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Cheers.
Cheers.
Thanks vapoor will do!
And if I might ask how did you get a hold of my pic? The gf promised she'd deleted that one! What can I say things got a little nuts at the wheel tappers and squirrels club, to this day I swear someone spiked my hazelnut kirch! And the rollie hanging out my mouth?... So not what it looks like!..*grin*
Mark
And if I might ask how did you get a hold of my pic? The gf promised she'd deleted that one! What can I say things got a little nuts at the wheel tappers and squirrels club, to this day I swear someone spiked my hazelnut kirch! And the rollie hanging out my mouth?... So not what it looks like!..*grin*
Mark
LOLLL A few folks have pmed me saying I shouldn't be posting dead animals. Like you he was out partying...ate some fermented pumpkin and got BLASTED 
The person that took the pic cared for him until he sobered up and could make it home to the Missus.
The person that took the pic cared for him until he sobered up and could make it home to the Missus.
Hello & welcome Mark 
I used to visit York fairly regularly when I lived up North
I used to visit York fairly regularly when I lived up North
Well right now I'm using a silver bullet with a lil mama tank and a Boge carto, vaping griz's black cat and loving it lol!
Truth be told I've been vaping just over a year now and started with a very cheap and very nasty looky likey I picked up on amazon, progressed to an ego tank which broke me of my truly horrendous smoking habbit and from there to my sb with a kick
. I have just gotten into dripping 306's in a dca and that really is my happy place!Thanks for all the welcomes guys, much appreciated!
Mark
Well right now I'm using a silver bullet with a lil mama tank and a Boge carto, vaping griz's black cat and loving it lol!
Truth be told I've been vaping just over a year now and started with a very cheap and very nasty looky likey I picked up on amazon, progressed to an ego tank which broke me of my truly horrendous smoking habbit and from there to my sb with a kick
Thanks for all the welcomes guys, much appreciated!
Mark
Mark - I tried posting this yesterday, but my computer is barely working at the moment, and freezes and crashes constantly. Doin' a fresh re-install of Windows 7, and seriously considering a Mac. I've just about had it with viruses and hacker losers.
Anyway, here's the post from yesterday:
Mark, thanks for the detailed reply.
Now, as anyone who frequents the New Users Forum could predict, I'm about to ask you if you are familiar with what variable voltage does for the vape, by allowing you to control the amount of watts going to the coil or coils? (Coil, (singular), preferably, as those same people could tell you that I favor for its doubling of battery life and other reasons).
I'm familiar with the Silver Bullet, and will own one some day soon, along with a Black Beauty, a ProVari V2, a ProVari Mini, a Reo variable voltage bottom feeder, an Apollo SS VTube, a Buzz Pro 2 and others. But your will get a better OVERALL vape with variable voltage. You just will. Physics says that, not me. Please consider just trying a variable voltage device, and seeing if your Silver Bullet might just become "a friend that you visit often", and not "your wife".
Please check out this video:
THE EGO TWIST IS A GAME CHANGER - YouTube Grimm Green Twist Game changer
The Joyetech eGo-C Twist can be had for about $22, and comes in black, chrome, white, red, green, light pink, and maybe some other colors by now.
Joyetech eGo-C Twist: Joye eGo-C Twist Variable Voltage 650mAh Battery
Oh - and this is from a pretty god site about reviews of devices (although I think the world needs a better such site), where the Silver Bullet gets the rave reviews it deserves, but where one person acknowledges one glaring disadvantage: voltage output is either 3.7 volts, or 6 volts. [Or 7.2 the guy says?] Hmm, I have to look into that. This could be just the device for a mega-high resistance [6-7 ohm] single coil on like a Bulli atomizer or an Odysseus.
Silver Bullet | AltSmoke SB e-cig mod reviews
Features lack variable voltage, otherwise you have a choice of 3.7,6,7.2 volts. Everything else is perfect. This is easily one of the most rock solid performers of any mod. You want something that performs flawlessly every time and can be used to kill as easily as it can be used to vape, this is it. Period.
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That's it - cheers!
At the risk of incurring wrath from various quarters, I'm going to say a few words about single coil vs. dual coil as it relates to the vape and battery life, and variable voltage as well as it relates to the same.
This is a PM I just sent to someone asking about amp draw and how it is affected by using single or dual coils, and as I was typing it I was reminded of the importance of pointing out the advantages of variable voltage as it relates to the use of higher voltages as a means of extending battery life.
