Hi to fellow member of ECF! I am a "vapour" since more than a year now. Started with cig-a-likes, coming off pipe smoking. I am retired, live in central UK. In a year, I tested the entire spectrum of vaping gear, inclusive of latest sub-ohm tanks and batteries. I fixed my choice to good CE4 clearomisers to vape taste-mediated e-liquids (older recipes and cheap recipes), and BDC Vivi Nova and other BDC clearomisers for smell-mediated e-liquids (newer recipes and gourmet types). Nautiluses with BVC (which is a carto in disguise) works slightly better, but the coils are almost impossible to rebuilt, and I feel ripped-off Gillette-style when I go buy the BVC coils. So I stick to whatever I can rebuilt and renew with my hands. Aspire BDC coils can be renewed a dozen times without loss in performance. Wick for CEs is a buck foor six feet, need seven inch to renew a clearo, and I have a lifetime supply of the NiCr wire.
I found out that huge clouds produced from hi-power vaporisers allow poor taste, mainly. I believe at this point that taste, together with nicotine delivery, to be the main (and natural) purpose of vaping, while a big cloud to just an assertive display of an over-inflated ego. Or, for most of the cloud-chasers, it may just represent a different form of trending.
Just like new phone every year, new snikers, new car, new vaping gear? Anyway, huge clouds are off my book, not adding any positive to vaping, being just attention-seeker, exactly what we don't need. If I want a stronger hit, I put a different liquid in the tank. I vape less than 10 Watts anyway; a good vape requires 20 microliters/second of e-liquid to be blown through the coils: as the power necessary to vaporise the liquid follows a square law, it is easy to see why cloud chasers needs a car battery for certain monster RBAs.
But. Notwithstanding trying to smoke on the cheap, spending less than what I was paying for tobacco and pipes, this has proven difficult, just to test the different batteries and mod boxes. I mainly use 4.2 V Ego (not the PWMed 3.8 V) for stealth vaping, and the smallest box for vaping at home or in friendly places. Love the iStick form factor but it ruins taste-based liquids in CEs, since it is PWM (the 20 Hz pulses creates a temperature oscillation in the low thermal inertia coils, and the wicks pumps the liquid well above the natural capillarity: the composition of the liquid arriving in the coil is altered and the flavor is strongly muted), it works well only with large BDC tanks), so usually I end up with the MVP which is driving the coils with DC power.
Anyway... vape happily. And thanks of your attention.
Anthony
I found out that huge clouds produced from hi-power vaporisers allow poor taste, mainly. I believe at this point that taste, together with nicotine delivery, to be the main (and natural) purpose of vaping, while a big cloud to just an assertive display of an over-inflated ego. Or, for most of the cloud-chasers, it may just represent a different form of trending.
Just like new phone every year, new snikers, new car, new vaping gear? Anyway, huge clouds are off my book, not adding any positive to vaping, being just attention-seeker, exactly what we don't need. If I want a stronger hit, I put a different liquid in the tank. I vape less than 10 Watts anyway; a good vape requires 20 microliters/second of e-liquid to be blown through the coils: as the power necessary to vaporise the liquid follows a square law, it is easy to see why cloud chasers needs a car battery for certain monster RBAs.
But. Notwithstanding trying to smoke on the cheap, spending less than what I was paying for tobacco and pipes, this has proven difficult, just to test the different batteries and mod boxes. I mainly use 4.2 V Ego (not the PWMed 3.8 V) for stealth vaping, and the smallest box for vaping at home or in friendly places. Love the iStick form factor but it ruins taste-based liquids in CEs, since it is PWM (the 20 Hz pulses creates a temperature oscillation in the low thermal inertia coils, and the wicks pumps the liquid well above the natural capillarity: the composition of the liquid arriving in the coil is altered and the flavor is strongly muted), it works well only with large BDC tanks), so usually I end up with the MVP which is driving the coils with DC power.
Anyway... vape happily. And thanks of your attention.
Anthony
