hi all, I been vaping on and off since 2012, I fell back into cigarettes but am ready to vape and barely smoke at all ( i was down to about 1 cig a month).
vaping got quite complicated over the years, and I like it simple. I always remember someone joking saying smoking is so easy, 1) put cigarette in mouth 2) light it.
Back in 2013 we basically only used kanthal, then TC came out.
Like anyone, I don't like the ramp up time that kanthal takes but I got used to it, plus I don't vape large coils so it's not so bad. But TC would be nice, however, for safety reasons from articles/blogs it seems kanthal is the safest choice.
I don't plan on dry burning even kanthal much after what I read, I used to often dry burn a used coil cherry red then replace the cotton but now I'm learning dry burning can change the composition etc of the wire, so I'll just replace the wire too, and do a gently dry burn when first building the coil 'to burn off factory oils' or whatever tutorials always used to suggest but maybe people aren't even dry burning brand new kanthal anymore? I build my own coils usually with a small MTL RTA type tank.
ALLLLLL my DNA mods have bricked themselves due to USB charging, like 4 of them about $600 total basically paper weights now, is partly why I got back on cigarettes. I'm now done with DNA brand, they claim to be able to safely charge via USB (which they do, escribe and nitcore externals show they have the same voltage and % after some use) but there's a charging circuit on the board that always fries, the circuit is being sold on ebay quite a bit for just $15 but it's not worth the hassle. I had to warranty repair all my mods and pay to and fro shipping not much but still they brick again in a couple months and I was very gentle on them only vaped small coils on wattage low power.
What I'm getting at is I'm looking for a new MOD that can safely USB charge, because it's so simple to just plug in rather than take battery out plus I've had plenty of nitecores go defective on me over the years too but I replace them to charge my LED headlamps.
Basically any MOD can safely charge via USB if it's just one battery and that's what I want is just a small sort of 18650 MOD - it's only when there's multiple cells that it can become sketchy.
So since I'm leaning towards kanthal likely being the safest coil material and possibly best for flavor, although the flavors always kind of sketched me out and I did well on just %100 VG flavorless ~%7, I'm leaning towards hoping for suggestions for a small MOD that isn't too complicated to use due to many TC etc setting that I won't even need with wattage mode and kanthal. Basically all I'd need is a 5 click lock and wattage up/down?
Someone suggested some months ago Lost Vape Thelema Solo 100 or IP68 but hopefully there's something newer that fits my needs better?
Again, I vape small coils usually and not even more than like 10 Watts, so I don't need anything with super high power ability.
vaping got quite complicated over the years, and I like it simple. I always remember someone joking saying smoking is so easy, 1) put cigarette in mouth 2) light it.
Back in 2013 we basically only used kanthal, then TC came out.
Like anyone, I don't like the ramp up time that kanthal takes but I got used to it, plus I don't vape large coils so it's not so bad. But TC would be nice, however, for safety reasons from articles/blogs it seems kanthal is the safest choice.
I don't plan on dry burning even kanthal much after what I read, I used to often dry burn a used coil cherry red then replace the cotton but now I'm learning dry burning can change the composition etc of the wire, so I'll just replace the wire too, and do a gently dry burn when first building the coil 'to burn off factory oils' or whatever tutorials always used to suggest but maybe people aren't even dry burning brand new kanthal anymore? I build my own coils usually with a small MTL RTA type tank.
ALLLLLL my DNA mods have bricked themselves due to USB charging, like 4 of them about $600 total basically paper weights now, is partly why I got back on cigarettes. I'm now done with DNA brand, they claim to be able to safely charge via USB (which they do, escribe and nitcore externals show they have the same voltage and % after some use) but there's a charging circuit on the board that always fries, the circuit is being sold on ebay quite a bit for just $15 but it's not worth the hassle. I had to warranty repair all my mods and pay to and fro shipping not much but still they brick again in a couple months and I was very gentle on them only vaped small coils on wattage low power.
What I'm getting at is I'm looking for a new MOD that can safely USB charge, because it's so simple to just plug in rather than take battery out plus I've had plenty of nitecores go defective on me over the years too but I replace them to charge my LED headlamps.
Basically any MOD can safely charge via USB if it's just one battery and that's what I want is just a small sort of 18650 MOD - it's only when there's multiple cells that it can become sketchy.
So since I'm leaning towards kanthal likely being the safest coil material and possibly best for flavor, although the flavors always kind of sketched me out and I did well on just %100 VG flavorless ~%7, I'm leaning towards hoping for suggestions for a small MOD that isn't too complicated to use due to many TC etc setting that I won't even need with wattage mode and kanthal. Basically all I'd need is a 5 click lock and wattage up/down?
Someone suggested some months ago Lost Vape Thelema Solo 100 or IP68 but hopefully there's something newer that fits my needs better?
Again, I vape small coils usually and not even more than like 10 Watts, so I don't need anything with super high power ability.
