Been vaping for about 2 years. My wife and I started so we could stop smoking ciggerettes. We were at 1.5 packs or so a day and just got tired of the smell.
We both started with small e-cig kits/carto's and aftera few months, changed to cignot's basic e-juice at 24mg with kanger's evo-d tanks and generic 1600mah sticks. We switched to the T3S tanks after a while and stuck with those for a long time. We are now both using 18mg juice and only use about 2.5ml a day.
The T3S tanks tend to come apart at the tip and leak. I've been buying them and breaking the epoxy if I can, then sanding out the inside of the tip and putting jb-weld in them to support the pipe and hold it together before it breaks. They they last until we drop them and bust them, vs a few weeks/months.
My wife is still using one of those modified tanks with the EVIC-VTC MINI 2.0. Got tired of the sticks starting hot and getting weaker by the end of a day, so I picked her up one of those and now she really likes it. Puts out consistent power all day long.
I've been changing tanks periodically to see what else is worth trying without having to modify them. I've used the Kanger pro-tank II, which used similar coils/heads, then I tried the pro-tank 3 which used dual coils, but didn't seem much better and now I'm using the sub-tank mini with a 100W eleaf iStick.
I used the OCC horizontal 1.2 and .5 coils that came with it and they did ok. Lots of vape and good flavor at/around 18-20 watts. Then I tried to re-wick them, then no matter what cotton or how tight/loose I wicked, they would burn on me. So, I ordered more coils to find they were vertical, which was also ok, but seemed to spitback quite a bit. So, I started tinkering with the RTA that came with it. I'm using the .5 coil that came with it, but have some 26awg kenthal on the way to make my own. Will see how that goes. I've rewicked the RTA about 10 times and finally got it to taste good, after watching may videos on youtube to figure out better what to do. I'm only running 11-13 watts though, so not getting huge vape like I did with the OCC's. If I go higher, the taste gets cooked out it seems. I can go to 20, but after 14, the popping/spitback is pretty bad and by the time I get to 18W, the flavor is gone. Lots of vape at 20 though, beyond 22watts, it burns. So, I started at 10 and worked my way up to 12.5 as it seems to give me the least spitback, most vape and decent flavor.
Anyway, that's my story and what we are doing currently. Hope to learn a bit more from this place.
We both started with small e-cig kits/carto's and aftera few months, changed to cignot's basic e-juice at 24mg with kanger's evo-d tanks and generic 1600mah sticks. We switched to the T3S tanks after a while and stuck with those for a long time. We are now both using 18mg juice and only use about 2.5ml a day.
The T3S tanks tend to come apart at the tip and leak. I've been buying them and breaking the epoxy if I can, then sanding out the inside of the tip and putting jb-weld in them to support the pipe and hold it together before it breaks. They they last until we drop them and bust them, vs a few weeks/months.
My wife is still using one of those modified tanks with the EVIC-VTC MINI 2.0. Got tired of the sticks starting hot and getting weaker by the end of a day, so I picked her up one of those and now she really likes it. Puts out consistent power all day long.
I've been changing tanks periodically to see what else is worth trying without having to modify them. I've used the Kanger pro-tank II, which used similar coils/heads, then I tried the pro-tank 3 which used dual coils, but didn't seem much better and now I'm using the sub-tank mini with a 100W eleaf iStick.
I used the OCC horizontal 1.2 and .5 coils that came with it and they did ok. Lots of vape and good flavor at/around 18-20 watts. Then I tried to re-wick them, then no matter what cotton or how tight/loose I wicked, they would burn on me. So, I ordered more coils to find they were vertical, which was also ok, but seemed to spitback quite a bit. So, I started tinkering with the RTA that came with it. I'm using the .5 coil that came with it, but have some 26awg kenthal on the way to make my own. Will see how that goes. I've rewicked the RTA about 10 times and finally got it to taste good, after watching may videos on youtube to figure out better what to do. I'm only running 11-13 watts though, so not getting huge vape like I did with the OCC's. If I go higher, the taste gets cooked out it seems. I can go to 20, but after 14, the popping/spitback is pretty bad and by the time I get to 18W, the flavor is gone. Lots of vape at 20 though, beyond 22watts, it burns. So, I started at 10 and worked my way up to 12.5 as it seems to give me the least spitback, most vape and decent flavor.
Anyway, that's my story and what we are doing currently. Hope to learn a bit more from this place.
