Kr808d and refilling cartos - and drip tip questions

[413Dream]

How often can/do you refill your cartos? I was buying pre-filled, but found that to be more expensive and I became more interested in topping them off with "tobacco" flavors. So far, I love RY4 from litecigusa.com the best. Cig2O has a black label "red" flavor that I tried in one of their disposables and it is a PERFECT flavor for me. Seems like when I refill cartos they just don't taste the same as a pre-filled tobacco flavored carto.

Maybe I'm using the wrong flavors? RY4 is the only one I'm finding that is perfect every time. Does anyone have any flavor suggestions for me?

I've seen where people boil their cartos to clean them and get them nice and fresh. I did this for the first time last week, but some of the cartos still tasted burnt. Maybe i need a better quality carto?

What about drip tips for a kr808d? They are inexpensive, but I'm not sure how to use it with my 808 and a carto. Can someone explain?

Thanks in advance!

Crystal

 

[Traver]

Once you get a burn't taste in a carto you might as well toss it. The trick to making them last is learning when the taste is a little off and to refill at that time. How long they last depends on the juice, how you vape, how many watts or power is used and the type of carto. You may get 2 to 5, maybe more refills with a clear juice.

This isn't like buying a pack of smokes. There is a bewildering amount of choices and it all depends on your individual tastes.

Some reading for you:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ecf-library/36180-wonderful-world-vaping-illustrated-guide-e-cigs-part-1-6-a.html

 

[bigtiime]

Cartomizers are designed to be disposable. I buy approx. 15-20 per month and change them every 2 or 3 days. I've tried to clean them and they do not perform as well as they do when new.

 

[Slim Batz]

Agreed, if you vape them down to the point where they taste burnt, they are pretty much done. With experience you will know based on how long you've been hitting a carto when you should take a minute and top it up. I just drip more liquid into mine and set it thread end down on a piece of Kleenex for a minute ... if a drop or 2 come out the bottom, no biggie ... at least you know its full! ... wipe it off and you're done. Obviously you can't top up a carto forever, they will eventually lose performance ... price of admission. I normally vape one, and keep a full one in my pocket with a small filler bottle of juice when I'm out ... that way I can switch off if its inconvenient to do a top up.

You can't drip a carto, but a drip tip can fancy up your e-cig, make it easier to top off since its easier to grab than the stock rubber end, and may help prevent e-liquid from finding its way into your mouth.

 

[Wuzznt Me]

There are a lot of variables that make your questions difficult to answer without more information. Are you using gen 1 (vertical coil) or gen 2 (horizontal coil) cartos for starters and what kind of batteries are you using them on (regulated or non regulated and how many mah. Manual or auto). As far as flavor being the same are you starting with the same flavor you're adding or are you "crossing over" with a different flavor than the original pre filled. One brand I use I can get a week or two out of a carto as long as I use their juice which is mostly pg. When I use a higher vg or darker juice it goes down as low as a couple of days. Cleaning them works for some, not for others. I'm too cheap not to try and to lazy to clean. I use 320 mah regulated batteries (3.6v) and horizontal coil cartos. A filled carto always outlasts the length of a battery charge for me so when I change batteries I start with a filled carto then top them off at night. Don't know if that would work for a vertical coil but I never burn one that way.

 

[jjotmo]

Try filling the cartos up and letting them sit overnight to steep. Then top off in the morning. That helped me with cartos.I like drip tips be cause they make ecigs. Especially kr808's easier to hold in my mouth. That's the one thing I miss about automatic batts

 

[FaniFox]

I am using prefilled cartos from Smokeless Image/VOLT and I also buy the same flavor in a e-liquid bottle. This way I have exactly the same flavor every time.

 

[SubSplat]

If you have a syringe, they're really easy to keep in good shape. You can refill them at any time because you can just suck any excess back out with the syringe. No need to worry about whether they're "ready" to be refilled or overfilling them. Just do it as soon as you think you've used a good amount and have a couple of minutes of spare time.

 

[dormouse]

I use thin clear liquids for best carto life

I never run a carto anywhere near dry - I keep them damp. I use a drip tip as a mouthpiece (usually a delrin one from V4L which fits KR8 cartos nicely, never a metal one). I add liquid with carto off the battery and drip tip off the carto, and I clean it up if needed - I always carry some tissue. I add liquid whenever the flavor or vapor is light or the slightest bit off, whenever the carto seems to be getting unusually warm, before bed, before leaving the house, when I arrive home, before putting the carto on a freshly charged (hotter) battery. Other than that, I periodically pull the drip tip and look at the top of the stuffing - if the top has gone white or light color, it could take some juice. I especially check if I feel I have been vaping it enough that it should need some some juice soon. I don't want to singe it - singe would erase the sweet then get bitter.

I can get 7 days use out of a KR8 carto and about 15-20ml run through it (which is actually 2 weeks for me before I vape the KR8 a bit more than 1/2 the time).

 

[SubSplat]

I use thin clear liquids for best carto life

Been meaning to ask, how do you find clear liquids?

Just try different ones and gradually figure out which ones are clear?

 

[CharityRoyal]

Everything they said

As for flavor-- the turning point for me was when I started dripping in the battery end of a carto. Some folks say not to do this, but there's no harm as long as you take care that no liquid gets in the battery (dry off the threads, and blow through the carto to make sure there's no excess juice). If I throw in atleast a couple of drops into the battery end it makes a huge flavor difference. It saved about 7 cartos that I was just about to throw out thinking they'd worn out.. i actually dug through the trashcan and reclaimed a few I can't tell you how many times I've refilled them now and the flavor is still really good. But once they're burnt, nothing will save em.

Drip tips? Personally I find them pretty useless. So for a carto, you'd just pop off the soft white cap, and slide in the drip tip. You can refill with it by dripping right in the hole and either take the tip off or leave it there while you vape. They make it easier to refill I guess... but you also lose control over where the liquid goes. It's so easy to refill them without the tip, I just don't see the point. Plus I feel like I lose a bit of juice that clings to the inside of the drip tip. I only see them as worthwhile if you want to use them for the comfort. I don't care for them bc they make my cig so much longer, but I'm still glad I bought one to try out.

One last thing--- I've noticed flat out flavor difference in juices from companies that sell prefilled. I'm not sure what this is about but I wonder if it might be a steeping issue. Juices can change flavor as they mature-- and I think sometimes companies will send you fresh juices in a bottle and older ("steeped" ones) in the cartos.... or maybe vice versa. I dunno, that's just a wild theory but I have noticed inconsistencies that don't seem to have anything to do with how I refill.

 

[KeysBum]

Everything they said

Drip tips? Personally I find them pretty useless. So for a carto, you'd just pop off the soft white cap, and slide in the drip tip. You can refill with it by dripping right in the hole and either take the tip off or leave it there while you vape. They make it easier to refill I guess... but you also lose control over where the liquid goes. It's so easy to refill them without the tip, I just don't see the point. Plus I feel like I lose a bit of juice that clings to the inside of the drip tip. I only see them as worthwhile if you want to use them for the comfort. I don't care for them bc they make my cig so much longer, but I'm still glad I bought one to try out.

Take off the drip tip before you top off.

 

[ChinMullet]

I run three 808 cartos all the time, with different flavors in each. Every night, I refill them with the same flavors for the next day. When one stops putting out decent vapor, but still has juice in it, I chuck it in the trash and add a new carto/flavor into the rotation. Cleaning them isn't worth the effort (to me)

Sometime they only last two or three days, sometimes five or six.