I'm uneasy about spitback... I have some in sight, the Oumier Wasp nano, the B2k and the Dpro...
Ah, the Drop is here already! Quite nice! Although the BFs are on the way and won't be here until September at least...
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Ah, the Drop is here already! Quite nice! Although the BFs are on the way and won't be here until September at least...
I got a Basium and a BTFC yesterday. I have it with me today. So far I'm really liking both.
Fagan did another rda? What about the NADA? I like the BTFC post placement better, but too much airflow for me. Hope you enjoy it!
I'm not really a fan of single coil rda's, but I have a Wasp Nano on one of my Pico Squeeze 1's I at one time used for running wee hours of the night errands. It's build was a 4mm coil with RxW in it.
FWIW, a spaced coil will help cut back on spitback if you get it with just about any atty. I used a different approach on my Nano though (old pic).
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Hey @cliffy15 ... With VA long gone I noticed some time back that you had started doing squonkers. Hope all is going well with 'P' and the old gang who have also moved on.
'ALOT' is putting it mildly.
+1... Agree with the GP Dripper Pro's. They were a favorite on my smaller squonkers back in the day when I used mine. As for the Psyclone Mods squonk RDA's, I greatly preferred my 6 Krytens over the 2 Hadaly's I have. I never had any interest at all in their Entheon's, but then by the time they came out I had retired all 35 of my Reos (that I had used the Krytens, Hadaly's and endless other high end squonk atty's on).
Mods wise (with over 100 of them, including 43 mech/regulated squonkers)... I'm 99.99% out of the new gear buying mode after 5.5 years. Cutting back to just the two Squeeze 2's with five Digi Mesh Pro RDA's rotated on them for all my vaping now has greatly simplified what has become a very complicated life. It also helps that I no longer mix the around 80-90 DIY's that I perfected to my personal taste over the years. Now days I just get by with 4-5 of my favorites two at a time that are not rotated until a 150ml batch runs dry. Also long gone are the 75+/- mil's usage per day... it takes me a long time to use 150 now days. I don't vape every day/night anymore.
Hey, Spydro! Good to see you still around! Those are some rather large changes, indeed. Most of us couldn't keep with all the products you were using for sure. I hope the VA gang is doing well since we've all pretty much lost contact. I haven't heard a peep from P. I'm still hoping they will be reinventing themselves and go public again.
I am, indeed, liking my squonking and have, once again, been in search of my perfect setup. I go through a bit more liquid in my squonking RDAs compared to my RTAs but the recent advances have been quite nice. What's nice is that I can use all of my squonk-ready RDAs on my Paps variants if need be as well, so I always have backups. =)
I've gone the hadaly/entheon/hadeon route as well but have settled on the Basic 1.1 /RDAs. Great little things. Not outrageously priced. It also took me some experimentation with squonk mods to find what I was truly looking for before investing in some higher-end stuff.
I've been trying to keep the number of mods/atty combos rather low. I was looking for one really good regulated mod and one good, small mod for on the go as well as a few RDAs in the rotation. my DripperPros are my dual-coil option. The Basics are my single coil option. The VA Spade 75c is my "chill"/at-home mod - great build quality as long as you like the bottle setup and can deal with some of the battery inefficiency of the 75c chip. The Proteus Progeks Malu has become my favorite small/on-the-go/unregulated mod. The build quality is top-notch and I think of it as a Pico Squeeze on steroids. =)
I still keep backups around, of course, for when I'm in an environment when I wouldn't want to use my high-end mods. I will always keep my Pico Squeezes and my VT Inbox (v3) around as they are just so solid and great cost to performance ratio. My Pico Squeeze 2 ... hmm ... it's basically become a paperweight. A very heavy paperweight, which is why it doesn't get too much use even though I like the option for the bigger battery.
Just out of curiosity, do you use replay on your Vicious Ant?
My vaping tenure has been a progressive one from day one @cliffy15 ... constantly buying new gear that to me was better for my uses than what had came before it. So "moving on" has been the norm the past 5.5 years with almost all of the quality gear I've purchased with most only used for a short time. Add both the original gear MFG's that have in turn closed their doors and the folks that ran on their supplier ECF forums during their heydays that have moved on as well. Some of the more notable ones maybe being ProVape, VapourArt and Reosmods, but also a lot of others in Europe and elsewhere that at the time made gear that was my top shelf go-to gear in their day. Most of the MFG's themselves and those who ran their forums are no longer active on ECF or the vaping community AFAIK. But then that's been the same on all the interest specific on-line sites I've ran on since the mid 1980's... folks move on and don't look back. That includes me in that there are E-Lists and forums I co-authored, was a financial supporter and charter member of, global moderator, etc of up to that far back that still are active today yet I have not visited them myself for up to two-three decades. Hobbies I no longer do IOW.
Same as with the other MFG's I bought direct from, I was quite close to 'P' privately and don't see him ever coming back into the vaping game. Much of my VA gear was never used at all by me in the short 3-4 months I actually used some of that gear, including a TiX that remains brand new. I bought ProVari prototypes; early collectible, stock and custom Reos that I never got around to using much if at all as well.
As I suggested before, the easier the vaping experience is the better it is for me now days with so many issues to deal with. Price never mattered to me... if I wanted it I bought it. And I would use it anyplace I chose to take it no matter what it cost. But these cheap Pico 2's fill that need very well being as easy as regulated squonking gets (and with the best leak free bottle system yet IMO). Their weight matters not at all to me as I rarely ever leave my home now days. I have other recent squonk mods and dual batt mech squonk mods almost as easy as them I haven't tossed out yet to back them up if/when they fail. But my need/wants have changed to only needing a couple of mods on line with five atty's to rotate the only five DIY's I make now in. It took well over five years to get here in vaping with endless gear and supplies bought, but the road to get here was a fun one that gave me something to pass the hours. So it was money and endless time well spent with a lot of great folks met along the way (and some real SH's as well). AFN.
I have not as I have not yet dabbled in TC. In fact, I made my first SS coil today but am using it in power mode to taste test it.
I don't see it enabled but I haven't even tried TC mode yet.
TBH... I'm not sure how much it'll apply to me since I vape at a low power. The only thing I'm interested in learning from TC is if it will stop a dry hit in its tracks (not that I get the often at all).
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Well said! =)
TBH, I found what was best for me with VA and I really never needed much else. It was trying the Dripper Pro that got me into the squonk world ... and I ended up liking it quite a bit. That's when I started looking at new configurations. It took me about 9 months of research, and trial and error, to get here and I'm quite satisfied. Finding a single coil atty I liked took the longest and was the most expensive (from there just about any mod would do to make it work). Along the way, I found quite a few that I liked and made new friends as well!
So, what's your new interest/pursuit now? I always loved all your great photography. I also believe I share your same ideology on this subject too. I am interested to hear where you go from here with your interests and photography skills.
Glad some liked my photography that had been a life long passion that I was only OK enough at to pass (a semi-serious amateur). I have no interests anymore, and no plans at this late date to start anything new.
Great start on a collection.
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