Today I ordered

platinums · 04-04-2013 01:14AM

Evic arrived today, charged it at work, then went home at lunch time (called in on the way home from a job) and Vaped at lunchtime, in my office

Its a big boy, i've had 2 Ego-C type batts before, I took a picture of them side by side and gasped at the monster shadowing the ego battery, but im getting used to it.

Built a first attempt SS wick in the aga-t and its working out OK, it may need a bit of refining but im getting better cleaner tasting vapes at around 4.5-5 watts. anything over starts to taste burnt and flavorless (im probably doing something wrong having read some here vaping at 9 watts.)
Also tried the igo-l dripper today again needs refinement. After feeling chuffed at the first SS i made, I slapped together a SS/Silica wick hybrid. It looks disastrous but actually i get an OK vape from it.

Overall Im glad i jumped to VV, the vape doesn't seem to burnt out near the end of the toke as in the ego batteries. Think I've spent near €300 since i started 6 weeks ago, but the beauty is Ill get most of that back when I sell off the bits I've amassed.

If i spent that on Benson & Hedges, pah, up in smoke! litterely.

grindle · 04-04-2013 02:34AM

platinums wrote: »

Built a first attempt SS wick in the aga-t and its working out OK, it may need a bit of refining but im getting better cleaner tasting vapes at around 4.5-5 watts. anything over starts to taste burnt and flavorless (im probably doing something wrong having read some here vaping at 9 watts.)

Sounds like you have a hot leg. When you fire at 8watts with the cap off, does the top coil glow at all? Or the bottom coil (harder to do but it happens)?

sept09baby · 04-04-2013 09:26AM

AGR Cartomizer Tank
Carto Punch
Boge XL Cartomizers - Standard Resistance - Stainless
Energon - 20mg - 10ml
Efest IMR 18350 Battery

Woohoo - the AGR tank is back in stock. Lets see if it can tear me away from my beloved Kanger T2s

damon5 · 04-04-2013 10:40AM

sept09baby wrote: »

AGR Cartomizer Tank
Carto Punch
Boge XL Cartomizers - Standard Resistance - Stainless
Energon - 20mg - 10ml
Efest IMR 18350 Battery

Woohoo - the AGR tank is back in stock. Lets see if it can tear me away from my beloved Kanger T2s

You,ll be in heaven and will never look back,dont forget a battery charger and some spare batts charged and ready to go

sept09baby · 04-04-2013 10:54AM

Have loads of chargers and batteries. My only experience with tanks has been the DCTs and I quickly got p*ssed off with them.

Started on cartos (thanks to Sir Digby) was maybe this set up will bring me back to my roots!

damon5 · 04-04-2013 11:38AM

sept09baby wrote: »

Have loads of chargers and batteries. My only experience with tanks has been the DCTs and I quickly got p*ssed off with them.

Started on cartos (thanks to Sir Digby) was maybe this set up will bring me back to my roots!

If you took the kanger t2 as SUCKING a drag off a rolly well the AGR on a nova,s like blasting on a peace pipe by volume

Green Hornet · 04-04-2013 11:49AM

Anybody ever try those innokin catos?

platinums · 04-04-2013 02:57PM

grindle wrote: »

Sounds like you have a hot leg. When you fire at 8watts with the cap off, does the top coil glow at all? Or the bottom coil (harder to do but it happens)?

can i do that without causing any damage? (coming from Silica.. fear of burning something out and getting perma burn taste)

grindle · 04-04-2013 05:02PM

You can. When you've first built the coil on SS, firing the coil dry is the only way to know that it's evenly built, that all the coils are lighting. It's a part of the process. If a couple of coils on top are lighting but not the ones at the bottom, you'd nudge the top coils down or up or whatever makes the coil light up uniformly.

Make the fires quick though, if you hold the button for a half-second too long and there is a short or a very hot top leg, it may snap.

P.I.T.A · 07-04-2013 04:13PM

Last night ordered 2 x protected 3.7v 4000 mAh 18650 Ultrafire rechargeable batteries on ebay. Works out around €22 with postage, my Efest 3100 only lasting me 22 hours (real time) so hoping these 4000 mAh will do me well over a day. If they work out better than the efest and Samsung 2600 will be ordering a few more.

Strange though tried buying the very same batteries off Amazon first and they are not allowed for shipping to Ireland from the UK, but is ok from Ebay

Edited: Actual price in yoyo's was €24.35

heliguyheliguy · 07-04-2013 04:16PM

Don't think there is such a thing as 4000mah li batteries sounds dodgy.
Let us know how they work out.

P.I.T.A · 07-04-2013 04:21PM

heliguyheliguy wrote: »

Don't think there is such a thing as 4000mah li batteries sounds dodgy.
Let us know how they work out.

Actually came across 5600 mAh batteries, can't remember if on Amazon or Ebay, but didn't state "protected" so went for the one's I bought.

Mr. Chrome · 07-04-2013 04:28PM

P.I.T.A wrote: »

Last night ordered 2 x protected 3.7v 4000 mAh 18650 Ultrafire rechargeable batteries on ebay. Works out around €22 with postage, my Efest 3100 only lasting me 22 hours (real time) so hoping these 4000 mAh will do me well over a day. If they work out better than the efest and Samsung 2600 will be ordering a few more.

