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"You Nexus? I design your eyes.."

I just bought one of these
www.amazon.co.uk/AINOL-NOVO7-ELF-II-supported/dp/B0087DA8YK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1341232492&sr=8-3

I was going to get a Kindle, but for the money I thought I could get an ereader + ipod replacement + mobile games platform + loads of other software.

The Elf 2 is completely awesome, so glad I didn't get a Kindle. I hate technological walled gardens like the ipads too.

It has SDHC and USB, which beats your Nexus, since I can fit a total of 72 GB of storage in a pinch.

You will have better graphics and quad core compared to my dual core. You'll be dependent on hiring cloud space if you need lots of storage, so it depends what you decide to use it for. 16GB is OK though.

On Visions, you should get a couple of weeks out of each but there are many variables. If you buy the ones with replaceable heads, you don't have to buy the whole device again, just new heads, which makes them cheaper and less wasteful to run. You can even recondition them with home made wick and atomiser coils if you really want your spreadsheet to squeak.

Generally I find Visions a bit less faffy than cartos, but it's all down to preference. So many options.

I budget a pair of batteries as six months for replacement, but you'll be lucky to get that far without buying a variable voltage mod if we're honest.

Pics here
www.vapeescape.co.uk/joyetech-ego-c-twist-vv-black-%26-steel~367

Twists are like a normal ego battery, except they have a dial on the bottom. If you turn the dial you can vary the voltage, which affects vapour production and flavour.

So it's a cheap but disposable variable voltage mod, basically.

Depends what you're measuring, but ohms measure resistance, which is what you want for testing coils. The measuring range will be a small number, since you're looking at 1-4 ohm for a coil, but the smallest value on mine is 200, which means it measures between 0 and 200 ohms. 200k (200,000) is far too big for instance.

For testing small resistances you might also want to check the offset error by touching the probes together. Whatever the reading is needs to be subtracted from your actual measurements. Say it's 0.5 ohms error, and you measure a coil at 3.5, the real value is 3 ohm + 0.5 ohm error. This only matters at the bottom of the range where even 0.1 ohm represents a fairly large proportion of the measured value.

Black lead to COM. If you have the choice between A and mA, choose mA for the red lead, since this is low current DC.

Hope it makes sense.

Edit for pic
Black to COM
Red to VohmmA
Dial to 200 ohm.
Measure offset error. Go for it.

I barely watch telly, so that wooshed over my head Storm.
Years ago I wrote quite a surreal article about Sherlock Holmes fixing PCs by a process of elimination, so my contribution came from that more than anything.

Re simple VV but not an LT, I think a pair of say 1000ish mAh ego twists or similar would do for the power source.

eg
www.vapeescape.co.uk/joyetech-ego-c-twist-vv-black-%26-steel~367

or, more basic
www.vapeescape.co.uk/ego-variable-voltage-battery~269

then just use standard resistance front ends, they tend to suit the voltage range better.

Good starting point.

I'd suggest that you encourage people who want to tell their personal stories to chop a good third, preferably more, from their wordcount after the initial submission. Alternately give them a challenging target wordcount before they start.

Not because I'm grumpy, but because it concentrates their mind and enhances readability without sacrificing useful detail or a sense of the writer's character. I'm happier to read half a page than three pages if the information/entertainment content is roughly the same.

I expect that is also true of other vapers, and particularly semi-interested publicans with stuff to do, because in my experience most casual readers prefer a tight writing style, and often bail out if they don't see one.