Time to upgrade from egoT. Suggestions?

[inanitydefined]

So for whatever reason my entire tanks system has gone on the fritz today. It started when my tank of go to juice started leaking out everywhere. Just a little while ago I had a major problem with my one atty that I cant be bothered to fix tonight. I loaded up another atty and this one won't give a decent vape!
I'm officially irritated with this. I chose the tank system for convenience. I tried ego type b cartomizers and found them cumbersome to work with.
So its time to find a new system. Something as easy to fill and hopefully nearly as easy to read, but less finicky. I keep hearing about two things, clearomizers and dual coil cartomizers. I'm also looking for bang for my buck. I need something that'll won't be astronomically expensive to upkeep. Using the tank system I vape 2ml during the day so the new system needs to hold at least that.
Tell me a little about your daily setup, what you like and what you don't. I'll get my credit card warmed up
peace
zac
edit: I'm vaping 50/50 pg/vg currently. it would be nice to have a system that would play nice with most any mix
cartomizer setups rather than cartridge/tank and atomizer setups do seem nice as it would be easier to rotate flavors. Are cartos cheaper or more expensive in the long run?

 

[doctroprint]

How long have you used your ego system? They can be touchy and finicky, I believe I'm just getting to
the point of mastering mine. ( Only after 7 months) ahhaha!

 

[newplague]

If you think you are ready to move into the wonderful world of mods, then a Reo Mini or Grand is what I would recommend. I have a Grand and my wife has a Mini. The Mini uses a 14500 battery and has a 3ml bottle of juice on board. Just squeeze (squonk) and vape. The Grand has an 18650 battery which lasts me 2 days, with a 6ml bottle to hold the juice. We both love our Reos and there are a lot of people out there that will say the same.

reosmods.com <- website

Reos Mods <- subforum

 

[johnnyfive]

Are cartos cheaper or more expensive in the long run?

I don't know if they're cheaper, but they're easier to deal with in my opinion. Even if they wind up costing a few bucks more in the long run it's no skin off my back. I'm primarily using a Reo Mini bottom feeder and I kept blowing atomizers (was probably flooding them too much.) Cartos are cheap, easy to fill, hold lots of juice, and if one goes bad I just toss it out. It's definitely less upsetting once a carto is done in my book.

 

[inanitydefined]

I'm looking into mods, I'm gathering parts for a 3.7v mod to replace my ego battery. And if that goes well I'd like to build a vv mod.
What I'm looking for is a new juice delivery system, one I can screw on to any 510 and stuff in my pocket.
I've had my ego t for 9 months now and probably used it total for 2. I thought I had it down until today. I'm looking for a mostly painless vape. I just want it to work as expected, not decide to go stupid for no reason
edit: johnnyfive, what cartos would you reccomend a newbie try first?

 

[orkira]

I have an eGo-T type A myself. Have you tried replacing the bottom caps on your tanks? I know mine start to leak at around the 4th or 5th fill up and I just replace the bottom cap with a new one. As for the new atty you used was it sitting around for a while?

 

[inanitydefined]

orkira; The atty I'm using now was ordered last week, as was the messed up one. Its working now, but the flavor and vapor production aren't up to par.

 

[johnnyfive]

What I'm looking for is a new juice delivery system, one I can screw on to any 510 and stuff in my pocket.
edit: johnnyfive, what cartos would you reccomend a newbie try first?

If you're wanting to carry in your pocket, cartos are for sure the way to go since you probably don't want to be stuffing a map tank or something in your jeans. For a 3.7v mod, I'd go with boge low resistance or 1.7 smoktech ressurectors from crystal clear vaping.

 

[doctroprint]

With the ego, flavor and vapor can be increased in a big big way with the battery booster that just came out. Price sucks
and you still have the atty issues that plague you!

 

[orkira]

orkira; The atty I'm using now was ordered last week, as was the messed up one. Its working now, but the flavor and vapor production aren't up to par.

Hum, that is def. weird have you contacted the company you bought it from yet about a replacement per warranty maybe?

 

[dormouse]

Cartomizers - just pick easier ones and learn to use them with thinner juice and then try to make them work with your 50/50. Boge 2 ohm cartos are very popular on Ego. And the Kanger 2 ohm 510 Horizontal Coil cartos should be nice (I have only tried the 2.6ohm version for KR808D-1) and these might get along with 50/50. If not, try thinning your 50/50 with a little bit of distilled water.

I use 80PG/20VG or 90PG/10VG w/ cartos and I avoid juices that drop flavoring sediment (typically dark or cloudy juices).

 

[inanitydefined]

after looking around, I ordered a bunch of boge cartos in 2 and 3 ohm, and some smok tech dual coil cartos. I couldn't pass up on the deal, good prices and free juice!
Welcome to VaporGod.com - Eliquid, Cartomizers, Ego Batteries, Atomizers, Electronic Cigarettes and more! if anyone is interested. 6.99 for 5pk boge, 8.99 for 5pk dual coils. 5ml juice with every pack.
Hopefully I'll like one or the other. unfortunately now I think I'll have to wait on my mod...

