.Could have been titled "I owe all I know about E-Cigarettes to the crappy Kanger T-3"
Disclaimer: This is not posted out of my own self inflated sense of worth, I just figure different pieces of it will be useful to everyone reading. I hope it is entertaining along the way.
Everyone has their own journey with e-cigarettes, this is mine, so far. The reoccurring theme will be thriftiness, or I am just a cheap ........ I started smoking cigarettes after I joined the Navy, people site peer pressure at this point, not me. I was around smokers and I picked up the habit. I started smoking out of curiosity and well, it was more addictive than I thought.
The cigalike
I, like most of you tried the gas station e-cig. I, like most of you thought wow, this might be something, oh wait, never mind! Mine was a Crown 7.
http://www.crown7.com/
(wow, this company has come along from a year and a half or so ago, They sell a EGO battery/clearomizers and juice these days).
I, in no way endorse this company, in fact, this e-cigarette drove me back to smoking. I have not tried their product since my initial experience. They are still in business so I hope they have fixed the problems I encountered. I bought the starter kit and a pack of 5 cartridges (didnt know what a cartomizer was in those days). OMG I had a carton of cigarettes in these small packages, and it was tons cheaper than I normally pay! I really wish these guys didnt do that. It makes them look like snake oil salesmen when you realize its BS. The cartos were really full, so full I got juice in my mouth, strike one. I tried to hold it in my mouth while not trying to use it, it would fire (very sensitive auto switch) intermittently, strike two. I wasnt getting enough nicotine to calm my craving, strike three. I just let the thing gather dust and went back to smoking.
What I wish I could have gone back and told myself.
You are trying to quit smoking?
You Rock! Crown 7? Havent heard of it. What did you think about it?
Carl: I was getting juice spitting up into my mouth, its gross.
Carldamnit: That is actually not too bad, the manufacturer is not skimping and trying to make the cartridge last as long as possible. Take a paper clip, snap that white thing out of the top, put this drip tip in. Better?
Carl: Heck yeah, it really doesnt taste like a cigarette though.
Carldamnit: Boy, do I know. You have to realize you have been lighting up tobacco and sucking smoke from it straight to your lungs, you dont put your mouth on the meat smoker vent and inhale that do you?
What in tobacco smoke is harmful?
Carl: Thats just stupid, are you trying to kill me?
Carldamnit: I think you just answered your own question, how is vapor going to taste like burnt tobacco?
Carl: So if I want to enjoy tobacco flavors, it has to taste like chewing tobacco?
Carldamnit: Well ..not exactly, it will be a natural tobacco flavor, not a I just caught the woods on fire taste
Carl: I really enjoy that flavor!
Carldamnit: I know, man do I know. Just have more bar-b-ques
Carl: Ok, so the battery only lasts 30 minutes, 45 minutes tops, how in the heck am I supposed to use this to quit smoking, the damn thing takes an hour or so to charge, am I supposed to live my life next to a charger?
Carldamnit: Wow you really sound winey right now, are you hearing yourself? You could get more batteries so you have a days supply, then you dont have to worry about it.
Carl: DamnitCarl! Have you seen the prices of these little batteries? I am supposed to carry 4 or 5 of these around with me all day? I cant hang around a wall charger all day and I have heard the usb car thing will blow up your car. At $10 a pop you are trying to make me a poor man! How is this saving money? They promised I would save money!
Carldamnit: Really? I know you are a cheap ......., but damn, you really need to do your homework. For $10 dollars you can buy an ego battery and it will last you a lot longer.
Carl: How much longer?
Carldamnit: sigh Ego batteries come in all different sizes from 450MaH to 1300MaH. The accepted rule is that per 100 MaH you have an hour. If you are trying to suck the bottom out of the thing, it will be less.
Carl: Dont be BSing me, I work on radio equipment all day, so you are saying that I can just screw my cartridge into a big ... battery and I can smoke all day? Speaking of big battery, how is this supposed to sit in my mouth? 1300 MaH? That has got to look like I have a corn cob hanging out of my mouth? How is this helping?
Carldamnit: Do you know what connection you have?
Carl: Connection?
Carldamnit: Sigh .{why did I even start trying to explain this to this cheap .......?} The manufacturers want to make sure you use there refills so they have different connections. The Ego battery has a 510 connection and Ego cone Threading, doing a little detective work you can figure out your connection type.
