So I guess I have to post an intro thread...

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Joey_P

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To be honest, I hate newb intro threads. I find them awkward.

They remind me of one particular day back about 20 years ago. I was maybe 14 or 15 years old, and my sister was about 9.

She'd just gotten out of the bath and gone into her room with a towel wrapped around her to get dressed. A few seconds later she started screaming hysterically. I'd been in my bedroom in the middle of my third rep of chest curls, and I immediately dropped my 75lb weights and ran out into her room without even stopping to put a shirt on.

I get there, and she's screaming and pointing up at the ceiling at this stupid little spider. The ceiling was kind of high, so I had to jump to get it. So I grabbed a magazine and started jumping up to swat it. I hit it, but it fell and landed right on her head. So she immediately drops her towel and starts swatting at her hair screaming "GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF!"

I notice the spider crawling down her back and it is still alive, so I drop the magazine and grab her shoulder with one hand to get control of her (because she is flailing around like a maniac at this point) and then I'm swatting at it with my only other free hand. Just then, our parents burst in and see her naked and me in just my boxer shorts spanking her rear-end while she is crying her guts out.

I tried to explain to them what was going on, but it was just too chaotic. My sister was still crying hysterically, and my father just exploded and screamed "get in your fuсking room immediately you sick fuсking .......!" (I'm paraphrasing slightly.)

It didn't help, I'm sure, that a couple weeks prior they'd found a pair of her undies on my floor. I don't know how they got there, but probably were stuck in my pants after mom did laundry or something.


At any rate, that's about how I feel posting a newb intro thread.
 

Joey_P

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Hehe. Thanks.

I'm a moderator at another forum (Miataturbo.net), so I'm sympathetic to the spambot problem. Still, I never quite know what to post in the "nothing in this entire section is actually on-topic" section. So I view it as a creative writing opportunity.


Been vaping (and cigarette-free) for about two years. Until now, I've been using all ego-style hardware, finally got tired of going through 2-3 batteries a day and stepped up to an 18650 lavatube. Deeeeeee-lish. :D
 

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Hehe. Thanks.

I'm a moderator at another forum (Miataturbo.net), so I'm sympathetic to the spambot problem. Still, I never quite know what to post in the "nothing in this entire section is actually on-topic" section. So I view it as a creative writing opportunity.


Been vaping (and cigarette-free) for about two years. Until now, I've been using all ego-style hardware, finally got tired of going through 2-3 batteries a day and stepped up to an 18650 lavatube. Deeeeeee-lish. :D

2 or 3 batteries a day? Man I need to read more! I thought a ego would get a day on a charge with what i'll call moderate use. I smoke about 10 or 12 a day now...
 

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Vaping is awesome in comparison to cigars.i am vaping six month since now and I feel wonderful!!!!!!
To me, the e-cig is just one more thing which I lump into the huge category of "Well, even if we didn't get the flying cars, it's pretty damn obvious that we are living in the past's magical future. And it's good." Ranks right up there with 3D printing and the fact that even though my phone has ten-thousand times more computational power than what NASA took to the moon, it's considered completely normal that all I use it for is arguing with strangers and flinging imaginary birds at things.

After 15 years, it was obviously rough at first. Especially since I wound up working for a month at a shipyard in Germany just after I first switched, and found it impossible to resist the offers of hand-rolled exotics from practically everyone I was working with when they saw what I was sucking on. (sidebar: the quality of German tobacco varies MASSIVELY, and according to no rules which I was ever able to ascertain.)

But now, hell, I actually enjoy it. I've finally gotten to the point where the smell of cigarette smoke, even from another car at a stoplight, offends me in the way that it must offend "non-smokers." And since I've been starting to tinker with the sort of "sweet-n-fruity" liquids that I'd have thumbed my nose at previously, this is downright enjoyable.


Wow, that has to be the best, "Hi, I'm new here" post ever. LOL
Hahaha. I've been on-line since Usenet and the BBS era, and new-user intros haven't gotten any easier.


So much great reading on this forum. Seems like the more you know, the more you don't know..so many more directions and decisions.
Yeah, it's kind of mind-blowing.

I first came here and started lurking about two months ago, when I was looking for an alternative to the weaksauce eGo batteries that I'd been using. I'd been at a microbrewery in Tampa, FL, and the fellow running the tasting room was using what, at the time, seemed like an absolutely massive device. (It was a lavatube.) So I came on here in search of reviews, and was stunned to see just how many different devices of that magnitude existed in the world. I'm still confused about some of it (why can't everybody use the same terminology to describe things which are, in fact, identical and interchangeable?) but it's getting better.



2 or 3 batteries a day? Man I need to read more! I thought a ego would get a day on a charge with what i'll call moderate use. I smoke about 10 or 12 a day now...
Well, I've heard all sorts of conflicting reports, and there are a lot of variables. Even after two years, I'm still what you'd probably call a heavy user.

When I was using the "standard" 1000 mah battery with a 1.8 ohm atomizer in an Ego-C tank system, I'd use about two a day. Well, one and a half, but that still means two.

