Mistakes you have made as a newbie or a veteran of vaping.

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DPLongo22

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That can be expensive!

In deed. ;)

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I bought a blu in 2015 haha :D and the liquids they offered were 100% PG 18mg disgusting tobacco flavor, you can imagine I was choking to death on a nasty juice. Didn't even know what PG or VG was back then, after a week I thought that vaping is not for me ... fail

Lots of us started vaping with 90pg/10vg and thought it was the best flavor. We didn't get a lot of vapor, though. :( It took us a while to learn the PG/VG percentages we liked.
 

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    Bought a bunch of those cigalikes back in my early days. That was before they were sold in convenience stores. The prime example was Smoking Everywhere. I didn't buy that, but clones of it. There were subscription services too. Give 'em your credit card number and they'd send you a free ecig, and every month for a fee you'd get so many cartridges. Each cartridge was supposed to equal a pack of cigarettes. HA HA HA. I could go through one of those carts in an hour, and you hardly got any vape out of them. I didn't get snookered into the subscription service, but I did start with those puny ecigs. I could see the potential vaping had, but I could also see why people said vaping didn't work for them.
     

    Fidola13

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    I was new to building and in my haste and eagerness I filled the chimney NOT the tank With ejuice. Very bad experience.

    more recently now 2 years into building i cleaned all my wicks and thought I had wicked all of them too except the ONE rda I decided to use which had absolutely no wicking at all just the metal coil heated up to a glowing bright red.
    It was horrible lol!!
     

    AngeNZ

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    I was new to building and in my haste and eagerness I filled the chimney NOT the tank With ejuice. Very bad experience.

    more recently now 2 years into building i cleaned all my wicks and thought I had wicked all of them too except the ONE rda I decided to use which had absolutely no wicking at all just the metal coil heated up to a glowing bright red.
    It was horrible lol!!

    I've done the chimney thing - it was a tad gurgly :facepalm:

    Haven't done your part 2 yet, but give me time ;)
     

    PeterKay

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    Lots of us started vaping with 90pg/10vg and thought it was the best flavor. We didn't get a lot of vapor, though. :( It took us a while to learn the PG/VG percentages we liked.

    It might have been due to how my body handles high PG- I've recently seen results of a questionnaire done among like 1000 vapers (can't remember if it was on ecf or no?) and 54% said they never had any issues with PG. Bue the rest suffered, from very mild to severe issues, for various lengths of time.

    Trying a few different ratios in the past 2 weeks I know for a fact that I can't go above 60PG and vape comfortably, 70PG mixes I tried were way too harsh even at 12mg nicotine, and gave me a really dry mouth and throat. And the stuff that Blu was selling was pure PG based. It wasn't the nicotine either, I sub ohm 11-12mg nicotine just now at 70VG and I'm perfectly fine
     

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    Time to add another mistake,minor but still a mistake.

    I just have the 2 batteries 18650's,i use one and the other is in its plastic care or charging.
    When i get low on battery i just pop in the fully charged one and put the other in the charger,basically this all the time..rinse and repeat.

    Well today i forgot for the first time since i started vaping in november 2018,i was watching my favourite tv series ''Chuck'' and i swapped batteries but forgot to charge the other one,i just put it in the plastic case and forgot...

    Thank god i had the OSMALL i won in the giveaway,otherwise i would have nothing to vape.

    Guessing im not the first person that has had this happen to them,huh?

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    PeterKay

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    Time to add another mistake,minor but still a mistake.

    I just have the 2 batteries 18650's,i use one and the other is in its plastic care or charging.
    When i get low on battery i just pop in the fully charged one and put the other in the charger,basically this all the time..rinse and repeat.

    Well today i forgot for the first time since i started vaping in november 2018,i was watching my favourite tv series ''Chuck'' and i swapped batteries but forgot to charge the other one,i just put it in the plastic case and forgot...

    Thank god i had the OSMALL i won in the giveaway,otherwise i would have nothing to vape.

    Guessing im not the first person that has had this happen to them,huh?

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    I've nearly done that last week with my 18650s, forgot to charge and nearly run out of both sets. So on sunday I ordered a third :) 2 sets I bought first were brown LG G2, roughly a day of vaping on my smok majesty at 50-60W so not that great. This time got two molicel p26A, so far 9h of vaping 55W and not even halfway down. Pretty good I'd say :) definitely better than LG
     

    Territoo

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    Time to add another mistake,minor but still a mistake.

    I just have the 2 batteries 18650's,i use one and the other is in its plastic care or charging.
    When i get low on battery i just pop in the fully charged one and put the other in the charger,basically this all the time..rinse and repeat.

    Well today i forgot for the first time since i started vaping in november 2018,i was watching my favourite tv series ''Chuck'' and i swapped batteries but forgot to charge the other one,i just put it in the plastic case and forgot...

    Thank god i had the OSMALL i won in the giveaway,otherwise i would have nothing to vape.

    Guessing im not the first person that has had this happen to them,huh?

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    Cute meme. I had to steal it.
     

    stols001

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    This is why you want more batteries by a factor of 10. Honestly they rest longer they don't get used as hard, and it's not actually more expensive in fact possibly less, because they don't get either charged/used/charged used non stop.

    This is perhaps also why I have more than one setup going but I thin that rather has to do with my obsessive nature of sorts. I'm saying there is probably some middle ground where you can vape no matter what.

    Having an internal battery or two also assists in this instance because like... IDK you can (if it's ickky which it's a bit suspect but worst case, pass through unless your battery blows up it's probably better than smoking. Also: always carries one full can of snus.

    TO be fair I JUST found possibly the oldest, worst smokes I ever bought they had to be at least 5 if not years older, lite 100 Benson and Hedges. I was curious. I wanted to smoke them. I wanted to see if they had improved with age. LOL it was clear they hadn't.

