Adversarious1
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9 minutes ago, Edna said:
Yes, they are. the "standard" driptip is a 510 which refers to the size of male end you stick into the top of the tank (more or less) a wide bore driptip has a bigger diameter than the standard or a MTL (mouth to lung) driptip which has a smaller diameter. The AIO has a 510 connection but is on the smaller MTL side. I just put a standard in my AIO and it fit fine and visa versa in my kanger toptank and my wotofo serpent mini
Yep...everything @Ednasaid. Just remember, wide "bore" isn't the same thing as wide "mouth". You will come across 510 drip tips that are wide "mouth", but are still 510 tips.
A thread from a few months ago if you want to read a little bit more.
http://www.vaportalk.com/forum/topic/30379-wide-bore-vs-wide-mouth-drip-tips/#comment-266164
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5 minutes ago, Cloud-9 said:
I suppose we all were noobs at one time and a little patience and education goes a long way to rid of anxieties of the vaping world.
Bingo! And someday you will find yourself chiming in to help other noobs by sharing your own knowledge, experiences and opinions. It's the least expensive and one of the most effective methods experienced vapers have to "pay it forward" to new vapers and make sure they are successful.
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10 hours ago, Walt said:
My track record in regard to converting others is at a dead zero. My wife just says no and my oldest daughter has serious reservations. Her best friend and business partner is a pharmacist and she wants confirmation that vaping is perfectly healthy. To me that is a bizarre requirement, but I don't challenge it. Neither of them smoke enough to be have a great impact on their health. Sometimes attraction is better than promotion.
Don't worry @Walt, your track record won't stay at zero forever. As far as your daughter wanting confirmation that vaping is perfectly healthy, it will never happen. We are still inhaling foreign substances. However, perhaps you can share this tidbit of information with her:
My health insurance is with Kaiser Permanente and therefore I have a Kaiser doctor. KP is a huge opponent of vaping and will do just about anything to prescribe meds to their patients. After about 30 minutes of arguing (yes, actual arguing) with my doctor in which I told him more than once he was an ignorant @#$! who needed to do more objective research rather than "tow the company line and support Big Pharma". During that same visit he tried to convince me to try gum (been there, done that, causes heartburn), patches (been there, done that, causes horrendously violent dreams if you accidentally fall asleep with one on - a story all in itself), lozenges (been there, done that, causes mouth sores), Welbutrin (been there, done that, didn't do a thing for me) and Chantix. He actually wrote me a Chantix prescription AFTER we had the argument and I, in my less than tactful nature when I'm ticked off, told him I didn't need any toilet paper. I wadded the prescription up, told him I was not going to put anything in my body that is KNOWN to have a potential for causing suicidal ideations. He finally relented and admitted I had some valid points and that he would rather see me vaping than smoking.
In other words, of course your daughter's best friend is going to be anti-vaping. Her livelihood depends on prescription drugs.
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12 hours ago, Edna said:
Yep, sad but true...The higher the wattage the more juice you blow through.
@Adversarious1 can tell you about the baby beast tank and higher wattage set ups. From his posts he says the coils last quite awhile but it does go through the juice if I remember right.
@Edna (and everybody else) is correct. If you want a lot of cloud, you are going to go through more juice. However, a lot of cloud to you might not be a lot of cloud to me.
The Baby Beast is one of the best tanks I have ever used. I have at least one in rotation daily, generally reserved for my drive home. They hold 3 ml of liquid and I can easily go through that in the hour and a half to two hours I spend on the road during my commute each afternoon. The coils do last me a long time, but that is because of the way I vape. I am constantly rotating through tanks (at last count I have 11 tanks I regularly rotate through). So yes, when you aren't using it as a daily driver the coils will last quite a while. However, over the holidays while I was on vacation I used my Baby Beasts as my daily drivers and the coils both lasted the entire 17 days of vacation.
20 hours ago, Tam said:If you're going to produce more vapor, you will go through more eliquid. There's no way around that.
Me, personally, I prefer not to sub-ohm because I don't care for the warmer vapor. My coil resistance of choice is a 1.8 ohm coil in an Aspire Triton 2. The eliquid I use is 40 PG/60 VG and makes enough clouds to fog up a small home office when I'm chain vaping. That said, when I create that much vapor, it stands to reason that I'm going through much more juice than "normal."
One of these days I'm going to convince @Tamthat lower resistance and sub-ohming does not necessarily mean warmer vapor.
11 hours ago, Walt said:Another consideration is battery life. The lower the resistance the greater the current flow. In an evening of blowing clouds vaping under .5ohm, I can go through an 18650 pretty fast. Good to have another battery on the charger. When I'm out and about this is a consideration.
