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Post by thatguy on Jun 17, 2015 22:46:37 GMT
I've never bought any premade, but mom and pops TNT is perhaps the most authentic tobacco I've tried. Only used the concentrates for home brew though. As a beginner, I enjoyed Dekang's Hill Blend. I was more of a Shag smoker, preferring Drum, and this is meant to be a Dunhill cig flavour but it worked for me, more than the supposed Drum flavours I'd tried (Hansen Instruement et al)
Health e vape do a decent tobacco juice, its called dragon something or other.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 17, 2015 22:39:30 GMT
I was a heavy smoker, about 30-35g of drum a day without filters. I had a horrible cough at the end of my smoking days where I could hardly string a sentance together without a coughing fit.
Switched to an EVOD kit using dirt cheap pg heavy e liquid from mr ecig (hangsen and dekang, although I must admit the dekang was far superior for most flavours). I still coughed a bit.
Swapped over to a mech mod and a kraken tank and used high vg liquids and dropped from 18mg to 12mg and never had a cough since. Now down to 6mg at work and 3mg at home.
Give your body time to expell the crap built up from smoking. You'll probably hack up a lot of phlegm and pollutants from your respitory system for 2-8 weeks, this is normal. It's your body getting rid of the trash cigarettes deposited in your system. After this, if you stil cough, pay a visit to a site that offers tailored liquids such as joose juice or health e vape. Pick some liquids at 50pg/50vg, and perhaps one or two at 12mg nicotine. If you dont cough but still crave a nic hit, stick with the lower nic and higher VG content, and grab a higher performance tank and mod.
Some advice from a heavy smoker...dont quit quitting. You may miss a stinkie, but the health gains once you get over the initial pangs and coughing spurts/colds/flus are immesurable. Quitting will change your life. It saved mine.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 17, 2015 22:08:10 GMT
Tried various methods of coilin wicking these little beasties and found them all lacking in some way. Prone to flooding, prone to dry hits (if wick not spot on in both cases) vape too hot etc. Tried again tonight with a kanthal twisted pair wrapped round kanthal ribbon, and using the same wicking as I use on a goblin coil, and wow. Smoother than ever...cooler vape and the best flavour I've had from a subtank mini yet. Can I have the details of this coil please? What ohms/wire gauge [in English]/diameter etc. I use twisted wire coils in my subtanks, but wouldn't know where to start wrapping around ribbon. Piccies would be nice too. (Don't want much, do I?) Edit: Sorry to derail the thread I'll be rebuilding the wifes RBA heads this weekend, I'll get her to photo them and put up the info.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 17, 2015 22:07:09 GMT
The leaking wasnt from not having the wicking sussed out, it was from pushing the tank further than it's designed to go. It didnt ever leak as such, but the chamber flooded. Bloody hard to find the correct juice flow when your pushing them at 50-60W. But I enjoy a challenge and so far getting no dry hits yet at 58W from this setup, but taking shorter faster puffs. Can hit almost 50W with long drags.
Standard techniques and the pancake type wicks were fine when I played with them at the usual 25-35W range, but what can I say, nothing more fun than pusing the boundires of what you do.
Right now I've settled on a 46W vape on the subtank mini and sigeli 100W and not a dry hit in sight.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 17, 2015 22:03:12 GMT
Once there was the mob, and it was MVP. The vaper saw it was fugly and as comfortable as thistle lined underwear, thus it was consigned to vape purgatory....the cupboard of doom. The vaper awoke on the second morning and had a vision of a tube, a tube with the variance of power. The vaper beheld this and knew the form was good, but the substance was lacking. On the third day, the vaper beheld the nemesis and saw that it was good, thus he rejoiced!! But by now the seeds of shinyitis were sown and on the fourth day, a pipe appeared to the vaper. It's form was pleasing yet it was a hollow shell with no spirit. On the fifth day the vaper proclaimed "Oh tube mods, thou art the vapers chosen mods. Come forth and multiply, thus the stingray, caravela 4 nine and lion were born. On the sixth day, the diversity nazi hijacked the vapes conciousness and the mods known as boxes appeared to him as serpents disguised as angels and the fallen ones, the smowell dvp50, the kanger subbox and the sigeli 100W came to be. On the seventh day the vaper renounced his sins and called upon the turtle ship to take him back to the blessed land of the Nemesis. So sayeth the vaper. Here ends our drivel.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 17, 2015 21:34:54 GMT
Tried various methods of coilin wicking these little beasties and found them all lacking in some way. Prone to flooding, prone to dry hits (if wick not spot on in both cases) vape too hot etc.
Tried again tonight with a kanthal twisted pair wrapped round kanthal ribbon, and using the same wicking as I use on a goblin coil, and wow. Smoother than ever...cooler vape and the best flavour I've had from a subtank mini yet.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 17, 2015 10:08:41 GMT
Wire thickness will determine how quickly a coil heats up and how warm the Cape is. Thicker wire means slower heating and a cooler vape.
the diameter if the coil is dependant onthe space available in your atty and the power you vape at. Too large a diameter and you risk shorting against the deck or other parts of the atty, and a large diameter will struggle to get up to temperature at low powers due to too much juice in the wick, but the larger diameter can help reduce dry hits.