Here is my (abridged) PM:
XXXXX:
No problemo; let me dig up a couple of those posts, and I'll send you the links. And I really do appreciate the very, very friendly nature of your post; I really hope we can all get along in this war we're in against cigarettes, which kill 443,000 Americans every year.
Some of the conflicts on this site remind me of the rivalries between the different branches of the military in say, World War Two. The Marines might say to the Army "sure, we do the hard part - conduct an amphibious assault on a Pacific island and get our a$$es shot to hell, and then you guys go in a clean things up after we did the hard part". And the Army might say to the Navy "sure, you get to sleep in your nice, dry, cozy bunks and eat three nice hot meals a day while we sleep in foxholes, march through the mud, and get shelled and shot at 24/7". And on, and on .... Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Special Forces, Coast Guard ....... but I think the important point is that those branches of the military are all on the same side, with the same goal; in the case of World War Two, that goal was to defeat Germany and Japan. And as I said, our goal is to defeat cigarettes.
The reason I keep recommending variable voltage is that it is a better weapon than fixed voltage. It just is. There is no question about that. This is not opinion. This transcends opinion, and resides squarely in the realm of the factual. Constant voltage is not better than variable voltage. A stove that has burners that can be set to just one temperature is not better than a stove that has adjustable-temperature burners. A toaster, iron, electric blanket, thermostat, lamp or any other device that has just one setting is not better than a similar device that can be set to different output evels. It just isn't.
Yes, there are some very cool, very fine constant voltage devices, than can be used an appreciated for what they are. I was just using my Joyetech 18650 mod yesterday for the hell of it, for a few toots. It's a cool device that is so big and fat and torpedo-like, with a really cool, clicky, rubbery switch that I just love it. And some people love the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle that helped win World War 2. They buy them, maintain them, and shoot them so they can admire them for their coolness, their kick, and their awesomeness. But if those same people were about to go off to war, the would almost to a person want to use an AR15/M16 automatic if their lives depended on it.
The life of a newcomer depends on getting the best vape they can get. That is why I don't send them into battle with a constant voltage device. I send them into battle with the clearly superior weapon. I always will.
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Short answer on amp draw:
As you know, volts x volts / resistance = watts.
The amp draw part is simple; it's just another part of Ohm's law that says that amps = watts divided by the amount of volts required to create them. (Amps = Watts/Volts)
So, with your 2ohm dual coil at say, 3.7 volts:
3.7 x 3.7 / 2 = 6.84 watts (and 3.42 watts per coil)
6.84 watts / 3.7 volts = 1.85 amps to put 3.42 watts to each coil
To put 6.84 watts to each coil, it would take twice the watts, and therefore twice the amps, or 3.7 amps.
(My Smoktech VMax could do that, with its 5-amp limit, but the battery would run down twice as fast as it would if it was putting that 6.84 watt to just a single coil).
With a 2.0 ohm single coil:
3.7 x 3.7 / 2.0 = 6.84 watts on that single coil.
6.84 / 3.7 volts = 1.85 amps; again, half the amps for the same watts per coil vs. a dual coil.
And the higher the resistance of the coil, the lower the amp draw. This is counter-intuitive, but true.
If you use a 3 ohm single coil to arrive at the same wattage, you need more volts, but end up using fewer amps.
4.53 v x 4.53 v / 3 ohms = 6.84 watts.
6.84 watts / 4.53 volts = 1.51 amps. And since batteries are rated in milliamp hours - how many amps or fractions thereof can it put out for how long - you get better battery life with fewer amps. Using a higher resistance coil (assuming you can put out enough volts [which a Twist can, and a kGo cannot]), or usng one coil instead of two [one coil does the job just fine IMO), will draw fewer amps and extendbattery life. Your weapon will need reloading less often, and you will have a better chance of defeating the enemy.
So to me, not only does variable voltage give you a better vape, it also can extend battery life. That is why I recommend it over fixed voltage.
Thanks again for the very friendly message, and please feel free to ask any questions you have. I don't know everything, that is for sure, but I do enjoy science, and I sure do enjoy vaping and getting people off of cigarettes.
Have a great day, and best wishes -
John D
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As always, peace out and vape on, all. 
