Provari with a cheapy Smoke Tech tank with a 3 ohm tripple prepunched carto inside at 5 volts. I just wrote everything else off and bought a 2nd one the 1st day I met my Provari... True love story
What is your best vape equipment?
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Two of my PVs make up about 90% of my vaping. I have a notcigs VVPV with an hh.357 on it. And, i have a REO VVW with an i06 on it. these two devices deliver the most consistent vaping experience I've found. They both carry all day juice supply on board and they both have enough battery life to get through a long day vaping. ---> That's my best kit. When I can leave the house carrying only one single vaping related item (no suplies, no spare batteries, no filled cartos, no tanks, no nuttin/nada/zero/zilch), and when i can count on the device to deliver a consistent vape every time I hit the fire button, then I'm satisfied by hassle-reduction and consistency.
Send a me some recipes for Boba's Bounty, Torque56, W2V's Blondie.... And I'll get right on it.
And while you are at it, Antidote, Lazarus, and Love Potion...
Those are on my to-do list to *TRY* to recreate...
he is smarter than the rest of us, just ask him.
what works for him should work for everyone, amirite?
2 words to vaping bliss.
Reo Grand
Sent from my truck using 3 toasters a broken microwave and 6 rubber bands McGyver style......Chuck Norris aint got crap on me
Reo Grand
Sent from my truck using 3 toasters a broken microwave and 6 rubber bands McGyver style......Chuck Norris aint got crap on me
My best changes with the day. Some days it's provaris with lavatanks. Some days it's Silver Bullets with vivi novas. Some days it's dripping a 901 on the Empire. Or a 306 on an Omega or a Reo Grand. Some days it's a wood mod. Juices change almost daily. Usually have at least 14 tanks full and ready every day. Doesn't matter what it is any given day or any given person. It's what works that day and that time to keep you from reaching for a cigarette.
I want a Reo SOOO bad, BUT they don't have a model that suits my requirements...
1. Mechanical is no good for me. I mean, it's great, but I NEED regulated power. The downward slope as voltage falls is a no-go, and carrying extra batteries to swap out when I notice the drop is unacceptable.
2. The only VV version uses stacked 18350's... Meaning I would have to go the route of stacking batteries, AND buy a whole nother set of batteries for it.
3. Kicking a Grand would be an option, except that the forum is literally riddled with threads about those things failing...
I HAVE thought about getting a Reo Grand and modding it with a DNA, but I don't know if there would be room(using an 18500 of course), and I don't know much about the failure rate on the DNA.
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18490 maybe.... But I use 3100 mah 18650's and don't have a problem. I only change the battery once a day.
Sent from my truck using 3 toasters a broken microwave and 6 rubber bands McGyver style......Chuck Norris aint got crap on me
Sent from my truck using 3 toasters a broken microwave and 6 rubber bands McGyver style......Chuck Norris aint got crap on me
Yea, but that one still has the issue of not being regulated... I can tell the difference between a fresh battery and 3.8v. I vape at 10 watts. 4.2v with a 1.8ohm atomizer is pretty much 10 watts, but 3.8v is only a measly 8 watts.
I'm sure it would be great for a few hours, but once it starts dropping, I'd have to run and get another battery, and that's not acceptible to me. I know, I'm picky.
There has never been a single reported catastrophic battery failure or even a thermal runaway involving a device using the notcigs regulator. Not even one. Furthermore, the design of the REO does not encapsulate the batteries in a metal tube with inadequate or imperfectly placed venting. Your statement of this configuration being "less safe" has no foundation. The only publicly known serious injury related incidents were with mechanical tubes using stacked li-on 16340s, and in fact, at least one of those incidents involved inserting the wrong type of batteries that the user picked up at radio shack.
EDIT: Sorry. Misread bottle hole as bottom hole. My old eyes apologize:
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What they do have is a non-sealed dove tailed door with a ~1 inch X ~1/2 inch hole in it plus a lot of extra space inside. They also have a hot spring and the atty connector is over the bottle, not over the batteries. What the VV models also have is short circuit protection, overheat protection, reverse battery protection, etc etc etc.
-EDIT: Add pertinent paragraph about bottle hole/door design::: IMR's can vent and can even vent with flame. They aren't like li-ons that actually explode like a big firecracker sometimes. There is quite a lot of room in the box aside from the huge bottle hole. If a battery vents in any REO, you will not be inducing high pressure and possible mod shrapnel. Though an IMR having a thermal runaway does produce quite a lot of hot gas and it comes out of the battery pretty fast, it wouldn't be like a blowtorch shooting through the sqounk hole. The box has room inside it for expanding gas, plus the door is dovetailed plus the huge squonk hole... This mod is just so open that there is no chance I can see that pressure would ever build up inside the mod.
And sure. Batteries can theoretically fail in any configuration. I see between 2 and 3 dozen blown up 18650s and at least ten blown up 16340s every spring when the lightening storms hit my com towers. Li-ons explode sometimes. The recommended IMRs can vent or even vent with a bit of flame... these things are certainly possible. However, when fully protected from short circuits, these events become much less likely. And when protected from overheat, these events become even less likely. And when put in a box with spare room in it plus a big old hole in the door, a venting episode won't involve high pressure or shrapnel... even if somehow such a thing actually got by the built in protections and occurred anyway (which, again, has not happened even once involving a device running the notcigs regulator)
The only thing that might possibly make running two batteries more dangerous than one in a box of this type is the simple fact that there are two instead of one. Logically, that would seem to indicate doubling your chance of having a problem... though it doesn't actually mean that when circumstances are such that the electronics in the unit are designed to stop those sorts of problems before they happen.
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For the price I have to say my torpedo chrome is awesome. I only payed $70 for a full kit and it stands up to all the other VV's I have. Very easy to use and very sturdy.
Check em out: Torpedo Chrome VVV Kit
I ordered mine in August when everything was 25% off. Still not a bad deal though for what you get.
Check em out: Torpedo Chrome VVV Kit
I ordered mine in August when everything was 25% off. Still not a bad deal though for what you get.
ANOTHER Lavatube clone? Jeez... That one came on the scene and exploded all over every vaping website in existence... I do have to say though... That is definitely one of the better looking models.
LOL I didn't say bottom hole, I said bottle hole, where you squonk it... My fingers would be in front of it when I hold it since I am left handed. Nonetheless, I will concede that it is a safer device than most, and remove the "unsafe" reference from my post...
I still wish they would make a boosted 18490 model... or a DNA based 18490 model... Just sayin.
LOL Good a reason to buy it as any... Out of all the LT's on the market today, that's prolly the one I would buy if I had to.
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