When did I fall so far behind.
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Feel your pain man. It looks like alphabet soup out there anymore. There is so much "stuff" now that I don't even know what half of it is.
The good news though .............. I DON'T CARE!!! So as for advising on what you should get, I don't have a clue.
Stuff I'm using is so old that folks think it must be something new.
BTW this could be bought for vaping is 1859!
Haha, nice ad!
I agree, but prices on sale items have been hard to resist since the FDA deeming legislation came out. I'm buying more mods as backups for backups just in case. Yes, I know that we have 2 years and the remainder of the 90 day new product introduction period, maybe even 3 years before the FDA begins to snatch products that haven't been approved off the market, but why gamble on the future unknowns when there are deals that will seal our vaping future?
I'm being really picky and only buying things I've been wanting for a while. Some of these sales are 50% or more off MSRP. Some are superseded by other new products, but they all heat a coil and feed juice to a wick and allow control of the vaping parameters. Some offer TC and others are just power mods, but for a 10W tootle puffer fancy options are just gravy.
Actually, there's been lots of deals at Provape. I have a Provari V2 that I bought in 2011 that is still working like new. Right now, you can buy a variety of Provari 2.5's for $34.95.
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Prolly about the time I became an old lady
I want nothing to do with the advancing march of technology and it's re-invention of the vaping wheel. Especially not when I see people posting their struggles with it on here, and when the simple old school hardware I started out with is being discontinued in favor of that crap!
To me it all seems geared toward making vaping increasingly more complex and expensive, thus guaranteeing them locked in repeat business of parts and devices needing service and replacement with increasingly shorter useful lifespans. I see that as just as much a threat to vaping as the FDA!
At some point vaping consultants will enter into it, paid to solve increasingly complex hardware problems, and the B&M Genius Bar (tm) will become standard. More ways to extract more money from you.
I vehemently reject that! I had my ideal vaping solution 3 years ago with the good old mech and genny, which served me ideally for 3 years, until they started moving past that into much more complicated devices and abandoning the simple old school things that just plain worked!
Now I can't even get parts for the SIMPLE devices that worked so beautifully for so very long, because they want to make it hopelessly complex and expensive so you have to pay them more and more just to enjoy your morning vape with your coffee! It's the same thing they did with your car. Back in the day you could just pop the hood and work on it yourself. Now they have your engine full of computers and covered up with metal so you can't even get at it without doing three times the work! Makes me want to go out and buy a 1958 Checker!
Okay, I'm ranting, I know... I'll stop now...
Hopefully they keep it like that till next week because I'll be purchasing one. One question though; should I buy the 18650 extension?
I've got three Provari 2.5s in use (one since 2012 — that's a 2.0) and 20 in my vapemageddon stash. The first 18650 extension I bought cost about $20, so yeah, $6 is a good deal, at least for me. 18650s last me about a day, but the shortie 18350s would have to be changed twice per day. Aside from the convenience factor, a weak point on any mod is having to unscrew it to change batteries. So, unscrewing it only half as often saves wear and tear on the threads.
Thanks, DaveP, for pointing out that the 2.5s are still available! I bought another three for the stash. You can never be too thin or too rich; neither can you ever have too many Provaris in your stash.
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You know, I don't mind the new setups much at all I mean sure buying something with tc and Wizz bangs etc just means more to break but the added funtionalility is pretty nice.
Plus when you can pick then up for $30 a pop I can't honestly complain.
But I have learnt that I'm not a huge fan of tc so far... Using an NI coil I just can't get that throat hut I enjoy... No matter how high I go it always feels like I'm vaping with a nearly dead battery.
I'll have to give titanium a try and see if it'd any better.
And I can't believe provari is still around
Plus when you can pick then up for $30 a pop I can't honestly complain.
But I have learnt that I'm not a huge fan of tc so far... Using an NI coil I just can't get that throat hut I enjoy... No matter how high I go it always feels like I'm vaping with a nearly dead battery.
I'll have to give titanium a try and see if it'd any better.
And I can't believe provari is still around
Perhaps less to break has something to do with it. I see a number of vapers who have added one to their vape stash, just in case.
And I can't believe provari is still around
Provape posted on a blog that if things don't change they will be shutting the doors in 2 years
Provape posted on a blog that if things don't change they will be shutting the doors in 2 years
ProVape actually recommended buying one by this summer ... get em while you can
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The 2.5s? or their whole line
Oh well thanks for the heads up ..I have 6 2.5 s in my stash so I'm good
I bought 3 more Provari's with their sale and blem prices, I just couldn't resist! My original mini I still have, so my Provari stash is 4 now
I would love a Procyon but didn't spring for that, got a P3 and classic and another mini.
That depends upon what battery you want to use in it.
By default, a standard 2.5 Provari uses an 18490 battery. If you want to use an 18650, you'll need the extension.
By default, a mini 2.5 uses an 18350 battery. If you want to use an 18490, you'll need the extension.
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