This is a PM I just sent to someone asking about amp draw and how it is affected by using single or dual coils, and as I was typing it I was reminded of the importance of pointing out the advantages of variable voltage as it relates to the use of higher voltages as a means of extending battery life.
Here is my (abridged) PM:
XXXXX:
No problemo; let me dig up a couple of those posts, and I'll send you the links. And I really do appreciate the very, very friendly nature of your post; I really hope we can all get along in this war we're in against cigarettes, which kill 443,000 Americans every year.
Some of the conflicts on this site remind me of the rivalries between the different branches of the military in say, World War Two. The Marines might say to the Army "sure, we do the hard part - conduct an amphibious assault on a Pacific island and get our a$$es shot to hell, and then you guys go in a clean things up after we did the hard part". And the Army might say to the Navy "sure, you get to sleep in your nice, dry, cozy bunks and eat three nice hot meals a day while we sleep in foxholes, march through the mud, and get shelled and shot at 24/7". And on, and on .... Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Special Forces, Coast Guard ....... but I think the important point is that those branches of the military are all on the same side, with the same goal; in the case of World War Two, that goal was to defeat Germany and Japan. And as I said, our goal is to defeat cigarettes.
The reason I keep recommending variable voltage is that it is a better weapon than fixed voltage. It just is. There is no question about that. This is not opinion. This transcends opinion, and resides squarely in the realm of the factual. Constant voltage is not better than variable voltage. A stove that has burners that can be set to just one temperature is not better than a stove that has adjustable-temperature burners. A toaster, iron, electric blanket, thermostat, lamp or any other device that has just one setting is not better than a similar device that can be set to different output evels. It just isn't.
Yes, there are some very cool, very fine constant voltage devices, than can be used an appreciated for what they are. I was just using my Joyetech 18650 mod yesterday for the hell of it, for a few toots. It's a cool device that is so big and fat and torpedo-like, with a really cool, clicky, rubbery switch that I just love it. And some people love the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle that helped win World War 2. They buy them, maintain them, and shoot them so they can admire them for their coolness, their kick, and their awesomeness. But if those same people were about to go off to war, the would almost to a person want to use an AR15/M16 automatic if their lives depended on it.
The life of a newcomer depends on getting the best vape they can get. That is why I don't send them into battle with a constant voltage device. I send them into battle with the clearly superior weapon. I always will.
****
Short answer on amp draw:
As you know, volts x volts / resistance = watts.
The amp draw part is simple; it's just another part of Ohm's law that says that amps = watts divided by the amount of volts required to create them. (Amps = Watts/Volts)
So, with your 2ohm dual coil at say, 3.7 volts:
3.7 x 3.7 / 2 = 6.84 watts (and 3.42 watts per coil)
6.84 watts / 3.7 volts = 1.85 amps to put 3.42 watts to each coil
To put 6.84 watts to each coil, it would take twice the watts, and therefore twice the amps, or 3.7 amps.
(My Smoktech VMax could do that, with its 5-amp limit, but the battery would run down twice as fast as it would if it was putting that 6.84 watt to just a single coil).
With a 2.0 ohm single coil:
3.7 x 3.7 / 2.0 = 6.84 watts on that single coil.
6.84 / 3.7 volts = 1.85 amps; again, half the amps for the same watts per coil vs. a dual coil.
And the higher the resistance of the coil, the lower the amp draw. This is counter-intuitive, but true.
If you use a 3 ohm single coil to arrive at the same wattage, you need more volts, but end up using fewer amps.
4.53 v x 4.53 v / 3 ohms = 6.84 watts.
6.84 watts / 4.53 volts = 1.51 amps. And since batteries are rated in milliamp hours - how many amps or fractions thereof can it put out for how long - you get better battery life with fewer amps. Using a higher resistance coil (assuming you can put out enough volts [which a Twist can, and a kGo cannot]), or usng one coil instead of two [one coil does the job just fine IMO), will draw fewer amps and extendbattery life. Your weapon will need reloading less often, and you will have a better chance of defeating the enemy.
So to me, not only does variable voltage give you a better vape, it also can extend battery life. That is why I recommend it over fixed voltage.
Thanks again for the very friendly message, and please feel free to ask any questions you have. I don't know everything, that is for sure, but I do enjoy science, and I sure do enjoy vaping and getting people off of cigarettes.
Have a great day, and best wishes -
John D
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As always, peace out and vape on, all.
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