thank you much for the welcome... as for hawaii... eh... you get island fever after having been here your whole life... cant up and go somewhere for a quick trip besides another island
but it has its ups and downs... i do like my setup... i started my very first vape about 4 years ago on an SS7 and was very displeased! then i went back to analogs. in august i was turned on by my mother of all people who i have known as a smoker her whole life, to the growing technology of this age. she has an inferno and swore by it, she still does... i bought an inferno but i was not 100% satisfied. i came to realize that it does in fact work, but not to cure someone with a habit of my caliber. i was a pack to a pack and a half a day, depending on whether or not i was with friends and if beer had come out... consequently that was about every night :-(... so the inferno or eGo style was ok just had a few hiccups... being that is was a 3.7v fixed voltage device, it requires dual coils to make it rip. i would go through them dual coil cartos in a tank fairly fast... one ever other day MAX... the laws of gravity, liquid, and thermal dynamics did not work together at all! the liquid will want to equalize in the carto to the same level as is in the tank, given no resistance to the flow, hence the bubble in the hole syndrome... but, gravity keeps the liquid in the lower part of the carto... and heat rises... so i kept burning out dual coils like nothing... one burnt so bad... i was in maui on business and i didnt bring spare parts with me... i was in a cane field and the coil started to burn out on the top side. it was sooo bad that if i wouldve taken another vape i wouldve puked... the vape turned to smoke and to the point i was so hurt to not smoke an analog, i kept going... it eventually burnt the taste buds on my tongue for a few days. when i got back home i looked into a lavatube which was known for using higher resistance, higher voltage... i checked it out and i loved it... or at least high voltage vaping! i was NOT in love with my lavatube... i didnt get the chrome one... i live in hawaii where the volcano HQ is at and they had shipped out their last unit in chrome so i got the black. it has the lame plastic endcaps. when i got mine, i wont lie it functioned great, when not putting it against anything else with a meter... but i had a problem with my endcap for the battery working loose. the plastic part coming off the metal threaded part... volcano said thats a non warranty item... BIG NO NO... i have money to spend with not smoking analogs and you dont wanna tell me you wont warranty something that has a one year warranty that is only a week old!!! then i noticed that the brass 510 connection started to go crooked... my tanks started slanting... this is not the case on the provari, the carto simply breaks off since the top cap is one solid machined piece... i would rather have an accident tipping it over on the table having it break the carto, not my mod, you know? and this happens all the time... i prefer to rest mine standing vertical as opposed to lying it down... i have a toddler in the house and im kind of clumsy myself... i will tap the table its on and smack! down it falls... the lavatube never broke any cartos... but thats because the cheap 510 connection took the abuse and i didnt like that. that said i did some deeper research and found the provari... long story short, i bought one and that problem was fixed... but now i bust cartos all the time :-(... i went through two tonight in fact! as far as my cartos... its a process to change because i dont bore them in bulk i bore them as needed so if anyone else around me needs one and they arent used to how to pull on my retrofit version they wont get any flooding issues... main difference is that you get looser priming out of my bored out version... you normally have to give him a couple quick, firm, priming hits without hitting the button but not with the cartos i use... i use genuine SmokTech 3.0 ohm single coils prepunched with 1x 1mm hole... then i step up the hole to a 1/16 in... after that i step up again to a 5/64 in... the i use a 9/64 in really lightly to cut the burrs off the hole... then use a fine cut file to remove any remaining metal... no dust, not shards... clean and smooth as a babies bottom... never had a leak, flood, or a cut oring yet...
Hawaii, eh? It must be nice to be so lucky to have such an incredible place to call home. 
. Congrats on your success with quitting smoking.
