I'm a year and 2 months into vaping. I did the pen and pre-made coil thing for a while, but I always wanted more. My breaks were only 10 minutes and I saw other vapors blowing clouds that made my tiny stream of vapor look like a drop in a very large bucket. I bought an IPV S2 and a Kanger Subtank mini, ran one OCC coil, burned it out of design flaws others have described (cotton doesn't get enough fluid against the coil) and then grabbed the rba deck. Tiny, but with a little 26 gauge Kanthal and some cotton I was hooked. My S2 died early (just a lemon...that rare one in a million with a bad solder joint) and my B&M sold me their last S4 for cheap and I also bought a Dark Horse, and started collecting tools, meters, coiling tools, Kanthal in round and ribbon from 36 gauge to 22 gauge. I then decided to try a mech, bought a Cherry Bomber mini clone and love it. Have a hand-built MOSFET controlled parallel mech, a SMPL clone, a Mutation X V3, a Billow V2, and a Tobeco Velocity atty. I have a whole toolbag I carry that holds my coiling parts and supplies and extra 18650s (VTG4 and Samsung 25Rs no eBay specials. I paid extra for the name brand.) Have a Nitecore 4 slot charger that keeps me in plenty of extra batteries and I rotate and never deep discharge them. Your community has given me plenty of answers and I figure I should join the conversation now that I know what I'm doing. I learned a lot from trial and error but thanks to the advice from here I've been able to get my mods and attys working without doing something dumb out of ignorance and the worst I've done is stab myself with a piece of Kanthal that I thought I cut off but was sticking out when I grabbed the build deck.
Looking to innovate, I'm a degreed Computer Science and Business guy, and have a background in digital design, have built electronics for race cars and fuel injection, am an ace with a soldering gun and can build and have manufactured printed circuit boards. I see a lot of potential in increasing efficiency and adding features and making smaller or more durable certain things in regulated mods and I have ideas about making simple mech mods with maximum efficiency. Also experimenting with coil efficiencies both subohm and in my regulated at various gauges and setups to get the best surface area and optimal heat Flux. Owe a lot to you guys for your info and knowledge. This is where I go when I need to know about a product or to have a concept explained.
Nice to meet you! Sorry for the long post.
Kevin aka Tallvaper1979
Vaper since February 2015
Magna cum Laude, Wichita State University, Bachelor of Arts in CS/Business Administration minor. Freelance electronics designer, programmer, code researcher, and PCB designer and college teacher.
Looking to innovate, I'm a degreed Computer Science and Business guy, and have a background in digital design, have built electronics for race cars and fuel injection, am an ace with a soldering gun and can build and have manufactured printed circuit boards. I see a lot of potential in increasing efficiency and adding features and making smaller or more durable certain things in regulated mods and I have ideas about making simple mech mods with maximum efficiency. Also experimenting with coil efficiencies both subohm and in my regulated at various gauges and setups to get the best surface area and optimal heat Flux. Owe a lot to you guys for your info and knowledge. This is where I go when I need to know about a product or to have a concept explained.
Nice to meet you! Sorry for the long post.
Kevin aka Tallvaper1979
Vaper since February 2015
Magna cum Laude, Wichita State University, Bachelor of Arts in CS/Business Administration minor. Freelance electronics designer, programmer, code researcher, and PCB designer and college teacher.
