Advice on eCab please.

Skippy44

Hi all, basically I need advice please. Having smoked for 20+ years, I stopped in February this year. For the first couple of weeks or so I used Nicolites but they were way too expensive for what they provided and i then bought an eCab. I used this and the 24mg Nicotine flavoured liquid supplied for a while but had to stop recently as I was getting headaches and generally feeling crap. I'm totally new to this and have a few questions. If anyone could give any guidance on this I would be most grateful.

Q. Is the "ECab" any good?
Q. Is it normal for the batteries to last less than half an hour (or 5 to 10 drags)? This has been the case, they are Joyetech 3.7v 360mAh batteries.
Q. Could I assume that the high liquid strength was giving me headaches?
Q. Where are these liquids legitimately manufactured as I know that the liquid I was sold came from China?

Sorry if these seem like "spanner" questions but I am pretty much in the dark here, hopefully some of you can advise me, thanks.

grindle

Skippy44 wrote: »

Q. Is the "ECab" any good?

They're okay as a battery. Grand for a cigalike, but in the broad scope of vaping they'd be considered weak/below average.

Skippy44 wrote: »

Q. Is it normal for the batteries to last less than half an hour (or 5 to 10 drags)? This has been the case, they are Joyetech 3.7v 360mAh batteries.

Only normal once they've started to die, which they would do sooner than larger batteries cos you're charging them so much more often. If you received them like that they're faulty. Shouldn't be dead in two months, but small batteries seem to die/suffer premature deaths all the same.

Skippy44 wrote: »

Q. Could I assume that the high liquid strength was giving me headaches?

Could've been that, especially if you felt a little anxious, like you've downed a coffee very quickly.
Another cause could be the atomiser still had machine oils on it. Did it taste synthetic or did it taste absolutely foul?
Yet another cause could be dehydration. The base ingredients of eliquids soak up water, some of the moisture in your mouth is being exhaled in that vapour. You have to drink more water when vaping.

Skippy44 wrote: »

Q. Where are these liquids legitimately manufactured as I know that the liquid I was sold came from China?

The big Chinese ones (Dekang, Hangsen) are made in very large professional labs by all accounts, but they wouldn't be the nicest flavours. A lot of them have a synthetic twang that's hard to escape but they're not toxic or inherently headache inducing.

biko

I have an ecab and like it. The batts that comes with it last 2-3 hours for me. If it never leaves your lips it's shorter
Drink water as you vape, it does dry you out.
I use Liqua, not sure where it's made. Was doing higher strength but now regular is just fine.

Skippy44

grindle wrote: »

They're okay as a battery. Grand for a cigalike, but in the broad scope of vaping they'd be considered weak/below average.

Only normal once they've started to die, which they would do sooner than larger batteries cos you're charging them so much more often. If you received them like that they're faulty. Shouldn't be dead in two months, but small batteries seem to die/suffer premature deaths all the same.

I still have 1/3 of the original liquid supplied left so surely the batteries shouldn't be banjoed yet. I also found that the unit was leaking on occasion and I put this down to the battery. Not sure on that.

Could've been that, especially if you felt a little anxious, like you've downed a coffee very quickly.
Another cause could be the atomiser still had machine oils on it. Did it taste synthetic or did it taste absolutely foul?

No, either fine or leaked or burnt.

Yet another cause could be dehydration. The base ingredients of eliquids soak up water, some of the moisture in your mouth is being exhaled in that vapour. You have to drink more water when vaping.

Cheers, didn't know that:o

grindle

Skippy44 wrote: »

I still have 1/3 of the original liquid supplied left so surely the batteries shouldn't be banjoed yet. I also found that the unit was leaking on occasion and I put this down to the battery. Not sure on that.

1/3...of a LITRE? I dunno. if that's a 30ml bottle, well done on using so little and no, the batteries shouldn't be dead but the small ones do seem to die quickly. Especially quickly if liquid has been leaking.

Anything leaking is always the atomiser or the tank feeding the atomiser's fault.

Skippy44

biko wrote: »

I have an ecab and like it. The batts that comes with it last 2-3 hours for me. If it never leaves your lips it's shorter
Drink water as you vape, it does dry you out.
I use Liqua, not sure where it's made. Was doing higher strength but now regular is just fine.

Cheers. My batteries never lasted that long, even when getting minimal use in work, I'll source some replacements. Might try Liqua as well, where can i order it from?

grindle

Skippy44 wrote: »

Might try Liqua as well, where can i order it from?

Here.

Skippy44

grindle wrote: »

1/3...of a LITRE? I dunno. if that's a 30ml bottle, well done on using so little and no, the batteries shouldn't be dead but the small ones do seem to die quickly. Especially quickly if liquid has been leaking.

Anything leaking is always the atomiser or the tank feeding the atomiser's fault.

On checking it's probably only 1/5 of the 30ml left. Liquid was leaking quite frequently so that'd probably account for the batteries so. Thanks grindle