Recommendations for a noob

[daheazle]

I recently started vaping and been off the ol death sticks for nearly a month. I started with a blu CIG and it was crap and the cartos are expensive. So after a little research I got an itaste vv v3 starter kit. It came with 5 iclear 16's. I also got a few flavors of nicquid juice.It's a huge improvment I've the blu and really makes me enjoy vaping more than smoking.

The problem I have is the iclear 16 doesn't seem to meet my expectations. I have to be gentle on one of the flavors I got or will get juice in my mouth. The other flavor midnight express is always dry hitting and fouls the atomizer stupid fast.

So my question is, what is a good tank to go with the itaste vv? Also I have already looked into other pv's, kinda liking the looks of the itatse 134 mini. Any thoughts on that from the pros?

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[djsvapour]

I never finished my 5 x iClears I got with my iTasteVV kit.

(sad, I know.....)

Instead, I use things like Mini Protanks, Kanger T3S, evods, evod 2, evod the return (now in 3D)..... that sort of thing.

 

[Vaslovik]

Well, not that it's for you, at the stage you are at, but I went through almost the same experience you posted. Within six weeks of starting vaping and quitting cigs I was on a mech and an RBA. There's some homework, money, and practice involved, but it got me the vape I had been looking for. I strongly suggest you do your homework before going there, as it involves sub-ohm vaping, and you need to know what you are doing before you go there. It's just where I ended up trying to find the vape I needed.

Currently I make my own juice, and vape on an RSST coiled with 26 kanthal, 5/4 wrap, .7 ohm on 400 SS mesh wick, mounted on a a Sigelei 24 mech. I never wasted time or money on regulated mods, I just went straight from the unsatisfying eGo rigs to a mech and RBA. I'm a lot happier for it, and saved a lot of money.

 

[edyle]

I recently started vaping and been off the ol death sticks for nearly a month. I started with a blu CIG and it was crap and the cartos are expensive. So after a little research I got an itaste vv v3 starter kit. It came with 5 iclear 16's. I also got a few flavors of nicquid juice.It's a huge improvment I've the blu and really makes me enjoy vaping more than smoking.

The problem I have is the iclear 16 doesn't seem to meet my expectations. I have to be gentle on one of the flavors I got or will get juice in my mouth. The other flavor midnight express is always dry hitting and fouls the atomizer stupid fast.

So my question is, what is a good tank to go with the itaste vv? Also I have already looked into other pv's, kinda liking the looks of the itatse 134 mini. Any thoughts on that from the pros?

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Try this little workhorse
miniprotank2 v2
ego threaded
glass
can be thoroughly cleaned
bottom coil
commonplace coil (and lots of people rebuild these coils)

 

[epicdoom]

My recommendation would be the IClear 30S you can hit that thing for very long hits never dry has great vapor production and outstanding flavor. I swapped out the 2.2 ohm coil for the 1.8 and I'm using it on the Itaste SVD and VTR. The only atomizer I like more is the Kayfun line up, but you would need to be able to rebuild to use that one. I also like the IClear 30B but the draw is fairly tight on that one flavor is good but not as good as the 30S In spite of the tight draw it does produce some pretty nice vapor. This is My 2 cents worth

 

[daheazle]

Thanks for the quick replies! I'm not worried about my ability to rebuild an atomizer just not sure if I want to invest the time in it. I read up on it and it seems it can be a little time consuming.

I looked at the aerotank, nautilus, and clear X.I but they all seemed fairly large to put on a vv.

I'm not concerned with spending a bit of money on something that I really like. My initial purchase has already been covered from what I would have spent on smoking. Although I can see vaping being an expensive hobby.

Also something I found strange, I coughed up more crap the first few weeks off of cigs than I did the entire 16 years I smoked.

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[GTDUBZZZ]

If you can, go to your local vape shop and inquire about mechanical mods and rebuildable atomizers. You might.find something that interests you. My RDAs (rebuildable drip atomizer) are very satisfying.

 

[Buggainok]

Thanks for the quick replies! I'm not worried about my ability to rebuild an atomizer just not sure if I want to invest the time in it. I read up on it and it seems it can be a little time consuming.

I looked at the aerotank, nautilus, and clear X.I but they all seemed fairly large to put on a vv.

I'm not concerned with spending a bit of money on something that I really like. My initial purchase has already been covered from what I would have spent on smoking. Although I can see vaping being an expensive hobby.

Also something I found strange, I coughed up more crap the first few weeks off of cigs than I did the entire 16 years I smoked.

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These are really reliable, inexpensive tanks, and they look nice on a pencil-style device. I used them on my ego batteries when I first started. They don't seem to be talked about on this board very much, but I really like them:

Smok Tech Pyrex Aro Tank

 

[epicdoom]

Thanks for the quick replies! I'm not worried about my ability to rebuild an atomizer just not sure if I want to invest the time in it. I read up on it and it seems it can be a little time consuming.

I looked at the aerotank, nautilus, and clear X.I but they all seemed fairly large to put on a vv.

I'm not concerned with spending a bit of money on something that I really like. My initial purchase has already been covered from what I would have spent on smoking. Although I can see vaping being an expensive hobby.

