks for my tank fix, and not really sure where I'm going to go with cartos on VV. I am a little confused as to if dual coils work well with it or not after reading about the voltage limiting. I am worried about map tanks, too. I like the idea of not having to refill all the time, but I have had horrid luck with all tank systems so far and flavor is THE most important aspect of vaping for me.

Pictures of my current setup below. I have a few bags of tanks and cartridges not shown. Not sure if I will post much, very busy, but I figured I better at least try to contribute after all I have learned from lurking.
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What thickness is your juice? CE2's don't work all that well for thick juice. CE3's work much better for high VG since the coil is on the bottom, so they wick better. But they've been discontinued and are harder to find. If you use thinner juice, say at least 50%PG, you might want to check out the Vision Grande or Vision Extreme at gotvapes. They use the CE2 principal, but hold 5 and 3.5 ml respectively and the wicking system seems to be majorly improved over the CE2's. The Vision Giant is a 4 wick vapor monster and anything that doesn't have filling batting tastes majorly better than a normal cartomizer.
 

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I'm using 60%pg. I was thinking about the Grande, actually. I was watching a review of the Stone 2 and he said the Grande had better flavor, which was the only thing that stopped me from buying the stone 2, because I really like how easy disassembly is on it. I've read that the CE3s were sometimes sporadic in terms of function. I was also looking at the CE4s, but I'm holding back and waiting to see what people think. I have had enough experimental buying for this month.
 
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