Please reread the advise I gave. I am going to stop replying to this post because I have answered the same thing three times. The post says I recommend getting a 36mg fluid and a 0 mg fluid so that you can make your own level. And if you notice my response on the cart it emphasizes unattached.
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Please reread the advise I gave. I am going to stop replying to this post because I have answered the same thing three times. The post says I recommend getting a 36mg fluid and a 0 mg fluid so that you can make your own level. And if you notice my response on the cart it emphasizes unattached.
Id have to say that the OP is a newbie giving advice. Id of taken more stock in someone that has been here for several months than a few weeks.
I was really enjoying this forum until I started this post. Last time I will be make a post giving advice.
Some people say that if you unscrew the black mouth piece to remove the cart, the filler material starts screwing onto the atty.
The suggestion to this problem was to pull the cart out vertically instead of turning it.
Please excuse me, I do not mean to jack this thread...
I have spent numerous hours reading the posts in this forum. I have found them very informative. It is safe to say that we are all adults here in this forum and are all entitled to each others opinions. This is my very first post in this forum, so please bear with me.
1. This thread for newbies is a good place to start and I applaud "residualgenius" for starting and having the guts to share.
2. As I have said, everybody has their own opinion! Residualgenius should not take offense to the feedbacks for it is not about you but more about the newbies getting clarification. Just because we have been doing this for a while, does not mean that we know it all! That is what this forum is all about.
3. As adults (I have to assume), we can take in whatever information we believe is right for us. Not all statements are perfect and are usually direct to the point. Most of the time, the few statements omitted could easily explain the mis-understanding.
4. This is a forum and therefore, we should be open to other suggestions. Let's keep things in a positive perspective.
5. Lastly, I have enjoyed everybodys input in this forum. It has been a very informative and the members, I have found, are more willing to share any and all information pertaining to the subject matter and more!!!
Let us keep sharing our thoughts and knowledge in this forum. Thanks!
I have spent numerous hours reading the posts in this forum. I have found them very informative. It is safe to say that we are all adults here in this forum and are all entitled to each others opinions. This is my very first post in this forum, so please bear with me.
1. This thread for newbies is a good place to start and I applaud "residualgenius" for starting and having the guts to share.
2. As I have said, everybody has their own opinion! Residualgenius should not take offense to the feedbacks for it is not about you but more about the newbies getting clarification. Just because we have been doing this for a while, does not mean that we know it all! That is what this forum is all about.
3. As adults (I have to assume), we can take in whatever information we believe is right for us. Not all statements are perfect and are usually direct to the point. Most of the time, the few statements omitted could easily explain the mis-understanding.
4. This is a forum and therefore, we should be open to other suggestions. Let's keep things in a positive perspective.
5. Lastly, I have enjoyed everybodys input in this forum. It has been a very informative and the members, I have found, are more willing to share any and all information pertaining to the subject matter and more!!!
Let us keep sharing our thoughts and knowledge in this forum. Thanks!
Guess the problem I have is him suggesting that he is a veteran. He has a right to his opinion. But to say that he is a veteran at this is a bit presumptuous.
but it was attached, it was the complet ecig. I don't carry extra cartridges, just batteries. strangely it also appears when I inverted the position, but a little less.
Even factory carts can be overfilled (and underfilled for that matter). Overfilling is usually the culprit, but can be compounded by how thin the juice is, how well the stuffing is working (how well it is holding the liquid from just leaking out too quickly), and how deeply the atty presses into the stuffing (particularly with a fresh cart). It can also happen if the atomizer is flooded for whatever reason (excessive dripping, overfilled cart, poor stuffing, etc).
If you don't drip and only use cartridges, it is most likely to leak with a fresh cart installed, be it "factory" or freshly refilled by yourself. You may be able to minimize leakage by using your PV for a little while anytime you install a "fresh" cart before you put it down.
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So I have a question about diy juice. I plan on buying the most potent juice I can get (currently 60mg from nhaler) & cutting it heavily with pg & vg rather than buying 0mg juice. This is purely an economic issue. I want to spend as little as possible on my juice. Where I get lost is the proportions of pg/vg to nic. I understand pg is pretty thick & too much can gunk up the atty, but I want the increased vapor & probably wouldn't want as much throat hit as I would get from using just PG. Anybody have a ratio or formula I could use for creating recipes?
