Yeah, I've been bouncing around on cart filler for a while now
The pyramid tea bags can be hard to find. I went to the local Rainbow grocery and they had a HUGE selection of tea, but no lipton pyramid tea bag type. I went to the Cub Foods up the street and they had a bunch of different flavors in the lipton pyramid tea style. I went for the Vanilla Caramel, that way if there was any flavor left over after the empty/rinse it would be that.
Really, I don't taste any aftertaste from the tea (no, I didn't make a cup first, I was too eager to try out the vape lol). I have heard of people making the tea, then using the bag medium and no issues whatsoever, so my next PTB cart filler is going to be done after enjoying the tea.
I completely changed my way of drawing on the e-cig, and I may have found "my" way of doing it that works and satisfies. This may be of some help to you:
First, the PTB's do work well, they have virtually no flavor, so you're getting pure juice flavor. They also don't melt/burn on the atomizer as the little fibers from the polyfill can do. No fibers, another big plus. There is a post in the canadian section where there are photos of how to make the PTB filler for a 510. I'd suggest to give it a go.
Second, I take much different draws from my PV than I used to. I was red lining mine to the point of cutoff (15 seconds I think?), and I am sure I was wicking every lick of liquid off of the top of my cart, and then some. Now I just press the button, draw the vapor into my cheeks like a regular cigarette (about 5 seconds), release the button and inhale. Nice vapor (not much throat hit, but that's charactaristic of the janty stick, so I hear). If I want a double hit, I do a follow-up, but use the same exact method.
A couple of suggestions about the PTB's. Don't overfill, it's not like the polyfill, there will be gaps in the cart where liquid can pool, this is asking for a flooded atomizer. What I like to do (since I'm still learning) is drop some liquid onto the "carpet rolls" of the PTB's, one per roll, every 4 drops I'll tilt the cart to see if the liquid is trying to leak out. If not, I give it another 4 drops (keep in mind the 801 holds a lot of liquid without filler, over 1cc, 38ish drops I think). With a PTB, I can get about 16 drops in before it seems to be too much, any more than that and I'm leaking.
When you roll up the PTB material, start rolling tightly at first, and loosen the roll as you get towards the end of the material.
This material not only acts as a straw mod, in that it has nice circular openings in the middle of the "carpet roll". (As you drip onto the material when filling your cart, the bubbles of trapped air will escape through those holes.) It also seems to help on the draw from the cart.
Many people have stated this is the filler to use, and it's improved many folks vaping experience. I seriously hope it does for me as well, so far it's looking good, but I've learned with PV's, don't get too comfortable while experimenting until you make it a few days in
Here's the link, one of the Canadian members made it, it's clear instructions:
Lipton Pyramid Teabag Filling in 5 Steps
In addition to this filler material, I am also following surbitonPete's method of dry burning the atomizer every 3-4ml of liquid (or daily). Simply put, wait until the atomizer is nearly dry. If you're heading to bed for the evening, and its not yet dry, blow out the atomizer into a tissue, then hook the atomizer back up to the battery (it's been suggested not to do this on a passthrough or higher voltage). Activate the switch on the PV in a darker room. Once you see the atomizer glow orange, release the button. When the atomizer cools, drop a drop or two of juice onto the atomizer bridge, and put it aside for the next day.
On your first use of the atomizer after you do the dry burn cleaning, make sure you take a couple of primer puffs and exhale that, it's the bad smoke from the dry burn. After that you should be golden.
Oh, and they suggest to do this from day 1 on a new atomizer, it doesn't seem to help on atomizers that have their heating element (coil) gobbed up with the black residue.
Pete has had his atomizers last him over a month multiple times, and not so much of the throat burn and bitter taste.
If you have any interest in that, check out the thread here, Pete hops in about 1/3 of the way through and gives us weekly updates
Getting Annoyed : This is an effective method of prolonging atomisers
