What's the difference between regular mods and mechanical? What's the best amount of time to steep some highbrow liquid? What are RDAs? I've seen a lot of stashes here and wonder why you would want like 20 ego battery things or ten mods? I am wondering if I should get more? I have two vission spinners and a zmax. I rotate three flavors at a time: a candy, a coffee, and a minty one. Its working so far.
Wow! So many questions.
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Some mods are filled with varying amounts of electronics. I have heard some say a device was not truly mechanical because there was a piece of wire in it while others seem to think a single piece of wire is not that important. I don't know how to judge this.
I think steep time is a black art....I know it is actually chemistry. There seems to be a lot of variable. I just know that most of my juices seem better after time. In fact some I said I hated and would never like turned out pretty good after it got old.
I don't know why anyone would want 20 ego things. I do have some auto eGo's that I like and some I hate. I don't want any spinners or twists. Opinions will vary. It makes my stomach hurt knowing how many Provari worth of twists I have had.
Rotating favors is a good thing in my opinion and it is why some people have three Provari on their desk.
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Whatever works for you to keep you off of the smokes. It's good to have backups for everything you use: batteries, juice attachments, and juice.
That brings up another one I wondered, what is the difference between vaping and dripping?
Dripping is a subset of vaping.
Dripping can give better favor. It is the act of dripping juice directly onto a hot coil.
Some don't want to set their and drip or are doing other things when they vape. They are accepting a lower flavor level by using a deliver system that wicks or by some other method gets liquid to the coil.
Some have time time or make the time so they can drip directly in order to get a better vape.
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Some dripping atomizers can produce better flavor than some atomizers, some. But there are rba's, re-buildable atomizer, that will deliver every bit as good flavor as any dripper out there, if not better. It all depends on your wick, your build, method of juice delivery, watts vaped at... Everything effects the outcome of ones vape, and everyone has their personal preference. I prefer great rba's with tanks of juice on board.
Some make time to make a great build so that they don't have to drip to get a great vape.
RBA = re-buildable atomizer. These include tanks. AGA-T, RSST, Kayfun come to mind.
RDA = re-buildable dripping atomizer. No tank because you drip juice into them when needed. IGO-L, IGO- W, Trident come to mind.
Enjoy that you don't need anything else at the moment.
Because you don't.
Unless it starts to become a hobby.
In which case you're screwed.
As far as I understand, people use mechanical mods with RBAs to get even more powerful vapes.
Because you don't.
Unless it starts to become a hobby.
In which case you're screwed.
As far as I understand, people use mechanical mods with RBAs to get even more powerful vapes.
Regular mods offer regulated power by the use of electronic circuits. They give you features like limiting power output when you ask it for too much or the coil shorts, variable voltage/wattage, shutdown when the battery is drained and more. Mechanical mods do none of these and safe use of them is all in the hands of the user. The advantage is simple mod design and no power limitation, right up to the point where the battery blows.
The right amount of steep time is when the juice tastes good to you. It can take 0 minutes or 8 weeks, but typically it's between 1 day and 3 weeks.
While I drive, I use either a RBA (Rebuild-able Atomizer) Like a Genesis Rsst that has a tank on it or a Kanger pro tank. When I'm sitting comfortably at home, it's a RDA (Rebuild-able Drip Atomizer) like a Nemesis, or Trident and so on. I've gone completely to Mechanical battery mods, though I do have a few Vamo's and a Lava tube vv/vw. (Variable Voltage/ Variable wattage) Battery holders.
Personally, I never understood why some folks get complete mechanical mods and then put a VV/VW button in em too. Usually the cost for a factory made VV/VW mod is cheaper then a true blue 150 dollar full mech. mod like a Sentinel and then buying a vv/vw button for it . Though clone mods are available for far less than the 150 dollar ones. Adding a vv/vw button seems to defeat the reason for a full mechanical.
I use mechs, simply because in my opinion, I get better flavor out of using it and one of my RDA's, then I do from one of my VV/VW battery mechs. with the same RDA. Not saying someone is wrong or anything . Just saying it generally doesn't make any sense to me. But then again, to each their own. Takes different strokes from different folks to make the world .
I just started doing DIY mixology. So can't answer anything about the steep times. The general consensus seems to be, the longer you can have patience to let it steep, the better the juice will taste and be.
It's hard letting things steep when you first start out (well for me it has been) because generally, the reason most start mixing, is to offset the expensiveness of store bought liquids. You want something to vape right off the bat that you can make, because it's cheaper and because there's a sense of great satisfaction being able to mix something yourself that you can vape. But I'm still trying to figure out what I can make and vape quickly. I only bought 12 flavors and it seems after reading through the forums, Most of what I got, needs at least a weeks worth of steep time. Haven't found a thread yet that lists immediate DIY vaping flavors yet.
Anyway Hi and welcome.
Personally, I never understood why some folks get complete mechanical mods and then put a VV/VW button in em too. Usually the cost for a factory made VV/VW mod is cheaper then a true blue 150 dollar full mech. mod like a Sentinel and then buying a vv/vw button for it . Though clone mods are available for far less than the 150 dollar ones. Adding a vv/vw button seems to defeat the reason for a full mechanical.
I use mechs, simply because in my opinion, I get better flavor out of using it and one of my RDA's, then I do from one of my VV/VW battery mechs. with the same RDA. Not saying someone is wrong or anything . Just saying it generally doesn't make any sense to me. But then again, to each their own. Takes different strokes from different folks to make the world .
I just started doing DIY mixology. So can't answer anything about the steep times. The general consensus seems to be, the longer you can have patience to let it steep, the better the juice will taste and be.
It's hard letting things steep when you first start out (well for me it has been) because generally, the reason most start mixing, is to offset the expensiveness of store bought liquids. You want something to vape right off the bat that you can make, because it's cheaper and because there's a sense of great satisfaction being able to mix something yourself that you can vape. But I'm still trying to figure out what I can make and vape quickly. I only bought 12 flavors and it seems after reading through the forums, Most of what I got, needs at least a weeks worth of steep time. Haven't found a thread yet that lists immediate DIY vaping flavors yet.
Anyway Hi and welcome.
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Thanks you guys. It is so nice to find out answers. A lot of times when you ask questions at the stores you don't get an answer on what difference it makes to the vape, ya know. You get technical answers that don't mean anything to me.
And just to show that everyone's personal experience and preferences are different from another's, I prefer variable voltage (regulated mods) over mechanical mods. My mechs are collecting dust.
I use my RBA's on my Provari's (regulated mods) because I prefer a 2.0 ohm homemade coil. I can adjust the voltage to the specific flavor I am using for that flavor's sweet spot. Wouldn't be able to do that on a mechanical mod.
I prefer my cartotanks over my RBA's because they are more consistant and require no fiddling. I hate fiddling and tinkering, I just want to vape.
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