Well I got my new atty today. They wouldn't replace the TAWA atty however. To be expected though.
A note - They assured me the best way to clean these is to blow out NOT from the battery thread end but with your mouth over the end you place the cart in. I tried and the juice comes out faster this way and with less effort needed and a lot more comes out too. This must be due to the wicking needle I think. Also they said cleaning via boiling or alcohol is a 'last shot' to save an atty and not reccomended otherwise.
They assured me that these atties are garuanteed for 6 months as they are designed to last that long before failiure. Based on what I told them of my previous vaping technique - lots of fast deep draws - they said that is why I got the burning taste, I was vaping to fast for the atty to be kept moist with juice.
Best way to draw these - from the Jantykorea guys themselves - a slow deep 6 second draw. after 6 of these draws you need to rest it until atty cools down.
Also - when you draw, keep drawing for a few seconds after button is off as otherwise (they demonstrated this to me and it is true) a small cloud of mist goes back into the atty which can cause leakage and wicking problems. Something to keep in mind.
Okay - so results with new ego-t atty and with my 4 week old blown through properly and swabbed TAWA atty.
TAWA atty is working well again. It seems these attys really are built to last. I have no experience with other attys but this unit has given me the burnt gacky taste many times and has been cleaned with hot water twice and air dried. As of today after just blowing through the Jantykorea way - it is working well. So they can malfunction but will still go strong for at least a few cleans and dries. Am vaping gh1 strawberry on it and and am getting a clean light strawberry chewits / chewing gum kind of taste. It is a bit weak but I think that's the juice which smells weak in the bottle and was a cheap buy tbh at around 3.50usd for 10ml. It is a 30vg and 70pg mix. Vapor is slightly dry and the ego-t is not a vapor beast in my experience. EDIT - by end of this post burning taste is back. Will do isopropyl alcohol cleaning tomorow thoroughly.
On to the BRAND SPANK NEW non tawa atty. Vaped a cart of gh1 usa blend and it the most 'meh' experience after watching Eric Banner in any movie. other than the brilliant 'Chopper.' Man is that guy wooden.... A light vape with a slightly nutty aftertaste. Very dry, airy vape.
Switched to and am vaping gh1 'tobacco' as I type this. Great improvement. We are now in 'Eric Banner in Chopper territory.' It's a nice vape with a much fuller body and a nice mellow coffee grinds kind of after taste. Very pleasent and fulfilling indeed. Vape however is dryish and airy still and about as much from a long, deep 6 second draw as you'd get from a quick draw on a cigarette. I have vaped in stores testing out their juices on their models which are bigger than the ego - about the size of the Boge Leo, with drip tips and also with a janty stick with cartos and found the vapour to be thicker, sweeter and cooler, kind of more silky as well than the ego-t.
The ego-t is definately (for me) NOT a great vapor producer and like I said, bar the menthol I like, the vapor is airy, and dry, hot at times with every juice I have tried so far (6 in all.) This is with the brand new ego-t non TAWA atty. I am hoping 501 attys with drip tips are going to give me a more voloptuos and delectable vaping experience at home when I order them in.
To sum up for me so far - the ego-t (leakage for whatever reason, no longer an issue) will be useful for when on the go but is not really providing a satisfying at home vape and the level and quality of vapor will get unfulfilling for me and I'd expect most vapers after a short while. So good for when out the house but I'm thinking not satisfying enough for at home. Certainly not for me.
Could be as I'm using cheap juices (the expensive menthol one from a Korean store was damned amazing) and I will buy a more expensive one in the week (have tried DEKANG RY4 in a store here in Korea on their pv and it was very tasty - though 10ml will cost me 18usd ouch) but the Janty oriental isn't much better on my ego-t either and is definately a quality branded juice from Jantykorea.
My experience in regards to vaping satisfaction pretty much is the same as scotbees and milkyg's and if more expensive juices give same vaping experience as I've had so far - the price just is not worth it and I see myself using this as a back up and moving on to regualr attys with drip tips or maybe a boge leo if and when they come out with a simillar tank system as reviews of the leo have been absolutely rave so far (we seem to be talking De Niro in Raging Bull.) In fact I have seen one other manufacturer has already came out with a tank desing which seems borrowed from the ego-t. Can't remember the company name but is a UK online store and the man's name is Sharrif. He has a video of it and you can order them from him. It is a small cigarette style pv and has the same attys with wicking needles and carts based on the same concept, if not exactly the same shape - but they are tank carts with an atty wiht a wicking needle same as ego-t. So obviously other pv makers will be applying this concept to their units.
My ego-t got pretty Eric Banner after the initital novelty value wore off, I'm sorry to say. And like I said this is with a brand new atty and with a nice tasting juice at 30 / 70 vg / pg. Not much vapor at all and mostly dry and airy and warm at times...
On those two 'the force is strong'. Absinthe tastes good with the Tank. In almost all it is a slightly better than mega eGo atty/cart set up which for me anyway, has been the best flavor vaping other than say, straight dripping.
