Just bought my first ecig...

[sailorman]

... If I get the larger battery e-power what ohm accessories do I buy?

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Forgot that question. Sorry if your eyes have glazed over by now.

You would use the same ohms on any 3.7V device. You can use from 1.5ohms (for a warmer vapor) to 3ohms (cooler vapor)

The 1.5ohm is considered low resistance (LR). The 3ohm is considered standard resistance (SR).

Remember the formula I gave you for watts? You are looking for about 6 to 10 watts.

The more watts, the warmer the vape. Too many watts and it will be harsh and wash out delicate flavors, especially fruity flavors. If you like fruit flavors, I recommend around 7 to 9 watts.

Watts = Voltage x Voltage divided by resistance in ohms.

3.7 x 3.7 = 13.69

Divide 13.69 by the ohms of whatever carto or atty you are considering. If the result is between 6 and 10, it is o.k.

For example, 13.69 divided by 2ohm is 6.85. That's o.k. for lighter flavors like fruit. So a 2ohm carto is good.

Keep in mind that a 3.7V 18650 battery comes off the charger at 4.2 volts. It stays around 4 volts for quite a while.

4 x 4 = 16, Divided by 2ohms equals 8 watts. So, with that 2ohm carto, you will spend most of the time vaping at 8 watts, which is very good, even for fruity juice. Only when the battery runs down will you be vaping at 3.7V and 6.85 watts.

The ideal resistance for a 3.7V PV and fruity juice is probably 2 ohms.

Stronger flavors, like tobaccos or savory flavors could handle the warmer vape that would be provided by a low resistance carto, like 1.5ohms.

That's another advantage to a larger battery. Personally, I never let my battery go below 3.8Volts. So, if I had a e-Power with a 2ohm carto I'd never be vaping below about 7 watts.

 

[Boognish]

Congrats to you spiral! I'm really hoping to be at that point soon! I've had some really great help in my thread so far. Everyone here is really awesome.

Everyone here IS awesome. I've learned a lot in a month. All the questions and research really helps to keep your mind off cigarettes too. The constant quest to find a good system that works for each individual as well as the perfect vape will always keep you intrigued. I've been having a lot of fun and also picked up a new hobby, while most importantly giving up smoking.

 

[John D in CT]

John described the main differences, but don't be too put off by the fact it's a little bigger. It's really not all that noticeable in real life. An 18650 battery is only 1/10" inch. larger in diameter and about 3/4" longer than a 16450. Yet it's 2X the capacity. Your voltage will stay up much longer. For example, in my Lavatube, I can vape steadily for 8 hours and never let the battery fall below 3.8V before re-charging. Since you can vape all day without draining it nearly as much as a smaller battery, the overall lifespan will be a lot longer as well. Also, 18650 batteries are more common than 16450's so, when you need to replace a battery, there will be more options to choose from and the cost per mah will be less, like the fantastic Panasonic safe 2250mah IMR that costs only $8 at Smartvapes. I have paid more than that for batteries less than 1/2 the size, and not as good a quality. (AW 900mah ICR)
Personally, I think it the advantages of an 18650 outweigh the small difference in size.

That sounds spot-on, as usual. And having never held either the 14650 (although it's probably almost exactly the same size as my Joyetech eGo 1000-mah power unit) or the 18650, I really don't have a very good handle on the size difference, and I think I have a misconception that the 18650 is bigger than it really is. Four mm is .157" - a little less than a sixth of an inch.

This YouTube video is a very good review of the e-Power 18650, and it doesn't really look all that big. Looks really good too, and I think you could actually find one in stock.

REVIEW OF THE 18650 E-POWER 510 ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE - YouTube

With your busy schedule, the less you have to fart around with batteries the better, no? More consistent performance, longer battery life (longer between charges, and longer before needing replacement), cheaper battery replacement (per mah anyway), and just about the same price as the 14650; you really can't go wrong here.

And again, the same exact attachments you'd be using with the 14650. I'm issuing a strong "buy" signal.

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And Spiral, if I haven't said it yet, I of course share everyone's admiration for what you're doing, and have an idea about how much better you must be feeling about life now that you're not harming your health like you were before. Feeling better every day, instead of worse, is a priceless thing. I feel as if I have a new lease on life thanks to vaping.