    I did not toss them either I put them back in the glove compartment. You just never know.

    Anna
     

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    This is why you want more batteries by a factor of 10. Honestly they rest longer they don't get used as hard, and it's not actually more expensive in fact possibly less, because they don't get either charged/used/charged used non stop.

    This is perhaps also why I have more than one setup going but I thin that rather has to do with my obsessive nature of sorts. I'm saying there is probably some middle ground where you can vape no matter what.

    Having an internal battery or two also assists in this instance because like... IDK you can (if it's ickky which it's a bit suspect but worst case, pass through unless your battery blows up it's probably better than smoking. Also: always carries one full can of snus.

    TO be fair I JUST found possibly the oldest, worst smokes I ever bought they had to be at least 5 if not years older, lite 100 Benson and Hedges. I was curious. I wanted to smoke them. I wanted to see if they had improved with age. LOL it was clear they hadn't.

    I did not toss them either I put them back in the glove compartment. You just never know.

    Anna

    Once my Jackaroo arrives (september 2025) i will get me a couple of 21700's.
    My current Swag 80W will only be used for my innokin,and to be honest i dont use it that much.
    I only put it on yesterday so i could suck on the last remaining battery before switching to the OSMALL.
    Figured that 36w (Wasp Nano RTA) down to my 14w on the Zlide might give me more vaping time before grabbing the OSMALL hehe

    But wow this new aroma i got is pretty good,glad i took the plunge and tried a new flavour:

    Shiva - Vapeototal

    reminds me of the Dunhill menthol i smoked back in the day,really fresh and minty,think this is going to be my main flavour for awhile...no more watermelon for me :)
     
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    Once my Jackaroo arrives (september 2025) i will get me a couple of 21700's.
    My current Swag 80W will only be used for my innokin,and to be honest i dont use it that much.
    I only put it on yesterday so i could suck on the last remaining battery before switching to the OSMALL.
    Figured that 36w (Wasp Nano RTA) down to my 14w on the Zlide might give me more vaping time before grabbing the OSMALL hehe

    But wow this new aroma i got is pretty good,glad i took the plunge and tried a new flavour:

    Shiva - Vapeototal

    reminds me of the Dunhill menthol i smoked back in the day,really fresh and minty,think this is going to be my main flavour for awhile...no more watermelon for me :)

    September 2025? :shock::shock::shock:
     
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    Once my Jackaroo arrives (september 2025) i will get me a couple of 21700's.
    My current Swag 80W will only be used for my innokin,and to be honest i dont use it that much.
    I only put it on yesterday so i could suck on the last remaining battery before switching to the OSMALL.
    Figured that 36w (Wasp Nano RTA) down to my 14w on the Zlide might give me more vaping time before grabbing the OSMALL hehe

    But wow this new aroma i got is pretty good,glad i took the plunge and tried a new flavour:

    Shiva - Vapeototal

    reminds me of the Dunhill menthol i smoked back in the day,really fresh and minty,think this is going to be my main flavour for awhile...no more watermelon for me :)

    Ok serious question- how's that Wasp Nano for you? I found it on an online sale few days ago, I was thinking about getting a new mtl tank, initially Zlide, Zenith, and few other brands were in consideration, but now I'm starting to lean towards MTL RTA's, that Wasp caught my eye
     
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    This is why you want more batteries by a factor of 10. Honestly they rest longer they don't get used as hard, and it's not actually more expensive in fact possibly less, because they don't get either charged/used/charged used non stop.

    This is perhaps also why I have more than one setup going but I thin that rather has to do with my obsessive nature of sorts. I'm saying there is probably some middle ground where you can vape no matter what.

    Having an internal battery or two also assists in this instance because like... IDK you can (if it's ickky which it's a bit suspect but worst case, pass through unless your battery blows up it's probably better than smoking. Also: always carries one full can of snus.

    TO be fair I JUST found possibly the oldest, worst smokes I ever bought they had to be at least 5 if not years older, lite 100 Benson and Hedges. I was curious. I wanted to smoke them. I wanted to see if they had improved with age. LOL it was clear they hadn't.

    I did not toss them either I put them back in the glove compartment. You just never know.

    Anna

    Using and charging constantly is actually good for batteries. Storing them for longer periods fully charged is detrimental to battery life. Also with lithium ion batteries it's actually better if you don't run them down completely, for example if you have fully charged batteries ready you can swap them at 50% and charge. Old NiCad batteries were different, it was better to fully discharge before charging again.

    As to stashing away packs of cigarettes- no way I'm doing that lol , that would be like keeping a randomly activated key to open the gates of hell :D
     

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    Ok serious question- how's that Wasp Nano for you? I found it on an online sale few days ago, I was thinking about getting a new mtl tank, initially Zlide, Zenith, and few other brands were in consideration, but now I'm starting to lean towards MTL RTA's, that Wasp caught my eye

    Granted im no expert and i did make the transition from the atty included with the Swag80w to the Wasp Nano RTA but i like it.

    Coils i got for free from the owner of the vape shop but my ohm reader says 0.19ohm,no idea what type they are thou.

    But my first build sucked,broke one coil trying to fit it in and this is the pic of my second try:

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    Here it is sitting on top of my SWAG 80w:

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    I like the atty,the Wasp gives me some nice flavour and good cloud production.
    Minimal leakage and i think its my fault,i may have forced the ring that controls the airflow when i tried to take it apart to rewick it.

    I wouldn't take my advice thou,i have only tried out like 2 or 3 different attys while people here have done so in the hundreds...so there is that.
    I did try the drip version but meh..to tiresome to be dripping all the time,i prefer a tank,you fill it and ready to go.
     
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