I'm just the opposite! The reasons you list for not taking it out are some of the reasons I never leave home without one. (usually both sizes).Yeah lets be real... the transition is not exactly smooth. The red pack right here is where i'm coming from!
Now before anyone jumps on me, let me state that I'm firm DID believer. With the parts i'm receiving in a few days, I'll have 5 units. The DID is a device you can push, experiment with and produce nasty clouds at incredible ohms and stuff. You can throw the DID by the window, put it on the stove... i'm sure nothing will happen to it. The DID is a race car.
That said, the DID is not an atty i'm going out with. I enjoy it at home.
When I go out I want my atty to understand a few things:
1) I'd rather use a Genesis (no going back to cartos ever) its the only real substitute for the kind of smoker I was.
2) I'm not a physicist (know nothing about capillary action) so it'd better use gravitation instead, or whatever he needs to get that juice to the wick. For it to use gravitation, I don't want to have to twist my arm and look ridiculous.It has to handle that by itself.
3) I'm not an electrician. I learned a bit about resistance and power for the sake of using an geni and setting the right voltage on a VV mod...that's it.
I don't want to spend half an hour for a single wick oxidizing to discover its still shorting somewhere. I want my atty to be insulated where it needs to and it'd better be ceramic insulation. period.
4) I want to be able to change flavor without having to empty a tank and feel the taste shift in seconds.
5) I want to refill while driving without a single drop on my hands.
When I'm on the run, go to work, back to pick up kids, back to work, out for a meeting, back to work....etc etc.
I need user friendly, clean,quick & efficient. There are such genis out there.
The DID is for ppl who want to push boundaries, experiment, learn, ask questions and are ready to get down and dirty with it.
Again, I love the DID... The DID is not that kind of atty BUT improvement on the DID are not to be excluded.
ALL constructive feedback here; this market's dynamic as hell, I'd like to see Jim in business for next few years.
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Edit: really sorry for the timing of this reply Jim...
didn't see you previous post.
* The cap never pops off leaving me stranded without a tunnel and drip tip while the cap flows on down the river
* The SS tank is totally Uma proof
* The tank holds a good 3.5 mls, enough to get me through quite a few hours. (especially with a back up or refill needle bottle)
* The wick hole is huge, allowing tons of wicking if wanted. I never (to date) have to tilt my DID, but I constantly tilt my Vision thingie
* The tools needed for quick fix are easily carried in a coin pouch.
* The tweaking is quite rapid on most days. (I carry a Cisco 306 on my Reo Grand too, for emergencies, as well as a Twist w/changeable coil clearomizer thingie. One never knows when an earthquake will take a bridge out leaving me stranded)
* The pouch with all the emergency workings will get me through a week long stranding (and yes, my area is known for them, between mudslides and earthquakes).
* The DiD's, for me, never leak unless kept upside down or on it's side with the airhole facing down, for forever. (I leave the screw in)
* The act of being caught dead without my beloved Roller and Mini DID is unthinkable.
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Glad to see I'm not the only guy that likes the looks of those curves. 