How do others deal with new vaping issues? Ego 510 user

[Blinddriver]

HOW to improve vaping?


Amazed: Male, 45+ yrs smoking 2+ packs/day. So I am absolutely amazed that I am not smoking after trying everything I could think of.


After about 6 weeks of vaping and 4 weeks of being “analog” free I have some minor concerns and would like to know how others are dealing with them. Using Ego 510 system with 3v 1000mah manual batteries.


I am vaping a lot. Like I used to smoke a lot.
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It feIt feels like I am having to give too much attention to this process; cleaning attys every few days, threads all the time, wiping excess juice up and so on.

• · First – carrying around in pocket; the juice works it’s way down past the atty and floods the battery, sometimes makes a mess in pocket. If carried upside down then priming is needed. How do you carry them around sideways?
• · Mods: Tried many of them except the blue filter material. The small straw helps, other than that I don’t see much difference in tea bags, white fluff, combo, half full, all the way full, full size straw angled and split, MYO cig filter, etc. My Small straw is made from the kind of straws that come attached to canned air and wd40.
• · Should I try other mods?
• · VG is better than PG to me but too thick (to wick) so a mix is needed. I am using about 75% VG and mixing my flavors now for about half of my use, but still have a bunch small bottles of initial juice to go through. This is slowly being, almost naturally, converted to ingredients as I am coming up with recipes I like.
• · Has anyone tried cutting VG with Rum or another ETOH instead of PG? With what results.
• · Dripping: Have not tried. It appears to be like smoking a pipe from what I’m reading – meaning a lot of attention is needed. Is This right? I would like some input from you drippers.
• · What should I be doing to make the experience better?
• Should I just wait for the electronically controlled units to hit the market?

It is a small price to pay to be free of cigarettes, BUT I see myself vaping for the rest of my life. In a year, I picture myself vaping nic free, but still using the pacifier. So If something jumps out that I should change, let me know.



I used to picture my burial plot putting up puffs of smoke on quiet still nights long after I've moved on. Under a full moon.



If this is as good as it gets, that’s ok as long as I know that.



Gratefully, Finally free from cigarettes! and analogs too.,



me.

 

[technovapir]

Hello Blinddriver! I think you've discovered the truth...vaping is a lot of work, and pretty messy. Still, I really enjoy it, and just suffer through the learning process. I started with 510, then Ego/Riva, and now also use V4L (vaporking style).
I gave up on cartridges pretty early on as they leaked and didn't seem to work well for me. I enjoy dripping sometimes, when I'm hanging out at home. My daily routine now though is using cartomizers for both the Ego & my V4L. I can fill up a bunch of carto's (or use V4L's prefilled) and toss them in my bag with batteries and I'm good to go for the day. I think my 510s were the worst as far as leaking from the carts - but I may have overfilled them just trying to get a good fill.
Anyway, sounds like your experience is perfectly normal, and congrats on quitting the analogs!!!

 

[dormouse]

Don't use any liquors with sugar in them - it would gunk up the atty. I think gin or vodka is more often used to cut or add some TH.

If you don't like cart+atty try cartomizers. Once one is well filled to start and not dripping, it is less likely to dump juice out than a cart. You don't need to add juice as often. If the vapor seems a bit light or dry, and tilting the ecig carto down for 5 seconds doesn't fix it, then it is time to add a bit more juice. I use only soft-cap cartos - so I take it off the battery, pop out the soft cap (or pull out the drip tip if I am using one instead for a mouthpiece), hold a bit of tissue on the threaded end, tilt it and drop some juice into the stuffing. Maybe 5-8 drops - whatever it needs at the time. if that soaks in easily and it's not leaking, I may add several more drops. Let it soak in, wipe up any leaks well, puff into the threaded end to clear the air channel, screw it back on. if you run a carto dry, you can singe the stuffing and ruin it. If you keep it damp it can work well for days. Eventually the atty inside gets gunked up and performance goes down. But I got 2 weeks out of a 510 carto once. Then you throw it away and start another.

Some people save good ones and try to clean them. I haven't tried that yet but I am saving some for trying that.

That above is about plain stuffing-filled cartos. There are also more exotic reservoir cartos that need a particular kind of syringe to fill.

