(Since Vermillion doesn't have its own Vendor Forum I'm cross-posting this. -Magnus)
I'm curious how many of you tried the SMOKtech dual-coil cartomizers at 1.5ohms w/ Vermillion's juices. Which juices and what were your results? What did you use prior? Did the dual-coil bug stick with you? Any comments you might have. Thanks much, -Magnus
Magnus,
As I write this, I'm vaping Kentucky Premium in a 1.5 ohm dual-coil clear carto powered by a Madvapes VV box set at 4.5 volts.
Like so many of us, I've been through the mill with all the "vapor producing systems"---atty dripping, bottom-feeders, cartos (Boges, SLBs, in both 3 ohm standard and 2 ohm LR), CE2s (metal tubes and clearomizers in all the resistances), homemade CE2 mods (syringe mods in 3ml, 5ml, 10ml---never tried MAP or Stormy Tanks), 510 Tanks (never tried the ego-Ts), etc.
Dripping was good for flavor, vapor, and throat hit, but inconvenient, with dry hits and flooding an ever-present pitfall. Cartos were OK for flavor and vapor, good for TH, but very inconsistent, with unpredictable life-spans and that burned filler problem. CE2 and other tanks promised everything but delivered much less. They required endless fiddling and modding, had wicking issues, and while flavors were generally pure, throat hit vanished. The clearo tubes cracked, and almost all the various styles of tanks leaked like sieves.
When dual coils first emerged three-or-so months ago, I was skeptical, having been burned too often. I gave in and bought my first batch of 30 metal-tube duals two months ago, and I haven't looked back since. For me, they've been fabulous. Flavor that is 95% of dripping (slightly different but still great), punch and throat hit unmatched by anything else, and sufficient juice capacity to not need topping up every half hour.
The downside is that about 1 out of 3 of the 15 I put into service with different juices were great only for a week or two before slacking off in draw and performance. The good news is that 2 out of 3 are still going strong after two months, with no signs of giving out. And now I'm switching over to the clear plastic-tube duals, which don't crack (unlike CE2s), can be taken apart to clean the filler, and then dry burned to renew the coils. I've put only 5 of my 30 new clear duals into service so far, so I've had no need to clean/renew any of them, but I like knowing that I can. And all five are primo after a week, with zero duds. I still drip to sample new juices, and I do use my Phidias bottom feeders on occasion, but the bulk of my vaping is with dual coils.
I've never used 3.2 volt MOSFET-regulated eGo batts, so I don't know how dual coils perform with those. Duals work wonderfully with my four Hello 016 batteries, which are unregulated and charge up to 4.2 volts. And they are absolutely brilliant with linear-regulated non-current-limited VVs, such as my Little Sister, two Big Brothers, Shan's Big Splash, and three Madvapes VV boxes. Duals work at ANY voltage with those, from low 3 volts to mid 6 volts, although the sweet spot seems to be right in the middle, around 4.5 volts. The higher-end VVs (ProVari, Infinity, Darwin) use chips with current limiters built into the software, which can be a problem for dual coils, since they love more amps.
This is a young industry with new and improved products rolling out every season, but even if nothing came along to challenge dual coils or make them obsolete, I'd still be a happy vaper.
I don't know about the rest of Vermillion's juices, but Kentucky Premium is bliss in a dual coil. I have yet to encounter a juice that dual coils don't like. As always, of course, YMMV.
