Kind of new to Vaping.. a few questions =)

[Compher]

Hello, I'm kind of new to vaping. I ordered an e-cigarette from smoke51.com i think it's a "loong totem". I've had it for a little less then 2 months, and it's not really preforming how i'd like. It's an automatic battery if that matters.

So since id idn't like the preformence, yesterday I ordered a 510 titan with manual battery from totallywicked-eliquid.com.

Am I going to notice a huge difference in the quality of the two?

the one i have now doesn't seem to give me much of a hit, and i go threw the carts extremely quickly.

 

[Mary Kay]

I don't have either one, but from what I have read, yes you will get a better hit. The 510 is supposed to be a very good P.V., manual's are an even better P.V. so you are at the top of the line.
Your next P.V. will have to be a mod..lol
They are the porche's of the V.P.'s...maybe they are the monster trucks!
Good luck, and Welcome to ECF!

 

[bushi]

There is no comparison between the two. I also started with a Smoke51 that I bought from a local smoke-shop. Got the whole line about how a 5-pack of carts was equivalent to a carton of cigarettes etc. After going through the carts in a couple of days (I think I was actually smoking the cart filler part of the time), I ordered in a 510 from dietSmokes. What a difference! The volume of vapor is just amazing but they are juice hogs. I find I top off with a drop or two of juice about every 4-5 good drags. The battery life is OK but I find having 3 batteries in rotation works better especially in the evening when I have a tendency to chain-vape while watching TV or working on the computer. Get some extra batteries and atties so you don't get stuck without. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with your new 510. Good Luck!

 

[Compher]

well thanks for the replys!

i'm glad i'm getting a better one, the whole experience i had with smoke 51 almost made me go back to analogs.

now all i have to do is wait for it to get here!

 

[halfevildruid]

huge, you did right on your second order

Hello, I'm kind of new to vaping. I ordered an e-cigarette from smoke51.com i think it's a "loong totem". I've had it for a little less then 2 months, and it's not really preforming how i'd like. It's an automatic battery if that matters.

So since id idn't like the preformence, yesterday I ordered a 510 titan with manual battery from totallywicked-eliquid.com.

Am I going to notice a huge difference in the quality of the two?

the one i have now doesn't seem to give me much of a hit, and i go threw the carts extremely quickly.

 

[misterME]

There is no comparison between the two. I also started with a Smoke51 that I bought from a local smoke-shop. Got the whole line about how a 5-pack of carts was equivalent to a carton of cigarettes etc. After going through the carts in a couple of days (I think I was actually smoking the cart filler part of the time), I ordered in a 510 from dietSmokes. What a difference! The volume of vapor is just amazing but they are juice hogs. I find I top off with a drop or two of juice about every 4-5 good drags. The battery life is OK but I find having 3 batteries in rotation works better especially in the evening when I have a tendency to chain-vape while watching TV or working on the computer. Get some extra batteries and atties so you don't get stuck without. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with your new 510. Good Luck!

Thank god! I thought I was the only one who had to top off after just a few drags. I really thought either my stuff was defective, or that I just wasn't doing it right.

I can get 15 or 20 decent draws off one fully-filled cart on my Titan 510, but I lose the throat hit after only a few (three to six drags). So I top up and go again. Or, if I let it sit for a little while (5 to 10 minutes), I can get a good TH again, half that time if windmill the heck out of it while I'm waiting. But I usually don't have the patience and just top off every ten or 15 minutes (or less).

So that's normal operation? My stuff's not broke? And I'm not just vaping-challenged?

Whew!

 

[vapourhead]

I also agree that you're going to be very happy with the 510.

A couple things I've learned after making my way from a Smoking Everywhere Gold Edition 3.0 nightmare to an M401 experiment, to a DSE901 flood-fest, to the lovely Joye 510:

Forget cartridges. You are going to need e-liquid
Forget that junk about one cart = a pack of cigarettes. It's just not true.

Pick a flavor and a strength and order up. The 510 blows through 30ml for me in about two weeks tops (and that's being careful.)

A word of caution about going all out:
You might want to sample a few different maker's wares with smaller bottles before buying a big tub of something. I did not do that and have a couple big bottles of juice I really never want to vape again sitting here on my desk.

Batteries
It's already been said in this thread, but I just can't stress it enough. The 510 is a battery hog. With two batteries and one charger I've found myself in the last week in a pickle -- busting out my 901 to fill the gap while I let my two batteries charge up.
More than one charging option, and 4 batteries is a safe bet. I ordered two of the long 510 batteries last week when I realized that an hour of battery life was not going to cut the mustard.

Why didn't the Smoke51 unit work for you?
For me, I have been unhappy with everything I've tried apart from the 510 because of vapor production. Yes, the 510 produces a lot of vapor, but it's not smoke, and it's not like a cigarette.

I cut my e-liquid with vegetable glycerine (called VG around here) in a 10 drops of vg to 20 drops of e-liquid ratio and was so completely amazed with the results. VG creates beautiful, very smoke-like clouds of vapor.

Since I started doing this -- and I did it originally to reduce the amount of nicotine I was getting -- I've discovered that the vapor is a huge part of why I smoked. It's also a huge part of why I have been previously unhappy with my electronic cigarettes.

Adding VG to my liquid, I noticed that the 901 and the 401 work great. They are wonderful units as well.

I realize that my experience is my own, and I'm not telling you what to do. Hopefully you can glean something useful from my experience.

Good luck!

 

[SquirrilahFish]

Thank god! I thought I was the only one who had to top off after just a few drags. I really thought either my stuff was defective, or that I just wasn't doing it right.

