First post! I'm really not a total newbie, but more of a lurker that lurked for a few months while I weened myself of the cigs. Former 2 pack a day user for 28 years who is now totally smoke free. Got my wife to quit too!
I went the normal route, starter kit, ego-twist and now onto a sigelei zmax telescope (kicks buttocks), and soon a jazz carto pipe.
I went from the ego- dealie-bobs cartomowahtever and atomizers that came with the kit - blech, to the stardusts, to the vivi's and now the Innokin iClear 30. I think I'll learn to re-wick now.
Now the iClear, arrived yesterday and was leaking like a sieve from the get go until it was about 1/3 full. So 2/3 in it would leak. BUT it gave a nice amount of flavor and vapor. Much like a Vivi when I first loaded one up.
I'm not a total genius, nor a total dufus, I'm a screen printer and if I can maintain a screen press and register a 6 color shirt design, I can change a head on a clearomizer. So, with that said, I did a little googling and saw that leaking issues were sometimes resoved with a head change. Irritated that a new item would need such a tweak off the bat (again), I opened my pack of replacement heads, emptied my tank only to find that the replacement ends do not fit! Yep too large to even grab onto the thread of the innokin.
Ok so let's put the original head back on, it fit at least... Ok so it's back on. But wait, now the clearo will not fire! I now have a LOW LOAD error on my zmax. Did i mess up my Zmax? Nope everything else works fine on it.
So I go to see if the Innokin head is maybe not screwed on tight enough...and almost all the wicks start to fall out. They just literally fall off at the slightest touch.
So wow. I'm NOT discouraged or upset really. I just find it amusing and slightly disturbing. Amusing that there seems to be such a wide QC "gap" on some of these things. Disturbing because I feel the need to jump on a lot of this stuff and purchase it. Disturbing because in the back of my mind, whenever ordering from a new (to me) vendor. I wonder if I am getting a fake.
With all that said, I'm a masochist and LOVE the hobby. it keeps me from smoking. I LOVED to smoke. I'm a masochist.
One last note, I read that many find the Vivi's muted. I did too, at first. Then I learned how I should be vaping. I wasn't holding the vapor in my mouth before an inhale. I was "smoking" my juice. Once I figured that out, the Innokin and Vivi are comparable in the flavor department and throat hit. Also chain vaping the same flavor seems to be a reason for muting flavor. So does getting accustomed to flavor. Sometimes it's a mental thing - like speaker break in. Also you will go through a lot less juice when you finally realize the correct "vaping method".
Will I get another Innokin iClear? You better bet I will receive a replacement from the vendor, or a refund, one way or another. But the Vivi works IMHO prety much the same. I'll give the Iclear another go if they send a replacement.
This probably helps absolutely nobody. But it makes me feel a bit better.
I went the normal route, starter kit, ego-twist and now onto a sigelei zmax telescope (kicks buttocks), and soon a jazz carto pipe.
I went from the ego- dealie-bobs cartomowahtever and atomizers that came with the kit - blech, to the stardusts, to the vivi's and now the Innokin iClear 30. I think I'll learn to re-wick now.
Now the iClear, arrived yesterday and was leaking like a sieve from the get go until it was about 1/3 full. So 2/3 in it would leak. BUT it gave a nice amount of flavor and vapor. Much like a Vivi when I first loaded one up.
I'm not a total genius, nor a total dufus, I'm a screen printer and if I can maintain a screen press and register a 6 color shirt design, I can change a head on a clearomizer. So, with that said, I did a little googling and saw that leaking issues were sometimes resoved with a head change. Irritated that a new item would need such a tweak off the bat (again), I opened my pack of replacement heads, emptied my tank only to find that the replacement ends do not fit! Yep too large to even grab onto the thread of the innokin.
Ok so let's put the original head back on, it fit at least... Ok so it's back on. But wait, now the clearo will not fire! I now have a LOW LOAD error on my zmax. Did i mess up my Zmax? Nope everything else works fine on it.
So I go to see if the Innokin head is maybe not screwed on tight enough...and almost all the wicks start to fall out. They just literally fall off at the slightest touch.
So wow. I'm NOT discouraged or upset really. I just find it amusing and slightly disturbing. Amusing that there seems to be such a wide QC "gap" on some of these things. Disturbing because I feel the need to jump on a lot of this stuff and purchase it. Disturbing because in the back of my mind, whenever ordering from a new (to me) vendor. I wonder if I am getting a fake.
With all that said, I'm a masochist and LOVE the hobby. it keeps me from smoking. I LOVED to smoke. I'm a masochist.
One last note, I read that many find the Vivi's muted. I did too, at first. Then I learned how I should be vaping. I wasn't holding the vapor in my mouth before an inhale. I was "smoking" my juice. Once I figured that out, the Innokin and Vivi are comparable in the flavor department and throat hit. Also chain vaping the same flavor seems to be a reason for muting flavor. So does getting accustomed to flavor. Sometimes it's a mental thing - like speaker break in. Also you will go through a lot less juice when you finally realize the correct "vaping method".
Will I get another Innokin iClear? You better bet I will receive a replacement from the vendor, or a refund, one way or another. But the Vivi works IMHO prety much the same. I'll give the Iclear another go if they send a replacement.
This probably helps absolutely nobody. But it makes me feel a bit better.