I recommend against this. At first, at least. After reading many threads around here, I "knew" that I'd need a pile of batteries, and another pile of atomizers, and a pile of ways to recharge my batteries so I got a USB charger and an AC charger. And since I didn't want to use up all my batteries I got a USB passthrough, too.
And then I found out that I didn't like my choice for an e-cig. I find a PCC less-than-necessary because I am near some kind of recharging source all day long. And I didn't like my USB passthrough because the cable was annoying. And the USB battery chargers are so slow that I don't use it.
I recommend buying 2 batteries, 2 atomizers, and a charger. That's it for hardware.
Once you know that you are happy with your choice of e-cig model, THEN go out and buy all that stuff. But don't do it immediately.
Here's a long post about my research, my results, my regrets and mistakes.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...8093-choosing-e-cig-my-process-hindsight.html
All the answers you seek are here:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...e-calculator-added-quantity-calculations.html
Here's some recipes:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/10224-recipes-only.html
At 70% PG / 30% VG you shouldn't have to thin your juice, especially if you use 15% or more flavoring in the mix. At 30% VG you should have good vapor production.
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I like the original post. Since we're giving our opinions out - here is mine.
I highly recommend that you...
Make your own decision. Seriously - read through the forums. Perform searches on keywords you want to know more about. Ask questions if you can't find what you are looking for and someone will be glad to help you or point you to a link.
Read up on it, make your choice, buy a kit or basic equipment w/ any juie or carts you need for a good week or so - and use the heck out of it. Give everything a chance to break in before you worry too much about anything, ask more questinos if you need to, and just enjoy yourself.
Simple. Make your own choices based on your own research and habbits.
Take care,
- Hap
I highly recommend that you...
Make your own decision. Seriously - read through the forums. Perform searches on keywords you want to know more about. Ask questions if you can't find what you are looking for and someone will be glad to help you or point you to a link.
Read up on it, make your choice, buy a kit or basic equipment w/ any juie or carts you need for a good week or so - and use the heck out of it. Give everything a chance to break in before you worry too much about anything, ask more questinos if you need to, and just enjoy yourself.
Simple. Make your own choices based on your own research and habbits.
Take care,
- Hap
Dunno, thus far the first e-cig my wife and I bought - 801 - is still our favorite. We've been pretty unhappy with other models we've tried since. Haven't tried the 901 yet, but we're thinking that since they're pretty much just smaller versions of the 801, we'll get some as backups.
I have to agree with the post that states to do your own homework pick a starter kit and see if this is something that you are even going to want to pursue. It's also the rare soul that finds the perfect solution for his/her E-Cig needs on their first try.
While I am perfectly happy with the dragon that I bought for my first E-cig from Truesmoker.com I could still see that it wasn't the perfect solution for me. It's basically a M401 that has been what I would call branded, Truesmoker calls it re-engineered but I digress, it was a fine choice but I still ended up buying a 510 a few days after receiving the dragon and I am happy with that as well.
Why would I get a 510 after being perfectly happy with the M401 model you ask? A couple of reasons really, the first being that the atomizer took a dump on me and the dragon only came with one! I bought a couple spare ones but had to wait for those to arrive but that taught me a valuable lesson to keep spare parts around if I was going to stay with this and away from tobacco so a backup made perfect sense. With that thought in mind I then stumbled across a great deal on what I would call a bare bones starter kit for a 510 for $32 to my door, which is one complete 510, 5 carts and USB charger but no spare of anything like in most kits that cost $50-$60 with shipping. That was perfectly acceptable for a spare and/or to cheaply see if E-Cigs were going to work for me.
I did my research and had narrowed it down to these 2 styles since Blu was telling me that they would not even ship my stuff for 2-3 weeks they lost out on my business as they were the 3rd choice. I talked to people on here and another forum, I called the places that were selling them online and talked to the vendors when I could. If I could not get in touch with a vendor via phone then I crossed them off the list since I don't deal with people I can't talk with when stuff breaks. Email only goes so far in communicating when questions pop up during talking about these things as I am sure you all are aware. Bottom line is to use the brain you were born with and do the research. Nobody wants to spend money on garbage that isn't going to work, and this is very new technology to people which makes it twice as tough to find out what the heck is going on at times. Use your head, and ask the questions before you buy.
