I'm lost in all the options here... help!

[Wired All Wrong]

Ok, reading over the suggestions I am realizing more and more that what I'm confused with is all the various "ends" and all the options that can be added to my already pre-existing eGo-T.... I did checked out eGo Booster earlier (which caused me to start this post in the first place)

I don't mind investing into a new gadget or adding to the old one at all, it just all seems confusing to me at this time and I just want to find one option that works (I guess it's the same to most who start vaping)


Mine down draw on the eGo-T is:
I have to clean it and soak it with alcohol every 2 days or it gets very clogged up and the taste gets really nasty
that it is semi big compare to more realistic cigarette size to just carry around (I'm not a purse kinda girl)
I seem to fight with cartridges to get the liquid inside
It over heats easily and stops working if I spend time outside in hot weather within an hour (I'm not sure if that's normal?)
and biggest one of all is of cause - not enough flavor or TH

 

[GIMike]

Cartos are the way to go if you want less fuss. crystalclearvaping runs a sale for 15 boge cartos for $20. At $1.30 a piece, if you use a different one every day, you'd still save loads compared to smoking. But they tend to last a week or two, so you're saving even more. You can use different ones for different flavors, etc. When they get dirty, they're only $1.30 a piece, so toss them

The price on the other cartos goes up pretty high, up to $5-$6 a piece or more, so those aren't quite as disposable. Just depends on what you're looking for.

 

[count dragula]

I have to clean it and soak it with alcohol every 2 days or it gets very clogged up and the taste gets really nasty

That's the effect of the "flavoring".
I vape unflavored (except just enough menthol to be detectable), and I only clean my atty (with plain water) about every two or three weeks. The dark or sugary flavors will burn out onto the coil faster, requiring more cleaning.

I seem to fight with cartridges to get the liquid inside

That's one reason I went back to the tank system after playing with cartos -- it's just so danged easy to use.

It over heats easily and stops working if I spend time outside in hot weather within an hour (I'm not sure if that's normal?)

I think the tank system is a bit temperature sensitive. When I left it sit in the cup holder in the car, it leaked.
I carry it in my shirt pocket now, which stabilizes the temperature of all the different parts (via body heat).
(Different materials expand/contract at different rates. Plastic tank, silica wick, steel frame, gold connectors, nichrome coil, ...)

But I never had mine quit working completely, outdoors. (Unless the battery wasn't making contact.)

that it is semi big compare to more realistic cigarette size to just carry around

I'm still fighting this one a bit. It's big. It jumps out of my pocket all the time, when I lean over.
I switched to the smaller 650mAh batteries when walking around, as the 1100s were huge. And I find 650mAh will still last me all day. (It took me 2.5 *days* of vaping to drain down an 1100 mAh battery.)
But the weight is comparable to a pack of analogs and a zippo.

 

[GIMike]

That's one reason I went back to the tank system after playing with cartos -- it's just so danged easy to use.

I agree with all your points except the one I quoted. I use a boge carto with a drip tip (not that I drip, easier to use than the lil white cap), and it's VERY easy to use. I would say easier than the tank as the tank tends to get my fingers wet and gooey from the juice on the outside (yes, I am tilting it with the cap pointed up so it doesn't leak out when I change it). I've also noticed that I burn through liquids MUCH faster with the tank than I do with the carto. I can sit and vape for 15 minutes and empty a full tank. Hard to do that with a carto.

 

[Mindfield]

Ok, reading over the suggestions I am realizing more and more that what I'm confused with is all the various "ends" and all the options that can be added to my already pre-existing eGo-T.... I did checked out eGo Booster earlier (which caused me to start this post in the first place)

I don't mind investing into a new gadget or adding to the old one at all, it just all seems confusing to me at this time and I just want to find one option that works (I guess it's the same to most who start vaping)


Mine down draw on the eGo-T is:
I have to clean it and soak it with alcohol every 2 days or it gets very clogged up and the taste gets really nasty
that it is semi big compare to more realistic cigarette size to just carry around (I'm not a purse kinda girl)
I seem to fight with cartridges to get the liquid inside
It over heats easily and stops working if I spend time outside in hot weather within an hour (I'm not sure if that's normal?)
and biggest one of all is of cause - not enough flavor or TH

All you really need to know is that you have an eGo. That means you can accept anything that has a 510 or eGo connection. And for you, cartos are definitely the way you want to go. Easy fill, to leaks, no fuss. Just fill and go. You can even fill multiple cartos with different flavours, put the caps back on them and carry them around. Switch up whenever you need a change. Nothing simpler.

