Protank 1, 2 or 3?

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I see a ton of positive reviews on these tanks. Do you like the PT1, 2, or 3? To me the 2 looks like the best deal right now. My rig will consist of an evic, with the stock 650 battery and the 350 for portability... I am going with all matte black tubes, so I dig the smoke tanks available for the 2. I like clearomizers so there is not a ton of wiggle room... any other clearo suggestions would be awesome.

What benefits or negatives should I expect from each?

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I literally just got a PT1 today. I love it thus far. Good vapor production on a VV battery.
I'm impressed.

I also have an AnyVape Davide Glassomizer (see my avatar.) It is a PT2 clone that imho is better than the actual PT2. It's a wonderful clearomizer.

I was comparing the 2 today, and welp the Davide is hands down sexier.
I got the gold Davide.
 
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I see a ton of positive reviews on these tanks. Do you like the PT1, 2, or 3? To me the 2 looks like the best deal right now. My rig will consist of an evic, with the stock 650 battery and the 350 for portability... I am going with all matte black tubes, so I dig the smoke tanks available for the 2. I like clearomizers so there is not a ton of wiggle room... any other clearo suggestions would be awesome.

What benefits or negatives should I expect from each?

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I have the PT 1 and PT 2, and I'm thinking about the PT 3, but likely won't pull the trigger on it. What I have to say is that the PT 2 is hands down my absolute favorite. I don't like the PT 1 because the stainless steel, built in, non change-able, can't remove (you get the picture) makes my juice taste like a tin can, and hurts my mouth. Vapor production is good though, if you don't mind vaping a can with a painful drip tip, then go pick up one of these. The PT 3 looks like it should be miles better than the 2 since there are 2 coils in it. The problem is that most folks are saying it drinks juice VERY fast, coils are mad expensive, and it doesn't really improve over the PT 2 for flavor or vapor much. Many folks are even converting their PT 3s into PT 2s (using the PT 2 single coil instead of the PT 3 dual coil).

As nobreak1970 pointed out, the Davide is a PT clone that a lot of folks love, cost looks to be about $1 cheaper too, if that is a factor. It does use the Kanger PT coils, so that doesn't change. Might be worth a shot to try one out (plus it comes in a gold color as well as the silver).

As always ... YMMV!

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I see a ton of positive reviews on these tanks. Do you like the PT1, 2, or 3? To me the 2 looks like the best deal right now. My rig will consist of an evic, with the stock 650 battery and the 350 for portability... I am going with all matte black tubes, so I dig the smoke tanks available for the 2. I like clearomizers so there is not a ton of wiggle room... any other clearo suggestions would be awesome.

What benefits or negatives should I expect from each?

Thanks

Yes, try an Aspire BDC from nhaler or discountvapers. I vaped my PT2 and one of my Aspires back to back last night and there's just no comparison. After vaping an Aspire it feels/tastes like the PT2 produces almost no flavor.

No offense to any Kanger fans.
 

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Yes, try an Aspire BDC from nhaler or discountvapers. I vaped my PT2 and one of my Aspires back to back last night and there's just no comparison. After vaping an Aspire it feels/tastes like the PT2 produces almost no flavor.

No offense to any Kanger fans.

THis ^^^

I have a PT 1 and it is fine but the Aspire just flat blows it out of the water. NEver a leak or dry hit with the Aspire for me and the heads last forever.
 

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I'll second the Aspire for top position. If you learn to rebuild vertical Protank coils it's a different ballgame. Good luck rebuilding a Protank 3 dual coil head, but you weren't asking about rebuilds... Aspire For The Win. :)

talking about that vertical coil thing one of those manufacturers ought to just start making them that way!

Makes sense to let the air flow down the middle of the coil and stuff wetwick around the coil; starts looking like a carto too in a way.
 

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I see a ton of positive reviews on these tanks. Do you like the PT1, 2, or 3? To me the 2 looks like the best deal right now. My rig will consist of an evic, with the stock 650 battery and the 350 for portability... I am going with all matte black tubes, so I dig the smoke tanks available for the 2. I like clearomizers so there is not a ton of wiggle room... any other clearo suggestions would be awesome.

What benefits or negatives should I expect from each?

Thanks

between the 3 I'd say - and I do not HAVE them, but just from what I have read:

get the pt3, but use the old coils; and get a plactic mouthpiece option.

There's supposed to be no glue involved in the pt3 construction.

(I haven't quite figured out where the glue is in the pt2 though)
 

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I do not have a 1 or 3, but I am tickled pink with my pt2. I have had no leaking, gurgling, dry hits etc. I wrap my own coils and use cotton wick which works wonderfully. Any issues I may have had with it were faults of my own. My next endeavor will be cartos, but I have every intention of getting atleast 1 extra pt2, just because. :)
 

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aspire davide:

aspiredavidetank3a.jpg


Well its a different coil than the pt1 and pt2;

I wonder what other tanks use that coil.


anyvape davide:

anyvape-davide-bdc-900x900.jpg


I think it is a compatible coil;

they are both dual coil; I wonder if there is a single coil version.



