Need help picking from a couple of starter kits.

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Eclipsed1770

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The only difference I can see between the two is the 30ml of e-juice. I don't know if the difference in price is worth a 30ml bottle of juice you haven't tried. I might be missing something that others might see unless the battery size is different with the Ultimate kit but it doesn't give a description nor does it mention atomizers as being listed as coming with the kit, but does show them in the pictures. Just my 2 cents.
 

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The Riva Lite Bundle comes with 2-atomizers and 10-blank carts, does not show it comes with any e-liquid or pre-filled carts. If you haven't done so already, you will need to also purchase liquid to either drip in atomizer or fill carts. Good luck and happy vaping

There's an ecig store next to my place of business, i figured i'd just grab some from there when I get my kit in the mail. Their e-liquid is about on par with the prices I've seen online. Yay for me!

filling carts get tired realfast...especially with the fiddling that needs to be done to make them wick properly. you dont need carts or attys if you get cartomizers...very low maintenance. (boge 2.0 510 cartomizers)

Is a cartomizer just a prefilled cart, or is there a difference?
 

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Perhaps someone can correct me, but I believe the Riva runs a higher voltage... 3.7 for the Riva vs. 3.2 for the eGo.

I think it is the Riva SE (special edition) that runs at 3.7, the regular Riva is 3.2 like the eGo. I remember a very long thread about batteries that discussed it, but can't find it now.
 

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There's an ecig store next to my place of business, i figured i'd just grab some from there when I get my kit in the mail. Their e-liquid is about on par with the prices I've seen online. Yay for me!



Is a cartomizer just a prefilled cart, or is there a difference?

no your kit comes with an atomizer + cart(3 piece all together) a cartomizer combines the atty+cart....they too can be filled or unfilled...most here prefer to fill themselves with the flavor of their choice.....easy, and holds a whole lot more than the carts do.
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Is a cartomizer just a prefilled cart, or is there a difference?

You can get them prefilled, or you can buy blanks and load them yourself.

Cartomizers have the heating element and juice storage in the same piece. They hold much more liquid than most of the regular cartridges. Moderate vapers can tuck a couple of the leak free cartomizers in their pocket and vape all day from them...no need to carry a juice bottle and drip.

Yes, you can keep rewetting cartomizers and reuse them until they start tasting off, or stop working. Some people attempt the clean them out for extra life cycles with sucess.

Standard cartridges do not have a heating element. You drip into them and stick them into a seperate atomizer piece that screws onto the battery. They can be kind of tricky to learn how to pack them for peak performance without getting dry hits from time to time. They don't hold very much liquid. Taking several back to back draws from a stock cartridge can lead to dry hits or a more 'harish' throat hit, as they don't wick the liquid as efficently as a cartomizer (unless you mod your cartridge filler somehow).

Hope this helps.
 

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I think I read Riva and Ego are more like 3.4v. I definitely get a slightly warmer bigger hit with Riva + standard res carto than with the same carto on 510 (3.2v)

I didn't know about the Riva SE - interesting

Re carts - most people get tired of carts pretty fast. Save them though - they are good for testing or vaping juices you don't vape enough to give their own carto. Drip tip is also good for testing. You can get nice precut 510 blue foam stuffing for 510 carts cheap at strictlyejuice.com. It's a stuffing that holds its shape, rinse clean under running water, pats dry easily between paper towel.

For the juices that I love to vape I use Boge cartomizers. I vape both Riva and slim manual 510 so I use standard resistance Boge cartos (slim 510 can only use standard). But Riva can also use the more power-hungry hotter LR 2.5 and 2.0 ohm Boge cartos. Boge are the favorite cartos of most people.

If filled properly, allowed to settle so every bit of stuffing gets damp (I lay on different sides for 15-20 min), and kept damp by adding juice before you run it too dry and singe it, a Boge carto can often perform well for a week or more. I don't try to clean them for further reuse. Sume people succeed with that and some do not. I do save them and may try to clean some at some point.
 
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