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Johnny2puffs

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Welcome videvinci.
Yes, me and wifie got one each. Great improvement from 3,7v fixed devices. I can now adjust the voltage to my sweet spot with any atty or carto or juice.
My old Leo nearly made me go back to analogues as everything tasted ether like smoking paper or inhaling tar.
This brute looks great, feels great and the vapour is awesome. The bat lasts me from morning till bedtime and I chain vape.
The buttons (all 4) seem good quality especially the firing one is firm and gives a good click sound. No misfires.
With this machine I have come to the conclusion that different juices depending on their PG/VG mixture have their own sweet spot between 3 to 5 volts. It can go higher to 6v, but I don't need it that high.
Hope this helps.
 

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Johnny, tell me, do you put a tank on the LT, or do you drip or refill the cartos??? Cause this is frustrating to me, to think that you must carry a juise bottle with you and refill all day long, that is why the bottom feeders makes sense to me.

If I had a LT, I would only put on tenks on it, to avoid refilling all day long.
 

Johnny2puffs

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Welcome back Jo. I actually use a clearomiser. Inject 2ml into it and it lasts me 5 hours of chain vaping.
Came free from eciggies.co.za At the exchange rate today it is cheaper to get the LT locally as it comes with an extra 2200ma bat plus more extras. Never mind the postage.
Fixed voltage to me is now a waste of time. Get one Jo. You will not be sorry. All those cartos and juices that tasted cr@p will come back to life.
 

Johnny2puffs

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Thanks Johnny, but I do have a VV PT. Maybe I will get myself a VV bottom feeder.....now thats a good idea.....lol
Glad you sorted Jo. I am now a bit scared to import stuff as you well know. I now have to get juice locally. The best I found is from eciggies. Ordered 5*30ml Menthol Italian 18mg juice at R120 each and got 1 free Menthol Sensation 30ml. Good stuff.
Their free points are great. Makes it worthwhile to get it locally. Try them before it runs out.
 

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Luckely the firt international order that I placed I got about 3 lt of nic juice, and have about 1.5lt in the deepfreeez. I vape a 5mg Nic juice now that I mix myself, so I am sorted my friend> Thanx any way....

Btw, get yourself a tank and cartos for the tank from e ciggies, and put it on the LT..... I have tested it on my VV PT for a week now, it works realy well.
 
Dude, take the plunge and by a Provari. For a few bucks more and some serious functionality and sleek design you can't go wrong. I have had mine for about a year now and as far as VV tube mods go you can't beat it.

Here's my setup:


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I couldn't wait for the Lavatube 2.0

So I took the plunge and ordered a Young June Chrome Lavatube VV2.0 together with the upgraded 1.5T without the zombie mode, directly from Young June in China.
Also ordered 10 DCT, and 5 Vivi Nova's, 10 Ming chrome drip tips, a large Ego case and 100ml Dekang juice from them
All together for $170 including shipping (which was $50 with DHL).
It's still in transit with DHL, but I seriously can not wait!

BTW, eCiggies - Electronic Cigarettes | Vaporizers | e-Liquid | Electronic Cigarettes | Electronic Cigarettes is great, good juice (although expensive compared to importing) and a good variety of ecigs, mods, batteries, cartos etc.
 

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Got my gear today! Yeay!

The black 1.5T is awesome, great performance. The Young June DCTs are great to. On the other hand their version of the vivi nova is not good. Burnt taste, no matter what voltage, or how long I let it wick before vaping.

But then...

The chrome lavatube vv2.0's threading on the 510 connector is pathetic. It is very poorly machined. My black lavatube and all my Ego's has 8 threaded rings, where this chrome one only has 3 and a half. The other 5 is sort of machined on the one side, and completely missing on the other side. End result - no cartomizer fits in there, just wobbles around horribly.

Here's some pics

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Now I'm struggling with the Chinese consultant from Young June, to organise a warranty replacement, but he's only willing to replace it, if I order more from him. This, I'm not willing to do. Now he's started to ignore my MSN messages.

I'll give him a day to calm down and try again.

All and all I'm not very impressed with the quality, or Young June's customer service.

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Jacques34

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Get a Vmax stainless steel rev 4 if you don't want to spend so much on a provari. It has all the functions of the provari. It is limited to 5 amps which is more than the provari. I have one in the mail that should arrive next week! I got it from timeeast.net at $90. All their orders have a shipping charge of $8.50 worldwide. I bought the vmax, a smoktech vivi tank rebuildable atty, 4 batteries, a few adaptors, tips for my wife's ego w and a zipper case for $131 incl shipping. I already have some kanthal a1 32 ga. Wire and 400 and 325 ss mesh, so let the modding begin!
 

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Got my gear today! Yeay!

The black 1.5T is awesome, great performance. The Young June DCTs are great to. On the other hand their version of the vivi nova is not good. Burnt taste, no matter what voltage, or how long I let it wick before vaping.

But then...

The chrome lavatube vv2.0's threading on the 510 connector is pathetic. It is very poorly machined. My black lavatube and all my Ego's has 8 threaded rings, where this chrome one only has 3 and a half. The other 5 is sort of machined on the one side, and completely missing on the other side. End result - no cartomizer fits in there, just wobbles around horribly.

Here's some pics

View attachment 128660

View attachment 128661

Now I'm struggling with the Chinese consultant from Young June, to organise a warranty replacement, but he's only willing to replace it, if I order more from him. This, I'm not willing to do. Now he's started to ignore my MSN messages.

I'll give him a day to calm down and try again.

All and all I'm not very impressed with the quality, or Young June's customer service.

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Why does "insert image" come up as an attachment?

Oh, sorry to hear about that! Hope you get it sorted!

To upload larger pics, use an image hosting site, there are several. I use TinyPic.
Go to TinyPic. Resize to 'Website' for medium or 'Message Board' fof large / Browse and Upload Pic / copy IMG code /paste IMG code in your forum post where you need it.
 
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