Okay guys, finally, for the first or second time in the history of my vaping experience, some Good News!:
I went down to the recently opened vendor in my town, who I should have just waited on to begin with. Ends up, the guy in there, is building 8-coil RDA's. Says it all.
I tell him everything I've been through, and he agrees with me! Right away, he suggests carto tanks, but I tell him "I can't buy anything I can't try." and what do you know, he pulls out every device under the sun and lets me vape!
The experience I get from the Cartotank (Smoktech XL's, if I'm not mistaken) is clean, for sure, but not too flavorfull. Then again, it's a big theory of mine (and I hope to impact the vaping world with this) that there may be something to the idea of building like a 3.0ohm microcoil like Cisco does, because IMO, it is another universe in flavor entirely.
(And of coarse, strangest thing, they had Kanger Evod's set up for sampling, and each one of them out of 30 tasted pretty darn clean - there where "hints" of silica or metallic tastes, but overall, they weren't too bad.)
So the shop guy fills up my carto for me, and wa-laa, clean vape. Not too much of a flavorful vape, even the Kanger PTII has given me more flavor, but these cartos are clean regardless. Well, pretty clean, I can tell this is a polyfil device. There just will be that certain texture to the vape from device to device.
I didn't particularly like the juice we used to fill it up though, so I buy another one, and we fill it up with chocolate juice, which I always have issues with. I fill it up myself and I come across a few mistakes, but we get there. Mystery is, the same model and same clearo model produced like half the vapor and flavor as the first, and much less than the same chocolate juice on the sample Kanger Evod.
Shop was about to close, so the guy said that if the carto produced any more troubles, that he'd give me a free bottle of juice!
As of right now, I'm testing these things out, and this shop is like RDA city (who in the heck builds 8-coil rigs!?!?) and I'm going back there when I have a bit more education to digest - one one end, I'm thinking about buying a battery like the MVP for it's short-protection firing, but I'm also considering a battery mod just in case I want to do a little sub-ohming.
So general result? Carto-tanks, I'm not impressed really at all with the flavor production from these Smoktechs, they're clean but they give off a slight medicinal taste that I know my Cisco atty just wouldn't give. The flavor is very light, very much a cotton-candy strength vape. Yet they're clean, and if I combine the right juice with them, they very well could be an on-the-go vape.
But I'm way more interested in doing experiments with high-ohm microcoils, or something. I want to replicate whatever Cisco is doing, because what I particularly got on that 3.5ohm atty at 4.1V's, it was unlike anything I've ever really gotten out of anything else. I once got that same experience with one rare CE4 and a couple CE4's at another vendor. Never again. It was a magic to the flavor, an entirely different universe, and if I can introduce vaper's to that (if they're not already getting it), it'd be something.
That's all for today really. Fluxomizers still are dusty-as-F and nah, I didn't clean the Flux with the VCV juice, that juice just IMO doesn't vaporize very easily and for that, doesn't spread dust all through the vapor as easy.
(A note about the silica, silica is DUSTY. It doesn't not have to be heated to be dusty. Silica particles themselves probably can't be melted, but heck if I believe they can't travel through vapor - the science already shows it does. Tons of ways I believe this can be reduced - cleaning, torching, perfect coils, wet coils, you name it. But in disposable heads and devices made for newbies, my opinion is that a lot of these devices just don't wick worth crap, and have bad coils, and give an unhealthy texture and taste to the vape because of that.)
Evods did it. But like, way less severe than the Fluxomizers and crap like that. With the Evods, it was the faintest notes, but they were there, without a doubt. Some metallic mess too. Just how it is I guess.
In fact, the other vendor in town, the one that I had to file a complaint with the BBB on for educating me and telling me about the Kanger Evod, and me saying "I want to buy that", but instead accidentally put a Smoktech Aro in the bag (horrible tank, horrible heads) and refused an exchange, their sample CE4's were about 4x cleaner and fuller in taste than the Evods. I have no clue what magic spell that particular shop put on their CE4 samplers, but they were, well, great.
Bonus story:
Dude let me try his 0.3ohm (yes) RDa and let me tell you guys, the flavor was clean as absolute pie. There was absolutely no "texture" to the vape, I didn't taste or feel silica, polyfil, cotton, none of that (and I do believe he was using silica). Gives me hope. First thing I want to accomplish is that perfectly clean vape. Second thing to accomplish is flavor, because his RDA in particular wasn't really any more flavorful than the cartotanks.
