newbie requesting advice please

[darren]

hi guys.

apologies if this is a bad first post.

I have been vaping for nearly two years now using the pen type battery and I am getting increasingly disappointed in the flavours that I am buying, I have 30 half used bottles.

I recently visited a vaping shop and he let me try what he called a mod and the vapour taste was really nice, loads of vapour and a really nice taste and he said the nicotine was .3 whereas I have been vaping at 18mg.

unfortunately he said to get set up using what he was using would cost in the region of £75 and none of my existing tanks would be useable as the liquid is a lot thicker. and also my battery was not powerful enough.

my question is can I get setup cheaper and if so how please.

thanks in advance if anybody can help.

darren

[djs]

Welcome darren

Sure, you can go a bit cheaper - no problem at all.

He is mostly correct about everything though. You need a mod & a tank with coils suitable for higher power. My only argument would be with the 'thicker juice' comment. Most people (of course) use higher VG liquid for more clouds and (less throat hit from the PG).

The .3 interests me though. In simple terms, as you double the power, you should halve your Nicotine. If you are used to 18mg then unless you want to take a dive down in Nicotine, are you really going to vape at 6 times the power? Maybe, maybe not.

[djs]

A nice set-up at the moment would be something like a Joyetech mini eVic VTC and a Kanger subtank mini.

The 'cheap as chips' option would be an iStick and an Eleaf bargain-basement tank.

My set-up today is eVic mini and Eleaf GS tank. I'm also trying out the temperature control (Nickel/Ni200) atomizer heads.

The question of whether to temp control or not is going to be relevant.

Here is a kit you might consider.

myepack.co.uk/mods/kanger-subox-mini-kit.html

It's got it all going on... rebuildable 'head', various coils, mod and tank. Not bad.

[MrDJ]

Hi Darren and welcome to AAEC

he was roughly right about the price BUT that was from a B&M (bricks and morter shop). prices can be found online for quite a bit cheaper and if your willing to wait even cheaper direct from china.

have you any idea of what your pen type model is called. if not maybe post a picture of it on here and also any idea of what the shop showed you.

as youve had a pen type for 2 years then you was limited back then and it will be a mouth to lung hit just like smoking.
now there are also sub ohming so a direct to lung hit that shops seem to like selling to new vapours and its quite a bit different from the mouth to lung hit just like smoking.

you can get a decent 40-60watt setup with a tank for about £50 quid now and about £8 for a box of 5 replacement coils.

have you ever tried direct lung hits or would you prefer a mouth to lung hit.
mouth to lung you can have nicotine strength upto 18mg while direct to lung is best at 3mg or 6mg nicotine.

this is what i gave up with a year ago and still using it today as well as 6 other mods

this company has got some bad feedback on this forum so it is here only as a rough guide.

istick40 (40watt) £24.99 www.dnavapes.com/collections/variable-voltage-mods/products/eleaf-istick-40w-temperature-control?variant=4800249539

coolfire 4 plus (70watt) £29.99 www.dnavapes.com/collections/variable-voltage-mods/products/cool-fire-iv-plus-mod-only

mini nautilus £14.99 www.dnavapes.com/collections/tanks-and-clearomisers/products/aspire-nautilus-mini

full size nautilus £15.99 www.dnavapes.com/collections/tanks-and-clearomisers/products/aspire-nautilus

have a search through all these companies as something else may take your fancy

RECOMMENDED UK HARDWARE SUPPLIERS

MyEpack - myepack.co.uk/

DNA Vapes - www.dnavapes.com/

SR Vapes - www.sr-vapes.co.uk/

Ecig One - www.ecigone.co.uk/

Noblevaping - noblevaping.co.uk/index.php?route=common/home


CHINA HARDWARE SUPPLIERS

Gearbest - www.gearbest.com/ecig-_gear/

Fasttech - www.fasttech.com/category/3099/e-cigarettes

Efun Top - www.efun.top/

Heaven Gift - www.heavengifts.com/

[Perpetua]

Welcome to you darren .

I'd think you were probably given something to try in a 3mg strength . . . . with the more efficient tank systems there are, compared to what you're using - then you can afford to drop your nicotine strength without it being terribly noticeable. Although I'd think that a little low initially until you adjust. 