 

[tica02]

Sailor that was a very well written and easy to understand post. I think I have faith that I can now shop for accessories and not feel like I don't understand anything.

I'm sure that you guys have said these things a million times I'm not sure how you explain it over and over to people. I think you should post that as a sticky, actually a lot of the stuff you said would be very beneficial to people who don't understand.

I'm going to sit down tonight and bookmark some things and hopefully come up with a decent set up. Ill let you know

I wish I would have know more about this place e before I bought my crappy ecig. It only has one battery and I suck on it constantly. One or two puffs would never get me through a cigarette craving. My husband looks forward to taking it from me when I get my new stuff but I feel sure he will want something else. I wish I could afford to buy him something now. He's one of those people that takes 4 cigarettes to work and doesn't smoke otherwise unless he's drinking. It's not often where he really has to have one. He's been on vacation in Florida for wrestlemania and hasn't even smoked a pack. I get irritated with people like that Haha.

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[tica02]

I'm gonna buy a vision stone 3 for sure. They are awesome looking. Is it suggested to buy replacement parts right away or buy more than one? Also is there a cleaning guide for clearomizers and tanks?

And I want to buy some other clearomizers but I haven't picked them out yet. Going to start pricing things and see what I come up with when the kids go to bed.

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[John D in CT]

Sailor that was a very well written and easy to understand post. I think I have faith that I can now shop for accessories and not feel like I don't understand anything.

I'm sure that you guys have said these things a million times I'm not sure how you explain it over and over to people. I think you should post that as a sticky, actually a lot of the stuff you said would be very beneficial to people who don't understand.

One of the obvious advantages of a public forum, especially one as well-organized as this one, is that threads like this can be cited as reference material, without having to say the same things over and over in their entirety - or at least not as often. Now, if one of my friends, or someone I bump into, wants to know all about how to get started, I can just email them a link to this thread, like I'm just about to do (Hi Jane ).

This really has been a good thread so far, and anyone could learn just about everything they really need to know to get off to a very good start, and upgrade if they want to devices that would perform at the highest level for a very long time.

I was meaning to ask in some detail just how well your current device is working; sounds like "not very well". Did we ever establish exactly what make and model it is? Maybe Sailorman could tell you how to breathe some life into it until your new stuff arrives.

 

[sailorman]

I'm gonna buy a vision stone 3 for sure. They are awesome looking. Is it suggested to buy replacement parts right away or buy more than one? Also is there a cleaning guide for clearomizers and tanks?

And I want to buy some other clearomizers but I haven't picked them out yet. Going to start pricing things and see what I come up with when the kids go to bed.

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The 3rd version of the Vision Stone is pretty new. They last a long time, but right now the availability of replacement guts is spotty at best. The first shipment sold out in a matter of a couple days. So, I'd say get a couple. Hopefully, there will be a more consistent supply by the time you need another one.

The VS3 tanks are easy to clean. Tanks that use cartomizers are even easier because, IMO, the cartomizer isn't worth cleaning. Throw it out and rinse out the tank, put in a new carto and you're done.

With the VS3, you screw the top and bottom off, remove the guts and soak in vodka for a couple hours. Then, soak in hot water with a Denture cleaning tablet for an hour or two. Rinse off with hot water and give it another brief dunk in the vodka to displace the water. Gently squeeze the water from the wicks with a paper towel. Reassembe and dry burn if you want to, but it's not really necessary. The alcohol evaporates pretty quick, so you only need to dry burn if it's really really gunked up. IF you dry burn and the ash is real heavy, repeat the soak process and dry burn again. You can clean atomizers the same way.

I suggest you go to Youtube and watch some of the PBusardo reviews. He has the best reviews and will show you how tanks and different cartos work, complete with close-up pics. His reviews are as much tutorials as they are reviews and will completely answer any questions you still have about tanks and clearomizers, etc.

He also has a website. I haven't been to it, but I'm sure it has his reviews on it. TasteMyJuice.com

 

[tica02]

Mine was made by greensmartliving.com. I ordered the starter kit and an extra pack of regular high cartridges. It's onlye one battery which takes literally more than 2 hours to charge. It tastes nothing like tobacco, more of a burnt sweet taste and I bang it on my desk alot to move the stuff around and stop it from tasting burnt. It feels like it has very little nicotine in it as I could sit and suck on it all night During the day I don't really have time to do that, but at night on the computer is no big deal except it's dead in an hour if I do it too much. If it sits for awhile it has a little bit of throat hit.

