I actually found the forum from searching out Mooch's excellent battery information and test results.
I suppose I'd better say a bit about myself.
I smoked for 39 years, and was hand-rolling my own blend of tobacco - probably pretty strong!
I wanted to cut down, and hopefully stop, but couldn't find much local information - I needed to go into a vape shop and speak to someone, get advice, try stuff out if possible (it was) and see if I could find anything that worked for me. I use a wheelchair for everything over a few yards, although I can transfer on crutches, so I'm mostly housebound, and that was a challenge in itself!
Eventually, on the 6th February this year, I got my chance - a trip to the dentist took me close to a vape shop, so I got to visit and speak to a real person, try stuff out, and make my first purchase - an Aspire BVC device with a 1.8ml clearomizer and a battery of about 900mAh. As a starter kit, I got some juice - their "Havana Mild" seemed to give me the most satisfying taste, and I got a spare coil and spare juice, along with a charger & case.
I've smoked 9 cigarettes since, all in the first week - I'm not even sure what day my last one was, as I didn't know at the time it would be my last - some time in the week following 2017-02-06 anyway, so I'll use the 12th as my anniversary of choice.
Of course, I started wanting a bit more from my vaping, and quickly lost the taste for anything even vaguely like tobacco flavours (I still have a few bottles, that I doubt I'll ever use).
So I got a Kanger topbox mini starter kit, which looked (and was) pretty good value. Went from MTL to DL pretty soon after getting that.
Although I'm a pretty new vaper, I've had to hit the ground running in order to learn about and get what I need before the restrictions come in on 20th May (TPD) so I've had a pretty accelerated learning curve.
I now have the biggest collection I can afford of the stuff that I won't be able to get after that - 2x Uwell D2, additional Kanger toptank mini, Kanger protank 4, 2x UD Goliath V2, UD Igo W7, some more RTA/RDAs on the way, and a very cheap Kanger Dripbox squonker (60w unregulated, although it seems like it'll be an ok vape once I get a decent RDA on it). Oh, and a litre of 7.2% nicotine in PG concentrate in the freezer, with some other various mixing supplies. It should last a while, as I'm now down to just above 0.4% on DL from way above 2+% when I was smoking (although of course that was MTL, so can't directly compare). I find 0.6% too strong, and 0.3% doesn't do it for me quite, so I'm keeping it between 0.4 and 0.5% in mixing, erring on the lower strength if it makes the recipe easier.
I prefer temperature control on stainless 316L (partly because if you build with that, it'll work in anything, and is relatively safe in both power and TC modes). A good mate lent me his Yihi SX Mini M class that was gathering dust at the moment (he mostly uses dual cell mods now, so just about all his cells are married) and I've got the TCR set on that to 0.00088, which seems to work for SS316L, so must be either right or close! So I can test out builds with a 2nd (normal, non-squonk) mod while still having something to vape on while I'm doing it. Building, wicking and mixing are slow for me, as I don't have much feeling in my hands, and poor eyesight. I might look for one of those visors with magnification and lighting, and see if that helps - it should, as I'm typically jamming magnifiers and flash-lights around and in front of me to help.
I do wish I had time to get a decent TC squonker, but time and finance are against me on that.
Still, I guess I'll get through less juice dripping, so it's not all bad!
I'm much more interested in flavour than huge clouds - as long as there's enough vapour for me to replicate that experience from the cigs, I'm happy!
So I'm doing simple coil builds and starting on DIY juice already, which I guess is a fairly quick progression in under 4 months, but I was pushed along by TPD, with it's apparent aim to ban anything that would make vaping more attractive or convenient than cigarettes!
Anyway, I've listed what I've got in the way of kit (plus I have a VapeDroid C1D2 on the way), so further suggestions are welcome - especially for things that may make mixing and building easier with my physical difficulties.
Anyhow, I've probably waffled on enough about myself and my (lack of) vaping experience - it's great to find a forum with so much information and useful advice on it, so I hope to be around for quite a while yet!