I know many people will recommend other kits like the 901, or the screwdriver, or the glv, and those are all fine I am sure, but for my needs those were not an option. I didn't want my E-Cig to look like a cigarette but I also didn't want it to stand out and look like a drug device or something. It also needed to be convenient, compact, long battery life, refillable by DIY, inexpensive and of course taste like a real cigarette. All things that people should take into mind when making a purchase. To the vendors that are bound to reply that they can't answer every call it should be noted that I called a minimum of 6 times before giving up on contacting them via phone. This new tech has too many questions for vendors not to take customer relations and service seriously, especially in light of the bad press the chicken littles of the world crying about them. That's how I feel anyway, the bottom line is to do your homework and you should be making a informed purchase if you put the effort into the homework. Hopefully this rambling post will help someone.
While I am perfectly happy with the dragon that I bought for my first E-cig from Truesmoker.com I could still see that it wasn't the perfect solution for me. It's basically a M401 that has been what I would call branded, Truesmoker calls it re-engineered but I digress, it was a fine choice but I still ended up buying a 510 a few days after receiving the dragon and I am happy with that as well.
Why would I get a 510 after being perfectly happy with the M401 model you ask? A couple of reasons really, the first being that the atomizer took a dump on me and the dragon only came with one! I bought a couple spare ones but had to wait for those to arrive but that taught me a valuable lesson to keep spare parts around if I was going to stay with this and away from tobacco so a backup made perfect sense. With that thought in mind I then stumbled across a great deal on what I would call a bare bones starter kit for a 510 for $32 to my door, which is one complete 510, 5 carts and USB charger but no spare of anything like in most kits that cost $50-$60 with shipping. That was perfectly acceptable for a spare and/or to cheaply see if E-Cigs were going to work for me.
I did my research and had narrowed it down to these 2 styles since Blu was telling me that they would not even ship my stuff for 2-3 weeks they lost out on my business as they were the 3rd choice. I talked to people on here and another forum, I called the places that were selling them online and talked to the vendors when I could. If I could not get in touch with a vendor via phone then I crossed them off the list since I don't deal with people I can't talk with when stuff breaks. Email only goes so far in communicating when questions pop up during talking about these things as I am sure you all are aware. Bottom line is to use the brain you were born with and do the research. Nobody wants to spend money on garbage that isn't going to work, and this is very new technology to people which makes it twice as tough to find out what the heck is going on at times. Use your head, and ask the questions before you buy.
I know many people will recommend other kits like the 901, or the screwdriver, or the glv, and those are all fine I am sure, but for my needs those were not an option. I didn't want my E-Cig to look like a cigarette but I also didn't want it to stand out and look like a drug device or something. It also needed to be convenient, compact, long battery life, refillable by DIY, inexpensive and of course taste like a real cigarette. All things that people should take into mind when making a purchase. To the vendors that are bound to reply that they can't answer every call it should be noted that I called a minimum of 6 times before giving up on contacting them via phone. This new tech has too many questions for vendors not to take customer relations and service seriously, especially in light of the bad press the chicken littles of the world crying about them. That's how I feel anyway, the bottom line is to do your homework and you should be making a informed purchase if you put the effort into the homework. Hopefully this rambling post will help someone.
Save yourself a lot of expense on batteries and get a mod such as GG, Screwdriver Silverbullet or even make your own!
I'm thinking with the current legal issues, making our own may soon be the only option. How hard would this be if you couldn't buy anything made specifically for PVs? Would it be possible to use different heating elements like maybe light bulb filaments or coils or would we have to figure out how to construct our own atomizers??
I too would recommend not getting 36mg unless you know you'll need it!
Also I did read your post bout cutting which is a good idea, but what you are failing to realize is most people are trying to get away from there addiction thus I have purposely not got 36 because I know I would be trying it straight as I enjoy the nic buzz and 36 sure as heck would do that...
Best not to have that temptation around less you know you might need that high of dose...
efan makes an excellent point, I would imagine 99% of us started using E-Cigs as a method to get away from our addiction to tobacco cigarettes which when you boil it down to it's essence is nicotine addiction not tobacco addiction, or smoking addiction. Yes, there are some other triggers associated with smoking which is one of the things that makes it so doubly hard to quit, but the bottom line is that it's the nicotine that we are addicted to physically. It only makes sense to stay away from the higher nicotine levels as we are having such great success with staying away from tobacco cigarettes. The idea that anyone would NEED that high of a nicotine level when trying to get away from smoking is just ludicrous. I can't wait for the day I am buying or mixing my juice with next to nothing in nicotine content. That's when I will know that I have beaten the habit.
Cure the ADDICTION, don't just treat the CRAVINGS.
Cure the ADDICTION, don't just treat the CRAVINGS.
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