Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 5

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DancingHeretik

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Question for the group.

What would you say is the simplest coil to rebuild? I use the older style Kanger coils and I am starting to recognize that there will be a day that them tiny things are going to be a PITA to rebuild as I get older...
I think the simplest for tootle puffers is the CLR because it's designed to be rebuildable.
Are those okay for tootle puffers? I forgot to add that part in my question.
There are tootle puffers, then there are tootle puffers. A lot of things that some tootle puffers think are perfect that are way too airy for me. The best kayfun for MY tootle puffing is the V2 Plus. But, they've become hard to find since they're not making them anymore and they're so perfect for tootle puffing that people have been buying them up en masse.
 

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    My "biggest" portable batteries are the 3 and 4 cell lipos used by my DJI quad copters.

    The RC folks seem to notice most of the Lipo failures while charging them after they have crashed their plane/car/whatever. (big bump)

    Oh-and, cartomizers are still the best TP device. .... just sayin ;)
    (but who wants to sell you a $1.25 carto when they can sell you a $5 tank atty that only lasts half as long)
     
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    Thanks for the advice. While I don't like the title - I guess I would be a classic tootle puffer - still haven't moved into watts and I am very happy at 3.5v with a 1.8 - 2.2 coil...

    I have said it once and I will say it again - my goal is to stay off of stinkies and I am doing it - so goal accomplished in my book...
     

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    (but who wants to sell you a $1.25 carto when they can sell you a $5 tank atty that only lasts half as long)

    Well...DFWVapor sold a few of us a total of 400+ cartos on Clearance @ just 5 cents each very recently. Just wanted them gone from their stock! :thumbs:

    still haven't moved into watts and I am very happy at 3.5v with a 1.8 - 2.2 coil...

    Some of my mods show volts only, and some can show volts and watts. On all of them, I usually vape at 3.4-3.5v with a 1.5-1.8 coil (factory coil or built one). So there are more of us like you still around!
     

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    Well...DFWVapor sold a few of us a total of 400+ cartos on Clearance @ just 5 cents each very recently. Just wanted them gone from their stock! :thumbs:

    Would be a sweet deal at twice the price. ;)
    I still have one box short of 13 bricks on hand.
    Got three loaded up in carto tanks that are 'about there', so I'll be opening a new box fairly soon.
     

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    Just happen to be puffin away on a 1.8 ohm coil at 3.5v myself. ;)
    What do I need with watts when I got volts
    Well, I use Volts because they tend to be more regular. the watts come out to be about 3.07 while I'm vaping. I guess I'm a tootle puffer. I use KayFun V4s. But those are getting hard to find too.
    my coils range from 1.1 to 2.3
     

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    Question for the group.

    What would you say is the simplest coil to rebuild? I use the older style Kanger coils and I am starting to recognize that there will be a day that them tiny things are going to be a PITA to rebuild as I get older...
    I vote Genisis on steel mesh. Example video of Zen prepping a Z atty. Btw they are still available.
     

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    Watts is just easier in that you don't have to change anything when switching to a new coil value, the chip adjusts the voltage for you, your vape doesn't change. I range between 8 and 9 watts, depending on the particular flavor, across coils from 1.5 to about 1.9. Mostly KF2 series :)
     

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    Watts is just easier in that you don't have to change anything when switching to a new coil value, the chip adjusts the voltage for you, your vape doesn't change. I range between 8 and 9 watts, depending on the particular flavor, across coils from 1.5 to about 1.9. Mostly KF2 series :)

    So in other words - it is easier???
     

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    Thanks very much! I appreciate the offer and will keep it in mind if I decide to try 316. Right now, my interest is academic. Maybe someone (@2legsshrt?) will be able to tell me what relative advantages/disadvantages there are between 304 and 316. Curiously, I have tried the 304 on two mods so far in TC mode. It works great on the SX Mini but on the Sigelei Kaos, the resistance does not read correctly. It reads at about half of what it actually is. When I switch the Kaos to power mode, the resistance reads correctly and it works fine. Strange.
    I don't do TC or even regulated, so dunno the diff there, but you can see when I get it to ya.

    I normally just google stuff or just save links to things. But, if I'm going to be paranoid, I might as well go all the way! I'm going to download the videos in case they disappear in the future.

    So, my current stocking up is of videos instead of gear.

    Since building coils for different RBAs is the most likely thing I would need videos for, I'm starting my project with those videos. I already finished my RTAs (unless I find/buy more). Next up is my RDAs.

    The videos might be helpful when I forget things. But, even more, they would help teach someone else that builds for me when I can't do it myself anymore.
    not a bad idea really

    Solar battery chargers, anybody know a good one. I know zip about them but thinking I may really need one this summer.

    Two days ago we had an intense t-storm with a bit of hail and a lot of snow. From that we got multiple fires. Today it was 90. Tomorrow near 100 and will stay there for at least five days. We have the worst fuel load I've ever seen and this year may well be the worst fire season we've seen. Dead trees still keep dropping power lines almost daily. We usually don't get fires of consequence until late July.

    My point is, I would like to get a solar powered battery charger that could charge a couple of IMR 18490 batteries, smoke permitting. We also use 18650 in our flashlights. Nothing fancy. Any ideas? Where do I start?
    dang darlin! Really good to see you, but wow.....so many things y'all have to deal with there.

    I wrap maybe 4 coils at a time & put them on a big safety pin & latch it. I have several safety pins & keep them in an Altoids tin. When I'm going to be gone for days I just pack the tin of coils & one of cotton.

