Rixter

The Beast Box VV takes 2 x 26500 3000mah batteries...that's roughly 60 hours of vape time between charges! I WANT ONE!!!

I've got a box full of drip tips in various shapes, colors, and materials, but the only ones that that I use any more are Boge black plastic F-16 drip tips. They're cheap, they fit everything I have nicely, and they're comfortable.

This is the first time I've seen a replaceable battery 510 e-cig. It takes a 10440 battery.

When I first bought Dekang DK-TAB based on some positive reviews I saw online, the blend was 80PG/20VG. Since then, if there's an option, I always get 80/20. It's thin enough to soak into cartos easily, and wicks well into clearos and CE2 tank cartos. It seems to have enough VG content to provide plenty of vapor, too. I've tried 100% VG (great vapor, low taste), 100% PG (great taste, low vapor), and 50/50 (pretty decent) in the past, but 80PG/20VG seems to give me the best taste to vapor ratio.

As for cleaning (and filling) cartos, try The Plunger from My Freedom Smokes.

Every tank carto I've used in the past has had a flange plate on the bottom that stops the tank in the proper position, but pretty much prohibits filling by condom method. Are your cartos flange-less, and If so, what keeps the tank from sliding down too far?

Just in case you missed this on the thread:

I couldn't disagree more. The fact is that 8 watts is 8 watts is 8 watts...no matter how you get there. I've done side-by-side comparisons over and over again, and there simply is no detectable difference. Take two identical VV batteries and put a Boge 2Ω carto on one set to 4v, and put a Boge 3Ω carto on the other one set to 4.9v, and vape the two rigs side by side. They taste the same, they sound the same, they vape the same, they consume juice the same. I've done it too many times to believe otherwise. There is nothing magic about it...it's simply V² / R = P...nothing more.

Exactly. There might be more wraps in a 3Ω coil than a 1.8Ω coil, or a different type or gauge of wire, but I can't tell the difference in the two when the wattage is the same.

Maybe they got it right with the MT3. I know that some people were having issues with the T3.

Voltage squared divided by resistance equals wattage. 4v on a 3Ω carto puts 5.33 watts to the coil. 4 times 4 equals 16. 16 divided by 3 equals 5.33. That's where I'd start with the CE2 tank cartos.

After you fill the tank, drip about 3 drops onto the coil through the top of the CE2. Then wait a couple minutes for the wick to saturate and start vaping.

I take it you got your MT3s in.

He's talking about facing the gasket in the other direction (open end towards the mouthpiece) so it can't compress the wicks.

I've had some issues with leaking tank cartos before and had temporary success stopping the leak by emptying the tank, blowing out the carto, vaping it with the tank installed but empty for about 20 pulls, and then refilling the tank. That only worked for a little while before the leaking returned, however. I've used tank cartos from two places...Crystal Clear Vaping and Sure Vapes. One box from CCV had a single carto that leaked, so I tossed it and moved on to the next one in the pack. All the rest worked flawlessly...no others leaked. The first two out of the box from Sure Vapes leaked so I stopped using them altogether and decided to try something else. That something else was CE2 Style DCT Tank Cartomizers from Hoosier E-cig. Of the box of five, I only had a problem with one, and that wasn't a leak issue. That one's resistance kept jumping around between 1.7 and 2.2, and it was supposed to be a 3Ω carto. It gave off a burnt taste so I assumed that there was something wrong with the way the coil was wrapped and tossed it. I've had no other problems with any of the rest, and I've had zero leaking since making the switch. They don't do well above 6 watts, but at 5.5 watts, they perform like poly-filled tank cartos at 8 watts...no kidding. I don't know why, but they do. It takes about a tank of e-liquid to break them in, but once that's done, they are truly phenomenal.

I live in rural Northwestern Mississippi, and we have nothing like that here. Even in Oxford, home of Ole Miss, where you'd think there might be something like that, there's nothing. I've heard about a couple of vape shops in Memphis, but that's over an hour away. I don't mind buying online, but there's nothing like getting your hands on something before you buy it. It's probably a good thing that there isn't a vape shop around here...especially if they sell ProVaris. My wife would be really pissed if I went into a vape shop and somebody handed me a ProVari and said, "Here...try this one out." Cha-ching!!!

