SteezeOG
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Ordered a bunch of drip tips to try from slowtech. Also an igo M and another nemesis clone in green. Some juice from vaporboost, one with melatonin and no nicotine for before bed vaping, one with caffeine and nicotine for morning vaping, and one that has relaxing aids for evening vaping. Had an order from vapordna the other day that should be here friday. They had the red gplat in small lengths so I wanted to try that and some drip tips. Also a couple new ohm meters that hopefully will last more than a few months. Oh and a coil jig. Really excited for that. I already make good coils but this should make them even easier and tighter.
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I've heard recently that there is ejuice with melatonin in it and is for before bed vaping. I'm thinking about trying it but I already take a chewable melatonin tablet before I get in bed. So I'd say give it some time and slowly reduce your nicotine levels as you can. Definitely vape some lower juice at night for now and take the other advice already given. Here's a link to some of the melatonin juice. Just one brand and I can't say it's good or it helps I haven't tried it yet.
http://www.vaporboost.com/sweet-dreams-e-cigarette-e-liquid-juice-sleep-melatonin/
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Easy Peasy what a steeze
man that's a nice combo. I'm wanting a Zenith too, aren't the posts in that thing a beast?
Oh man I love the posts. I'd heard you get a better connection with the allen heads but I just didn't want to have to add another little wrench to keep close. So worth it. They're big enough I could easily fit some 26g parallel dual coils in. I think maybe more. It tightens down really snug and I get a great connection. Loving this setup. I'm vaping it next to my flip mod and brass monkey right now and I'm surprised I prefer the anarchist mod and zenith v2. It just hits so hard even with a simple dual 28g kanthal micro coil build and it's taking a 26g gplat micro setup on the brass monkey to match it and even then it's not giving me the same clouds just a hotter vape. Both mods hit and feel great but the anarchist was almost half the cost of the flip and it has copper contacts. I think that is the difference right now. That and the zenith v2 just has the brass monkey beat for airflow and better connections by a mile.
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Anarchist mod and Zenith V2 RDA Unbelievable combo. The anarchist has copper contacts and fits a sony vtc5 perfectly with very little adjusting. No rattle. Best thing is it hits like a freight train. Harder than my v3tronix flip mod. Harder than anything else I have. Same with the zenith v2. I love my brass monkey but this thing is an animal.
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I can tell you one thing. Gplat elite and cellucotton wicked over the center post in one strand for dual coils is crazy hot and hits my lungs with some dragon like vapor. It's too much for me. I just got the zenith v2 and anarchist mod. Figured I'd go all out and do a dual micro coil build with the 24g gplat with 6 wraps. Wicked it with cellucotton over the center post and it's crazy. I can pulse it for maybe a second with a lung hit. Not much more for a mouth to lung hit. I'm not ordering anymore of the gplat and not just because of this rumor. It's just too low resistance and a hot vape. It's great to work with and I like a lot about it but the cost and cons of it are too much. I'm taking the builds of it off my brass monkey and zenith v2.
The good news is that anarchist mod with the copper contacts hits harder than my v3tronix flip mod. The zenith is also a slam dunk I just need a good dual micro 28g build with some good old kanthal.
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Picked this up at Sally's Beauty Supply for $11 on sale this morning. 500 ft is going to last a very long time. Now I have a bag of organic cotton balls, an 80 count bag of japanese cotton squares, and 500 ft of cellucotton. Wicks for years.
A little simple dual macro build with 5 wraps of 26g kanthal and the cellucotton wick. Feels synthetic even though I know technically it's not. Very easy to wick though. Easier than cotton balls not quite as easy as the japanese cotton but very simple.
Didn't boil it or anything. It looks clean and other than feeling like pillow stuffing it's pretty much the same as organic cotton. I think it holds juice the same. It draws it to the coil a little better but I think it does that because the fibers are parallel and in line with each other like the japanese cotton. Doesn't taste bad. Might even say it brings out a little more of the flavor of the juice over cotton. Seems to wick nice and even you don't get dry around the coils while still being wet in the bottom along your juice well. I don't want to run it dry and see if it gives a nasty burnt hit or anything. Overall I'd say it's pretty good. Worth the $11 for that much and it's in a nice big box that you can pull out a few inches and cut off with some scissors and go about your wicking. Just nothing revolutionary. Probably works great from rebuildable tanks. I might give it a shot in my russian 91% next week.
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Wonder which gplat is
Possibly one of those but could be just a blend they made that worked out best for vaping. Someone with the money could get it analyzed and undercut them if they wanted I bet. It's definitely got some kanthal and a nickel alloy blend of some sort. Possibly another alloy that is chrome based which would at least explain some of the crazy cost of it and the shine factor. I enjoy how it burns but I don't get as great of a connection on my posts as I do with straight kanthal. It could just be my brass monkey doesn't like it so I'm going to build with it when my zenith v2 arrives in a few days and see if that's the problem. I see you got the red version and I'm using the blue. That might be why you're noticing really fast heat up times and I'm not. I may try the red before I decide if I'm just going to stick with kanthal permanently.
