24 hours with SID

[smifee]

Smoktech SID arrived yesterday along with 18650 batteries & charger. Read instructions, with the aid of a magnifying glass, whilst batteries were charging.

Unscrewed battery cap and found all the comments about rough threads on the SID were true. Inserted battery and screwed on Protank. Set volts at 3.7 and vaped. Upped volts and vaped up to 4v. Took another draw and got nothing. Display read 3v. Found that it reverted to 3v every few minutes. Reread instructions and confirmed 'the settings will be saved'. After an hour of what seemed like constant button pressing  I informed SID that our relationship was in trouble and I was going to dump him.

Decided to go for counselling. Found that it's only on variable watts that the setting is permanently saved. Coil shows 2.1 ohms and wattage is set at 7.5. Battery lasted just under a day but I'm not surprised as I've used a load of juice in that time. Twice I've had to take the battery out because SID appeared to be dead. All OK when battery reconnected.

I like that SID is very light and not telescopic but it feels flimsy and I don't expect it to last long.

I'm getting a few dry hits but I don't think I can blame SID for them. The day before SID's arrival I had experienced my first bad taste in 18 days of vaping. I took the head apart and the wick was very burnt and when I removed the wick the coil was gunged up. I washed the head and dried it but the coil was still gungy. I gave it a few dry burns and it looked fine. I told Angie that I was going to get some cotton wool and rewick it. When she stopped laughing, I'm Mr Clumsy, I told her when my attempt failed she would have to fix it as usual.

Whilst changing SID's battery I kept glancing at the bag of cotton wool balls. I'm sure they were calling to me. So I just went and did it. Worked first time.  Put it in a Protank and let the juice soak in. Fired it up and sat there in a cloud of vape.

I've relinquished my Mr Clumsy label and now I'm Mr Smug.

[ronaldo]

great stuff cotton

[andy01424]

nood need to charge batts they come charged from factory ---enjoy the mod

[djs]

Mar 13, 2014 18:57:36 GMT smifee said:

I like that SID is very light and not telescopic but it feels flimsy and I don't expect it to last long.

No fear, honestly. It's not as flimsy as you think.

The threads are **** on the bottom cap. The tube itself is cheap alloy, but it's quite OK.

[smifee]

Mar 13, 2014 19:02:34 GMT andy01424 said:

nood need to charge batts they come charged from factory ---enjoy the mod

Hi Andy

Charger showed 3.6v for both and 90 minutes later 4.2v so I guess they had been hanging about for a while.

[smifee]

Mar 13, 2014 19:29:14 GMT djs said:

Mar 13, 2014 18:57:36 GMT smifee said:

I like that SID is very light and not telescopic but it feels flimsy and I don't expect it to last long.

No fear, honestly. It's not as flimsy as you think.

The threads are **** on the bottom cap. The tube itself is cheap alloy, but it's quite OK.

I've put some silicon spray on the cap thread and it's better. I don't feel that I'm going to cross thread it now.

Thinking about the tube it's only flimsy when empty which won't be often.

[smifee]

Mar 13, 2014 19:00:26 GMT ronaldo said:

great stuff cotton

Hi ronaldo

I read people's accounts of rewicking with cotton wool and thought yeah, yeah but figured so many had done it so why not have a go.

Plucking up the courage to order some pre-made coils now.

[enjay]

Cotton can be a funny one, in my new kayfunny thing it's just awful but in my genny it's superb lol, tried it a number of times in the kayfunny but nope, horrible. Silica wick in the kayfunny is superb but in the genny without cotton on the end it's horrible.

[giles]

Mar 13, 2014 20:48:12 GMT enjay said:

Cotton can be a funny one, in my new kayfunny thing it's just awful but in my genny it's superb lol, tried it a number of times in the kayfunny but nope, horrible. Silica wick in the kayfunny is superb but in the genny without cotton on the end it's horrible.

Weird. I think cotton is way better in my kayfun clone. sometimes I manage to stuff it in so that the juice channels get blocked, but that doesn't happen if I am careful.

[enjay]

Mar 13, 2014 20:55:22 GMT giles said:

Mar 13, 2014 20:48:12 GMT enjay said:

Cotton can be a funny one, in my new kayfunny thing it's just awful but in my genny it's superb lol, tried it a number of times in the kayfunny but nope, horrible. Silica wick in the kayfunny is superb but in the genny without cotton on the end it's horrible.

Weird. I think cotton is way better in my kayfun clone. sometimes I manage to stuff it in so that the juice channels get blocked, but that doesn't happen if I am careful.

Exactly my point, I've watched loads of vids and love cotton for the genesis, use a little on the top end of the wick, also find it fantastic for dripping and know it should be good in the kayfun but no, it's horrible. Weird or what lol