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haha! well you've found me out, I'm a wrongly-perceptive eejit! (I know you said don't weigh it, but, c'mon, it's me ya talkin to!!) aerotank with juice = 60g; davide without juice = 56g! completely on it's head with my thinkings lol!

mrleub, what did I say that worried ya? sorry!! glad to hear you've found a tank for it, hopefully that'll solve it

oh god, that looks longer than it felt!! too much time again!! sorry! um, they're all great, haha!

REVIEW OF ASPIRE, DAVIDE, AEROTANK atomisers (so far...)

Feb 9, 2014 12:12:01 GMT The Mod Destroyer said:
How are you getting on with the sentinel and the davide king @purkie

Heya J, all is good, been struggling away with my last surviving ego batt for the last few days, although extremely happy with the atomisers I bought.. the sentinel looks fantastic & very excited about getting it up & running, finally got my batteries thru just now so need to do a full 24hr charge to prime them methinks, will be away in a puff of vape tomorrow morning haha!!

So the atomisers.. I've got & tried the Davide king, the Aerotank, & a wee Aspire ce5-shape glassomiser which was cheaper & I thought looked a bit less break-easy for out & about (also a lot lighter which is good cos I do a lot of mountaineering & in the winter I've got enough to bloody carry, ha!!). And all of them are really fantastic, even with my shitty ego batt, a total world away from the ce4/5 & gsh2 plastic clearomisers cheap off ebay that I was using before. Really exceptionally pleased that I made the move onto the real stuff!!!

For the price, the wee Aspire thing is by far the best value & is really satisfying, it's BDC & I've not had it long enough yet to need to try recoiling it, but I'm not too worried about that just yet! It just gives really really good vape-production, & much better flavour than I was used to as well, for £6 you really can't go wrong with it & I would totally recommend to someone needing more satisfaction but not able to spend a lot on a whole new set-up. Also the shape of it & the fact it's covered in that soft-touch plastic stuff apart from a wee window, makes me think I'll be relatively safe with it lol..! Obv it's not completely rebuildable so I couldn't replace the glass if needed, but as most others replaceable coils & could build my own, changeable drip tip etc.. 10/10 for a wee cheap thing defo! (It's 1.8? from here: www.smokshop.com/collections/cartomizers/products/anyvape-aspire-ce5-s-bdc) In comparison to what I was used to, it's seriously incredible. However as they are currently set up & resistances they currently have, the Davide & Aerotank are better as you'd expect, although slightly less easy..

The Davide is a bit less consistent, prob because I've not filled it with a needle yet & have been pushing my luck with very careful dripping! So I've had some leaky / bubbly issues, easily rectified by a good blow & wipe out. The first drag was pure heaven (it was the first atomiser I tried after the plastic crap), loooooads of vape, and totally surprising real flavour (mmmmm applemint!!!), I was well impressed. But then it went all burnt & really felt like I was back on the fags! YUK!! I hadn't taken the precaution of dry-burning the coil as I kinda assumed it would've been built well, but I'll not make that mistake again! So after a few days experience.. it's still a bit inconsistent, very possibly because I need to (& haven't) needle-fill it, but sometimes it's absolutely incredible, other times it lacks flavour or doesn't produce that much vape, or floods. Basically I think this is due to my inexperience & crap battery I've been using it on, I'd definitely recommend to someone who's used to the issues with decent atomisers. When it's happy, 10/10 for vape production & flavour. It's mega heavy by the way, hopefully that means the glass is thick & won't break too easily!!

The Aerotank is also really amazing. It's the most consistent of the three & doesn't actually seem to have the capacity to leak because the base of it is completely sealed. I did dry-burn the coil before first use, & washed it, so maybe that helped, but every single drag has been amazing. No problems at all! Great flavour (possibly very slightly less than the Davide on a davide-happy-day, but still exceptionally good) & loads of vape.. I've found cos it's set up at 2? currently it doesn't do so well on my crappy battery, so usually if I'm using this I steal my partner's (also crap but better) ego twist vv, on an only slight kick it really works fantastically, so whenever I can get my hands on the twist the Aerotank is always 1st in line. I guess mainly because I find it more consistent than the Davide & easier to fill, & also it's very aesthetically pleasing (although I try to think that's not important to me..!) So this gets 10/10 overall, although I'm sure when I start treating the Davide like it wants to be treated this might change, not sure yet will see how it goes

Bear in mind that all of this is based on use with a very crap battery & out-the-box experience - I'm intending to experiment with lower resistances, especially in the aerotank, & I need to learn how to re-coil all of them as all of them are BDC (although happy to know I can stick a single in the aerotank!). All in all I'm REALLY REALLY chuffed with all of them, they've totally changed my experience of vaping, & would recommend to anyone definitely Thanks everyone for helping me find what I needed!

Also, MASSIVE thank yous & huge appreciation to Jane, @johanino.. I got my mod thru this morning!!! Heard the postie dithering, & then a very heavy-sounding 'plop!', and then a very excited Lauren!!! It was really extremely kind of you Jane, thanks very much. As I'm now over my overdraft limit I would've ended up a bit stuck without it!! well, very stuck in fact. Thank you thank you thank you, lovely lass! Awaiting batteries, so I'll let you know how it goes! Plus I know you're keen for me to tell you all about the davide king.. I will.. although I'm not sure yet that it's working quite right, not least because I've got it balanced on top of weeny skinny ego battery, ha! looks hilarious so it does

Thanks folks, yep I probably was making it a bit too confusing for myself, but I am a bit OCD & wanted to make sure I knew vaguely what I was doing.. I'm sure there's a good reason why mechanical mods are listed as being for 'advanced users' on most websites, and I'm definitely not that..! So just wanted to get a basic understanding of how it all works, including battery types & resistance, so I could feel safe enough venturing into new vaping territory Everyone's advice has been really helpful with that, as well as some of the sort-of 'here's how it all works' stylee forum posts that some kind folks have linked me to. I just had a couple more brain-glitches of confusion so used this thread for that. Anyway I'm glad that it seems I landed on my feet (unusually!) with the right batteries, and it's good to know how & why to be careful (esp. with the IMR info, thanks). Cheeries!