The Boge cartos GIMike mentioned are definitely a great deal. You can also go with the SmokTech dual coils, or the eGo Mega Dual Coil Cartomizers from MadVapes if you want something with huge capacity. (Although the EMDCCs do not have caps to put over the ends so I get a little more nervous about prefilling those and carrying them around like that.)

It's a little confusing, but choice is a good thing.

 

[GIMike]

All you really need to know is that you have an eGo. That means you can accept anything that has a 510 or eGo connection. And for you, cartos are definitely the way you want to go. Easy fill, to leaks, no fuss. Just fill and go. You can even fill multiple cartos with different flavours, put the caps back on them and carry them around. Switch up whenever you need a change. Nothing simpler.

The Boge cartos GIMike mentioned are definitely a great deal. You can also go with the SmokTech dual coils, or the eGo Mega Dual Coil Cartomizers from MadVapes if you want something with huge capacity. (Although the EMDCCs do not have caps to put over the ends so I get a little more nervous about prefilling those and carrying them around like that.)

It's a little confusing, but choice is a good thing.

One way to think of it, if I'm not adding to your confusion, is to think of all those numbered names as thread sizes. 510 has it's own threading, kr808d-1 has it's own threading, etc etc. Kinda like how a 3/4" bolt won't fit into a 1/2" nut. For me, that's the easiest way to think of it. If it's 510 threaded (the connection on the battery), it works with yours, anything else won't work. But from what I understand, the 510 thread has the most options out there in terms of what all you can use with it.

Just stick with the basics that we've pointed out for you here though, and you'll be fine

 

[count dragula]

I agree with all your points except the one I quoted. I use a boge carto with a drip tip (not that I drip, easier to use than the lil white cap), and it's VERY easy to use.

I haven't tried the Boge (I think), but the CE2s and the eGo Mega cartos both take syringes to fill.

Yes, you have to play with the wick to get the tank atty to work right. But once that's done, you can leave it alone until you need to de-gunk it.

I just pop the (B) tank cap off, pour in 2ml of juice, put it back on the atty, swap batteries, and I'm good for 24 hours.

(But then I'm vaping 35mg unflavored, so I only take the odd draw to replace analogs, not for the "flavor".)
(And unflavored means I hardly ever have to clean the atty. Maybe a water rinse every 2-3 weeks.)

 

[tj99959]

A 5v 510 pass through costs about $10 bucks, a box of 3ohm SR Boge cartos costs about $7.25. So for less than $20 bucks you can have a good base line to measure other devices against. Those 3ohm cartos seem to last forever at 5v, so that is about as ecconomical as vaping can get for when you are just sitting at a desk playing on the puter.

Don't sell that little eGo bat short! With all the "stuff" I have laying around, the best vape in the house is still dripping one of the verious hotrod atties on that pulse regulated voltage eGo bat.

For more TH try a tobacco/nut flavor (I use "555"), at least 50% PG, and no lower than 1.8% nic.

I use a boge carto with a drip tip (not that I drip,

Personal opinion of course, but not using a plastic drip tip on a carto or atty is lip cancer looking for a place to happen.

 

[Mindfield]

One way to think of it, if I'm not adding to your confusion, is to think of all those numbered names as thread sizes. 510 has it's own threading, kr808d-1 has it's own threading, etc etc. Kinda like how a 3/4" bolt won't fit into a 1/2" nut. For me, that's the easiest way to think of it. If it's 510 threaded (the connection on the battery), it works with yours, anything else won't work. But from what I understand, the 510 thread has the most options out there in terms of what all you can use with it.