Strange though tried buying the very same batteries off Amazon first and they are not allowed for shipping to Ireland from the UK, but is ok from Ebay

Edited: Actual price in yoyo's was €24.35

Royal mail wont allow batteries to be posted without a device.

grindle · 07-04-2013 04:29PM

Yeah, the Ultrafire batteries are known as bad enough already, the ones on eBay are usually the fakest of the fake.

Three lists on AkkuDB (bookmark this site, very handy - Google Translate should take care of the language barrier):

Ultrafire

Ultrafire (real/genuine)

Ultrafire (fake)
See the last entry on this page.

Fingers crossed for you P.I.T.A.! How many mls did you vape through in those 22 hours and how did other batteries (like AW) compare?

P.I.T.A · 07-04-2013 04:32PM

Mr. Chrome wrote: »

Royal mail wont allow batteries to be posted without a device.

Just hope they don't open the package then, I was charged £4 shipping and packaging so hoping to get them otherwise will have to inform paypal to cancel my payment.

Mr. Chrome · 07-04-2013 04:39PM

I hope Im wrong but thats what I heard a while back.
Probably a stupid question, but why do you need a protected battery in an e vic?

grindle · 07-04-2013 05:00PM

No, the eVic already has short circuit protection.

P.I.T.A · 07-04-2013 05:33PM

grindle wrote: »

No, the eVic already has short circuit protection.

EVIC, bloody EVIC dat pile of bish with its 11 watts limit :eek: Nah I've moved up to a higher plain of vaping these days. Even the Provari can't hack it, keeps cutting out at the wattage I'm vaping.

Vaperus · 07-04-2013 05:52PM

Maybe you should just plug into the national Grid :-)

Mr. Chrome · 07-04-2013 05:55PM

Vaperus wrote: »

Mybe you just just plug into the national Grid :-)

A 220volt passtrough! Now THATS an idea ;-)

was.deevey · 07-04-2013 05:56PM

the eVic already has short circuit protection.

A protected battery is only as good as the circuit anyhow. If the circuit fries first (which does happen) its going to go Boom anyhow.

Personally I'm quite happy to use branded safe chemistry high drain batteries like Efests, or AW's even in an unprotected mod, rather than rely on electronic circutry on a battery to ensure my safety.

Not to mention they perform better and have just as little (or much) chance of something going wrong.

EVIC, bloody EVIC dat pile of bish with its 11 watts limit

11 watts Pfft - thats a real kick in the neither region for ya!

P.I.T.A · 07-04-2013 05:58PM

Vaperus wrote: »

Mybe you just just plug into the national Grid :-)

My wattage takes me over the Provari amp limit (not sure what the limit is tbh)? I assume that's why I keep getting the E2 errors and why I'm looking for the biggest mAh battery I can get my mits on to last over a days vaping.

grindle · 07-04-2013 05:59PM

P.I.T.A wrote: »

EVIC, bloody EVIC dat pile of bish with its 11 watts limit :eek: Nah I've moved up to a higher plain of vaping these days. Even the Provari can't hack it, keeps cutting out at the wattage I'm vaping.

What're you on now? Get the TH?

P.I.T.A wrote: »

My wattage takes me over the Provari amp limit (not sure what the limit is tbh)?

14watts, 3.5amps.

P.I.T.A · 07-04-2013 06:08PM

grindle wrote: »

What're you on now? Get the TH?

No not yet Grind's but is on the cards as my next purchase.
I bought a Zmax from TBS on Tuesday, (got fed up with the Provari not firing half the time), powerful yoke and nearly half the weight of the Provari, that and the VV Gripper only the 2 mods that I can use with the Vision dripper that doesn't conk out and the Zmax looks great with the dripper both same tone.

P.I.T.A · 07-04-2013 06:09PM

grindle wrote: »

What're you on now? Get the TH?

14watts, 3.5amps.

I'm vaping above that, prob's why it kept cutting out.

P.I.T.A · 07-04-2013 08:02PM

Vaperus wrote: »

Maybe you should just plug into the national Grid :-)

I know Mike, GRID is a tricky word to spell allright :P

Thecageyone · 08-04-2013 10:21AM

My selection from the Alchemist cupboard arrived, at last. really missed my mint choc! Got 50ml now to keep me puffing happily. Also got a sample pack with all sorts of flavours from rhubarb custard crumble to Santa's Christmas cake.

I tried out some Lemon meringue as it's my favourite dessert, or one of them, and it definitely requires steeping as it tastes like soap right now

superneat · 08-04-2013 01:08PM

Just picked up one of these bad boys!

StickyIcky · 08-04-2013 01:13PM

GP Paps 2.1 OH YEA!

My first mech mod. Now I can finally start rocking dual coils and see what all the fuss is that grindles been harping on and on and bloody on about all this time.

Big shout out to Superneat for fueling my shinitius and pointing me in the right direction and enabling me in my addiction and pursuit.

EDIT: HAHA You got one too Superneat lol? What a bastard. Why must you have everything?!

heliguyheliguy · 08-04-2013 01:17PM

How? where? Green with envy

Today I ordered

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