E-Cig Universal Adapters | V2 Cigs
So a V2 cig is KR808D-1
Type 2 are 510 connections
E-Cigarette Standards |
Yeah, they try to make it confusing.
Honestly, forget all this BS if it aint 510 just dont buy it. 510 is becoming the default connector. I currently have old cartomizers
that connect to VV/VW mods. All of my stuff is standardized to 510. Just verify your stuff is 510 and go with it.
Carl: is my Seven
Carldamnit: did you hear what I said, get rid of that crap! 510 or ....!
Carl: That was pretty damn rude!
Carldamnit: Sorry man. you dont know what I have seen and gone through on the ECF forums.
Carl: So you are saying my battery and setup are garbage?
Carldamnit: Heck no, you are getting off real cigarettes with it? Yes?
Carl Yeah
Carldamnit then you, Sir , are the BOMB! Dont let anyone else worry about your sucking on strange devices, Man up, suck on that thing like you mean it (not in a {omg not politically correct} way). This is your life we are talking about!
Carl: I really like the Catfish Charlie flavored juice that I have now from these guys, I can get it anywhere, yes?
Carldamnit Have you really smelled catfish chariie?
Carl: yeah L
Carldamnit: It smells like .... You like peppermint? Bubblegum? Any flavor other than ...?
Carl: yeah, but you dont have to be a jerk about it! ...!
Carldamnit: I will talk to you how I want to, You are my former self, so I can treat you any way I wish with no repurcussions, you turdwrangler you!
Insert lots of giggles here!...........
You know you can refill your cartomizers with bulk bought e-liquid, all you need is a syrenge.
Carl: Wow, how did I become a crotchity old .......? You have information I need. Where, you rotten, miserable old ......., can I get cheap liquid?
Carldamnit:yes! The respect I deserve! You shal go to
Best E Cigarette | Buy Electronic Cigarettes | E Cig Juice - MT Baker Vapor
It may not be the best, but it will do, It will get you away from inhaling leaves, like those dirty hippies!
Note: no hippies were harmed in this thread, so far, lets keep it that way!
Note: this thread was meant to be informative as well as stimulate discussion.
Note: I really dont think there is a catfish Charlie flavored e-liquid.
Note: Not really sure many of you have made it this far.
Disclaimer: This is not posted out of my own self inflated sense of worth, I just figure different pieces of it will be useful to everyone reading. I hope it is entertaining along the way.
Everyone has their own journey with e-cigarettes, this is mine, so far. The reoccurring theme will be thriftiness, or I am just a cheap ........ I started smoking cigarettes after I joined the Navy, people site peer pressure at this point, not me. I was around smokers and I picked up the habit. I started smoking out of curiosity and well, it was more addictive than I thought.
The cigalike
I, like most of you tried the gas station e-cig. I, like most of you thought wow, this might be something, oh wait, never mind! Mine was a Crown 7.
http://www.crown7.com/
(wow, this company has come along from a year and a half or so ago, They sell a EGO battery/clearomizers and juice these days).
I, in no way endorse this company, in fact, this e-cigarette drove me back to smoking. I have not tried their product since my initial experience. They are still in business so I hope they have fixed the problems I encountered. I bought the starter kit and a pack of 5 cartridges (didnt know what a cartomizer was in those days). OMG I had a carton of cigarettes in these small packages, and it was tons cheaper than I normally pay! I really wish these guys didnt do that. It makes them look like snake oil salesmen when you realize its BS. The cartos were really full, so full I got juice in my mouth, strike one. I tried to hold it in my mouth while not trying to use it, it would fire (very sensitive auto switch) intermittently, strike two. I wasnt getting enough nicotine to calm my craving, strike three. I just let the thing gather dust and went back to smoking.
What I wish I could have gone back and told myself.
You are trying to quit smoking?
You Rock! Crown 7? Havent heard of it. What did you think about it?
Carl: I was getting juice spitting up into my mouth, its gross.
Carldamnit: That is actually not too bad, the manufacturer is not skimping and trying to make the cartridge last as long as possible. Take a paper clip, snap that white thing out of the top, put this drip tip in. Better?
Carl: Heck yeah, it really doesnt taste like a cigarette though.
Carldamnit: Boy, do I know. You have to realize you have been lighting up tobacco and sucking smoke from it straight to your lungs, you dont put your mouth on the meat smoker vent and inhale that do you?