Spare batteries are always good to have on hand.
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I'll start by saying the coils that come with the Baby Beast (as well as all replacement coils at the moment) are kanthal. With that out of the way...
The Baby Beast comes with two coils: The T8 (.15 ohm octo-coil) and the Q2 (.4 ohm dual core).
The Q2 is the coil that comes pre-installed on the tank. The Q2 coil allows for slightly more airflow than the T8. The Q2 is rated from 20-50 watts with 30-40 watts being the recommended setting.
The T8 is the extra coil and is slightly more restrictive than the Q2. The T8 is rated from 50-110 watts with 60-80 watts being the recommended setting.
I own two of these. I run the T8 coils exclusively in my Baby Beasts and I generally set my mods to 75 watts. It isn't too warm, it isn't too cool. It's a small tank that packs a big punch. Great clouds and great flavor.
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On 12/24/2016 at 6:56 PM, Walt said:
I realize this is information that is not necessary for vaping, but it's just bugging me.
I have one tank that has an element which offers .5 ohms of resistance and it vaporizes my favorite juice @ 32 watts dissipated. Another tank is at 1.5 ohms and does a similar job at 9 watts. Watts = I2R. Current through a coil produces heat. The current in the first tank should produce much greater heat than the second.
What am I missing? Different coil metals used with different coefficients of heat per current conducted?
I'm confused. It seems as if a sub ohm coil should require much less wattage to produce the same heat as a coil greater than an ohm.
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Late to chime in on this, but one of the least confusing ways to think about it that I have come across is the water pipe analogy. In this analogy you need think of the following:
Say you have two pipes, one of them a .5 inch pipe and the other is a 1.5 inch pipe. Now say you have 100 gallons of water and you want to push 50 gallons of water through each pipe in exactly the same amount of time. For sake of argument, we'll say that amount of time is 10 seconds. With the smaller diameter of the .5 inch pipe it is going to take a lot more pressure to get the water through that pipe than it would through the 1.5 inch pipe. The same principle applies to coils. The .5 ohm coil requires a higher wattage to reach the same temperature than the 1.5 ohm coil.
That is a very basic analogy and there is much more to it, but the main point of the analogy is to explain why a coil of a lower rating requires more power to function in a similar manner as a coil of a higher rating.
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17 hours ago, Tam said:
Bummer. And here I thought I could get a pony...
Sorry Tam. You buy the pony first, feed it with a unicorn bottle and in 6 weeks your pony turns into a unicorn. And if you by chance buy that story, then remind me to talk to you about a bridge I have for sale. 😂
17 hours ago, Christopher said:I like the Unicorn bottles, they're great. But we can no longer use them as of this year
(We can sell them empty though)
As long as you can keep selling them that's good enough for me. I just happen to find them far more convenient and a lot less messy to use when filling tanks with than a dropper. Still like droppers for my RDA's, but more often than not I end up with about half as much liquid on the outside of a tank as I do inside the tank if I use them.
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What's a unicorn bottle?
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Back from vacation and back to the grind and wanted to put my 2 whole cents in on this.
For me it's more about the cost savings when purchasing in larger volumes. Bottle size is basically irrelevant to me because I transfer my liquids from whatever container they are in to either needle tip or unicorn bottles (unless the liquid came packaged in a unicorn bottle).
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Welcome to VT.
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17 hours ago, Squid said:
All I have heard it that this is a "Star Wars story". Any way to tell me how it fits into the story without spoilers? Is it a side story like a deeper look into what happened with Anakin and OB Wan between the death of his master and the time Anakin turned, or just some random "Star Wars" type stuff that vaguely is tied to the story?
I don't consider this a spoiler because the basic plot was announced a long time ago. It does tie in with the other movies. It's about how the Rebel Alliance got the plans to the Death Star. Anything else you want to know you'll just have to go see the movie for yourself.
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For the Star Wars fans on the forums, I had the opportunity to see Rogue One last night. Going again tonight with the kids. I promised no spoilers and there will be none, but I will say this: If you're a hardcore Star Wars fan, the last 2 minutes of the movie alone are worth the price of admission.
That is all.
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2 hours ago, VapeMama said:
Rather interesting!
http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/04/study-confirms-that-e-cigarettes-generat
I saw that one yesterday, too. Older article, but the first time I had seen it. Probably from the same source.
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Two more articles from this week that I wouldn't have seen if it hadn't been for the NBS group on Facebook. The first is an article that was published in the LA Times on December 12, 2016 and focuses on the most recent annual survey of 8th, 10th and 12th graders and their use of various substances to include e-cigs. The results from the 2016 survey show a decline from 2015 in almost every category the survey focuses on, including the use of e-cigs.