 

[darren]

omg you guys are so helpful..

thankyou very much for the welcomes and the advice.

now for the tough bit I need to decide which one to buy. I would like to stick to reliable uk ones.

thanks again guys

[phatfil]

Welcome to aaec, good advice above, but the choices can be very bewildering..

as I use an evic mini mod i can thoroughly recommend it.

and can be bought for as little as £25
www.gearbest.com/temperature-control-mods/pp_239873.html?wid=3

It is a mod that will need batteries, some like the Istick 30w and 50w models have batteries built in. but most folk seem to opt for batteries that can be exchanged for recharging for convenience


the kanger subtank mini tanks have been around a while and have a loyal bunch of users and lots of build vids for the rebuildable head option if you want to make your own coils and stop buying the off the shelf cartridges.. they have also been cloned by a chinese manufacturer and the clones while 1/2 the price are just as good as the originals imho..


www.fasttech.com/products/3006/10004861/2106401-authentic-kangertech-subtank-mini-clearomizer

and the cheaper clone..

www.fasttech.com/products/0/10012000/2568500-subtank-mini-v2-styled-occ-clearomizer

buying from china does require patience as the post can take anything from just over a week to well over 4 weeks to arrive, and also be careful only to order goods in stock avoid preorders like the plague you can wait months... However in my limited (or not so..) experience shopping direct from china for vape gear the savings outweigh the odd delay and frustration

while FT and GB the two chinese sellers linked to above are pretty good at labeling goods correctly as authentic or styled (code for clone) when purchasing the 18650 batteries that fit in most of the mods its best to buy from trusted uk suppliers of known to be honestly labeled batteries, on ebay the seller torchyboy is known and trusted seller..
the popular vaping batteries in the 18650 format are the sony vct4 and vct5, Samsung 25R, and LG H2.

[darren]

Apr 12, 2016 17:58:06 GMT MrDJ said:

Hi Darren and welcome to AAEC

he was roughly right about the price BUT that was from a B&M (bricks and morter shop). prices can be found online for quite a bit cheaper and if your willing to wait even cheaper direct from china.

have you any idea of what your pen type model is called. if not maybe post a picture of it on here and also any idea of what the shop showed you.

as youve had a pen type for 2 years then you was limited back then and it will be a mouth to lung hit just like smoking.
now there are also sub ohming so a direct to lung hit that shops seem to like selling to new vapours and its quite a bit different from the mouth to lung hit just like smoking.

you can get a decent 40-60watt setup with a tank for about £50 quid now and about £8 for a box of 5 replacement coils.

have you ever tried direct lung hits or would you prefer a mouth to lung hit.
mouth to lung you can have nicotine strength upto 18mg while direct to lung is best at 3mg or 6mg nicotine.

this is what i gave up with a year ago and still using it today as well as 6 other mods

this company has got some bad feedback on this forum so it is here only as a rough guide.

istick40 (40watt) £24.99 www.dnavapes.com/collections/variable-voltage-mods/products/eleaf-istick-40w-temperature-control?variant=4800249539

coolfire 4 plus (70watt) £29.99 www.dnavapes.com/collections/variable-voltage-mods/products/cool-fire-iv-plus-mod-only

mini nautilus £14.99 www.dnavapes.com/collections/tanks-and-clearomisers/products/aspire-nautilus-mini

full size nautilus £15.99 www.dnavapes.com/collections/tanks-and-clearomisers/products/aspire-nautilus

have a search through all these companies as something else may take your fancy

RECOMMENDED UK HARDWARE SUPPLIERS

MyEpack - myepack.co.uk/

DNA Vapes - www.dnavapes.com/

SR Vapes - www.sr-vapes.co.uk/

Ecig One - www.ecigone.co.uk/

Noblevaping - noblevaping.co.uk/index.php?route=common/home


CHINA HARDWARE SUPPLIERS

Gearbest - www.gearbest.com/ecig-_gear/

Fasttech - www.fasttech.com/category/3099/e-cigarettes

Efun Top - www.efun.top/

Heaven Gift - www.heavengifts.com/

[darren]

I have a eleaf mini istick, any idea if I can buy a tank that will work with this battery so I can try the experience before spendin big bucks on the battery?

also does anybody know any good price shops I can go to in north Manchester?

thanks again guys

[joeten]

What size Istick the 10w one.

[darren]

it doesn't say, the led goes up to 5 v

[darren]

www.totallywicked-eliquid.co.uk/revolution-vt60-e-cig-kit-and-e-liquid.html

sorry to be a pain guys but is the above any good, its from a local retailer so I can go in and see them?

[djs]

Apr 12, 2016 20:48:11 GMT darren said:

www.totallywicked-eliquid.co.uk/revolution-vt60-e-cig-kit-and-e-liquid.html

sorry to be a pain guys but is the above any good, its from a local retailer so I can go in and see them?

Not for me, I'm sorry to say.

That's the old VTC kit and too many VTCs are prematurely dead, beyond repair.

[darren]

ok thanks for that I value you guys opinion, back to the drawing board :-)

[djs]

Apr 12, 2016 20:55:36 GMT darren said:

ok thanks for that I value you guys opinion, back to the drawing board :-)

You could go into your local 'Wicked' store and look at the eVic mini VTC.... except they won't call it that and the price might be dodgy.