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Yeah I wasn't talking about a long dry burn or anything. Even kanthal only needs a second or two to burn off the gunk. I don't find the gplat heats up quicker I actually think it heats up a little slower but it does cool quicker. Maybe the initial heat up is quicker but the lower builds I think is what makes it able to hit good with quicker pulses. I just did a build with some this morning on my brass monkey to see if a few more wraps and better wicking would help with performance.
8 wraps dual macros on a 3mm screwdriver.
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So what I got out of this is... It cost twice as much and you have to use twice as much for a NOT super sub ohm build?... Sounds like a bad investment to me... Lol
Definitely not twice as much but if you don't like going really low you need to use more wraps than you do with the equivalent of kanthal. Which can make it harder to conserve if that's your goal. I'd say just gauge up. If you use 24g normally use the 26g in gplat. I just wasn't expecting what I got on the ohm meter with the first build I did. If you're confident with your coil building and you like to just dry burn and rewick and use your coils for a long time then gplat could be a good investment I think. It's just not kanthal cheap and I knew that going into it. If you're someone who loves kanthal and thinks you already get good flavor then gplat is probably not worth trying. That's my opinion.
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Yeah I can't go with out rewicking daily. I dry burn all my coils and clean off the gunk and sweetener that has collected on the coil then I rewick. I just can't settle on one juice more than a day with my drippers. In my tanks I can pretty much use the same flavor for a week. I don't usually run a coil to the end of it's life unless it's just a really great build but with this gplat wire I know I'll let them go at least a month before I have to worry about changing it. They burn really clean and get new and shiny when you dry burn and clean them before rewicking. It's great stuff I just wish it was about 50 cents a foot and I could justify using it more. I've got a great build right now on my IGO W with 28g macro coils and kanthal. That will stay there for a while and just keep getting rewicked. What I'd really love is to find a gold mephisto rda and do a parallel 26g macro with the gplat but it would probably come out to .15 ohms or lower and that's not for me.
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I am considering giving this a try even after a few have claimed it wouldn't be safe to me in other places. Like you said above 3rutez what is new is often labeled as unsafe at first but a few people have told me it really is ok to use for vaping. It is washed free of those chemicals although I know that the same rayon used in the garment industry is highly allergic for some people and it's often associated with the chemical residues and not the fiber itself. So if I do try it I'd probably give it a good rinse and dry first in distilled water. I may even boil it and I don't even boil my organic cotton. I don't see the need it's perfectly fine as is. Peroxide evaporates and oxidizes long after the whitening process yet still people claim it's bad if you don't boil it.
I tried japanese cotton a few weeks ago and it's so easy to cut up and wick and that's where it stops. It doesn't hold juice better than regular organic and it sure tastes a lot worse. Leaves a bad taste to me.
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http://www.vaporkings.com/GPlat-coil-wire-by-Vapinology-p/gplat-wires.htm
Is where I picked up my elite 24g. They use a company description saying you can make a coil last a month. I think that's perfectly true. I can't deny it won't last a lot longer and is superior to kanthal in every way but price. I'll definitely be using some for a dual macro setup when my zenith v2 gets here in a few days. Just not sure it's worth over a $1 a foot.
I just realized I've been saying I got 24g this whole time. I got 26g. I don't even want to know how low the resistance would be had I got 24g. I did dual macro coils with a 5/6 wrap I think and got .20 or .22 It was fairly low and a lot lower than I expected. It doesn't heat up crazy hot though I handled it fine. It would be better to try with the new all VG 3mg dripper specific juice I got in today. I'll try it some more with the zenith v2 and lower juice I'm sure it will be better.
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No you wouldn't want to do rebuilds often and it wouldn't be necessary. I don't even build kanthal daily I'll do it maybe once a week and that's just because I get bored sometimes. GPlat coils would probably last 3 times longer or more but at the price of $20+ for I think 15-20 feet you can get 250 foot of kanthal from kidneypuncher.com so I still can't say it's worth the cost. At $10 for 20 feet I'd probably use it over kanthal in a heartbeat because it looks and builds great. Cleans up nice and does give good flavor. It's just really expensive and hard to build anything but super sub ohm coils with which means you use even more wire than normal. It's good stuff though I'm glad I tried it out. At the current price I just can't see myself ordering more.
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Gotta say I agree with you on pretty much everything you said. I had heard about it a while back but never really branched out from kanthal. I saw rip trippers review of it and was reminded about it so I decided to look for it. I couldn't find any place that had the red version. The one for cloud chasing I think is the red so I got a pack of the elite (blue) in 24g. It's certainly softer and for that reason easy to build with. No torch necessary. It does have crazy low resistance I did my first build and it came out to like .22 or something which is lower than I build usually. I try to keep it in the .3 to .4 range because I like a decent cloud but prefer taste and not so much warmth. I guess it does heat up a little bit faster but I really didn't notice a huge difference in flavor. Only that it kept that good flavor longer than a kanthal coil does if that makes sense. It stays cleaner I suppose and I'm even quick to dry burn and clean my coils when I change cotton wicks which is pretty much daily. I'm glad I tried it and will use it when I want some really low sub ohm macro coils but I don't think I'll ever buy it again. It's great but it's just not worth the money when you can get kanthal so cheap and it works good.