Then I had a chance to try a Nova-style 2.8 ohm atomizer at a retail outlet, and was amazed at how much better in was. Much less harsh, much better flavor... Of course, switching over to a higher-resistance atomizer meant that my 3.7 volt batteries weren't cutting it anymore, so I picked up a pair of 950 mah eGo twist batteries. Those gave me the voltage I needed, but battery life went in the tank. By the end of the regular workday I'd have killed two full batteries, so I started needing to charge while at work. Switch to the afternoon battery at lunchtime, put the morning battery on the charger, pull it off before leaving and use it as the evening battery, being sure to stick the afternoon battery on the charger as soon as I got home. Too damn much work. To be fair, the upgrade to the Nova, my then-recent discovery of all sorts of interesting new flavors, and the fact that I'd just dialed down to 6mg probably increased the amount I was vaping somewhat.

I tried one of the 1300 mah eGo spinner batteries which the lady at my local retailer suggested, and I noticed absolutely no improvement. If anything, it was worse than the twists because of the 8 second cutoff.


With all that history, I was leery of claims I'd read about people getting a day and a half out of a lavatube, but I decided to give it a shot. It's only been a couple of days, but I'm pretty happy with it so far. I am, in fact, getting a full day of heavy use out of a single 2000 mah battery, running at 4.2 volts. I might be able to stretch that to a day and a half, but it's far easier to just stick the battery on the charger before I go to bed and not have to screw around with juggling multiple batteries throughout the course of the day.

I don't fully understand why I'm getting 3x the life out of the lavatube as compared to the eGos (2000 mah is not thrice as much as 950). Either the eGos are less efficient than the lavatube when in voltage-boost mode, or they're just over-spec'd.


So, yeah... Take from that what you will. I still plan to keep the twist batteries, as they're convenient when I'm travelling. The 'tube doesn't exactly fit into a shirt pocket, while even the longest of the eGo batteries does nicely.



Hahahaha that was great! Welcome Joey, I have a feeling you're gonna be real fun to have around:)
Thanks. You have the misfortune of being the last person at the end of this quote-string, and I've run out of amusing and/or relevant things to say. So here is a painting of a cat smoking a pipe:

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Tankman77

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To be honest, I hate newb intro threads. I find them awkward.

They remind me of one particular day back about 20 years ago. I was maybe 14 or 15 years old, and my sister was about 9.

She'd just gotten out of the bath and gone into her room with a towel wrapped around her to get dressed. A few seconds later she started screaming hysterically. I'd been in my bedroom in the middle of my third rep of chest curls, and I immediately dropped my 75lb weights and ran out into her room without even stopping to put a shirt on.

I get there, and she's screaming and pointing up at the ceiling at this stupid little spider. The ceiling was kind of high, so I had to jump to get it. So I grabbed a magazine and started jumping up to swat it. I hit it, but it fell and landed right on her head. So she immediately drops her towel and starts swatting at her hair screaming "GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF!"

I notice the spider crawling down her back and it is still alive, so I drop the magazine and grab her shoulder with one hand to get control of her (because she is flailing around like a maniac at this point) and then I'm swatting at it with my only other free hand. Just then, our parents burst in and see her naked and me in just my boxer shorts spanking her rear-end while she is crying her guts out.

I tried to explain to them what was going on, but it was just too chaotic. My sister was still crying hysterically, and my father just exploded and screamed "get in your fuсking room immediately you sick fuсking .......!" (I'm paraphrasing slightly.)

It didn't help, I'm sure, that a couple weeks prior they'd found a pair of her undies on my floor. I don't know how they got there, but probably were stuck in my pants after mom did laundry or something.


At any rate, that's about how I feel posting a newb intro thread.

:laugh: GREAT Story!!! LMAO..............welcome and enjoy the company here. ECF is fantastic!!
 

Joey_P

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Haha. Thanks, all. Glad I could be of some service, if only as the court jester. It's hard being stuck in the "I really don't want to be an obvious post-....., and yet it seems that I need to have 15 posts in the newb section before I can ask a relative straightforward question in the actual on-topic sections" phase.

Day 3 with the Lavatube, and I am definitely digging it. I have a feeling that the actual voltage may be deviating very slightly from the displayed setting throughout the day, but not by a lot, and easily compensated for. (I have no idea whether the voltage regulator in this device is a closed-loop circuit which samples the output to adjust the regulator, or if it simply applies a fixed PWM from a lookup table based on an assumption of an "ideal" battery voltage and regulator efficiency. Damn the Chinese and their lack of published datasheets.) However, this is in comparison to the twist / spinner batteries which very obviously took a dive in output about halfway through their usage. eg: halfway between the point where I took it off the charger and the point where it actually cuts out and says "no vape for you!" The eGo batteries score high on portability (they fit nicely into a shirt pocket) but low on all-day-ability.

And the battery life is meeting my expectations, which is a first in all of the units I've tried. By the time I go to bed in the evening, I'm still on the first battery of the day with a few hundred millivolts to go before the cutoff. My only regret is that I didn't learn about this unit two years ago.
 

ShayBabe15

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I'm stuck on my eGo..I don't know why but it is like perfect for me. Lasts me well throughout the day and more. Congradulations on your success. I'm excited for your new toy!:)

Hehe. Thanks.

I'm a moderator at another forum (Miataturbo.net), so I'm sympathetic to the spambot problem. Still, I never quite know what to post in the "nothing in this entire section is actually on-topic" section. So I view it as a creative writing opportunity.


Been vaping (and cigarette-free) for about two years. Until now, I've been using all ego-style hardware, finally got tired of going through 2-3 batteries a day and stepped up to an 18650 lavatube. Deeeeeee-lish. :D
 
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