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Heh, took a bit of searching, but it appears to be #0000FF

Google was my friend :

Wow! You don't hang about!
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now, heh

John

Hi Sam

If you've got a multimeter you can test your batteries and Ego pt to see what voltage they're giving out. There's a good how-to here:
www.cloud9vaping.co.uk/Meter

IIRC an Ego gives out a regulated 3.4v, whereas a Riva gives out 4.1/4.2v initially, which drops gradually in use to 3.6v, at which point it needs recharging. That's a fair bit of difference.

Assuming the above is correct, you can see that the Riva is giving out up to 23% more v's than the Ego when freshly charged, and even when it requires a recharge is still giving out 5-6% more.

With identical attys on both devices you should definitely get more warmth and vapour from the Riva, just less so once it's been run down a bit.

Why not try an LR carto on the Ego pt, if you're using normal ones on the Riva and see how that goes?

John

P.S. I just tested my Riva batts, and the one I charged last night is showing 4.2v, whereas the one I've been using since this morning is showing 4.0v

Got a pack of them from VE along with the LR Boges. Stronger than the LR's you say? Oi'm intrigued I'll try them next, and treat with caution

Can't be a coincidence that TW are selling thier stock off at half price though
www.totallywicked-eliquid.co.uk/products/smoky-clearo-carto-mizers/smokymizers/ce3-smokymizer-5-pack-durable-edition-3-product.html

Yeah, there's a couple of threads over at UKV about this. It seems quite a few peeps have had CE3's short out and kill thier batteries. Not worth risking it methinks, specially if you've only got one working battery!

Hi trying,

Glad you didn't give up and are still 'trying'

Re your tastebuds, chances are that yes they'll have been damaged by smoking, but if you manage to stick with vaping they'll recover over time (amount of time varies from person to person).

On the nic strength thing, I think you've done the right thing in moving to a stronger mix. It should help make the swap over from cigs to vapes easier. You can always move to a weaker mix later once you're comfortable vaping.

For me, I think of swapping to vaping as a 2 stage process:

Stage 1. Drop the cigs and swap to vaping (at whatever nic strength is comfortable).

Stage 2 (optional). Reduce nic strength gradually if you want to.

Also, don't think that you have to give up real tabs completely, just try to minimise thier use. Count the ones that you don't have rather than the ones that you do. Not everyone can just drop the tabs immediately, for some it's a gradual process.

BTW, there's good info on nic strengths etc here:
www.e-cigarette-forum.com/index.php/beginner-ecigarette-tutorial-2.html

Good luck with making the swap, and I hope you stick with it,
John


P.S. I use 24mg nic juice, and right now have no intention of reducing the strength. My reason for taking up vaping was to stop smoking tobacco, not to stop getting my nicotine hit