Just stick with the basics that we've pointed out for you here though, and you'll be fine

Good rule of thumb -- though the 306 and 510 share the same connector, but the 306 just uses a different atomizer that's popular with drippers, presumably because of its exposed bridge. But that's largely irrelevant anyway. I think there's some relation between the 801 and 901 or something like that. Hell, even I get confused with those numbers sometimes...

 

[Wired All Wrong]

Thank you so much guys for this clarifications and helpful suggestions, I think I'm getting it now, it's kinda hard looking at pics on computer and see what works with what or not, I don't wanna buy all bunch of parts that don't go together lol

so 510 & eGo is compatible!

(I really wish there was an actual store were you can just go in and try and see all the options right there in person)

 

[Mindfield]

I haven't tried the Boge (I think), but the CE2s and the eGo Mega cartos both take syringes to fill.

The eGo Megas don't require a syringe to fill. If you're talking about tjhe EMDCC you just pop off the mouthpiece. For normal cartos you just remove the rubber plug and drip fill down the sidewalls. No need for a syringe. Some people like filling with a syringe but I can't be bothered when it's just as easy if not easier to drip fill.

 

[tj99959]

(I really wish there was an actual store were you can just go in and try and see all the options right there in person)

I kiss the ground that the e-cig store sits on here in this little burg of a town that I live in. I probably never would have started vaping without them.
ElectronicStix.Com You're Premier Vaping Vendor Since 2008

They just moved into a nicer/larger store BTW

 

[GIMike]

I kiss the ground that the e-cig store sits on here in this little burg of a town that I live in. I probably never would have started vaping without them.
ElectronicStix.Com You're Premier Vaping Vendor Since 2008

They just moved into a nicer/larger store BTW

We just got a store like that here in OKC not too long ago. I've only been in once, but they weren't all that great when it came to choices in cigs. Looks like they've mainly invested in the ego batts with 510 attys since I guess that's what the owners use. No tanks, cartos, clearos etc. No other types of ecigs either, aside from a few 510 kits. But I agree, it is nice to have a brick and mortar store to turn to.

 

[Mindfield]

We just got a store like that here in OKC not too long ago. I've only been in once, but they weren't all that great when it came to choices in cigs. Looks like they've mainly invested in the ego batts with 510 attys since I guess that's what the owners use. No tanks, cartos, clearos etc. No other types of ecigs either, aside from a few 510 kits. But I agree, it is nice to have a brick and mortar store to turn to.

'Least you got stores. Our FDA wannabe Health Canada is stuck about where the FDA was a year ago or more, trying to ban nic liquids. We have very few places across the country that carry them in brick and mortar stores. I know of only one in Ontario that carries anything even halfway decent and also carries nic liquid. Otherwise all I've seen are a couple of places carrying really crappy E-cigs.

 

[swedishfish]

The eGo Megas don't require a syringe to fill. If you're talking about tjhe EMDCC you just pop off the mouthpiece. For normal cartos you just remove the rubber plug and drip fill down the sidewalls. No need for a syringe. Some people like filling with a syringe but I can't be bothered when it's just as easy if not easier to drip fill.

The regular ego Mega cartomizer (not dual coil) do have to be filled with a syringe. They're plasic one piece design and you have to remove the mouthpiece to fill.

Here's a pic of one

https://www.cignot.com/product_p/ego-cto-alb.htm

 

[swedishfish]

BTW, Good Prophets has a sale on boge cartomizers for $5.99.

 

[GIMike]

BTW, Good Prophets has a sale on boge cartomizers for $5.99.

That would be cheaper than CCVs 15 for $20. They have free shipping, so if GP doesn't, it may come out to about the same. I know CCV has problems keeping them in stock, so this might be another option for somebody who missed the wagon and needs some if they do come out to the same. Would be nice if somebody had cheap deals on these cartos and could actually stay in stock

 

[tj99959]

https://www.cignot.com/product_p/ego-cto-alb.htm

No thanks just the same

This is a far better option

J-TANKS

 

[swedishfish]

I ordered some other stuff from them and grabbed some. I do usually order from CCV and/or Joogler.

 

[GIMike]

Let us know if it turns out cheaper after shipping