Spaced coils allow you to cover more wick whilst keeping the resistance down, micro coils are more compact and heat faster due to the coils being closer together
On a regulated device, it's worth finding out what resistances work best for your mod. All mods have limits on voltage and current ranges, and can be limited in power output at certain resistances. Steam engine has a section covering this.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 16, 2015 17:31:36 GMT
Most comfortable is still a nemesis, sorry box mod lovers. Yet, the smowell 50W doesn't feel too bad.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 15, 2015 0:05:17 GMT
I'm sorry but I hear football and I just Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I swear to god .. I would run around for 90 minutes chasing a bag of air if someone paid me that much !! I have to work 39 hrs a week 52 weeks of the year and I earn a pittance compared to them ! I think perhaps I should become a footballer as I can run around and fall over easy peasy I believe you need an Actors Equity Card before you can become a footballer. Commentator at end of match... 'They are unstoppable'... Yeah right! Sorry to be so cynical, but I compare football and the 'hangers on' i.e. the media 'experts' to the 'cockroaches' of banking... it's 'our' world and we are ripping all you hard working people off. This is my personal opinion. Oh you are too right with the equity card. It's embarrasing to watch so many of the "top" players in recent years. Drogba, Ronaldo, Robben, Suarez, Bale, A. Young... scum who should all have been handed lifetime bans for diving. On top of that the classless attitude of some players like Hannibal Suarez, Baby Totti and A. Young....no wonder people are disillisioned. What we really need are more top players with class such as Allessandro Del Piero Gianluigi Buffon, and Javier Zanetti. All three are gentlemen on and off the pitch and they all realise how lucky they are and as such give a lot of time and money to charities. On top of this they are true role models for future generations. Men who value loyalty and act with compassion and embrace gentlemanly conduct. As well as this I hate the laziness so many attacking players have today. Look at Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar and co. If they don't have the ball or a chance for someone to pass to them then they don't care, the lights are off and nobodies home. Compare them to Tevez who never stops trying, Nedved who would wear out an entire pitch with his running, or a man we should all remember fondly, Vinny Jones who never stoped working or believing. Those are they guys I pay to see, not some lazy, diving jezabell who is paid millions to stand around and cry.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 14, 2015 23:48:57 GMT
At 0.5 ohms you'll draw about 8.4A from a cell.
This is all good on a 10A rated cell under good conitions. Then you factor in the accuracy of the ohm testing gear most people use (sadly, mosty use a mod like a vamo,mvp,sigeli or other box mod which have a resolution of 0.1 ohms so a build could be anywhere from +-0.1 ohms{ accuracy and resolution erros combined]). On top of this add increasing internal resistance to the equation and the variation between individual cells.....
I'd be happier seeing builds from 0.6 ohms up to give comforatble headroom. 0.5 gives 16%, 0.6 gives 30% a small change but much safer.
As a rule of thumb, always allow 15-20% headroomas an absolute minimum on cells. If you must go for builds below 0.2 ohms, look at 26650s and not 18mm cells.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 14, 2015 2:57:50 GMT
Am I right in thinking that the odd bays (1,3) share the same channel for charging and the even bays (2,4) on the other channel?
Usage and the scant documentation I've seen seems to confirm this(current seems to be shared when charging two cells on 1 and 3 or two and 4 going by charge times. Can anyone confirm?
Mainly interested in this to keep cells balanced for dual battery setups.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 14, 2015 2:49:24 GMT
Haven't tried their cola flavours sonicflowjoe , but the capella cola is head and shoulders above the others I've tried. Somewhere between cola cubes and cola bottles.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 14, 2015 2:47:46 GMT
Personally, I vape at about 4.5mg/ml at home when I'm free to vape when I want to, but at work when I have to leave the premesis (not too many chances to do this as a teacher) I vape at about 8mg/ml. I find the higher nic content useful as I'm going longer periods between vaping. As for the amount of e liquid I vape, I'm not too worried about it. Mixing at home keeps the cost very low and honestly, compared to smoking, puffing through 10 or even 20 mls a day is a huge reduction in both risk and harm.
Vaping for me is firstly about fulfilling the nic craving and staying off the cigarettes, but also about enjoying a vape. I honestly believe that the enjoyment factor (along with the hand to mouth movement/habit) is why vaping is so much more successful than NRT offered by big pharma.
Do gum/patches/sprays/hypnotherapy replace the physical habits? No. Do they give any pleasure? No? Vaping does both of these while being regarded by genuine scientists as being safe(many even compare the toxicants in vaping to those in general air pollution).
Lower nic and/or less consumption msy be better for our health, but never forget the bigger picture - Vaping keeps us of the fags, and it would take an incredible, biology defying amount of e liquid use or basically vaping nic base to make the vaping harm even approach that of old school cigarettes. Just vape what you need to stay smoke free and don't feel guilty about it.
I find these arguements to be very similar to the safe sex arguments around the world. We are not going to stop people having sex. WE are not going to stop people using nicotine. What we can do is promote the safe indulgence in both of them.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 13, 2015 12:25:08 GMT
How long does it take an employee to collect the money and enter it on a computer system, then arrange an electronic transfer?If it's £8 worth of time then either Royal mail are paying silly wages or the process is inefficient. No getting around the fact that £8 is not an acceptable amount to charge for what should be a fast and easy job.
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Post by thatguy on Jun 13, 2015 1:15:40 GMT
Thank you for the feeback dagl . I honestly feel that the Fred's dead mix has a lot to offer people who want an astaire mix that isn't as intense in a menthol/eucalyptus way while offering a pleasant fruity tone to the flavour. I've tried a plethora of Astaire type mixes, yet find this one unique and very satisfying.
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