 

[Balthezar]

I have used the smoktech dual coil cartos on my ego, and in 3 weeks I'm only on my second one (was cleaning the first one and messed it up myself, or it would have lasted longer ). Haven't tried the boge yet, but everyone who has tried them has nothing but praise for them. Either way I don't think you can go wrong. Easy to use, and I just top mine off with a few drops when it starts to get low.

 

[B4DJ1N64N]

+1 for Reo. While it's expensive at first, after that you'll just have to buy your e-liquids, a couple of attie (306 LR in my case), a couple of batteries for your reo. I use a Reo Grand with 306 LR atty, and a couple of AW batteries (18650 IMR batts). I haven't replace anything for 4 months now, my spare 306 LR atty are still in my drawer. The good thing is: When I'm going somewhere, I don't need to bring anything but my Reo Grand (6ml of e-liquid of my choice & a fully charged battery), I know I'm good for 2 days without have to worry about anything. I'm pretty sure, this Reo will come cheaper in the long run (nothing to replace, no fuss, no mess, just squonk and vape).

 

[OrthodoxAtheist]

I've said it in other similar threads but it bares repeating... I used the eGo-T with tanks for several months and enjoyed them... moved up to 1.7 LR Ressurector cartomizers and now would never go back to tanks. As for longevity... this single cartomizer is in its 7th week at this point, used near-exclusively every day for approx 16 hours a day (2-5ml a day, mostly menthols) and no cleaning to date. Ridiculous vapor, 1.5-2x the flavor of eGo's tanks, and immensely cheaper than eGo's atomizers. $25 approx for 15 (!) at CCV. Monster.

 

[leftfeild]

Greatest value for money system: CE2 aka fluxomiser.

Why?

For the price of one atomiser you get five clearomisers that last almost as long as one atomiser. Standard cartomisers are a waste of money to me compared to that and atomisers are a royal pain to drip all the time. I needed a system that could hold a decent amount of liquid and didn't fail it like the ego-T did. I found the CE2 after a long trial and error search.

I have EMDCCs, standard resistance 3.0/2.5 and LR 510 and 808 single and dual coil cartomisers, LR and standard atomisers, Ego-T LR and standard and G4s and that's barely scratching the surface of what I've considered trying. My main problem was being a VG vaper because nothing would wick properly, except the CE2.

Is it fiddle free? No, but it can be if you make it that way. All I do (about once every three months to replace a worn out one) is take a new CE2 and take the inner seal out and cut the seal slots a little wider, into /\'s and just put them back on. That's it. They'll now wick 100%vg, even the absolute thickest vg liquid I have which has a consistancy near syrup. If I'm feeling ultra lazy and don't want to use a syringe to fill I'll just take the seal out and put it back in upside down. I just use a toothpick to get it out and just fill down the sides.

They hold 1.8ml on the XL size and now the ultimate/deluxe versions are out, the tubes are supposedly crack free. I have older ones that I cut BD 3ml syringes to size for and I can say they are crack free for sure. The the only time I've had one crack was when it was run over by a car. The guts were intact and worked, so all I did was change the tube and I had a working CE2 that got run over by a car.

Cleaning is very simple. On around every 10 - 20 refills, just dry burn it. That's it. Stick some water in, swill it out and dry burn it. The wick and coil will turn almost white again. I haven't broken a single CE2 doing a dryburn and so far the only thing that breaks on them is the wick falls off eventually and I mean 2 - 3 months of almost 5ml through it per day at 3.8v - 4.2v.

The coil is at the top so the warmth and flavour is a world apart from the Ego-T. The first time I used a CE2 I wondered why I ever bought the Ego-T because it's so much better.

Not many would say to use the CE2, I'd guess because they have a little learning curve but it's not much to learn at all and it outperforms anything else I currently own to put on my ego by far. It was well worth "fiddling" with them to get them to work.

The only drawback I can say is a true drawback is you get condensation between the seals that can get in your mouth if you draw too hard, but it's as simple as sticking a drip tip on the end of your CE2 and it's problem completely solved. It takes me about 1ml of chain vaping to have enough liquid in my CE2s to collect enough condensation to have the potential to get in my mouth but like I said, I'm using a drip tip most of the time or don't have the time to chain vape so it's not a problem at all.

It isn't for everyone, but since no one else has mentioned them, there you have it. Good luck man!

Edit: For your ego-Ts you currently have, have you tried to dry burn them? Blow out all the juice, rinse them through with hot water then blow out again.
Then, just pulse the atomiser without the cart on and no juice in. Keep doing it and it'll start "smoking" (that's all the gunk coming off the wick).
Continue pulsing it until the wick itself actually glows red.
Let it cool for a few minutes, then repeat, pulse it until the wick is glowing red.

