Not sure I'm assembling things right - please help so I can start vaping.

[Cloud Wizard]

Cool kit, GREAT PV

As said above:
1. Charge batteries
2. Install batteries (button top up)
3. Fill carto (standard carto holds ~1.2ml = ~24drops - if drip filling remove rubber tip/10 drops/wait to soak in/10 drops/wait to soak in/~4 drops till top is slushy)
4. Attach filled carto and check resistance (5 button clicks, then sets of 2 clicks till window says "Ao")
5. Set voltage (5 button clicks to "Pu" and then adjust up or +2 clicks to "Pd" and adjust down)
6. Vape away (can add a few drops to carto as it runs down)

Just looked at the starter kit and it looks like the give you 3.0ohm cartos. 3.5v is going to be way lite. I use 3.0ohm cartos all the time at 4.9v (my general rule of thumb is to start at atty/carto resistance +2 which gives about 8 watts power - nice medium/warm vape - and then adjust up/down by 0.1v to fine tune to the juice)

 

[Iusedtoanalog]

Please remove the white rubber mouthpiece, pop it off with a fingernail, paperclip teeth or whatever you can find, and LOOK at the filler. If its wet, you are ready to vape. If its dry you need to fill it. See the above video for a full explanation, in detail, on how to fill an empty carto.

 

[Pappy]

I suspect this is what is causing the confusion. Do you have a box that looks like this:

Notice the little cartridge beside the box in that pic. That is a cartomizer, and it does NOT have any juice in it. If you just put that on your provari and start vaping, you'll get a burnt taste that you'll never forget.

That little cartomizer needs to be properly filled with juice and, ideally, you would have a drip tip on it (but the drip tip is not required).

Tell me if I'm off base here.

 

[elfstone]

The kit comes with a drip tip, and with empty cartomizers. At least according to the ProVape site.

 

[rgrswife]

Yes, I added a 510 atomizer (on my neighbor's recommendation). Using only the atomized cartridge, I used the condom method and added some juice, but I have the settings low to start and am not getting much of a "throat hit" or much mist at all. I guess I need to learn about all the different settings, i.e., which settings I adjust for more mist.

 

[rgrswife]

Yes, I do. I just added some juice to one of them using the condom method, but I still have to learn the settings I guess to get more mist and a better throat hit. Has kind of a harsh taste at the moment.

 

[elfstone]

Increase the voltage to 4.4 V then try and go up from there slowly (by .1-.2 V) and see where your sweet spot is. With a 3 Ohm cartomizer, it should be between 4.7 and 5.5 V but every person has a different one and sometimes it varies even based on the specific juice.

What nic strength is the juice? Do you know the PG/VG ratio by any chance?

Nicotine increases the throat hit, while high VG mutes it.

 

[rgrswife]

Thank you.

 

[rgrswife]

I adjusted the Pu to 4.4 and will try it out. The juice I'm using at the moment is 24 mg, but I have 36, 24, 18, and 11...just to see which one is right for me. Thank you for all your help!

 

[Cloud Wizard]

Excellent, enjoy. Hind sight is 50/50, I wish I would've gotten the Provari 1st instead of the $500 of other stuff I now have sitting in a drawer collecting dust...

 

[rgrswife]

Right now I'm trying the 24 mg Fruit Juice they sent me with the kit....tastes kind of metally, but it could just be I have the wrong settings. I used the Green Smoke several years ago...was ok, but from the first box of cartridges, MAYBE one out of 20 cartridges wasn's defective. Money down the drain. Thank you for your help.

 

[Cloud Wizard]

Make sure you shake your juice bottles before every fill. Not sure what juice they sent, but most of my juices get better with age (known as "steeping"). I always try new juices the day they arrive (usually SR drip atty - 3.0ohm Cisco306) and then take the cap off (including bottle tip) and let it sit over night in a dark cabinet. Next day I recap, shake real well and try again (rinse and repeat the shake and taste every couple days till its good). Some flavors that were gross or medicinal flavored came around eventually and were good. Some never got "right" so I mice them into better juices to use them up slowly.

Enjoy!