Question about low resistance cartomizers

[JGraaf007]

Hi all,
I am relatively new to vaping - a little over a month. I started out the with Mistic ecig I bought at Wal-Mart and is was good enough to get me to quit smoking analogs all together. After about a month, I am getting bored with it, the battery life is quite short, the carts tend to have a good throat hit when I load a new one but I find myself having to pull so hard to get a decent hit after a while that the liqued tastes burnt.

After doing some research on the forum, I think I want to ugrade to a KGO 1100. I was thinking of ordering from Sweet Vapes but I see they recomened not using a low resistance cartomizer with the KGO but that seems to be all they have in stock. First off, what the is the difference between a low resistance and standard resistance cartomizer? And what would happen if I use the low resistance?

Sorry if this seems like a stupid question, I am used to just buying the prefilled carts and screwing them onto the battery. This is all a little confusing for a newbie.

Also, any thoughts on the KGO, is that the next best step or is the another model you recommend?

 

[zerominusone]

First off, welcome to the forum and glad to hear you're off cigarettes. Also, there are no stupid questions. The difference in the cartomizers is the ohms/resistance. The standard (SR) are around 3.0 ohms and the low (LR) are around 2.5 ohms. The lower ohms make your PV have to work harder to produce vapor, making a warmer vapor, having more throat hit. I use 24mg e-liquid and usually use SR cartos. I put the same liquid in a LR carto and it was kinda hard to vape because it was so strong.
I can't comment on the kGo because I've never used one. I have a Provari. I use a KR808D-1 for about a year and finally got a Provari; haven't touched my 808 since. The ego has a pretty good battery life. Just remember, the bigger the battery, the longer it'll work for ya.
My Provari battery lasts me about a day and a half.

 

[water4choc]

Hello and welcome to ECF! You will find lots of people here who will provide you with a lot of useful information.

I went from look a likes (Safe Cig, Green Smokes, etc) to a KGO kit and am very happy with it. I use organic juice from Virgin Vapor (look up in Suppliers Forum). Virgin Vapor also sells a KGO kit and they also have information on their site that describes the different ohms (low resistance vs high resistance). I generally use low resistance Vision CE4's on my KGO, but I have also used high resistance. It depends on the type of juice you are using and other preferences you might have. Experiment and enjoy! Hope this is somewhat helpful.

P.S. I think the Virgin Vapor site is temporarily down due to high volume orders, but should be up soon and they will have a 4th of July sale!

 

[Scottinboca]

This is just my opinion on the upgrade choice, I would go with a LavaTube next. They are very user friendly and not that expensive, not to mention they are VV; which means you can use SR cartos and get the best voltage to hit your sweet spot.

 

[tj99959]

The Riva/kgo/eGo are all pretty good and a tried & true design with enough variations around to fill the needs of many.
As a general rule of thumb it is advisable to not use LR atties/cartos on any battery that is less than 450mAh. With an 1100mAh kgo you are fine down to about 1.7ohms. A 1.5ohm atty might be stretching your luck, the battery can handle the load, but the switch design may not. I would imagine that LR (2ohm) Boge carto are the most used head on Kgos.

 

[Scottinboca]

I forgot to mention the Ego C Twist!!! It is a great device. It's super easy to use and works perfectly. Cheap too!

 

[Napolean Complex]

Thanks for the Info. I was wondering that myself.

 

[PittBoss]

When I have my KGO batteries in use, I use either a 1.7 or 2.0 ohm single coil cartomizer on them with no problems at all. The KGO is a really good unit and would make a fine PV as an upgrade to the Mistic. You could also take a look at the eGo Twist and the E-Power (all of which are available at Sweet Vapes). The E-Power uses non-proprietary batteries that can be purchased from pretty much anywhere and would be much cheaper to replace, should you need to. With that said, you will still not go wrong with any of those! Welcome to the forums, too!