I posted this earlier in a thread called "", but I figured it would do more good in a thread by itself. For those of you T3 users experiencing dry hits, try this advice from Steve K from his "Kanger T3 Bottom Coil eGo Clearomizer Review" : "I found in pretty short order, the T3 would give dry hits if I didn’t wait a sufficient amount of time for the coil to re-wick. This was frustrating as I tend to prefer to vape several times in a row. Fortunately, it turns out there’s a pretty simple modification that can be made to the gaskets to improve liquid absorption and eliminate much of the dry hits. I can’t take credit for this one, a hat tip goes to the good folks over on Reddit. Unscrew the bottom cap. Remove the gasket that sits on the top of the atomizer, flip the gasket over so the flat side is covering the wicks and replace the gasket. Apparently the gasket in the stock configuration compresses the wicks when the two parts are screwed together. Flipping the gasket keeps it from moving down over the wicks and does not appear to cause additional leaking problems. Once the hack was in place, I found the T3 much more tolerant to chain vaping. Occasionally, I had to slow down and wait for a few bubbles to appear from the atomizer area. However, those moments were fairly few and far between. Vapor production was already very good, so I can’t really tell if there were any improvements there. I also ran into no additional flooding or gurgling problems in this configuration." I hope this helps.

For those of you T3 users experiencing dry hits, try this advice from Steve K from his "Kanger T3 Bottom Coil eGo Clearomizer Review" : "I found in pretty short order, the T3 would give dry hits if I didn’t wait a sufficient amount of time for the coil to re-wick. This was frustrating as I tend to prefer to vape several times in a row. Fortunately, it turns out there’s a pretty simple modification that can be made to the gaskets to improve liquid absorption and eliminate much of the dry hits. I can’t take credit for this one, a hat tip goes to the good folks over on Reddit. Unscrew the bottom cap. Remove the gasket that sits on the top of the atomizer, flip the gasket over so the flat side is covering the wicks and replace the gasket. Apparently the gasket in the stock configuration compresses the wicks when the two parts are screwed together. Flipping the gasket keeps it from moving down over the wicks and does not appear to cause additional leaking problems. Once the hack was in place, I found the T3 much more tolerant to chain vaping. Occasionally, I had to slow down and wait for a few bubbles to appear from the atomizer area. However, those moments were fairly few and far between. Vapor production was already very good, so I can’t really tell if there were any improvements there. I also ran into no additional flooding or gurgling problems in this configuration." I hope this helps.

Madvapes.com has really good prices on 50 ml. bottles of my favorite juice, Dekang DK-TAB, but only sells 24 mg. (too strong for me...most days), 11 mg. (too weak for me...any day), and 0-nic. 3 parts 24 mg. + 1 part 0-nic = 18 mg., which is what I prefer.

Here's a little something from Wikipedia's Electronic Cigarette page that I found very interesting: "Research carried out at the University of East London on the effects of using an electronic cigarette to reduce cravings in regular tobacco smokers showed that there was no significant reported difference between smokers who inhaled vapour containing nicotine and those who inhaled a placebo vapour containing no nicotine. The report concluded that although electronic cigarettes can be effective in reducing nicotine-related withdrawal symptoms, the nicotine content does not appear to be of central importance, and other smoking related cues (such as taste or vapour resembling smoke) may account for the reduction in discomfort associated with tobacco abstinence in the short term." Hmmm.

It also depends on the nic level as to how much you'll want to vape in a day. I vape around 3 ml. a day of 18 mg nic juice.

3v through 5v, depending on delivery device. 5.5 watts for CE2 "wicking" tank cartos...8 watts for everything else.

That's called "vapers' tongue", and it happens to all of us from time to time. My advice to you is to drink plenty of water because it's said that vaping dehydrates the body to some degree. I've noticed that if I take a drink of ice water just before a vape, it brings out the flavor of my juice a lot more.

V² / R = P and V / R = I, so 6.4 watts and 1.6 amps. As a side note, I recently started using CE2 "wicking" tank cartos in favor of traditional poly-filled tank cartos due to occasional leaking (poor QC). I immediately noticed that my CE2s, set at 5.5 watts, performed exactly like my poly-filled tank cartos did at 8 watts...any higher and the CE2s started tasting like burning paper. My CE2s also require about a tank-full of e-liquid to break in properly.