Hi everyone, first post here - although I have been a frequent reader of the forum and benefited by much of the advice laid out by the members. I figured I'm at a point where I may finally have some helpful insights for others, so here I am.
I've gone through many, many mods in my somewhat brief vaping experience. I started about a year and a half ago with a knockoff ego from my local haji shop. Once that broke, twice, I finally found a legit vape shop, and picked up a VTR when it first came out. I thought I'd never need or want a vape mod of any kind again. Wrong.
Curiosity got the best of me and I had to see what all the fuss was about with RDA's and sub-ohm builds (had no idea what that even meant). I started with a cheap siegeli telescopic with the atty the shop recommended to all newbies (cannot remember the name for the life of me). Let's say my experience with that was unsuccessful. I worked on that thing for hours on 2-3 separate days and while it was firing, it wasn't producing nearly the vape my VTR was and I just ended up throwing a protank on that mech mod and it became my work/road mod in lieu of the awkward and unwieldy VTR. Again, I thought I had reached my vaping summit.
Well, my buddy stopped by a few months back with a sub-ohm build and got me back into trying it. I now had a resource for help/advice/expertise to successfully try RDA's. I got a panzer mod and tugboat. Loved it. Still sucked at building, but I stuck to it and refused to give up this time till I was chucking clouds like my buddy. I wanted to prove I wasn't a complete and utter .....; I mean, it's really not THAT complicated, yet I had a hell of a time becoming consistent at building what anyone would consider a "decent" build. Now, I can build relatively well and have tried some advanced stuff, but I'm still too lazy for some of the crazy ..... people do.
I'm definitely not getting a box mod! It seems that's what everyone's doing these days. I went through so many mech mods to arrive at this one I love best and haven't desired another mod since I got it.
I have the panzer clone w/tugboat, penny mod w/tobe, cartel mod, and my fu-chai currently with a mutation X II base and mutation x top cap. I'm running a sleeper build; dual micro coils on single 24g gplat and cotton bacon - it's at .45 ohms, which is perfect for me. The flavor production on sleeper builds is unparalleled and vape production is definitely nothing to scoff at. The flavor was the most noticeable difference in using a sleeper build. HUGE. If you guys haven't tried sleeper builds, do it. You'll notice a huge difference in flavor, in my opinion. Do I understand the physics or science behind why that is? Nope, but I know my senses and I'm not just imagining this massive flavor difference.
Anyways.... I digressed a lot there haha. If you're mad, be mad at yourself, you didn't have to read it

I can be a bit scatterbrained on occasion, so thanks for your patience!
Nice to be here everyone.
Ez03