 

[Pneathery]

I ended up going with the Joye Ego-Tank kit's, when I quit smoking I was smoking between 3-5 packs a day, and there were far more 5 days then there were three days. Since I started vaping 33 days ago, I haven't hadnto smoke at all, I haven't even wanted to smoke! This is an amazing product. But I gor so tired of the constant maintenance and time required to VAPE. I bought a Joye Ego clone called a T-Rex kit it was $30 for the two 650mah batteries and two of everything else, I'm thinking that's what you meen when you are saying that you are vaping an "Ego 510" that you have a Joye Ego, so everything I say goes with that assumption, anyway I ended up with those bigger battery models, and I had been reading about the Joye Ego Tank, so I actually just ordered an ego tank atomizer, and a 5 pack of tank cartridges to see if I liked them. The day I got them in the mail I fell in love! And within the first hour ordered a kit for myself, and one for the wife, so I got 4 Joy ego batteries, 4 joy ego tank atomizers, and 10 tank cartridges. The benefit of these is that there is no filler material in the cartridges, they are tanks. They hold a little bit over 1ml of juice, so you just push them into the atomizer, and VAPE away, the tanks are see through so you can see when you are running low, and when you are, just get another one out of the bag that you filled beforehand and take the old one out, and put the new one in. My wife in a full day 5am-10pm, goes through only 3 tank cartridges! She hasn't had one leak, hasn't had any juice in her mouth since she started using these. I had a little bit of a learning curve when I first got them. I had a few of them completely leak out on me, I actually VAPE with a lanyard, so my PV is always around my neck, and I did have it hanging mouth piece up, battery down. I had to change that. I was also vaping straight PV (it was all I had at the time) the tanks were designed to be vapid at 70pg/30vg some people said they can go up to 50/50, I just stay at the 70/30, and I was sucking too hard when I was taking a drag.
So the big picture, I would suck very hard (which causes the juice to be pulled into the atomizer it works on a vacuum system, you drag, and it pulls the juice out, the juice and the area you actually get the vapor from in the tank are two separate parts, so you can't over draw the juice into your mouth) which in turn would start the very thin PG juice to start flowing into my atomizer VERY quickly, and then gravity would take over and I would flood the atomizer, and have no juice left in my tank.
So I changed the juice to 70/30 lessening the flow of juice, I changed my drag to slow and steady instead of short, hard, and fast, and just in case I messed up and did draw too hard, it now hangs upside down so the juice cannot escape, or keep on flowing. If these tank cartridges are upside down, there is nowhere that the juice can get out. There is only one tiny hole accessing the holding tank, and that goes into a metal tube inside of the atomizer.
So that so far is the best solution I have found. I personally go through 6-12 tanks a day, but I can refill them n the morning, and put then in the bag that it came with, and I'm good for the day, the tanks have a cap on the end so they can't leak. I do at the end of the day blow out my atomizer, reprise it, then blow that out, and repeat till it blows out the same color as the juice I'm putting in.
There are also the cartomizer's that were mentioned before this post, no atty maintenance at all, just refill them till they quit working, then pitch em!
Then there is a fairly new item I've seen but not tried that I want to, it's called a clearomizers, it's similar to the cartomizer's, but see through, and it also doesn't have filler in it, it's just an empty tank, and then there is a mod of them called a "map tank mod" I want one of those too. That thing holds over 6ML! Sounds like what I need, anyway good luck!
Oh there's also the roe mod. It is a bottom juice feeder, but thats a whole mother kettle of fish.
Good luck
The tank atty/5carts is $20 from liberty flights
The map tank mod is about $25
And the clearomizers is the same for a pack of 5

 

[ledouxmike]

I've been there. Started off using the joye eGo with uses the 510 atomizer just with a bigger battery. Now I'm using the eGo-T. The eGo-T is a system that doesn't use cartidges like like most ecigarettes. Instead of carts, they have tanks. The tanks don't have white filler inside and don't leak, at least not yet, lol. I just received it and like it but it seems some people are having issues with them. So I wouldn't recommend running out and buying this one just yet without doing a lot of research first. So, I did a lot of searching and knowing they were having some issues with them, decided to get them anyway. I had started using the eGo mega atomizers(also know as atty's) on my same batteries and my cartridges couldn't keep up with my vaping not matter what filler I used or mods I did to it. I guess maybe if I play around with that I could probably get it to work better but I was just frustrated with it and just wanted to get my nicotine fix. So, I stepped up to the eGo-T atomizers.
If I were you, I would just be aware that there is no perfect e cigarette. They all have an issue here and there. That's what I've learned on this forum. But the health benefits of vaping versus smoking make it well worth it. The people in this forum will help you out anyway they can. If you're looking for specific information on these boards, click on advanced search and next to the box, check in "titles only" and that will help you if you hadn't figured that out already. Check out PV's (Personal Vaporizers) too, some of them have really long battery life, 1 1/2 days for extremely heavy vapers. Mileage may vary. Also check out the Electronic Cigarette Video Reviews.

Electronic Cigarette Reviews

 

[pandatera]

Hi,

I didn't fuss around w/ the carts that much becuz they leak on me at times, and also need to top off so often. I would suggest trying the Boge cartomizer. You might be spending alittle more money, but alot less hassle comparing to carts. The Boge cartomizer didn't leak on me, and it holds more juice. They are call "disposable", but can be refill a couple of times. I rotate 10 cartos for a period of 3 - 4 weeks. So it's simple, I fill up all 10 cartos and carry a few w/ me each day. (How much carto you will need per month varies from person to person) Refill at nite again for the next day. Some people clean them, but I have never tried. They are about $8.00 for a pack of 5.