So for the VS3 you soak just the guts and not the whole thing? Time to watch videos. So I can order a couple of those, a couple of the atomizers you suggested, some drip tips and I should be okay for a little while? I'm most likely planning on sticking to mostly fruity juice, so I'll get 2.0 ohm. Also, do you recommend a certain blend of pg/vg for the VS3? I have no idea how much is in this ecig, so I don't really have a comparison as to what I'd be taking in now.

 

[tica02]

Also, that website of his takes me to some unrelated site

 

[count3]

Hey, I am actually using my GSL @ the moment until my 18650 E-Power comes in, and its a pretty uggggghhhhh Device,
The only thing that i'm glad about is that it was a huge Stepping stone in helping me stop had it for about three weeks,
and its still going strong, then again ive been refilling my cartos (2 that came with it) and topping of every 30 min to an hour.
If you have any questions id be here to help also, but im still a noob, but take you GSl as a step towards your goal,
And use it till your new pv comes in, and keep it as a back up

Jayy.

 

[tica02]

I definitely smoke more analogs (see I'm getting the lingo!) during the day then at night when I can actually just sit at my desk. The recharge time totally sucks now. I can't wait to use something that's not dead and blinking at me every 4 seconds.

If I order some juice I can reful these cartridges? I didn't know that. How many times can you refill them before they are garbage? My husband is going to use this after me so that's good to know.

 

[count3]

Yes you can refill them, and they last a bit, not really a time frame because every carto will have a diff. life span, but i do wash mine every week or so, and if i can get all the flavor out, (& smell) ill switch juice, but ive been refilling em for the past 3 weeks with no burnt taste etc.. but the key is to keep em moist so the filler doesnt burn up, From what i was told on here.

& it helps a lot to have a drip tip, so you dont have to keep popping the white cap off >.< But just keep em moist and i direct drip 1-3 drops when they dry out or seem like they are, and make sure to blow through the top into a napkin to get any excess juice that might leak into your batt and fry it.

 

[John D in CT]

Mine was made by greensmartliving.com. I ordered the starter kit and an extra pack of regular high cartridges. It's only one battery which takes literally more than 2 hours to charge. It tastes nothing like tobacco, more of a burnt sweet taste and I bang it on my desk alot to move the stuff around and stop it from tasting burnt. It feels like it has very little nicotine in it as I could sit and suck on it all night During the day I don't really have time to do that, but at night on the computer is no big deal except it's dead in an hour if I do it too much. If it sits for awhile it has a little bit of throat hit.

It sounds perfectly satisfactory to me - I think your husband's right, you should just stuck with what you've got and stop being so fussy.






And it looks like it's "tasteyourjuice.com", and not "tastemyjuice.com", which brought me to "kissmyass.com". How rude.

Here's his site: Taste Your Juice | Can I Taste Your Juice?

Looks like a very informative site. Here's the main menu:

Knowledge Base

Is Vaping Safe?
Getting Started
Vaper's Glossary
FAQ
Success Stories
My Top Juices
Volts VS. Ohms
Chart-O-Juice Prices
Vape Time Data
Tank Force
Q&A

And he's currently vaping a ProVari, it says on the intro screen.

 

[tica02]

I don't really see how to take this one apart unless I'm missing something. Does the top with the hole in it come off? Not going to try it now since I have no juice.

 

[count3]

you have to pop the white cap off with a push pin for like your walls. and you can put it back on, but yeah just youtube like how to refill cartomizers and youll see how they pop the cap off.

 

[tica02]

Oh I see. Can you just use the condom method to fill it? It comes with fairly small rubber caps but I'm sure they'd work. Just any 510 drip tip will fit right?

 

[count3]

No they wont i've tried, btu if you drip in and fill that way takes about 18 drops, one at a time making sure you don't flood,
youll get the hang of it

this vid will help.


Using empty Nebula / Vaporking cartomizers - YouTube

 

[tica02]

Awesome video, I have a much better understanding of doing that. I may have to order a bottle of something yummy.

 

[count3]

Yeah i like it way better than the condom method, thats just me tho

 

[tica02]

Is there somewhere I can get a little plug like that?