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Welcome fellow KS vaper. I'm in Emporia. Lived in Wichita a few years back in 04-06 Keep at it and hopefully you'll get over those camels soon.
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For me I only use a VV/VW device with tanks/clearomizers because it's just better in my opinion. I can set my vamo v5 at 9 watts and put my nautilus tank or russian 91% on it and just vape away for a day or two on one charge of an efest 18650 button top battery. It's regulated so it's the same from the first hit on that battery charge until it dies. It reads my coil resistance and it's safe. With a mech mod and say my nautilus tank I would get maybe a few hours tops out of the battery and it's going to suffer from battery drop once I get about an hour in to using it.
Now if I'm using an RDA I'm only doing subohm builds. Anywhere from about .3 to .8 and I don't have a VV/VW that will fire that low and I don't want it to. I use a mech mod and a sony vtc 5.
So for me yeah a VV/VW device is totally worth it but I don't use it for anything but chain vaping on a tank or when I go out and I want something that will give me hours of consistent, safe, regulated vaping.
That said, I am on the lookout for a sweet custom well made box mod that can handle sub ohm RDA builds and will push out up to 50 watts. Just haven't really found that yet. At least not one that I know I won't have to wait 3-6 months on a preorder and still may never get what I wanted.
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As for kanthal gauges I have only used 30g so far and don't know much beyond the smaller number means thicker wire and less resistance right? Lots to learn still for me here...
Yep. 30g is smaller compared to 28g and also gives a higher resistance. 26g is thicker than 28g and lower resistance and it keeps going down. I think if you can fit them in your rda you can go all the way down to 22g but I've never needed to go lower than 26g and usually use 28g.
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Those are clones. The bottom spinner is not the right color. The actual colors they sell are are not real either to the device. They don't offer that high gloss green. I have the green authentic vision 2 spinner and it's not even close to that. I haven't seen anything from fasttech that originates outside of china and is authentic. They sell copies. They have no issues with selling copied goods that blatantly use the real logo and stamped numbers. The owners of v3tronix are trying hard to get them to uphold their copyright infringement claim on the flip mod, fasttech couldn't careless. Still, you can save money and get some decent clones if you shop smart.
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I keep it pretty simple. Usually a 7/6 wrap of 28ga kanthal around a 5/64 bit and I keep them offset and not centered. I like the airflow I get. I do think my new crown clone rda could work better with centered dual coils I might try that. That normal build gets me between .5 and .65 Usually around .5 if I do a 6/5 wrap and .63 or so with a 7/6. I don't want anything lower, too hot and just goes through the juice like nothing.
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Using my nemesis clone with igo W right now. About .53 dual coil and I only use sony vtc 5. Pretty good setup. Like an old chevy pickup truck. When I really want to get down though I pull out the v3tronix flip mod and brass monkee rda. It's the ferrari in the garage. They all drive you around the block, just about performance and looks beyond that.
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I have 1.5, 1.8, and 2.2 ohm heads for my protank2. Usually the 1.5 read about 1.6 or 1.7 and will give you the most vapor but it's not a big difference over the rest. Use what you can get for cheap. Adjusting your watts is going to be more beneficial for taste and vapor production anyway. Beyond that the only way you can get more vapor and taste is upgrade to a better tank.
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Thing is are where are the vision spinners from? Unless they originally are made or assembled in China I don't see a place like fasttech importing them just to turn around and offer them at half of normal retail. Do you? It says style for a reason. They're clones. Just like everything else they sell. It doesn't mean it's junk. I've bought from them and didn't have complaints with my stuff. It's just hit or miss. Some of the drip tips don't fit many 510 tanks and some of the threads are junk or the buttons malfunction on mods. For some stuff though you get good prices that can't be beat. I'd just really recommend you never buy batteries or devices like these that have batteries inside. I see on facebook all the time people with packages they waited on for 2 months from fasttech only to have a note attached that the some items were seized upon entry.
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Does slowtech actually sell anything authentic? I'm pretty sure every mod and tank they have is a clone. Some are decent some are not. I personally wouldn't order anything from them expecting it to be real and I wouldn't buy any batteries or devices with internal batteries because of customs. I've heard several people that got their package and the batteries never made it. It's fine if you want some cheap tools and clones but I wouldn't expect to get more than you pay for. That's true with just about everything.
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Thanks
which should i use 100% cotton or silica wick?
in Wick and Wire
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My favorite wicks in order are japanese cotton, cellucotton, and walgreens organic cotton. The second two are cheap for bulk. About 4-5$ for 80 organic cotton balls or $12 for 500 ft of cellucotton at Sally's beauty supply. The japanese cotton patches can be pricey unless you get lucky and find some at a decent price on amazon or other fine beauty supply places online but they really are the easiest to use and give great wicking and flavor. Just cut a strip from the patch that is the right thickness for your coils and wick through them and tuck the ends.