As for dripping, I ususally don't drip much. When I started, I keep making a big mess with flood atty when I drip. But now it's getting better, I think I'm getting a hand of it. I been dripping the last two days while i'm home, the flavor is great. It's alittle hassle if your out, because you will need to drip about 2 - 3 drops directly onto your atomizer (center mesh) every 10 puffs or so. If your home it might be a good idea. And also it's a good idea when you are testing flavors.


Hope this helps

 

[wolflrv]

At 6 weeks into vaping, you've gotten past the initial WOW phase and really started to try and fine tune the whole process. Vaping is definitely more work than smoking. There are also many more inconsistencies vs just smoking. I was a 3 pack a day smoker for 38 years and I definitely had a monkey on my back. Still do..but I've found enough satisfaction with vaping to not have to turn back to smoking. I've also adopted it as a hobby as have many others, so the "challenge" of the perfect vape is part of the process. An Ego is a good start, but I'd suggest investing in at least one good 18650 mod, several adapters and then buy 1 or 2 of various atomizers and cartomizers to get a feel for what's really out there. Try low resistance gear too. As far as leaking atties go, you really should look at the new Map Tanks that everyone is talking about. They may seem bulky at first and you have to be quick to catch one in stock to buy, but if you're looking for that no hassle-just vape experience then you should really try it out.

For me the challenge is that I don't want to "fiddle" with stuff at all. I don't like to think about it, or mess with it...it just needs to be unconscious like smoking was. My first few months of vaping were very frustrating and I had trouble completely walking away from smoking until I could legitimately solve these problems. I've invested lots of money in my pursuit of solving these problems and it boils down to battery life, voltage and juice delivery. I've worked with multiple battery combinations and various atty ohm combinations, but all have been lacking in one way or another. I'm about to solve the battery/voltage problem with my new Provari which should be here in another couple of weeks. The juice delivery issue has already been solved with the MapTank. I now have a way of containing 5mls of juice(enough to last most of the day) in a tank that doesn't leak or make messes, using a cartomizer that doesn't burn and can be thoroughly cleaned and used repeatedly with a much longer lifespan than most atties and that is way, way more cost effective than running through 3-5 $8 atties a week.

It's a big step to make when you're just starting into the vaping habit, but make yourself a spreadsheet and track your expenses vs the cost of what you'd have spent on smokes and I think you'll find that even spending $150 on a nice mod will be far less than you think vs smoking. Hope this helps and didn't seem too rambling...it's late..but I wanted to try and help.

 

[rabidred13]

I like the V4L Vapor King. No issues...just keep the batteries charged and change the carto when it's done. Refill when I have time.

 

[swedishfish]

I only used cartomizers with my ego and liked them. Got a tank and love it. Takes all the mess and fuss out of vaping.

It's about a $15-$20 investment that's well worth it.

 

[mlinky]

I had the same issues...I like to throw my pv in my purse, so no leaks allowed, and I need it to be as easy as smoking. Used the Boge 2ohm cartomizers on my eGo which work great. Then I got even lazier (or more discerning) and got my mini REO. Pop in a 3ml bottle of juice, and carry an extra battery with me, no muss, no fuss.

 

[swedishfish]

I had the same issues...I like to throw my pv in my purse, so no leaks allowed, and I need it to be as easy as smoking. Used the Boge 2ohm cartomizers on my eGo which work great. Then I got even lazier (or more discerning) and got my mini REO. Pop in a 3ml bottle of juice, and carry an extra battery with me, no muss, no fuss.

Fancy Shmancy! I'm jellis!

 

[mlinky]

Fancy Shmancy! I'm jellis!

swedishfish, you know you want one...come to the dark side; we have cookies

 

[Rosa]

swedishfish, you know you want one...come to the dark side; we have cookies

Cookies? I want cookies too....

 

[swedishfish]

You're right! I do one one. Especially with cookies.

 

[WomanOfHeart]

I gave up on carts a long time ago. I drip about 95% of the time and use cartos when I'm away from home and can't drip. I used to think dripping would be a big, messy PITA, but boy was I wrong! Dripping is incredibly easy, wastes far less juice than both carts and cartos and it really brings out the flavor of ALL of my juices. Dripping is also the easiest and most economical way to test new flavors. When you first start a drip session you put three drops in the atty and vape until the vapor production starts dropping off and the flavor changes, then you add two drops and vape. I blow out my atomizer once a day unless I accidentally flood it or I want to switch flavors, but even that isn't very messy. I highly recommend dripping to everyone!

 

[stkbow]

Hmm... After all the tank talk I'm wishing I would have order a ego with a tank system. From all the lurking I've been doing I have a feeling It won't be the last time I wish for something different.

 

[swedishfish]

Hmm... After all the tank talk I'm wishing I would have order a ego with a tank system. From all the lurking I've been doing I have a feeling It won't be the last time I wish for something different.

What do you have?