Been vaping Kaji's box* exclusively for 48 hours now. My expectations have been met, and exceeded.
First of all, hitting the LR 510 with a drip or two of juice if priming the bottle doesn't take away a burnt taste seems to work. Props to Sterno for providing that tip. I guess it's part of the seasoning process for that atty.
I can also see why everyone's into the LR attys these days. The vape and TH is pretty darned near HV territory. HVish awesomeness plus 18550 battery life equals more awesomeness! Being the nicotine addicted vape monkey that I am, I expected to pop the atty with my heavy use. Despite it getting pretty darned hot, it's held in there.
I'm all but ready to declare that this little puppy is leakproof. I have tried to flood this, and can see juice coming out of the brass atty connection, but it is sucked back in as soon as I can release the bottle. Okay, I'm a little impressed.
The juice delivery system on this mod (i.e., plastic piping in the bottle going to a copper pipe which fits inside the bottom of the atty) does a spectacular job. No flooding, waste or leaks. It is so efficient that it almost offsets my concerns about the tiny 3ml juice bottle this mod uses; it can just about get me through most of the day.
The trade off of this system is that the bottle is a bit harder to refill or replace than other bottle fed 3rd gens like the CJB, Reo, or MkV. With the Kaji, you have to pull the plastic tubing out of the bottle, refill it, and thread the tubing back into the tip before you screw the bottle back into its container. If I had to do that more than once a day, it would be a deal killer for me, but the efficiency of the mod almost makes up for it.
I'd almost rather the unit be a bit bigger to accommodate a 6 or 10 ml bottle with the same feeding system, but lighter vapers will probably find it adequate. But why not have a 2 day bottle to go with its 2 day battery?
The other thing I'm trying to determine is if the Kaji has a self juicing effect with a full bottle like my other bottle fed 3rd gen mods; i.e., inhaling on the mouthpiece will draw enough juice into the atty to make bottle priming unnecessary. I THINK it does, but am not sure-it may be that the act of putting the bottle back on squeezes it enough to inadvertently feed enough juice for it to work at first.
Self juicing will be the next big breakthrough of 3rd gens and may even be enough to call them their own generation of vapes (4th gens). That's probably what I love the most about the GG AFS family: air pressure and inhaling draws enough liquid in to vape automatically without squeezing a bottle or primer puffs. It's enough of a feature to offset its relatively complicated setup and occasional leaking and seepage problems. If someone could invent a mod that is self juicing and functions as a automatic battery first gen; suck on the mouthpiece and get a perfect vape without even pressing a button, it will be one helluva game changer.
I wonder if a soft sided juice bottle in an airtight connection would be a big step in that direction. Sort of like sticking a straw into a kid's juice pouch where most of the juice can be extracted by sucking on the straw and not squeezing the pouch.
Oh well, time to take the Kaji with me to the office today. Wish us luck, okay?
*Yes, I know Kaji calls it the 'Journeyman' now. But it was the Kaji box when I got mine. Deal with it.