Should be good by then. I have my original ego-T and LR ego-T atomisers that still work just as poorly as the day I got them 8 months ago by doing this lol

 

[unsure]

+1 for Reo. While it's expensive at first, after that you'll just have to buy your e-liquids, a couple of attie (306 LR in my case), a couple of batteries for your reo. I use a Reo Grand with 306 LR atty, and a couple of AW batteries (18650 IMR batts). I haven't replace anything for 4 months now, my spare 306 LR atty are still in my drawer. The good thing is: When I'm going somewhere, I don't need to bring anything but my Reo Grand (6ml of e-liquid of my choice & a fully charged battery), I know I'm good for 2 days without have to worry about anything. I'm pretty sure, this Reo will come cheaper in the long run (nothing to replace, no fuss, no mess, just squonk and vape).

+1 .............

 

[Nashy08]

Greatest value for money system: CE2 aka fluxomiser.


Why?


For the price of one atomiser you get five clearomisers that last almost as long as one atomiser. Standard cartomisers are a waste of money to me compared to that and atomisers are a royal pain to drip all the time. I needed a system that could hold a decent amount of liquid and didn't fail it like the ego-T did. I found the CE2 after a long trial and error search.


I have EMDCCs, standard resistance 3.0/2.5 and LR 510 and 808 single and dual coil cartomisers, LR and standard atomisers, Ego-T LR and standard and G4s and that's barely scratching the surface of what I've considered trying. My main problem was being a VG vaper because nothing would wick properly, except the CE2.


Is it fiddle free? No, but it can be if you make it that way. All I do (about once every three months to replace a worn out one) is take a new CE2 and take the inner seal out and cut the seal slots a little wider, into /\'s and just put them back on. That's it. They'll now wick 100%vg, even the absolute thickest vg liquid I have which has a consistancy near syrup. If I'm feeling ultra lazy and don't want to use a syringe to fill I'll just take the seal out and put it back in upside down. I just use a toothpick to get it out and just fill down the sides.


They hold 1.8ml on the XL size and now the ultimate/deluxe versions are out, the tubes are supposedly crack free. I have older ones that I cut BD 3ml syringes to size for and I can say they are crack free for sure. The the only time I've had one crack was when it was run over by a car. The guts were intact and worked, so all I did was change the tube and I had a working CE2 that got run over by a car.


Cleaning is very simple. On around every 10 - 20 refills, just dry burn it. That's it. Stick some water in, swill it out and dry burn it. The wick and coil will turn almost white again. I haven't broken a single CE2 doing a dryburn and so far the only thing that breaks on them is the wick falls off eventually and I mean 2 - 3 months of almost 5ml through it per day at 3.8v - 4.2v.


The coil is at the top so the warmth and flavour is a world apart from the Ego-T. The first time I used a CE2 I wondered why I ever bought the Ego-T because it's so much better.


Not many would say to use the CE2, I'd guess because they have a little learning curve but it's not much to learn at all and it outperforms anything else I currently own to put on my ego by far. It was well worth "fiddling" with them to get them to work.


The only drawback I can say is a true drawback is you get condensation between the seals that can get in your mouth if you draw too hard, but it's as simple as sticking a drip tip on the end of your CE2 and it's problem completely solved. It takes me about 1ml of chain vaping to have enough liquid in my CE2s to collect enough condensation to have the potential to get in my mouth but like I said, I'm using a drip tip most of the time or don't have the time to chain vape so it's not a problem at all.


It isn't for everyone, but since no one else has mentioned them, there you have it. Good luck man!


Edit: For your ego-Ts you currently have, have you tried to dry burn them? Blow out all the juice, rinse them through with hot water then blow out again.
Then, just pulse the atomiser without the cart on and no juice in. Keep doing it and it'll start "smoking" (that's all the gunk coming off the wick).
Continue pulsing it until the wick itself actually glows red.
Let it cool for a few minutes, then repeat, pulse it until the wick is glowing red.


Should be good by then. I have my original ego-T and LR ego-T atomisers that still work just as poorly as the day I got them 8 months ago by doing this lol

This sums up CE2s really well. I'm using them and I'll not go back to an egoT.

 

[yo vapo]

Greatest value for money system: CE2 aka fluxomiser...

Very convincing, Lefty. I just now pulled the trigger on 15 of them (3 different ohm ratings).
After burning up one of my new eGo-T's attys in less than a week (OK due to dumbassery on my part, but still...$$), I quickly realized I needed to look at other options. Even having to pay sales tax this is a way more economical option... if it works well.

 

[leftfeild]

Very convincing, Lefty. I just now pulled the trigger on 15 of them (3 different ohm ratings).
After burning up one of my new eGo-T's attys in less than a week (OK due to dumbassery on my part, but still...$$), I quickly realized I needed to look at other options. Even having to pay sales tax this is a way more economical option... if it works well.

Really hope it does. If you have any troubles with them drop me a PM or something and I'll give you some pointers any time.