I'll share my experience ... Within my first month of vaping, I was going through a similar experience (although, probably not as bad) ... My equipment seemed to stop working, had some bad luck with buying juice online, and I was getting a lot of burnt tastes, I was like ...??. What a pain in the ... this all is. Really, the only thing that was keeping me from smoking was the fact that I was desperate to quit and realized that if I can find a way to make vaping easy, I will be happy.
So after trying a number of different setups, I decided, all this maintenance isn't worth it to me, I just need to keep it really simple. Do you know the term KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)? That helps me when I feel like things are getting confusing.
So basically I decided that all I am going to use is one glass carto tank and two glass clearomizers that both use protank heads. This makes buying replacements very easy. 5 pack of cartos are $7.50, and 5 pack of protank replacement coils are $7.50. I only use glass because I vape a lot of citrus flavors.
Personally, I have no desire to try every new device that comes out, nor do I want to get into rebuilding anything. I'm just too lazy. I believe that every device should work out of the box and want vaping to be as low maintenance as possible and much much cheaper than cigarettes. So Kanger protanks and Carto tanks are great for me because one protank had can last up to 2-4 weeks and one carto lasts me at least two weeks. As far as juice, I'm lucky to have a local B&M that sells great tasting juice at good prices.
My first month, I spent around $210 on vape gear, second month was around $115 and third month, so far only $50 dollars. I realized that as I became more experienced, the better things worked. Experience goes a long way.
Also, just an FYI on protank heads, they are very inconsistent, some of them are great and some of them are duds right out of the package. Just make sure that you prime them with e-liquid real good before starting to vape, if they still burn after that, I usually check the wicks and coil to see if there is anything out of the ordinary going on. If I can't fix the issue with a little bit of tinkering, I just throw it away.
usually the next one works fine.
Thanks, hope you don't give it up. You'll get the hang of it ... If I can, you can
