Maybe I'm alone in this feeling...

[Mamacruz13]

Does anyone else feel like a red headed step child when they are trying to shop for 808 items? What I mean is, a good 90% of the market is 510 or eGo threaded items. I started with SI Volt and moved up to their X2 and I absolutely love them. I have already told them, if they were to carry flanged cartos and carto tanks, I would never shop for hardware anywhere else. I have one eGo battery and I like it so I can test out different delivery systems out there because it is so hard to find options with 808 threading. I use it for a back up when my X2s are charging.

I went to a vape meet that had some vendors... If I didn't own my one eGo I wouldn't have been able to make any purchases because everything was 510 and eGo connections. Drives me crazy.

Am I not looking in the right place for 808 supplies or are we the misfits of the vaping community? I know there are adapters out there but still...

 

[blondeambition3]

Does anyone else feel like a red headed step child when they are trying to shop for 808 items? What I mean is, a good 90% of the market is 510 or eGo threaded items. I started with SI Volt and moved up to their X2 and I absolutely love them. I have already told them, if they were to carry flanged cartos and carto tanks, I would never shop for hardware anywhere else. I have one eGo battery and I like it so I can test out different delivery systems out there because it is so hard to find options with 808 threading. I use it for a back up when my X2s are charging.

I went to a vape meet that had some vendors... If I didn't own my one eGo I wouldn't have been able to make any purchases because everything was 510 and eGo connections. Drives me crazy.

Am I not looking in the right place for 808 supplies or are we the misfits of the vaping community? I know there are adapters out there but still...

Apparently we ARE the misfits of the Vaping community!

Here are some good 'on-line' 808 Vendors that I've found. Mind you I haven't purchased from all of these, so I would 'research' the Vendors before purchasing anything.


(My personal choice! always!) - ELITE 808 (ALL NEW)
808 E-Cigarettes, 808 Vaporizers, 808 E-Cigs | MadVapes
Smokeless Image | Only The Best Electronic Cigarette | Smokeless Image Electronic Cigarettes - The Future is in your hands
KR808D-1 2 piece e-Cigarette
Kr808d-1 E-Cig | Kr808d-1 E-Cigarette & Kr808d-1 Cartomizer Supplies | Kr808d-1 E Cigarette from LiteCigUSA

901/808/VGO : Healthcabin Electronic Cigarettes - Wholesale and Retail
Innokin AIO PCC KR808D-1 Starter Kit with KR-808D-1 LR Cartomizer - Best Electronic Cigarette | E Cigarette Manufacturer| Innokin
www.goodejuice.com/store/electronic-cigarette-kits-808d-ecigarettes-c-

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Black Matte - Saturn 808 E-Cigarette Battery Saturn E-Cigarette Battery - Electronic Cigarette Batteries | PrimeVapor

 

[Johnnie Price]

I hadn't heard of Prime Vapor or Good eJuice before. Good finds.

But no, we're not the red-headed step-children. That honor would either go to the 801 or the RN4081. We're more like the middle child, easily forgotten when it comes to the other siblings.

 

[blondeambition3]

But no, we're not the red-headed step-children. That honor would either go to the 801 or the RN4081.

An RN4081 was my very first eCig....

We're more like the middle child, easily forgotten when it comes to the other siblings.

.. Well that certainly clears a LOT of things up for me!

 

[Zelphie]

I love my 808 threaded devices, but I like to have 510, ego threaded devies as well. 808 lovers are in the minority and it can be a pain in the .... when you want to do a one stop shopping somewhere and they dont sell the 808 things your looking for. Other than that, I never knew anything other than being the odd ball

 

[kiwivap]

You could punch your own cartos - and then you would have an 808 carto tank. Some people actually prefer the Kanger bottom coil cartos for their tanks. You'd need to make sure you had the right size of course.

 

[steven36]

bloog and v4l are 808 two of my fave

 

[Johnnie Price]

NHaler is the closest to an "808 superstore" we have available. Though there's several things they don't have, they do happen to have a number of things that you'd have to go to 3 or 4 different vendors to find.

 

[Charlz]

The echo battery is good for carto tanks. Because it has a flat post connection and not a cone threaded connection the tank will sit flush against the battery and can't slip down. You may have to play with the connection or cut your own grooves where the tank meets the battery to get airflow to the post.

The echo is still king for auto 808 fat bats but if you really want to feel left out....try looking for good hardware for it. You really have to be creative.

 

[blondeambition3]

You could punch your own cartos - and then you would have an 808 carto tank. Some people actually prefer the Kanger bottom coil cartos for their tanks. You'd need to make sure you had the right size of course.

I do this!

 

[blondeambition3]

NHaler is the closest to an "808 superstore" we have available. Though there's several things they don't have, they do happen to have a number of things that you'd have to go to 3 or 4 different vendors to find.

NHaler's good, but CigEasy is the 'exclusive' 808 superstore, hands down.