Phil
I suppose I'd better say a bit about myself.
I smoked for 39 years, and was hand-rolling my own blend of tobacco - probably pretty strong!
I wanted to cut down, and hopefully stop, but couldn't find much local information - I needed to go into a vape shop and speak to someone, get advice, try stuff out if possible (it was) and see if I could find anything that worked for me. I use a wheelchair for everything over a few yards, although I can transfer on crutches, so I'm mostly housebound, and that was a challenge in itself!
Eventually, on the 6th February this year, I got my chance - a trip to the dentist took me close to a vape shop, so I got to visit and speak to a real person, try stuff out, and make my first purchase - an Aspire BVC device with a 1.8ml clearomizer and a battery of about 900mAh. As a starter kit, I got some juice - their "Havana Mild" seemed to give me the most satisfying taste, and I got a spare coil and spare juice, along with a charger & case.
I've smoked 9 cigarettes since, all in the first week - I'm not even sure what day my last one was, as I didn't know at the time it would be my last - some time in the week following 2017-02-06 anyway, so I'll use the 12th as my anniversary of choice.
Of course, I started wanting a bit more from my vaping, and quickly lost the taste for anything even vaguely like tobacco flavours (I still have a few bottles, that I doubt I'll ever use).
So I got a Kanger topbox mini starter kit, which looked (and was) pretty good value. Went from MTL to DL pretty soon after getting that.
Although I'm a pretty new vaper, I've had to hit the ground running in order to learn about and get what I need before the restrictions come in on 20th May (TPD) so I've had a pretty accelerated learning curve.
I now have the biggest collection I can afford of the stuff that I won't be able to get after that - 2x Uwell D2, additional Kanger toptank mini, Kanger protank 4, 2x UD Goliath V2, UD Igo W7, some more RTA/RDAs on the way, and a very cheap Kanger Dripbox squonker (60w unregulated, although it seems like it'll be an ok vape once I get a decent RDA on it). Oh, and a litre of 7.2% nicotine in PG concentrate in the freezer, with some other various mixing supplies. It should last a while, as I'm now down to just above 0.4% on DL from way above 2+% when I was smoking (although of course that was MTL, so can't directly compare). I find 0.6% too strong, and 0.3% doesn't do it for me quite, so I'm keeping it between 0.4 and 0.5% in mixing, erring on the lower strength if it makes the recipe easier.
I prefer temperature control on stainless 316L (partly because if you build with that, it'll work in anything, and is relatively safe in both power and TC modes). A good mate lent me his Yihi SX Mini M class that was gathering dust at the moment (he mostly uses dual cell mods now, so just about all his cells are married) and I've got the TCR set on that to 0.00088, which seems to work for SS316L, so must be either right or close! So I can test out builds with a 2nd (normal, non-squonk) mod while still having something to vape on while I'm doing it. Building, wicking and mixing are slow for me, as I don't have much feeling in my hands, and poor eyesight. I might look for one of those visors with magnification and lighting, and see if that helps - it should, as I'm typically jamming magnifiers and flash-lights around and in front of me to help.
I do wish I had time to get a decent TC squonker, but time and finance are against me on that.
Still, I guess I'll get through less juice dripping, so it's not all bad!
I'm much more interested in flavour than huge clouds - as long as there's enough vapour for me to replicate that experience from the cigs, I'm happy!
So I'm doing simple coil builds and starting on DIY juice already, which I guess is a fairly quick progression in under 4 months, but I was pushed along by TPD, with it's apparent aim to ban anything that would make vaping more attractive or convenient than cigarettes!
Anyway, I've listed what I've got in the way of kit (plus I have a VapeDroid C1D2 on the way), so further suggestions are welcome - especially for things that may make mixing and building easier with my physical difficulties.
Anyhow, I've probably waffled on enough about myself and my (lack of) vaping experience - it's great to find a forum with so much information and useful advice on it, so I hope to be around for quite a while yet!
Phil