Teens are cutting back on drugs, alcohol, smoking and even electronic cigarettes, study finds.
The second one is an opinion piece by a physician that appeared on Slate.com of all places...another source I would never go to under normal circumstances. Honestly, the only reason I went ahead and clicked the link was because of the title of the article: E-Cigarettes Might Be the Best Addiction to Have. The piece is mostly positive and is actually one of the few recent articles I have seen that openly admits there isn't enough data to justify the FDA's actions in regards to the deeming regulations.
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From info on another forum, the base of the standard drip tip should be 13.5mm, so that may help. Another couple of options would be to try a different 510 drip tip with slightly larger O rings in the adapter or see if you can get a different adapter for it, as the adapter might be the culprit.
I'll take a look at some other options tomorrow. Just happened to see this before heading to bed.
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I originally saw the link to this article in one of the groups I follow on Facebook. Given the source, (the Washington Post), I never would have found it myself. After all, I don't think it's a big secret which way I lean politically. In spite of it appearing in what is generally accepted as one of the more liberal news publications in the United States, it was a pretty good article.
Some quick background for those outside the United States or those living under a rock. The U.S. Surgeon General recently released an almost 300 page report on e-cig use among teens in the United States. The report has been met with support of the anti-tobacco groups and, not surprisingly, harsh backlash among not only the vaping community, but public health researchers. Ultimately, the report is nothing by almost 300 pages of misinformation and propaganda.
In any event, there have been several articles lashing out at the report in recent days. Surprisingly, many of them have come from the more liberal news sources. This one I'm providing the link to is one of the better opinions I've read.
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10 minutes ago, Bebop said:
I just want to add in one little point since you are a new vaper. You're going to have to work out your nicotine levels if you really want to quit smoking. It's not just aabout the clouds. You have to work out how much of your dissatisfaction may be coming from improper (for you) nicotine levels in your juice. That's up to you.
Alk the best
I totally meant to mention that in my disclaimer about the differences between MTL and DTL. Thank You @Bebopfor mentioning it.
The lower the ohm level, the lower you are going to want to take your nic levels. I started at 18mg nic and 1.5 to 1.8 ohm coils. I quickly dropped to 12mg nic when I found I didn't need as much. Before I dropped to sub-ohm levels (below 1 ohm) I did a lot of research. A very basic rule of thumb is to cut your nic level in half when you go below 1 ohm. That is definitely a good place to start, but I ended up going even lower. Very rarely do I vape anything with 6mg nic. Most of my vaping is 0-3mg nicotine nowadays.
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Just now, dbreezy423 said:
Awesome. My freind owns a
vape store in Atl. He said he could get it to me for 80. I could probrably get it cheaper but id like to support his business. Is 53 for 4 efest Batts and a lcd charger about the best deal I'm going to find?
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It really depends on which charger, but I (and several others around here) would recommend against efest batteries. There is a guy named John Muchow (goes by Mooch online) who has thoroughly tested and reviewed virtually every 18650 battery on the market. In fact, his actual job revolves around testing batteries, so he has access to equipment to accurately (and safely) test batteries and his opinions are very trusted in the vaping community. Personally I would go with any four of the following; LG HE4, LG HG2, Samsung 25R, Samsung 30Q, Sony VTC4 or Sony VTC5. The efests are okay batteries, but the benchmark tests of those I just mentioned tested better. That is one area where I definitely don't listen to the vape shop guys (most of them seem to love either efest or mxjo batteries, but I have personally had better luck with the LG and Samsung batteries I use. Efest chargers, though, are good to go in my opinion and the opinions of many others.
All that being said, yes, $53ish sounds about right for four batteries and a charger.
And kudos to you for supporting your friends business. I never hold that against anybody. In fact, while I get most of my stuff online, I'm a huge proponent for supporting local B&M's, especially if someone at that B&M has taken time to show you some equipment and explain various things.
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What site was this? Doubtful it was credible.
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This is definitely a good place to ask your questions. Just be prepared for a variety of different answers/suggestions.
Before I give you my answer/suggestion/recommendation I will give my disclaimer: Sub-ohm vaping and blowing big clouds is an different technique than you might be used to. With your original setup and what you have now you are probably a MTL (Mouth To Lung) vaper, similar to taking a drag from a cigarette. Most sub-ohm vapers and big clouds, for the most part, require DTL (Direct To Lung) inhaling; you actually inhale as you suck in vapor. It takes a bit of getting used to and it is quite possible your gag reflex will kick in, but it is something that you can easily get used to if that is the direction you want to go. You may or may not like it and everybody is different.
