vaping advice

[Sacred]

Right, I'll get to the point.

I am currently vaping with an aspire nautilus tank and a vision spinner 2 battery. I have enjoyed this set up for a long while now moving from the mini to the regular tank in that time with my battery since August last year. I love the easiness of it all and have no interest yet in clouding and sub ohming as it doesn't really fit in with my lifestyle, vaping on breaks and relaxing at home etc.

so what I was hoping the community could help with is advice on better tanks and the like for a vaper like me.

I use fuzion vapours at the minute and occasionally t juice. I have tried many different liquids though and I am finding the nautilus is not really up to the task. my coils last days with fuzion instead of weeks and recently I bought some flavours by Joe (american) and although I liked the flavour and vapour it burnt coils out within hours. This seems to be the problem I have, any decent liquids don't last very long in my tank so if there is a tank that can hold up to them I would be very interested in investing in one.

Thanks

 

[Muru]

I understand that you like the ease of prebuilt coils, however, I am recommending you check out an rta as an option. I am a lazy vaper, things should be easy, but I am also on a budget and modern coils cost a fortune. So I now build my own. Building your own coils can be a hassle, especially in the beginning when you don't really know what you are or should be doing. But my self-built coils last for months with regular cleaning and rewicking in between. I started rebuilding my evods (single coils) and protanks II. I still use my protanks with my own coils. I've added a Kayfun 3.1 lite to my collection which is actually easier to rebuild (but a pain to fill).
There's good reviews on the lemo drop too, so you might want to check that out as well.
If you really don't want to rebuild, then get tanks with coils that you can easily clean and even rewick to make them last longer. I am sure people will have more great suggestions for you!

 

[Spencer87]

I would actually suggest you check out some RDA's took me literally 5 minutes to build my first coil, and if you vape on breaks and while relaxing at home, dripping seems like it would do it for you.
Dripping Or RTA's are not really about subohming and clouds. there are tons of RDA/RTA available for Flavor.... which is what I use. Its a little more tinkering, but ultimately saves you tons of money.
Plus, the coils last for a while, since you pull out the wick and dry burn the gunk off.
In the premade coils, Darker and/or thicker juices tend to make the coils gunk up. and a lot of the time, I think it also has to do somewhat with the wick. You cant rip out the wick and burn the coils till they are red. therefore the coils stay dirty.

 

[djsvapour]

Hi!

For me, the Vision Spinner II is not a good enough battery for the Nautilus. (I neither make clouds or subohm, most days).

However, your problem seems to be more related to coil life. Are you using the BDC or the BVC coil?

The BVC coil *for me* is the longest lasting coil on the market. Absolutely NO EXCEPTION.

I'm of the opinion that if you are finding these not long lasting enough, the ONLY choice is to rebuild. This means getting a Kayfun (probably) and learning the ropes, as it were. You could try a Fogger, or even a Taifun GT (2)? but basically, these RBAs (RTAs) work the same way. The Lemo (Eleaf) is good, but more suited to high power vaping.

That's it... that's your answer...

Potentially, you could buy a "lorry-load" of Kanger Subtank OCCs direct from China and swap them out every every 3-4 days (I get 7-8 days) but that's going to cost you way more over the months than rebuilding. Fasttech sell OCC coils of many types, even a box of 50 clones for £40.

50 would last me a year. A year for £40 is tempting, I must say.

 

[Sacred]

Thanks for the responses so far!

I use the bvc coils mainly and they seem to last at the most a week. The main problem seems to be a trade off between good liquid and the life of the coil. If its down to the liquid I use them I would be very interested in recommendations that won't gunk up or burn the coil.

as for rba and rda. I don't know whether that is for me. The whole building the coils does seem to be very long winded and with a massive risk of something going wrong which with my luck will be waited against me haha I understand that is the next step for vaping but watching how to videos I am still rather wary of doing that.

In terms of a battery for the nautilus what is the best option? I think the spinner is finally on its way out for me as it isn't charging as well or as quick as before I have noticed this week so certainly I need to replace the battery so a better suited one for the tank would be ideal.

finally Atlantis, would this tank suit me at all for easiness and what benefit would I have with using it?

 

[philoshop]

Welcome to the forum Sacred!
I've found that the dark-colored juices drastically reduce coil/wick life. With clear or very lightly-colored juices I'm able to get 3 to 4 weeks from the BVC coils in my Nautilus.
Building your own coils is not very difficult but does take some practice and knowledge. Many of the videos make it look harder than it actually is. As long as you're not building sub-ohm coils the only real safety concern is having a dead short -- usually because some part of the coil is touching the body of the tank -- but that's easily checked with an ohm reader.
There are lots of good power units for the Nautilus type tanks. Even the lowly MVP2 I have runs the Naughty just fine for me, and the price sure is right.
I can't speak directly to the Atlantis, as I have no experience with it.
Best of luck to you.

 

[Muru]

I would advice against the Atlantis, since this is a tank made for low-ohm vaping. You'd definitely need a different battery to use with the Atlantis. The airflow on the Atlantis is wide and not really comfortable if you like to draw vapour in your mouth first before inhaling (mouth-to-lung).
A coil can also gunk up faster if it doesn't get enough power, so a battery that can deliver more power might solve your problem as well. Istick30 or MVP are great options. But there are more options out there.

 

[Spencer87]

Thanks for the responses so far!

I use the bvc coils mainly and they seem to last at the most a week. The main problem seems to be a trade off between good liquid and the life of the coil. If its down to the liquid I use them I would be very interested in recommendations that won't gunk up or burn the coil.

as for rba and rda. I don't know whether that is for me. The whole building the coils does seem to be very long winded and with a massive risk of something going wrong which with my luck will be waited against me haha I understand that is the next step for vaping but watching how to videos I am still rather wary of doing that.

In terms of a battery for the nautilus what is the best option? I think the spinner is finally on its way out for me as it isn't charging as well or as quick as before I have noticed this week so certainly I need to replace the battery so a better suited one for the tank would be ideal.

finally Atlantis, would this tank suit me at all for easiness and what benefit would I have with using it?

It all boils down to the liquid being clear. and More PG. PG is thinner, So Tanks usually prefer a 50/50 blend or higher in PG. Us drippers tend to like thicker VG juices because they
1)Are easier to drip
2)tend to blow out bigger clouds (I am not a cloud chaser, But if i can get a bigger cloud while I get my flavor, might as well.

As for rebuilding. not to beat a dead horse here, but the whole things going wrong... That has nothing to do with luck... and everything to do with intelligence. learn battery stuff, ask people on here, and get to building your own coils. As a matter of a fact though, i believe Rip Trippers did a video tutoring people with how to rebuild the BVC coils. In all honesty, rebuilding premade coils is a little troublesome for me. RDA is a lot easier. but you can give that a try if nothing else, if you dont mind tinkering.

 

[djsvapour]

In terms of a battery for the nautilus what is the best option? I think the spinner is finally on its way out for me as it isn't charging as well or as quick as before I have noticed this week so certainly I need to replace the battery so a better suited one for the tank would be ideal.

finally Atlantis, would this tank suit me at all for easiness and what benefit would I have with using it?

A battery is a battery. You need a minimum of 15w (maybe 20w) to run Aspire Nautilus. You'll need 20+ watts to run an Atlantis and a sub-ohm capable "mod" e-cig.

The iStick 20w will run the Nautiluses. The iStick 30w will also run them, and the Atlantis, and won't have the problems that some people had with the v.1 (20w)

How long do Atlantis coils last though?

Have a look here at mods.. see what takes your eye.

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