I can get 15 or 20 decent draws off one fully-filled cart on my Titan 510, but I lose the throat hit after only a few (three to six drags). So I top up and go again. Or, if I let it sit for a little while (5 to 10 minutes), I can get a good TH again, half that time if windmill the heck out of it while I'm waiting. But I usually don't have the patience and just top off every ten or 15 minutes (or less).

So that's normal operation? My stuff's not broke? And I'm not just vaping-challenged?

Whew!

You get better vape after cool down cause your burning liquid, it might be minini if u dont taste it but its there, also giving extra time to wick, try check out the PTB, particulary shredded Pyramid TeaBag mods, they work great, you can usually suck a cart dry

also if you can, try dripping, I drip when im at home and take carts to work, its frustrating at first, and becomes a process, but once you get the hang of it it makes life alot simpler

 

[Compher]

I also agree that you're going to be very happy with the 510.

A couple things I've learned after making my way from a Smoking Everywhere Gold Edition 3.0 nightmare to an M401 experiment, to a DSE901 flood-fest, to the lovely Joye 510:

Forget cartridges. You are going to need e-liquid
Forget that junk about one cart = a pack of cigarettes. It's just not true.

Pick a flavor and a strength and order up. The 510 blows through 30ml for me in about two weeks tops (and that's being careful.)

A word of caution about going all out:
You might want to sample a few different maker's wares with smaller bottles before buying a big tub of something. I did not do that and have a couple big bottles of juice I really never want to vape again sitting here on my desk.

Batteries
It's already been said in this thread, but I just can't stress it enough. The 510 is a battery hog. With two batteries and one charger I've found myself in the last week in a pickle -- busting out my 901 to fill the gap while I let my two batteries charge up.
More than one charging option, and 4 batteries is a safe bet. I ordered two of the long 510 batteries last week when I realized that an hour of battery life was not going to cut the mustard.

Why didn't the Smoke51 unit work for you?
For me, I have been unhappy with everything I've tried apart from the 510 because of vapor production. Yes, the 510 produces a lot of vapor, but it's not smoke, and it's not like a cigarette.

I cut my e-liquid with vegetable glycerine (called VG around here) in a 10 drops of vg to 20 drops of e-liquid ratio and was so completely amazed with the results. VG creates beautiful, very smoke-like clouds of vapor.

Since I started doing this -- and I did it originally to reduce the amount of nicotine I was getting -- I've discovered that the vapor is a huge part of why I smoked. It's also a huge part of why I have been previously unhappy with my electronic cigarettes.

Adding VG to my liquid, I noticed that the 901 and the 401 work great. They are wonderful units as well.

I realize that my experience is my own, and I'm not telling you what to do. Hopefully you can glean something useful from my experience.

Good luck!

Well. The smoke51 didn't work for me because the carts it uses only gets about 10 good hits before quickly dying out.

I orginally ordered the 51 because it's very low matience as advertised since you get a new atomizer with every cart.

however now i realize that a new atomizer isn't really needed with EVERY cart.

I also ordered 2 spare batteries, 2 spare atomizers, and a 30ml bottle of fluids.

Is there anything else I should considering adding to the collection?

 

[frankie1]

I have been vaping for a couple of weeks now and have a probably stupid question. I use a 901 and have just recently gotten a Prodigy (which I LOVE). I have probably tooooo many attys because I ordered a bulk shipment through PS. I also have 7 auto and 2 manual batteries. My problem is carts. I only have about 5 original carts. I had ordered 10 through TW, but they are different and fit too loosely in some of my attys. They are the black ones with the brown thingy at the bottom. My question is if I can stuff the cart tops that are on the atttys from PS with the PTB or where I can find the solid black ones that came with the original 901.

 

[DC2]

My question is if I can stuff the cart tops that are on the atttys from PS with the PTB

Yes, or with a number of other materials.
Check out the cartridge mod subforum.

Where I can find the solid black ones that came with the original 901.

Do you want them fast, or do you want a bunch of them cheap?

For fast just Google 901 blank cartridges.
For cheap order from China and wait it out: Heaven-gifts.com 901 Cartridges

 

[Mary Kay]

To get your loose ones o fit, go to an office supply store, maybe Wal-mart or a craft store and buy some of those silicone sticky dots they use to afix pictures and embellishments on paper. Put a dot on the edge highest up the cart at the point it slides into the atty. It will hold it in place and removes easily. I use them on hubby's round black janty carts on his 901.

And yes get some spare carts, you'll need them if you change flavors a lot and they do become chewed up

Pick a filler to replace your old filler when it gets used up (they shrink and lose the ability to hold juice.) I use fluval..found at a pet store (white), others use teabags or polyfill (poly tends to shred and hve lots of loose threads to burn on the atty). Some even use coffee filters or paper towels strips rolled up rug style to fit the cart.
Look for cart material in search.

 

[vapourhead]

Well. The smoke51 didn't work for me because the carts it uses only gets about 10 good hits before quickly dying out.

I orginally ordered the 51 because it's very low matience as advertised since you get a new atomizer with every cart.

however now i realize that a new atomizer isn't really needed with EVERY cart.

I also ordered 2 spare batteries, 2 spare atomizers, and a 30ml bottle of fluids.

Is there anything else I should considering adding to the collection?

That sounds like a great place to begin.

Remember to keep your batteries in rotation so you always have a couple charged, one charing, and one in use. Don't be shy about topping up the batteries. If you feel any decrease in performance, just stick the battery onto your charger, top off the cart, and continue.

My two long batteries arrived, I charged them all day yesterday, and all night last night. Today was lovely -- one on the charger, one on my desk, one on the 510, and another one in my pocket. I didn't go dead all day.

Also, I only use one atomizer at a time. I know that some people suggest you change them out each day, using a different one every day. Not me. I keep a few in cold storage, and only use one at a time.

The only thing worse than two dead batteries is no atomizer.

Enjoy!