What in tobacco smoke is harmful?
Carl: Thats just stupid, are you trying to kill me?
Carldamnit: I think you just answered your own question, how is vapor going to taste like burnt tobacco?
Carl: So if I want to enjoy tobacco flavors, it has to taste like chewing tobacco?
Carldamnit: Well ..not exactly, it will be a natural tobacco flavor, not a I just caught the woods on fire taste
Carl: I really enjoy that flavor!
Carldamnit: I know, man do I know. Just have more bar-b-ques
Carl: Ok, so the battery only lasts 30 minutes, 45 minutes tops, how in the heck am I supposed to use this to quit smoking, the damn thing takes an hour or so to charge, am I supposed to live my life next to a charger?
Carldamnit: Wow you really sound winey right now, are you hearing yourself? You could get more batteries so you have a days supply, then you dont have to worry about it.
Carl: DamnitCarl! Have you seen the prices of these little batteries? I am supposed to carry 4 or 5 of these around with me all day? I cant hang around a wall charger all day and I have heard the usb car thing will blow up your car. At $10 a pop you are trying to make me a poor man! How is this saving money? They promised I would save money!
Carldamnit: Really? I know you are a cheap ......., but damn, you really need to do your homework. For $10 dollars you can buy an ego battery and it will last you a lot longer.
Carl: How much longer?
Carldamnit: sigh Ego batteries come in all different sizes from 450MaH to 1300MaH. The accepted rule is that per 100 MaH you have an hour. If you are trying to suck the bottom out of the thing, it will be less.
Carl: Dont be BSing me, I work on radio equipment all day, so you are saying that I can just screw my cartridge into a big ... battery and I can smoke all day? Speaking of big battery, how is this supposed to sit in my mouth? 1300 MaH? That has got to look like I have a corn cob hanging out of my mouth? How is this helping?
Carldamnit: Do you know what connection you have?
Carl: Connection?
Carldamnit: Sigh .{why did I even start trying to explain this to this cheap .......?} The manufacturers want to make sure you use there refills so they have different connections. The Ego battery has a 510 connection and Ego cone Threading, doing a little detective work you can figure out your connection type.
E-Cig Universal Adapters | V2 Cigs
So a V2 cig is KR808D-1
Type 2 are 510 connections
E-Cigarette Standards |
Yeah, they try to make it confusing.
Honestly, forget all this BS if it aint 510 just dont buy it. 510 is becoming the default connector. I currently have old cartomizers
that connect to VV/VW mods. All of my stuff is standardized to 510. Just verify your stuff is 510 and go with it.
Carl: is my Seven
Carldamnit: did you hear what I said, get rid of that crap! 510 or ....!
Carl: That was pretty damn rude!
Carldamnit: Sorry man. you dont know what I have seen and gone through on the ECF forums.
Carl: So you are saying my battery and setup are garbage?
Carldamnit: Heck no, you are getting off real cigarettes with it? Yes?
Carl Yeah
Carldamnit then you, Sir , are the BOMB! Dont let anyone else worry about your sucking on strange devices, Man up, suck on that thing like you mean it (not in a {omg not politically correct} way). This is your life we are talking about!
Carl: I really like the Catfish Charlie flavored juice that I have now from these guys, I can get it anywhere, yes?
Carldamnit Have you really smelled catfish chariie?
Carl: yeah L
Carldamnit: It smells like .... You like peppermint? Bubblegum? Any flavor other than ...?
Carl: yeah, but you dont have to be a jerk about it! ...!
Carldamnit: I will talk to you how I want to, You are my former self, so I can treat you any way I wish with no repurcussions, you turdwrangler you!
Insert lots of giggles here!...........
You know you can refill your cartomizers with bulk bought e-liquid, all you need is a syrenge.
Carl: Wow, how did I become a crotchity old .......? You have information I need. Where, you rotten, miserable old ......., can I get cheap liquid?
Carldamnit:yes! The respect I deserve! You shal go to
Best E Cigarette | Buy Electronic Cigarettes | E Cig Juice - MT Baker Vapor
It may not be the best, but it will do, It will get you away from inhaling leaves, like those dirty hippies!
Note: no hippies were harmed in this thread, so far, lets keep it that way!
Note: this thread was meant to be informative as well as stimulate discussion.
Note: I really dont think there is a catfish Charlie flavored e-liquid.
Note: Not really sure many of you have made it this far.
