If I may as a quick question Chefjosh: on your website you mention the Vapage dripping atomizer that you test with. What other's have you used, if any, and why did you decide naming this one on your juice review website? Thanks! Keep up the good work
Sure, happy to address it. With the exception of the HH.357 and AVA atty's I've tried everything I could get my hands on. I purposefully omitted those two simply because I can't possibly afford to spend that much money per atty with the sheer volume that I go thru.
I tried Bauways, Joye, IKVs, Vision, Betterlife, and the list goes on. For a good long while I was using the SmartVapes dripping atomizer and while I liked it, I was never thrilled with it, and there was a small but significant price increase as well that kept me from ordering new ones. I knew I wanted a bridgeless atty, somewhere in the vicinity of 2-3Ω. I was hoping to find one a little under 3Ω since on several occasions I had pushed my 3Ω atty all the way to 12 watts and still wanted to know if I could push a juice any further, but my Provari maxed out a 6v and I had no other option than to switch out for a lower quality LR atty. So I began the hunt for a new atomizer...and quite quickly, I stumbled upon the Vapage hybrid. It's bridgeless (exposed coil, like I prefer), not a lot of splatter, a good draw, great vapor production, extremely true to flavor, and it's 2.5Ω, which means I can now push almost 14.5 watts, more wattage than 99.99% of the juice on the market can handle. On top of all that, the first ones that I received are still holding strong at 2.5Ω without losing any resistance, meaning they are already outlasting the normal lifespan I got out of the SV dripping atty. They also seem to be less prone to gunking up, although it will take a bit more time for me to know that for certain.
As to why I say what I use, there are several reasons. First off, I was asked on dozens of occasions as to what my review set-up is, top to bottom, so I finally decided to just post it.
But here's what it mostly boils down to...I can be a bit picky about who I take my advertising dollars from. As a personal website, I can do that, and if I don't like your product, I simply refuse the ad...you'll never see an ad for Blu or GreenNicotine on the site, no matter how much money they throw at me. The website was never supposed to make lots of money, and after what it cost to build, and what it takes to maintain, from both a tech and vaping perspective, it may never even break even, but that's not why I created it. It's supposed to be a community resource for us, all of us, to help everyone find some juice that will help to keep them off analogs for good. When I began the hunt for my new attys, I read a ton of great reviews for the Vapage AMGs so I got my hands on a couple, and obviously I loved them or you wouldn't see their ad on the sidebar. I use them because they're the best I've had so far. If a better atty comes along, I'm always open to trying it, but the AMG is, by far, the cleanest tasting atomizer I've had the pleasure of vaping.
Sorry for the ridiculously lengthy reply, but I do love to talk about atomizers.
