Time to upgrade

[Gnimmel]

Hello all,

I've been vaping for about a month now using a ego starter kit which I added a tank too. It's been going well, and I've hardly smoked analoge over this time, but I'm still having problems burning out a lot of cartos. I think this is because the ego is a low powered starter kit and I'm trying to get more throat hit than it can produce. It tastes good, and gives me the nicotine I need, but I'm using it a lot and not letting it cool down between puffs trying to get a better throat hit.

From browsing this forum it seems the best way to get more throat hit is with a more powerfull battery and my little 650mah batteries just can't do it. So my question to everyone is what is the best battery or kit to upgrade too for better throat hit? I know a lot of this is down to personal perference, but after spending all morning reading this forum and searching online, I'm at a loss as to what to try next. It seems the provari or lava tubes are popular but I'd like to try and get away from cartos as well just because of the burnt taste they give once they die. A clearomizer seems like a nice idea, purhaps the stardust?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Richard

 

[zerominusone]

I've got a Provari and yes, it is quite powerful, but you can use low resistence (~2.0 ohms) cartos to get a little more throat hit. I normally use 24mg juice in standard resistance cartos (~3.0 ohms) and decided to try some LR cartos with my juice. BIG difference, it was almost too strong.

 

[NeeseNE]

My suggestion is to abandon tanks, and cartos and go with a low resistance atomizer that you drip in to. I have a mechanical mod with a LR 306 on it that works extremely well for me.

 

[ckone180]

Lower resistance cartos, VV, simple 5V APV, different juice. All things go into this. I can use 12mg Bobas Bounty on an eGo in a stardust and get near no throat hit, yet 6mg Sundrop is almost too much throat hit for me in the same set up.
If you want to stay with the same juice, try VV or 5V APV first.

 

[X P3 Flight Engineer]

Greetings from Canada! Welcome to ECF!

The Star Dust will definitely give you less TH.

I've heard the VMax is the greatest for max power, you might want to give that a try.

Relax, Enjoy!

 

[Gnimmel]

Thanks for the replies. I didn't realize the stardust would produce less th but if guess a better battery from my small ego would help that?
I was looking at general vv and found a site I order cartos from has a avp section with pv's like the Star fire.

StarFire VV Starter Kit has a sealed 510 connector from 3 Volts to 6 Volts Variable Voltage of 510 atomizers and cartomizers.Variable Voltage.Choose Voltage Battery Lasts Over Day.Lava Flow,Knight Rider/Lava Tube

Are these any good? I'm assuming I'd see a big difference in th on this?

Thanks,

Richard

 

[elfstone]

They're okay, but there is a new version of these. I'm sorry, I'm not very much in touch with the Lava Tube news, but the new version works better, has a higher power limit and looks cooler. I guess you could take a look here: Apollo VTube Kit and there is a coupon here: Search for "apollo" - ECF Electronic Cigarette Coupon codes

To the OP: the 650 mAh refers to the capacity of the battery, how much 'juice' it has, not to its power. What exact setup do you have? The output is measured by the voltage. If it is an eGo, then the problem is that it might be regulated at 3.4 V; if it is a true 3.7 V, the easiest way to try to increase throat hit is by using low resistance cartomizers / atomizers.

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

You're eGo 650 mah should be more than enuff to give good TH. My carto in a tank lasts 2 weeks. What tank are you using and what carto are you using? First fill of a carto is VERY IMPORTANT even if using a tank system. Google guiding PBusardo filling Boge. Key when pushing carto into condom of juice is to do it VERY SLOWLY.
Good Luck.
I tested an eGo with Clearomizers and carto/ tank and it gave excellent TH. Remember to drink lots of water A's Vaping dehydrates and can ruin the experience. I drink 1 1/2 liters per day.

 

[wv2win]

I wouldn't mess with low resistence atomizers because they degrade too quickly and will always be inconsistent. And the mAh rating of your battery really has little to do with warmth of the vapor and thus throat hit. You want to move to a good 5 volt or variable watt/volt battery. Ego is the smallest volt battery on the market at only 3.4 volts.

In the 5 volt models I would suggest the 5 volt GLV2 which comes with a lifetime warrantly. In the variable models there are many to choose from. The two best are the Darwin (variable wattage - preferred) and the Provari.

5 volt GLV2: GLV-2 Electronic Cigarette [GLV-2] - $120.00 : Electronic Cigarettes and E-Liquid - Great Lakes Vapor

 

[X P3 Flight Engineer]

Thanks for the replies. I didn't realize the stardust would produce less th but if guess a better battery from my small ego would help that?
I was looking at general vv and found a site I order cartos from has a avp section with pv's like the Star fire.

StarFire VV Starter Kit has a sealed 510 connector from 3 Volts to 6 Volts Variable Voltage of 510 atomizers and cartomizers.Variable Voltage.Choose Voltage Battery Lasts Over Day.Lava Flow,Knight Rider/Lava Tube

Are these any good? I'm assuming I'd see a big difference in th on this?

Thanks,

Richard

As it states at the end of the link, this Starfire is aka. Knight Rider, Lava Tube. There is a lot of info on here about the LT. Keep in mind that there are 3 versions of them so what is said about one may not be true about different versions.

If you are using Joye eGo then it is regulated at 3.4 volts. The Twist may be what you need to get higher voltage. I agree with others that voltage slightly higher may help and you should get away from 3.4 volts (if that is where you are), but that may not be the entire solution. The combination of volts, resistance and juice combine to give throat hit. Fluxomizers, Pheonix, V510 clearos may help as long as they are matched to the voltage you have.

Perhaps other people could suggest some juices that have higher TH.

 

[Gnimmel]

Thanks again for all the replies.

Yes, I have the smallest ego at 3.4 volts and I've been using Smoke Tech single coil 1.7 ohm cartos with the Ego tank, although I belive when I first picked up the tank it came with 2.5 ohm dual coil, which gave me similar results.

After just looking it up, I like the idea of the ego twist, although to me thats the same price as a more expensive mod just because if it worked I'd need 2 of them to always have a fully charged one.

I also like the idea of trying different liquid. I've tried a few but so far the one I like best is just a Marboro flavor from my local store at 24 mg.

Thanks again for the replies, I'll keep looking up the other sugestions.

Richard

 

[Steeltown79]

I have a satin black provari w/phiniac glass tank with boge cartos. I vape primarily ejoker and ry4 flavors. The cartos last a while before needing to change them, you can choose the kind of hit you want and truely taste your juice. I used blu ecigs for 7 months and burned up a lot of cartos from overuse. The ability to refill is the only thing that kept me with Blu after month 2 and the ecig novelty had worn off. Provari and phiniac was pricey but will save me a ton in carto costs.

 

[TENDERFOOT91]

The ego booster works very well, but I agree that just made me want a vv device so I could have saved $40 it makes it kinda long but it does add a nice TH and I really like it. Great for makeing my other ego batts enjoyable .i have no regrets really I'm glad I have it as a back up.
Good luck,
Don

Edit : I was like you and the twist thought, so that's why I got the ego Booster so it would work on batteries I already had.

 

[kyriakos]

Once you go VV you never go back IMHO.
For TH try more nic juice and smokier flavours.
I vaped 15ml a day with 3 nic and i was not satisfied at all no mater how many volts or watts i had.
all my DIY juice is based on 18 nic at least i vape one good and thats it.
I also have fruits for VG only for TV nights along with a big bottle of water and a bowl of barbeque chips