Like the title says, what did you use back when you started vaping? What did you move on to after that? What are using now and everything in between?
For me, I started my first vape experience about 4-5 years ago I believe at a mall kiosk for 21 century smoking. I believe the kit was called the blackjack. Used it on and off, didnt stick with it and went back to analogs while the blackjack collected dust in a draw, occasionally pulled out only to realize I didn't know where the charger was.
Got interested again towards last summer when some friends were using better devices regularly. Picked up a blu starter kit at the store to see if it was any better, especially after seeing all the commercials etc. Stopped using the blue cartridges after 2 days, asked my friend about the B&M store in the area and went there to see what I could find to work on the blu batteries for me to start using e-liquid instead of prefilled, because I liked the size and charger pack. Picked up some vision nano clearos which worked on the blu and got some good flavors.
After a month or two I got tired of the batteries and constantly having to charge them and moved on to some cheap no name ego-c batteries. This was also around when I discovered ECF. Got tired of the issues of leaks/floods and burning of the nanos and moved on to vision stardust (ce4) clearos. I was now up to 3 ego batteries. Stuck with these for a bit, occasional leak issues but nothing as bad as the nanos. Tried a few different clearos but they weren't great. Then gotvapes brought back the fluxomizers, and those were working great, way better vapor production and good flavor. few issues with occasional leaks and broke two in my pocket (ego cover wasn't out yet).
Started getting tired of the ego bats and wanted something better, VV at the least. Did my research and decided on a ProVari mini a little over a month ago, a birthday gift to myself. But the fluxomizer was too tall IMO for the provari, and I saw some threads showing IBTanked cartotanks, and I fell in love. I got great performance out of them and was running 4 tanks at once, swapping throughout the day to keep it all fresh. I started getting curious about RBA/RDA after always saying I'd never go that far and that it was crazy. Tried a mini bully dripper and made my first coil and I liked it. Also got a vision spinner at this time too just as a better backup than the regular egos. Now I wanted a RBA. Enter the kayfun.
Picked up a kayfun 3.1 ES clone (in black to match my red/black provari), built the coil, tried cotton as the wick and forever was my vape life changed. Since then I picked up another provari mini (zombie), a regular kayfun 3.1 ES clone, and a kayfun mini clone (ivogo). Zombie got it's own kayfun so both provari's are my go to devices that I take almost every where with me. The vision spinner got put onto a u adapter with the kayfun mini in standard mode.
Yesterday I just got a Vision Spinner II (1600 mah) which is now on the adapter with the kayfun mini in long mode and a innokin cool fire II and a origen RDA clone (yeahsmo). The cool fire and origen are paired together (both in black).
I think I'm good on hardware for a while now... I did a lot in 8 months. haha.
What about everyone else?
For me, I started my first vape experience about 4-5 years ago I believe at a mall kiosk for 21 century smoking. I believe the kit was called the blackjack. Used it on and off, didnt stick with it and went back to analogs while the blackjack collected dust in a draw, occasionally pulled out only to realize I didn't know where the charger was.
Got interested again towards last summer when some friends were using better devices regularly. Picked up a blu starter kit at the store to see if it was any better, especially after seeing all the commercials etc. Stopped using the blue cartridges after 2 days, asked my friend about the B&M store in the area and went there to see what I could find to work on the blu batteries for me to start using e-liquid instead of prefilled, because I liked the size and charger pack. Picked up some vision nano clearos which worked on the blu and got some good flavors.
After a month or two I got tired of the batteries and constantly having to charge them and moved on to some cheap no name ego-c batteries. This was also around when I discovered ECF. Got tired of the issues of leaks/floods and burning of the nanos and moved on to vision stardust (ce4) clearos. I was now up to 3 ego batteries. Stuck with these for a bit, occasional leak issues but nothing as bad as the nanos. Tried a few different clearos but they weren't great. Then gotvapes brought back the fluxomizers, and those were working great, way better vapor production and good flavor. few issues with occasional leaks and broke two in my pocket (ego cover wasn't out yet).
Started getting tired of the ego bats and wanted something better, VV at the least. Did my research and decided on a ProVari mini a little over a month ago, a birthday gift to myself. But the fluxomizer was too tall IMO for the provari, and I saw some threads showing IBTanked cartotanks, and I fell in love. I got great performance out of them and was running 4 tanks at once, swapping throughout the day to keep it all fresh. I started getting curious about RBA/RDA after always saying I'd never go that far and that it was crazy. Tried a mini bully dripper and made my first coil and I liked it. Also got a vision spinner at this time too just as a better backup than the regular egos. Now I wanted a RBA. Enter the kayfun.
Picked up a kayfun 3.1 ES clone (in black to match my red/black provari), built the coil, tried cotton as the wick and forever was my vape life changed. Since then I picked up another provari mini (zombie), a regular kayfun 3.1 ES clone, and a kayfun mini clone (ivogo). Zombie got it's own kayfun so both provari's are my go to devices that I take almost every where with me. The vision spinner got put onto a u adapter with the kayfun mini in standard mode.
Yesterday I just got a Vision Spinner II (1600 mah) which is now on the adapter with the kayfun mini in long mode and a innokin cool fire II and a origen RDA clone (yeahsmo). The cool fire and origen are paired together (both in black).
I think I'm good on hardware for a while now... I did a lot in 8 months. haha.
What about everyone else?
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