Now, on to the answer/recommendation. I don't have a SMOK Alien, but a friend does and she loves it. I've played around with it and I am seriously considering getting one for myself (because apparently 8 regulated mods just aren't enough). If you can get the SMOK Alien Kit, all that much better. The tank that comes with that kit is the TFV8 Baby Beast and that is a top notch tank in my opinion. I own two Baby Beasts and have at least one in my rotation every day. If I had a third thumb and could give three thumbs up, I would. Since I don't and I can't, then it gets a hearty two thumbs up. Awesome flavor, awesome cloud production. It comes with two different coils that are as different as night and day even though the ohm rating is similar (might even be the same). I have my preference in the coils, but I recommend trying out both if that is the direction you go. Also, if that is the direction you decide to go, shop around. Online prices range anywhere from about $50 to almost $70 for the kit. Make sure to include shipping and any taxes when you calculate the expenses. I don't think the VT store has that particular kit, but @Christopher might be able to get them in. In any event, it's a good kit and if you shop frugally you will be able to get the kit for well under your $100 price point and still be able to get batteries, a charger and possibly some extra coils.
I also encourage you to research as many different mods as you can, wait for other recommendations from other members around here and definitely continue to ask questions on the forums. It's always a good idea to hit up the online community to gain a wider perspective than simply going on the advice of someone working at a vape shop. In your case, yes, the employee made a good recommendation. But there is always the possibility the person behind the counter may be under direction to push a certain item. The online vaping community won't steer you wrong because most of us are just normal people with regular jobs not in the vaping industry. If we like something, we'll tell you. If we don't, we'll tell you.
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If it's from the dentist you're probably safe because it's probably 100% cotton. I've heard and read mixed results with it. If it works for you, by all means continue to use it. If you buy it, though, make sure it is 100% cotton gauze. There are some types of gauze out there that contain cotton/polyester blends. That could lead to some very unpleasant results.
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This isn't a full review of the Hohm Slice, just some first impressions formatted into a mini-faq of sorts. A full review will be coming along in a couple of weeks.
What is it? – In a nutshell the Hohm Slice is a single 26650 101 watt regulated box mod with temp control.
What sets it apart from other TC mods? It can be used with nickel, titanium, stainless steel (all types), nichrome, tungsten (used with ceramic wicks) and Kanthal A1. Yes, temp control for Kanthal. It also seems to be a bit more user friendly than other TC mods I own or have used, but again, I have spent most of my time with it in power mode. In power mode it works as just well as any other regulated mod I have.
Does the temp control really work with Kanthal? Yep, it sure does. For the most part far I have been using it power mode with a TFV8 Baby Beast using the Baby T8 coil at 90 watts, but I did play around with the same tank and same coil in TC mode so I can verify that temp control does indeed work with Kanthal. I need to play around with it a little bit more when I have time to actually sit, dive in deep and really get it dialed in. I also want to use it with my own Kanthal coils rather than drop in coils.
How does it perform with other wire types? So far the only other wire type I've used is 316L Stainless Steel. It performed flawlessly at 40 watts and 480 degrees. Even though I have switched to SS almost exclusively for temp control vaping I do still have some nickel drop-in coils and I still have some titanium wire so I plan on checking it out with those as well. I don't and won't use coils with ceramic wicks and I don't have any nichrome, so I probably won't be checking temp control performance with either of those unless I decide to buy some nichrome wire.
How does it look and feel? The actual mod casing is very sturdy feeling, but the buttons rattle. They rattle more than just a little. I have had mods with buttons that rattle a bit in the past, but picking this up and shaking it almost sounds like you're shaking a maraca. Okay, slight exaggeration there, but only slight. The button issue has also been noted by guys who have reviewed this mod on YouTube. The battery cover is held on with four strong magnets. The finish is baked on ceramic rather than being painted or powder coated, so it should hold up well under normal use. Its shape, size and weight with a 26650 in it feel good in my hand. It is roughly the same size as one of my Sigelei 213s or a Reauleaux 2/3 in 2 battery mode.
I have another mod I'm getting ready to run through some testing, but I hope to have the full review of this mod done within the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, if you have any specific questions, feel free to ask and I will answer.
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Recoil RDA vs Pharaoh RDTA vs New Limitless which is best for flavor and clouds.
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Interesting question. You refer to a Recoil RDTA and RDA. The best of my knowledge, there isn't a Recoil RDTA, only an RDA.
It looks like you received a lot of input for the same question over on Reddit and it looks like good input. What I find interesting is that nobody seems to question WHY it gets hot? Out of curiosity, what kind of build are you using on the Recoil? I have been thinking about getting one, but if it gets hot while running basic coils then I'll probably pass.