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ohman

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Question - I just got my BB today - i followed all instructions in the videos. I am using Boge SR cartos , new , freshly charged AW batts and I am not getting the vapor or throat hit i thought that i would. Ive tried all settings , all the way up to the max voltage. What setting should i be using? any ideas? I use 18 mg 50/50 pg vg unflavored nic base. It seems to be wicking ok. the cartos have two holes punched in them. Thanks

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Question - I just got my BB today - i followed all instructions in the videos. I am using Boge SR cartos , new , freshly charged AW batts and I am not getting the vapor or throat hit i thought that i would. Ive tried all settings , all the way up to the max voltage. What setting should i be using? any ideas? I use 18 mg 50/50 pg vg unflavored nic base. It seems to be wicking ok. the cartos have two holes punched in them. Thanks

what kind of device you're usually used ?
I'm at 75 vg 25 pg i got vapor ( carto one big hole and one hole smaller a bit) but pg hit more
For the hit i use Flash from FlavourArt it gives more hit.....

with it may not be strong enough for you
 

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what kind of device you're usually used ?
I'm at 75 vg 25 pg i got vapor ( carto one big hole and one hole smaller a bit) but pg hit more
For the hit i use Flash from FlavourArt it gives more hit.....

with it may not be strong enough for you

I have been using a VV Reo Grand with a reomizer 2. The BB has very little vapor or throat hit compared to that , im hoping its because of the carto not having large enough holes or another problems thats easy to fix. I love the desgin and looks of the BB but its not cutting for me as far as the performance of the vape. Thanks for the tip about Flash - i will order some of that right now.
 

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Check and see if some liquid got on the place where the carto. sits. I was having this problem too, and with same liquid and carto that was doing great befor. So after doing all the other things ohman suggested I thought about that. After I cleaned it off WHAM back to lots of vapor. And mine only had a little coating of liquid. Hope this helps.
I have been using a VV Reo Grand with a reomizer 2. The BB has very little vapor or throat hit compared to that , im hoping its because of the carto not having large enough holes or another problems thats easy to fix. I love the desgin and looks of the BB but its not cutting for me as far as the performance of the vape. Thanks for the tip about Flash - i will order some of that right now.
 

reoluvr

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Check and see if some liquid got on the place where the carto. sits. I was having this problem too, and with same liquid and carto that was doing great befor. So after doing all the other things ohman suggested I thought about that. After I cleaned it off WHAM back to lots of vapor. And mine only had a little coating of liquid. Hope this helps.

i will try that . thank you
 

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Question - I just got my BB today (Got it from a friend as a gift who got it during the last round months ago) - i followed all instructions in the videos. I am using Boge SR cartos , new , freshly charged AW batts and I am not getting the vapor or throat hit i thought that i would. Ive tried all settings , all the way up to the max voltage. What setting should i be using? any ideas? I use 18 mg 50/50 pg vg unflavored nic base. It seems to be wicking ok. the cartos have two holes punched in them. Thanks

Did you make sure you tightened down the top brass screw enough that it's making a good connection?
 

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Question - I just got my BB today (Got it from a friend as a gift who got it during the last round months ago) - i followed all instructions in the videos. I am using Boge SR cartos , new , freshly charged AW batts and I am not getting the vapor or throat hit i thought that i would. Ive tried all settings , all the way up to the max voltage. What setting should i be using? any ideas? I use 18 mg 50/50 pg vg unflavored nic base. It seems to be wicking ok. the cartos have two holes punched in them. Thanks
give a look under the brass ring for no loose debris that may be causing some air intake up top, also make sure the brass ring is snugged down a bit past finger tight... if that's looking happy then the carto may just be junk.... but i read you tried a lr carto too. Of the complaints about cartos, vapor production and hit are not one of them, and the BB is more than capable of burning your juice and popping the coil in a LR carto at 5.5v... if you are cranking the voltage up on the dial and not getting burn, garbage, make you gad and dry heave on the floor vapor with a lr carto... then perhaps the circuity in the board had failed somehow.... you could check it with a multimeter, it should read 4.05 +/- .08v at low to 5.55v +/- .05v at high... or we can check it for you... or you can call me and i can walk you through what it's doing vs what it should be...
805 310 2460, leave a message if i can't get right to the phone, as i have a tenancy to run loud machines.
 