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    Great idea! I have a pack or two of those giant safety pins in my craft stuff, but not sue if those in what I have here or the stuff that's still in storage. Will have to check through a couple boxes here when my back quits screamin at me

    Almost forgot the most important part: Smoke free for 2.5 years thanks to vaping. :w00t:
    yay!!! and wb. Good to see ya

    You're right; 3 is overkill, but I have an explanation. I have one next to my bed, one on the arm of the couch and one at my computer desk so that I don't have to carry one with me when moving from one of those locations to another.
    I used to do that with my cig packs, but not by the bed. Didn't smoke in bed and don't vape in bed. A few times I have come out for a vape when I get up to go potty though. Several times have been laying in bed trying to sleep wishing I had a mod in the bedroom. I've typically been a one mod at a time person. But am fixin to get several up and running and if I remember, I think I will put one in the bedroom.

    I currently have 6 mods going with different flavors. I am a flavor-flitter (I like that 3mg!) too. I have at lease 2 mods when I go out, both with different flavors.
    I don't go out much or for very long at a time. But I do wanna get a purse that has those lil pouches on the outside. I should carry more than one mod with me just in case, but so far have never had an issue. (knock on wood)

    Morning folks! I read this thread a lot but rarely post, but all the posts about coils really has peaked my interest. I have Reos that I use at times and I stocked up on Kayfun for the days when I might not be able to get blister packs. Unfortunately my arthritis is getting worse and after reading here I have decided to make a bunch of coils and use my RTAs while I can still build coils and see well enough to wrap those legs! I think the blister packs will be better a few years down the road.
    Looks like I need to make a run to Wally World for Altoids and safety pins :)
    Sooooooo good to see you!!! Saw you'd posted somewhere else earlier today. How ya doin hun? Sorry to hear the arthritis is worse.

    At least now my daughters know where and what to gather if I ever get 'medically involuntarily incarcerated' again!
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    Good idea! Jup you even had your mod when parasailing. I would have loved to have had a vape up there, but I'm so clumsy, no way was I taking a chance of dropping a Reo into the Atlantic! :facepalm: I shoulda gone with you, we coulda buddy vaped :rolleyes:

    So I was finally in the market for some new 18650's. I've always been an AW batt fanboy. But I just ordered 4 of the brown LG 18650 HG2 3000MAH 20A batts from RTD during their Father's Day sale. Anyone else use these batts?
    Been using them since last year just after the Odyssey. Lost my batt case and my batts, I think at the airport somewhere when picking kay up. Used her batts while in Fl, had to buy new ones when I got home. I bought 6 of them and have been mostly rotating them through one mod since and have been real happy with them. They still last me right at 24 hrs.
     

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    So in other words - it is easier???
    Much easier. you set the watts, and the voltage gets adjusted accordingly. Change to another coil, and the vape is the same.
    with voltage, you adjust for your coil, then change coils and adjust for that coil, then change coils, etc.
     

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    Actually, when a battery has pretty well had it, it doesn't take long at all to charge it.

    I have recently added some new batts to my cycle and have noticed that the older ones do charge faster. Case in point. Older batt shows the level is 3.8 when I put it in the charger and the newer batt shows 3.84 - the older batt with the lower charge will finish first. It does not beat it by much - only a few minutes.

    Weird. My experience has been the opposite with both the AWs and Spinners. Don't know how much the batteries in the old vs new have changed. The old Spinners were old though.

    Just happen to be puffin away on a 1.8 ohm coil at 3.5v myself. ;)
    What do I need with watts when I got volts

    Precisely. :)

    Especially if your regulated mod is a single button ;)

    You really don't like those single buttons do you? :lol:

    dang darlin! Really good to see you, but wow.....so many things y'all have to deal with there.

    Gets more ridiculous every year. Mother Nature has been brutal here for a couple of years but the worst problems we are having at the moment come from negligence by the utility company (PG&E) and the landlord. Frustrating. Thank goodness for chain vaping, literally, or I'd be a basket case. :D
     

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    Weird. My experience has been the opposite with both the AWs and Spinners. Don't know how much the batteries in the old vs new have changed. The old Spinners were old though.

    Hmmm, making me want to watch it again. My old batts are over 5 years old with 9 being rotated during most of that time. After I lost 3 over time I decided to bring it back up to 9 again and that is when I noticed the difference.

    Maybe just maybe I noticed it backwards - next time I will be more attentive to be sure, but I am pretty sure that is what I noticed. All of my old ones, but one has new sleeves (black) so telling the difference between the new ones and the old ones is fairly easy.

    I am still wondering just how long these things will last. The consensus when I asked before was when they just didn't hold a charge long enough - all of mine get me through a day and I change batts every morning. Tootle puffer at 3.5v so I don't eat through batts very fast...
     

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    I used to do that with my cig packs, but not by the bed. Didn't smoke in bed and don't vape in bed. A few times I have come out for a vape when I get up to go potty though. Several times have been laying in bed trying to sleep wishing I had a mod in the bedroom. I've typically been a one mod at a time person. But am fixin to get several up and running and if I remember, I think I will put one in the bedroom.
    The device in my bedroom is the one I use least... it will last over a year between battery charges/ refilling of tank. The one on the couch arm lasts months. The one by my computer desk is also the one I stick in my pocket if I'm headed out the door, and it doesn't last 24 hours between recharges/refills. My joose bottle and battery charger are naturally at the computer desk as well.
     

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    The device in my bedroom is the one I use least... it will last over a year between battery charges/ refilling of tank. The one on the couch arm lasts months. The one by my computer desk is also the one I stick in my pocket if I'm headed out the door, and it doesn't last 24 hours between recharges/refills. My joose bottle and battery charger are naturally at the computer desk as well.
    I rotate my mods as well as my batteries. I use 3 at a time, with different flavors in each. Batteries will lose their effectiveness by just sitting unused as well. I'm about to put away the red Hex & start start using the blue one for awhile. The iSticks will get rotated at the same time.

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