Vape gear you regret buying most?
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As I research any purchase, I'm not one to make regrettable purchases. That is, until I saw a Kbox for less than a $20 bill (And now they can be had for considerably less). Didn't know much about them but it looked kinda pocket-friendly and lord knows the price was right. So I bit.
Now, I know there are plenty of Kbox fanbois out there but this thing will not connect consistently with any tank (Atlantis2, Starrre, Lemo, Melo, Herakles, even Nautilus). I finally bought a finned heatsink (good money after bad) with which it fires for a while, then quits, unable to make contact. If it had an OLED screen (as most do) it would state "No atomizer" or some such.
Anyway, that's my embarrassing story. Perhaps all but the one I go are great but my regret is making an impulsive decision on a piece of hardware at a bargain price.
Now, I know there are plenty of Kbox fanbois out there but this thing will not connect consistently with any tank (Atlantis2, Starrre, Lemo, Melo, Herakles, even Nautilus). I finally bought a finned heatsink (good money after bad) with which it fires for a while, then quits, unable to make contact. If it had an OLED screen (as most do) it would state "No atomizer" or some such.
Anyway, that's my embarrassing story. Perhaps all but the one I go are great but my regret is making an impulsive decision on a piece of hardware at a bargain price.
My worst buy was a mini pro tank clone i got from a local shop. It never worked right and the stock coils that came with it were awful and I would say borderline dangerous.
Yep. I bought a mini Nova clone (unknown to me it was a clone), attached it to a Riva 1,100 and that was the end of that battery. It was listed under the sub-heading "Vision Products". Never used that vendor again.
I suspect time will be the judge on the Kbox. It's only been out a short while and there are more broken ones than in 1.5 years of MVP v.2 ruling the charts.
No regrets. Bought some that were junk and owned a Vamo 20 watt that tipped over on coffee table after owning it 15 minutes and broke. Made me a much more careful buyer and wait till things are well proven by others before I buy the newest and greatest things. CHEERS!
For me it was an Ego VV3 battery. A badly designed, badly engineered and badly built piece of dung.
Worst purchases were those DEDICATED to sub-ohm vaping. The Dripper and Modified Geni tank. Both work, the Geni is actually great, I just don't like sub-ohm, enough, or in truth doing lung hits. Lung hit is a bad description to me, but my real term for the type of draw is not allowed on the site. I prefer a tightish draw, more akin to what you would do on a Cigarette or cigar or pipe.
an IPV50w box mod ... it was an impulse buy at VapeCon ... luckily, I traded it for a nice used Provari.
Probably a race between an Aurora BFT bottom feeder that I'm just not smart enough to get to work consistently and the DSE801 penstyles that I thought would be the best vape every but turned out to be the leakiest PV I've ever used.
For me, it was spending the money on a big airy higher-end dual coil atomizer. It taught me I'm NOT a mouth-to-lung, wide open, sub-ohm, juice disposal machine style of vaper.
Apart from some wildly overpriced and overhyped juices, it has to be the iTaste VTR and the Vulcan RDA (not used with the VTR btw).
VTR was pretty limiting in terms of RTAs and RDAs that will fit without using the stupid adapter, also I quickly outgrew the power limit (15W). It is fine for using single coil RTAs like the Kayfun (once the ring is ground down), but does not cut the mustard with 'decent' RTAs.
The Vulcan RDA struck me as being a good design in theory, sadly the flavour was not as good as the Magma RDA and it quickly became a dust covered vaping ornament.
Also worth a mention is a copper mech med (name irrelevant), after a month or so of use I managed to screw on the top piece too tightly (thanks to the Big Dripper) and never could prize it from the tube again (despite using a vice, a hammer, pliers and other assorted damaging tools).
VTR was pretty limiting in terms of RTAs and RDAs that will fit without using the stupid adapter, also I quickly outgrew the power limit (15W). It is fine for using single coil RTAs like the Kayfun (once the ring is ground down), but does not cut the mustard with 'decent' RTAs.
The Vulcan RDA struck me as being a good design in theory, sadly the flavour was not as good as the Magma RDA and it quickly became a dust covered vaping ornament.
Also worth a mention is a copper mech med (name irrelevant), after a month or so of use I managed to screw on the top piece too tightly (thanks to the Big Dripper) and never could prize it from the tube again (despite using a vice, a hammer, pliers and other assorted damaging tools).
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