Interesting: according to gotvapes, one of the anyvape davides can take different coils including the protank coils.

http://www.gotvapes.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1907

New Anyvape Davide Glassomizer BDC Dual Coil 3.0ml - 2 Coils

$21.95

NEW - Introducing the Anyvape Davide BDC - Bottom Dual Coil 3.0ml Glassomizer! The BDC utilizes a redesigned base that incorporates and accommodates the use of the semi-wickless bottom replaceable dual coils: •The Davide BDC is about 6mm taller than the regular Davide to accomodate a well performing dual coil head. This head does not have any exposed wicking, instead a sheath feeds an internal wick.
•Because of this special head arrangement you CANNOT use the replaceable dual coil heads that are used on the Davide BDC on a regular Davide.
•The Davide BDC adds a special collar at the base to accomodate this new design. If you remove this collar and remove a white plastic sealing grommet at the base of the locking tube(do not lose this as we do not have any replacements at this time) you CAN use regular Davide/Pro-Tank heads in the Davide BDC.
•The Davide BDC utilizes the Aspire Bottom Coil replaceable heads that you can obtain elsewhere in this category.
•Comes with a 1.8 ohm dual coil head installed and gives you an additional 2.1 ohm dual coil head.
•Pros & Cons: The dual coil heads provide greater vapor and a warmer vape but at the sacrafice of battery power. The Davide BDC also allows you to use BOTH the regular Pro Tank single coil replaceable heads AND the Aspire/Davide replaceable dual coil heads.

The information below is from the original Davide product pages and much of it applies so we repeat it here below.
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Introducing the Davide by Anyvape. This is a 3.0ml bottom coil tank with replaceable EVERYTHING - coils, pyrex glass tanks, mouthpieces, bases and more. This unit is fully disassemble-able and uses a tube locking system that employs a removable center tube lock stem. What does this do for you? It enables you to utilize the upcoming variable size Pyrex glass tubes Anyvape will release soon so that you can increase the capacity of your tank by simply purchasing a longer tube with corresponding tube locking stem.

The Davide (which is also available as the eGo Mini Davide elsewhere in this category) is compatible with all ProTank coil heads and are etched with the ohm-age on the lowermost shank. The Davide 3.0ml regular tank comes with a eGo adapting beauty ring and 2 coils total. One is installed and you have one extra one in the thick plastic presentation box.

As you can see in the pictures it fully disassembles - every piece of it, to provide easy cleaning and maintenance as well being able to extend the storage capacity of your tank. The mouthpiece/drip tip is of the push in variety so you can use ANY of your own drip tips on this unit if you wish although we are quite taken with the mouthpiece it comes with, very nice!

You might think that, because this has a removeable mouthpiece you could actually have an easier time refilling instead of the traditional inversion and then filling as you see on the Pro Tanks, Evods and T3's. Don't do this (a warning especially for NEW vapers) because when you remove the mouthpiece it abuts a sealed area and the only place juice would go is down the center tube, WHICH YOU DO NOT WANT TO DO! Refilling is simple and instructions are outlined graphically on the back of your package (summary: remove, invert, fill, re-attach PV, vape)
 
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Check out all of these following clearos:

$7.99- Anyvape Davide Glassomizer
$11.95- Kanger Protank 1 BCC
$12.99- Kanger Protank 2 BCC- Smoke
$14.95- Kanger Protank 3 BCC
$5.99- Aspire BDC
$7.99- Aspire ET-S BDC

Most of them have reviews from people like pbusardo on the website. Also look on youtube for some reviews.
Personally I like the PT2 the best, but haven't tried the Aspires or Anyvapes..

Advertisers should stop using "BDC" on tank descriptions. Nowadays, atomisers are changeable; the tank doesn't care whether you put a single coil or a dual coil in; dual coil is a property of the atomiser that you put in.
 

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Advertisers should stop using "BDC" on tank descriptions. Nowadays, atomisers are changeable; the tank doesn't care whether you put a single coil or a dual coil in; dual coil is a property of the atomiser that you put in.

Umm, as far as I know you can't put any other kind of coil in an Aspire BDC tank. You can change out the tank piece... but the caps are made for the BDC.
 

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Umm, as far as I know you can't put any other kind of coil in an Aspire BDC tank. You can change out the tank piece... but the caps are made for the BDC.

What are the caps?
IF the cap is not the tank and the cap is not the bdc, then what are you calling a cap? And what are you calling a bdc; if you clearly distinguish between the tank and the bdc then surely you see that the tank is not a bdc tank.


You think somebody in China won't make a coil to fit the Aspire ET "BDC" tank?

If you put a single coil atomiser in the Aspire ET or you redo your own coil but you don't wrap two separate coils just wrap 1 coil, you think that does something to the tank itself?

The Aspire pyrex tank is not a throwaway tank that is designed to get tossed in a few months; If Aspire starts making a triple coil for a new tank but it also works in the ET, do they then have to rewrite and call the ET "BDC" tank something else?

The Protank 3 was designed to use either a new dual coil, or the older single coil that fits on the other protanks; so what should the protank 3 be called a combo tank?
 
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I'm using a PT2. The v3 uses dual coils, and IMO, dual coils just mean "twice as many places they can break". I haven't heard of any other advantages, and I see the dual-coils as a disadvantage, so I don't plan to try them.

the Pt3 can use the same single coil that the Pt1 and pt2 use.

THATS MY POINT.

It is because they MISLABEL their product that some many of us misunderstand the product.

I am sure they would have sold alot more PT3s if people knew their old coils would work.

What Kanger did was they designed a new coil for it and marketed the package as a dual coil, but I keep hearing from users that they can take the old coil too.
 
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