Also something I found strange, I coughed up more crap the first few weeks off of cigs than I did the entire 16 years I smoked.

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The kayfun line builds fast. I can make the coil install it and wick it in maybe 5 min tops. its really not much trouble at all same goes for most of the RBA, RDA'S there are a few items needed like and ohms tester good precision screwdriver set. If you make complex coils that require complex wicking then yes those can and do take some time.
For me with the coughing, I would wake up every morning and cough till I puked. The first hour of my day was Hell but that's while I was smoking. The day I stopped and started vaping I had an all day coughing fit as I got used to inhaling vapor, but no coughing after that day. I did have a bout of coughing that was do to pollen and that never happened to me till I quit smoking. Ill take the hay fever pollen week of hell any day over the analogs. I'm never going back to them. I have been smoke free for 6 weeks this sunday
Just an FYI the I30S can use a tapered adapter ring so you get a nice transition from the tank to the pencil type mods

 

[gin828]

Aerotank mini

I have been using the Kanger Protank Mini II and never had a probelm in over 6 months. I would recommend them for your itaste. The Areotank Mini is another option I would consider. It has dual coils and adjustable air flow.

 

[CountBoredom]

Thanks for the quick replies! I'm not worried about my ability to rebuild an atomizer just not sure if I want to invest the time in it. I read up on it and it seems it can be a little time consuming.

I looked at the aerotank, nautilus, and clear X.I but they all seemed fairly large to put on a vv.

I'm not concerned with spending a bit of money on something that I really like. My initial purchase has already been covered from what I would have spent on smoking. Although I can see vaping being an expensive hobby.

Also something I found strange, I coughed up more crap the first few weeks off of cigs than I did the entire 16 years I smoked.

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If you're looking for a dual coil tank that looks nice on a vv3, you can try the Protank 3 Mini or the new Aerotank Mini.

Also, regarding the coughing... it could be that your lungs are clearing all the crap you were inhaling while smoking. Many of us have or are going though this...

 

[amoret]

Another vote for the protank mini if you want to stay small and simple with the VV v3. Nothing says that you have to go to mech mods and RBAs. Lots of us are happy with a simpler life. (Though you should also take a look at the MVP -- the VV v3's big brother.)

 

[Mattvus]

Can't believe no one mentioned a carto tank. You can get high quality cartos anywhere from 1.7-3 ohms, put it in a 6ml tank, good to go all day! I've been using them for almost a year now and I love it. I've tried the Iclear30, Protank, CE4, EMDCCs, all that stuff, and yet I always come back to my carto tank.

 

[edyle]

After all those years of smoking, it's like the little hairs (cillia?) down the windpipe are matted down in black tar, so when you stop smoking, some manage to get unstuck, and the end up doing what they're supposed to be doing which is flicking gunk upwards, so that's your lungs starting to clean themselves out;

was about 3 weeks of coughing for me; not bad coughing really but enough to notice.

 

[spade151]

I love my Aerotank have been looking into rebuilds just not sure what... Seen a couple videos and they all seem really easy or they seem really hard haven't made the leap yet.

 

[daheazle]

I haven't really considered cartos as it seemed that's what they called the things on the blue cig, maybe I don't have a good understanding of them.

That aerotank mini looks good and the idea of adjustable airflow is appealing. The airflow on my I clear 16's is very inconsistent from one to the next.

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[edyle]

I haven't really considered cartos as it seemed that's what they called the things on the blue cig, maybe I don't have a good understanding of them.

That aerotank mini looks good and the idea of adjustable airflow is appealing. The airflow on my I clear 16's is very inconsistent from one to the next.

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A carto is a small bullet size thing like the size of a filter on a cigarette; to keep a carto running a longer time, they make cartos with holes in them now and slide a tank over them; so the liquid in the tank keeps the carto fed with liquid. You use the carto for maybe a week then discard. No chance of rewicking or recoiling.

Your iclear16:

I don't have one personally but judging from the picture the airflow would have to enter through the 4 notches at the base! Which means the air would have to squeeze its way through the eGo threading! Crazy! Maybe if you drilled a hole higher up on that piece of metal it would improve.

On the miniprotanks I have there's 2 holes on the metal base well above the ego threads; they were pinholes but I drilled them out to 2mm.

 

[spade151]

I ordered some cartos to give them a shot but have been kinda worried about the tanks cant seem to find any that look like their worth anything. what would you recommend?

 

[edyle]

I ordered some cartos to give them a shot but have been kinda worried about the tanks cant seem to find any that look like their worth anything. what would you recommend?

Everybody who uses cartos here seems to use IBTanked;
They're basically pretty simple tanks; the tricky part is the o-ring seals I think; at least as far as the tanks themselves go.
Then there's the priming of a carto. I hear it's not good enough to just pop in a carto and let it sit till tomorrow.

 

[daheazle]

It is a rather odd air path, not that I know any different. But the ego skirt has the 4 slots, then the itaste vv has 4 slots on top of the 510 socket and then 2 slots in the bottomed of the tanks 510 thread. Not sure how it makes it past the 510 threads but that appears to how it works.

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