Hurrah! Mr postman has just delivered my new chrome lavatube. I just have to wait for eight hours until the batteries charge so i can use it!!
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Welcome to ECF , and enjoy your new PV ( personal vaporizer ) Your batteries should come with a little bit of a charge . You may not actually have to wait 8 hours . New bats usually only take a few hours , to fully charge . Keep on vaping .
They usually do come with 70-80% charge. Lithium batteries don't store well at a lower, or higher, charge and the batts you get weren't made yesterday. Your vendor woldn't want to have 100% charged batteries on the shelf very long and if they charged them for you they'd have to wait for you to order. That would slow their shipping time and is one reason they don't do it. Lithiums have a slow self-discharge rate and they're usually 80% from the factory. It takes a few months for them to lose 10% just from sitting around. They're totally different than rechargeable NiMh batteries in that respect.
Just FYI, it also takes a couple charge/discharge cycles before they reach their maximum voltage and peak duration.
Just FYI, it also takes a couple charge/discharge cycles before they reach their maximum voltage and peak duration.
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Well just been trying some of my flavours, tried some perique black that came free with the lavatube. Not sure whether I've burnt the atomiser out or if its just horrible! Using it in a ce2 clearomizer. Put some in the dct tank too, i know that these do not work so well but still tasted horrible and although there was vapour production in the mouth there was nothing on exhale. Well it ruin the atomiser if i rinse it out with water? Put some cigar mixed with menthol in another clearomizer and that was better so I'm thinking it may be the juice. Any thoughts?
Don't run at max voltage to start. I always start around 3.5 or so and adjust from there...
You can rinse the clearomizer out with hot water. You probably should have done that first anyway. Clearomizers often contain some primer fluids or other oils left over from manufacturing.
If you are using the standard dual coil carto with the DCT tank, you can expect to get poor results. Your LT is cutting your voltage to 3.7. Stick with cartos or clearos as close to 2.5-3ohms as you can.
Clean your clearomizers. Use a cigarettte lighter to burn the wicks, being careful not to burn the shrink tubing or insulation on any wires. Burning the wicks will remove any leftover stuff from manufacturing. Just pass flame over it for 5-15 seconds. They won't really burn, but any smoke coming from them will be the stuff you dont want messing with your flavors. That will also help dry the water left over from cleaning. Flame them until there's no more steam or other vapor coming from them.
Then, reassemble the clearomizer except for the top plugs so that you can see your coil. Do a dry burn on the coil. Just pulse the power on and off for a few seconds at a time until it glows red immediately and you don't see any more vapor coming from the coil. 3-5 seconds on and 5-10 seconds off. Blowing on it between "on" cycles helps cool it.
Once the coil is clean looking, glows immediately and doesn't give off any vapor, fill it back up and vape.
If the coil was really crusty looking, it'll be coated with a greyish ash. You can rinse that off and do the dry burn again if it's really thick. Sometimes, instead of rinsing off the ash, I use a very fine paintbrush with stiff bristles and sweep the ash off the coils. If you do that, be sure any lost bristles are blown off when you blow the ash away.
If you are using the standard dual coil carto with the DCT tank, you can expect to get poor results. Your LT is cutting your voltage to 3.7. Stick with cartos or clearos as close to 2.5-3ohms as you can.
Clean your clearomizers. Use a cigarettte lighter to burn the wicks, being careful not to burn the shrink tubing or insulation on any wires. Burning the wicks will remove any leftover stuff from manufacturing. Just pass flame over it for 5-15 seconds. They won't really burn, but any smoke coming from them will be the stuff you dont want messing with your flavors. That will also help dry the water left over from cleaning. Flame them until there's no more steam or other vapor coming from them.
Then, reassemble the clearomizer except for the top plugs so that you can see your coil. Do a dry burn on the coil. Just pulse the power on and off for a few seconds at a time until it glows red immediately and you don't see any more vapor coming from the coil. 3-5 seconds on and 5-10 seconds off. Blowing on it between "on" cycles helps cool it.
Once the coil is clean looking, glows immediately and doesn't give off any vapor, fill it back up and vape.
If the coil was really crusty looking, it'll be coated with a greyish ash. You can rinse that off and do the dry burn again if it's really thick. Sometimes, instead of rinsing off the ash, I use a very fine paintbrush with stiff bristles and sweep the ash off the coils. If you do that, be sure any lost bristles are blown off when you blow the ash away.
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I vape/ DIY Black Perique and it has to be steeped. You'll either LOVE it or HATE it
Haha... You got that right. A year's worth of steeping won't make it palatable to me. YMMV.
Ok so my first day of lavatube is out the way. Thanks to sailor for the advice on prepping the ce2, much better already. I thought I'd ruined it straight out the box but i think it was a bit of new clearomizer syndrome coupled with a horrible liquid. The ce2 is a bit fiddly so need to get something bigger might go for a vivi nova or puff daddy tank. When i get it right though the vaping experience is spot on just need to get used to using it properly. I'll keep updating here so others can learn from my mistakes.
Grab a Vivi Nova. Definitely. It fits the Lavatube like a glove and vapes like a dream. No cartos to mess with, absolutely will not leak and it comes with 3 heads. You can use all three of them and re-coil and rewick them for pennies if they ever burn out. Replacement heads or only about $3 if you want to get lazy, and you can re-coil those too. Collect a bunch of heads and some metal replacement tanks and it's like having a whole arsenal of tanks. For less than $15, it's the best deal in vaping right now.
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