Ok let me try to explain a little better what I'm asking here.
I started vaping in earnest about a year ago, after trying a few of the "cigalike" varieties where you get battery power/tip glow from the draw. I went on to get the VV/V3, and a little later the MVP V2, and both are part of my regular rotation. Along with those I tote around anywhere from 4 to 6 iClear 16's, with accompanying juice for each, to give me a little variety during the day.
I did a brief foray into various kinds of toppers - protank mini (never liked the taste/feel from drawing on a metal tip), evods (was pretty happy with them until I had a consistent outbreak of leaky tanks), iclear 30 (same deal with the metal), tried the cartotanks (about 50% success rate on getting the carto to not taste like a donkey's ...), even jumped on that davide king deal that gotvapes had a while back (dear lord what a pain in the .... those were). Eventually I just went back to the good old 16s due to several factors including how cheap/ubiquitous they are, ease of changing coils (I used to wash and reuse, now I just toss and replace), easy to take apart and clean after a juice cycle (I usually go through around 30ml and two coils before I clean and change to a new juice), and they just kind of work...sort of. Still have issues where they'll occasionally leak,don't seal well at the tip, about a 10-15% doa rate on coils (and really who's going to try to deal with that exchange?), and inconsistent ohm readings even between uses.
So if you're still with me, where I'm headed with this is, from what I've observed so far in my year of vaping, this industry is constantly in flux - there are a ton of new products being introduced, changes, improvements, etc. I have absolutely no interest in getting into the DIY coils, dripping, cloud chasing, sub-ohming, what-have-you. Since this kind of stuff seems to dominate the "headlines" so to speak, I rarely hear about the quiet heroes of the trade that might be the next step up for a guy like me who doesn't want to be another guinea pig, spending half my time vaping and half my time tinkering.
TLDR: Just looking to see if anything has come along that is better than the iclear 16s but can still be found pretty much anywhere, has easy to replace heads that are readily available for purchase, and get the job done - and that I can buy a half dozen of for under, say $50.
More than likely I'll be back to ask the same question about batteries within the next six months or so, so if you have any frontrunners in that realm (under $50 as well), toss in a rec. Completely satisifed with both of the itaste products (well maybe a little threading issue starting to crop up), especially appreciate the longer battery life of the mvp. Being able to use the same micro usb charger as my phone is a huge plus too.
I started vaping in earnest about a year ago, after trying a few of the "cigalike" varieties where you get battery power/tip glow from the draw. I went on to get the VV/V3, and a little later the MVP V2, and both are part of my regular rotation. Along with those I tote around anywhere from 4 to 6 iClear 16's, with accompanying juice for each, to give me a little variety during the day.
I did a brief foray into various kinds of toppers - protank mini (never liked the taste/feel from drawing on a metal tip), evods (was pretty happy with them until I had a consistent outbreak of leaky tanks), iclear 30 (same deal with the metal), tried the cartotanks (about 50% success rate on getting the carto to not taste like a donkey's ...), even jumped on that davide king deal that gotvapes had a while back (dear lord what a pain in the .... those were). Eventually I just went back to the good old 16s due to several factors including how cheap/ubiquitous they are, ease of changing coils (I used to wash and reuse, now I just toss and replace), easy to take apart and clean after a juice cycle (I usually go through around 30ml and two coils before I clean and change to a new juice), and they just kind of work...sort of. Still have issues where they'll occasionally leak,don't seal well at the tip, about a 10-15% doa rate on coils (and really who's going to try to deal with that exchange?), and inconsistent ohm readings even between uses.
So if you're still with me, where I'm headed with this is, from what I've observed so far in my year of vaping, this industry is constantly in flux - there are a ton of new products being introduced, changes, improvements, etc. I have absolutely no interest in getting into the DIY coils, dripping, cloud chasing, sub-ohming, what-have-you. Since this kind of stuff seems to dominate the "headlines" so to speak, I rarely hear about the quiet heroes of the trade that might be the next step up for a guy like me who doesn't want to be another guinea pig, spending half my time vaping and half my time tinkering.
TLDR: Just looking to see if anything has come along that is better than the iclear 16s but can still be found pretty much anywhere, has easy to replace heads that are readily available for purchase, and get the job done - and that I can buy a half dozen of for under, say $50.
More than likely I'll be back to ask the same question about batteries within the next six months or so, so if you have any frontrunners in that realm (under $50 as well), toss in a rec. Completely satisifed with both of the itaste products (well maybe a little threading issue starting to crop up), especially appreciate the longer battery life of the mvp. Being able to use the same micro usb charger as my phone is a huge plus too.
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