The following post is all about juice delivery systems. So why post it here? Well, what we use is important to us because we discuss flavor and what works best for us is important. JDS is especially important to us here because the added factor of many NETs being the most damaging. My main reason for posting it here is personal though, JDS has been a huge part of my hobby, and since I'm going to alter such a huge part I desire to post it in the thread that really matters to me. So feel free to skip this off-topic since it will be long, only about my JDS experience, and is mainly stuff I realized many have already discovered for themselves long ago; the benefits of having one delivery system. The story of how I found my own Holy Grail.
I've said it before that I use cartos on the go, mainly with mint and menthol. Just getting that out of the way because that's not going to change, I'm happy with that.
Most of my enjoyment of the hobby is done at home dripping in an atomizer. Instead of saying "disposable" atomizer in this post, I will use the term used for years before RBAs; atomizer, or atty.
I love the atomizer. It can be a pain in the ... but it's been the best option for great flavor and easily switching juice. I've learned to love the things that make them a pain in the ... by accepting it as part of my hobby. The cleaning, the ritual, the constant dripping, the inconsistant QC and the subtle and not-so-subtle differences between 2 otherwise exact same atties. I like getting to know each new atty's strengths and weaknesses. Some atties can be like taming a wild horse, and those I feel proud when I master them. I'm also proud of the atties that lasts me months through proper maintainance and cleaning.
I've rotated atties every few days as part of the cleaning and finding the best atties for each juice. For whatever reason juices seem to mate with a certain atty and perform best with it. It allows me to really give a juice a chance. I accepted early on I will never find a perfect JDS, so switching atty types from 510, 901, and 306 allows certain strengths to come forward while I just accept the weaknesses. It sounds like a lot, and maybe it is, but for most of us drippers it all becomes second nature and routine.
I gave up on the search for the Holy Grail, but may have accidently stumbled into what just might be the closest I'll get to it. I realized this last night, and with that realization came the pain of ditching a huge part of my hobby along with the excitement of greatly simplifying it. It may sound silly, but to me it's a big change. All my drip shields, adaptors, routines, yadda yadda.
So what sparked this? These new juices I've been vaping in my new IGO-S have been fantastic the last couple days. At the end of the night I wanted vape a juice I already know very well, Devil Dog. I've tried it in many JDS, enjoyed it on many different occasions. I know this juice, so was taken aback at how different it tasted. It was richer, fuller, and more amazing than ever. It wasn't me perceiving it different, it really was a lot more complex and better tasting. I think the difference was the new wire I started using.
The 30 gauge is much thicker than the 32, and has less resistance while covering much more area. Lower ohms is needed to the so higher watts can make it more responsive. They talk about this in the RA section here, but I had to experience it to realize how much difference. The first coil, the one I've been using now, was at 1.1 ohm, so I had to use it on my Twist instead of VAMO. At the Twists lowest setting this still forced me to vape at higher watts than what I normally use, which is normally around 8. Last couple days it's been at the 9.5 to 11 watt level. Since the heat is spread out more it doesn't burn the juice and provides more flavor, vapor, and works with shorter vapes.
So almost by accident I discovered something I wasn't expecting, an RBA set-up that I can admit to myself surpasses anything my atties can do with flavor, which I verified with other juices. The taste is no longer about the same, it's better.
My other big issue was form and function. This little IGO-S fills that need for me. It's shorter than a 510 and about the diameter of an eGo. The small size makes it easy to switch juices by dripping a new flavor on top of the old with just a brief blending, a big deal for me and what I loved about atties. I won't say this specific RBA is better than other RBAs cause it's not, it just fills my own personal wants for function. It only holds about 10 drops, a tiny amount in the world of RBAs but a lot for someone who's used atties, and right for me. The draw is what I want. The set-up was really quick and easy with just a small piece of silica and the holes in the posts.
I also lucked out in finding a braided silica that fits my needs imparting no additional flavors and being rugged enough for the dry-burns I've been hitting it with. It doesn't break apart quickly like my last silica.
So all this adds up to having a system that I can use as my only system for at home vaping. I will no longer be able to tell what a certain juice works best on, so if it doesn't work on my new set-up I'll just have to pass on it. A small sacrifice for a lot more simplicity. A lot of people use just one thing that works best for them. It took me a while, but now I have mine. IGO-S, braided silica, 30 gauge A-1 kanthal. I still have half a dozen atties and a couple different RBAs and it may take a while to faze them out, but for the most part I'll be sticking to what is now my Holy Grail.
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I can imagine the tabac de perique not being to close to the real thing, but it's great you've found your gateway NET. Now the fun really starts!
I've heard enough negative about that line of juices to know that I should stay away, and my experience the other day just helped to confirm it. I'd even go so far as to say that these juices might not even be NET's in line with the true spirit of the thread - Highbrow hasn't been completely clear. To quote the great Vapenstien in his review of Highbrow's Exotic Blend:
There's MUCH better out there if you're looking for a realistic tobacco experience.
