I've started vaping after a friend of mine showed me what looked to be an ego-twist Ce5 from europe.
My first vaporizer was the "nosmoke" brand I brought while I was in italy last summer around july time. When I brought it I had no idea that there was so many different tanks.
I ended up breaking it after I was trying to figure out why the favor was turning bad I didn't realize I had a tank that you just threw away. (it only lasted about 4 days, and was a big problem considering I was only in italy for a short time on a ship).
After I got back from my trip in August I went and ordered a brand new one from china.
This time it had the replaceable coils, it was a Ce5 tank it also came with two batteries. I then ended up losing it (only to be found 6 months later in a sofa), I only had one battery left because the charging chip in the other one was "frozen/fried". So I ordered the same brand again, had another nightmare with the wrong tank type, and had place another order for the right tank type.
I found out I had stores in my area that was carrying different types of tanks, I then evolved from the Ce5 tank to the vivi nova and then finally to what I have now Iclear30.
A new problem developed when the treads in the batteries began to get stripped.
Since I had so much drama with the batteries I began building my own after being inspired from the Altoids tin box mod.
I built a variable voltage mod from a circuit diagram I found online after a google search.
I pulled apart the battery that had the fried charging circuit just to use its still usable 510 connection piece. I bore the button hole out to insert a LED holder. It ran off of 9 volt PP9 to a custom 6 volt AAA battery pack. I'm presently using li-ion batteries salvaged from a laptop battery, with a make shift charging circuit.
My Altoids tin box was running smoothly until a new problem of the epoxy used to mount the piece cracked from over torquing. Another problem was that dry cell batteries can give enough amperage as li-ion batteries do.
I learned from the first build and moved on to buying the 510 adapted piece which I got from a store in the city.
The second Altoids tin mod still has the same problems with the epoxy cracking from the torquing, and the original adapter piece got ruined after trying to figure out how to raise the positive middle section. It turned that the 510 adapter piece can be taken apart and the center piece raised by screwing the center piece up.
When I figured that out, all connectivity issues stopped until over screwing of the center piece was able to 'pull apart' the epoxy on the inside.
I ended up getting a whole bunch more adapter pieces and swapped out the overly damaged starting one ( metal shards from drilling was causing shorts with in the unit).
I'm presently closing in on solving the torquing issue that I'm having in the Altoids tin. Use of washers, and strategically placed epoxy now. Sadly on my present second build the epoxy has finally gave way, so I'm planning on figuring out how to solder it to a washer.
I have in the works my third build, that will feature a mini voltmeter display, and the lack of a need to use a screw driver to adjust the voltage. I'm also going to leave behind the Altoids tin altogether because I feel the sheet metal is way to thin. I'm going to build a whole housing unit.
Now in closing,
I just have a few questions.
Do rubber mouth pieces exist? I have a fear of someone knocking into my elbow and thus knocking out a tooth.
Also
I can't seem to be able to wrap my head around variable wattage, what's the actual circuit behind it? I feel a little bit of skepticism about it.
My first vaporizer was the "nosmoke" brand I brought while I was in italy last summer around july time. When I brought it I had no idea that there was so many different tanks.
I ended up breaking it after I was trying to figure out why the favor was turning bad I didn't realize I had a tank that you just threw away. (it only lasted about 4 days, and was a big problem considering I was only in italy for a short time on a ship).
After I got back from my trip in August I went and ordered a brand new one from china.
This time it had the replaceable coils, it was a Ce5 tank it also came with two batteries. I then ended up losing it (only to be found 6 months later in a sofa), I only had one battery left because the charging chip in the other one was "frozen/fried". So I ordered the same brand again, had another nightmare with the wrong tank type, and had place another order for the right tank type.
I found out I had stores in my area that was carrying different types of tanks, I then evolved from the Ce5 tank to the vivi nova and then finally to what I have now Iclear30.
A new problem developed when the treads in the batteries began to get stripped.
Since I had so much drama with the batteries I began building my own after being inspired from the Altoids tin box mod.
I built a variable voltage mod from a circuit diagram I found online after a google search.
I pulled apart the battery that had the fried charging circuit just to use its still usable 510 connection piece. I bore the button hole out to insert a LED holder. It ran off of 9 volt PP9 to a custom 6 volt AAA battery pack. I'm presently using li-ion batteries salvaged from a laptop battery, with a make shift charging circuit.
My Altoids tin box was running smoothly until a new problem of the epoxy used to mount the piece cracked from over torquing. Another problem was that dry cell batteries can give enough amperage as li-ion batteries do.
I learned from the first build and moved on to buying the 510 adapted piece which I got from a store in the city.
The second Altoids tin mod still has the same problems with the epoxy cracking from the torquing, and the original adapter piece got ruined after trying to figure out how to raise the positive middle section. It turned that the 510 adapter piece can be taken apart and the center piece raised by screwing the center piece up.
When I figured that out, all connectivity issues stopped until over screwing of the center piece was able to 'pull apart' the epoxy on the inside.
I ended up getting a whole bunch more adapter pieces and swapped out the overly damaged starting one ( metal shards from drilling was causing shorts with in the unit).
I'm presently closing in on solving the torquing issue that I'm having in the Altoids tin. Use of washers, and strategically placed epoxy now. Sadly on my present second build the epoxy has finally gave way, so I'm planning on figuring out how to solder it to a washer.
I have in the works my third build, that will feature a mini voltmeter display, and the lack of a need to use a screw driver to adjust the voltage. I'm also going to leave behind the Altoids tin altogether because I feel the sheet metal is way to thin. I'm going to build a whole housing unit.
Now in closing,
I just have a few questions.
Do rubber mouth pieces exist? I have a fear of someone knocking into my elbow and thus knocking out a tooth.
Also
I can't seem to be able to wrap my head around variable wattage, what's the actual circuit behind it? I feel a little bit of skepticism about it.