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Question - I just got my BB today (Got it from a friend as a gift who got it during the last round months ago) - i followed all instructions in the videos. I am using Boge SR cartos , new , freshly charged AW batts and I am not getting the vapor or throat hit i thought that i would. Ive tried all settings , all the way up to the max voltage. What setting should i be using? any ideas? I use 18 mg 50/50 pg vg unflavored nic base. It seems to be wicking ok. the cartos have two holes punched in them. Thanks

Could be the carto is too saturated. Performance should be the same in the BB as any other VV PV with a carto tank. Perhaps try one hole. Could have a less than air tight tank causing flooding or near flooding which will kill vape production.

I've been rather pleased with the Ikenvape 2 hole SR carto's. Pretty sure they are the same as the large hole pre-punched Boge SR cartos. Not as good a vape as I get with my homemade BB atty, but actually pretty good with certain juices.
 

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Thanks for the reply Doug. I will try to call you today , ive been slammed the last couple of days. m sure something has to be off because im not even getting the burning when i up the voltage - i see little difference from the minimum to the maximum voltage setting and ive tried about 8 different cartos both LR and SR . Thanks for your help , ill call soon.
give a look under the brass ring for no loose debris that may be causing some air intake up top, also make sure the brass ring is snugged down a bit past finger tight... if that's looking happy then the carto may just be junk.... but i read you tried a lr carto too. Of the complaints about cartos, vapor production and hit are not one of them, and the BB is more than capable of burning your juice and popping the coil in a LR carto at 5.5v... if you are cranking the voltage up on the dial and not getting burn, garbage, make you gad and dry heave on the floor vapor with a lr carto... then perhaps the circuity in the board had failed somehow.... you could check it with a multimeter, it should read 4.05 +/- .08v at low to 5.55v +/- .05v at high... or we can check it for you... or you can call me and i can walk you through what it's doing vs what it should be...
805 310 2460, leave a message if i can't get right to the phone, as i have a tenancy to run loud machines.
 

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ok thanks , i will try that and ill get some of the ikenvapes. how are you making your homemade atty and would you be willing to sell one? Thanks

Not selling them...sorry. They're not complicated to make, but I've been really free time starved as of late. Do hope Doug, or someone picks up on the design that has the right tooling to make these available for sale. I make em with a drill, flat and round files, and a mini soldering torch lol. Scubabatdan is working on something somewhat similar, though I haven't seen anything lately. Could have missed any updates as I've been AWOL lately.

I made this thread a while back while I was waiting for my BB pre-order: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-evod-head-prototype-mod-billet-box-only.html

After building two more this past weekend, I stumbled across a 510 adapter in my junk stash that unlike the others I've used to date, is of the correct 9mm OD, and doesn't need to have the diameter reduced which along some other tweaks to the design, almost eliminates any exposed brass. I'll post up an update in the modder thread above when I build it...soon I hope.

Hope you get your BB/carto issue resolved soon. If it is a BB problem, no doubt DD will get ya fixed up. Hang in there, once you get this sorted out, I'm sure you'll love your BB.
 

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I did that and it did seem to improve a tiny bit but still not right. Thanks

Might I suggest removing the tank, and using a multimeter set to 20vdc use the black lead (ground) to the body and touch the red to the center pin and have someone fire it for you and check the output voltage. I had this happen to me also and it turned out to be one of the batteries was not accepting a full charge. I would also check each batteries voltage to see if they are 4.2 after fully charged.
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