 

[Johnnie Price]

I'm not too worried about more hardware for the Echo. I'm pretty comfortable with the Echomizers, though I do plan on grabbing a carto-tank just to try it out.

And not to knock CigEasy, but when I say NHaler is an 808 superstore I base that solely on quantity of products. NHaler's prices are a bit higher than many other vendors, especially their kits. However, they're the only vendor I've found outside of CigEasy to carry the M3 cartomizers and they're the only ones in America I've been able to find with the Echo-V cartomizer. They also have the Echo and Go-Go, everything you need for tanks, and a bit more.

Their quality isn't always the best, though I have no complaints with their Echo and Echo-V cartomizers, but if you're looking to cut down on shipping costs then NHaler is the first place to look.

 

[acorn54]

vapor 4 life never let me down with their batteries.
high quality a bit pricey but worth it.
got me to kick the analog habit and ecig habit

 

[UncleChuck]

So I'm not getting something here.... if 808 stuff is hard to find, why are you using 808? Unless there is a specific brand of prefilled cartos or something that you like, but if that's the case then it shouldn't be difficult to find stuff, as you are using 808 specifically for a particular product, right?

 

[Johnnie Price]

Finding 808 stuff isn't the problem. Finding it without going to half a dozen vendors is.

 

[Koman]

vapor 4 life never let me down with their batteries.
high quality a bit pricey but worth it.
got me to kick the analog habit and ecig habit

Yeah, their batteries are pretty good.

 

[chainsaw316]

I honestly perfer 808 to 510 and Ego-style devices. I have ordered a bunch of pricey 510 devices and I always go back to my 808 stuff because I haven't noticed a huge amount of difference in throat hit or vapor production. I also started with an 808 and, for some reason, I remain loyal to it. Finding 808 stuff isn't THAT hard...most vendors I have visited stock either batts or carts. I have plenty of both so I'm just really looking for the best juice at this point.

808 for life!

 

[UncleChuck]

I honestly perfer 808 to 510 and Ego-style devices. I have ordered a bunch of pricey 510 devices and I always go back to my 808 stuff because I haven't noticed a huge amount of difference in throat hit or vapor production. I also started with an 808 and, for some reason, I remain loyal to it. Finding 808 stuff isn't THAT hard...most vendors I have visited stock either batts or carts. I have plenty of both so I'm just really looking for the best juice at this point.

808 for life!

But an 808 is just the type of threads. The thread size can't affect throat hit or vapor production. The juice being used and the carto/atty being used is what effects the vape, not the pattern the manufacturer happened to use for the threads.

 

[Johnnie Price]

But an 808 is just the type of threads. The thread size can't affect throat hit or vapor production. The juice being used and the carto/atty being used is what effects the vape, not the pattern the manufacturer happened to use for the threads.

While true, there are large differences between the two.

Take cartomizers. The majority of vendors selling 808's only offer Kangers or copies of their design. A bottom coil vape tastes much different than a vertical coil vape.

Also, there seems to be better quality control among some branded vendors. Many have said a Bloog Max Fusion or a S.I. Volt cartomizer is much better than a standard Kanger. I know I much prefer a Volt carto over the one Smoktech I tried, but that's also due in part to the Smoktech carto not being compatible with a Gen2 "sealed" battery.

For that matter, do they even make drip protected automatic 510's?

There's also the differences in voltages, or is it only the eGo which is 3.4 volts?

 

[UncleChuck]

Good point on the bottom horizontal coils, although I have 4081 and 510 bottom horizontal coil cartos. The are definitely less common, but they are out there.

The voltage issue, AFAIK, only relates to older style Joye eGos and possibly Joye cigalike batteries. Joye's eGos used to be regulated to 3.2 (or 3.3 I always forget) where as the clones would usually be unregulated, so start out at 4.2 or so and then drop down to Joye type voltage as it dies. Joye's cigalike batteries might be regulated as well, I honestly have no idea. But I know all the 510 cigalikes I've had were unregulated.

The 808s are unregulated so will put out more power than devices regulated down to 3.2 or whatever. But newer Joye eGos allow you to turn the regulation off, for a full power vape, and most every 510 cigalike and ego I've used was unregulated, so it would have voltage the same as an 808.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash the 808 or anything, I'm just curious what people's reasons are for using them. It made sense back in the day when 510s, 808s, 401s, etc were actually different devices. But now they are basically just thread patterns, as all the different designs have co-mingled and evolved to the point where regardless of the thread pattern you can get attys, cartos, batteries, etc of any design or type.

One person could say they have a 510, and they just have an eGo battery with a cartotank on it. Another person could say they have an 808, and they too just have an ego battery with a cartotank on it. Or they could each have a cigalike with the same battery size, same battery capacity, same carto design, and same carto size and capacity. It just seems like 808, 510, etc has lost its meaning