Tam

Cartomizers and (direct drip) atomizers are two similar yet different things. A cartomizer is basically an atomizer (heating coil at the bottom), but it has some synthetic cotton-like filler material in it. You have to saturate this filler with juice and vape. Many people like it for its convenience over direct dripping while just as many don't like it because they say you can taste the filler. I have never been able to like cartomizers as the juice doesn't wick fast enough down to the coil and I get lots of dry hits. An atomizer doesn't have the filler material and is just the metal cylinder with the heating coil at the bottom. Some have bridges and some don't. Personally I prefer the ones that don't have bridges these days. You can also take the bridge out of an atomizer to make it into a bridgeless version. The coils are all built into an atomizer so you don't have to buy anything other than a drip tip/mouth piece for it if it doesn't come with one pre-attached like those in the first link I gave you. The building of coils comes in the form of RDA (Rebuildable Dripping Atomizer). Those are different things altogether. Clear as mud?

http://vapelite.info/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=22_47&products_id=62 That's a 510 atomizer that I started dripping with. It has a bridge in it that goes over the heating coil. The bridge is made of a small piece of metal with mesh around it that goes over the coil underneath. These days I prefer bridgeless (one without the bridge) as I see the bridge as unnecessary. A dripping atomizer is a cylinder that has a heating coil at the bottom near the battery connection. You drip juice directly onto the heating coil. Because you only use a couple of drops at a time you don't need anything to "catch the juice" other than the cylinder that surrounds the coil. You don't fill these up like you would a tank otherwise you'll flood the thing and it won't produce any vapor. Worst case scenario if you do this is that the atomizer will leak the juice all over your fingers, battery, everything, and you'll get a mouthful of juice when you try to take a draw.

Coffee flavors are very strong and extremely difficult to get out.

It's...okay. The main ingredient in it is alcohol, some PG and a couple of other innocuous things. All in all, I get better clearing out of old flavor by using vodka. Not a bad idea but it's not worth buying something specifically for flavor clearing when vodka handles it better. Just my experience.

Good Lord but it was a fun night! That I also won a K100 mod didn't hurt either. Met some new friends and got to spend time with Aquatroy and his lovely wife.... Good food at Old Chicago, great company and lots of vaping. We even got someone to give up her analogs tonight. Hopefully it'll be the start of a new, fun hobby.

Okay, I'm wiiiiide awake now. Geez.

Mine's more of a dark royal blue. No real green to it. And now I must fly. Going to my first vape meet tonight and getting to meet Mrs. Aquatroy.

Nope. Sorry, but I bought mine from my local B&M. Besides, I like blue...

Blue clashes with too many drip shield colors while white matches with everything.

You did the majority of the work, Bebop, and gave excellent advice. We're all just wanting to help is all.

This past week I got a 30 ml bottle of Fuzion's OrangeZilla.

Patricia, haven't you caught on that getting the lowest price doesn't always mean you get a quality product? In this case it might be a little different as you're buying from Bcarter, but otherwise, you (not you personally but you in a general sense) usually get what you pay for.

With the above you'll also want to add a genuine Joytech charger and wall adapter. Do not ever charge using the USB port on your computer or a car charger -- especially unattended. These are lithium batteries so you want to stay safe. The Vision Spinners are variable voltage. You start with the lowest setting, vape, turn it up a little, vape, when you start getting a burnt taste you turn it down until you get the best taste from your clearomizer (T2) and keep it there. You can get everything that Bebop suggested at The Veteran Vaper. No one that I know of has ever gotten a bad shopping experience with Brian, the owner of this online store. His customer service is excellent!

Why don't you just go to Discount Vaper and buy some, Patricia? They're only $11.99 each and come with two extra coils along with the one inside.

Since Blucavvy got the thread going in "Bump when you buy something new", I thought it would be good to get a thread going on what we receive in vape mail. I'll start here. Just got three of the four custom HH.357 hybrid spec atomizers I sent back to Hanna to clean/repair. The fourth was beyond help so it was discarded. They're just like brand new again! On Monday I'll be shipping out two more of these for similar treatment. I probably wouldn't need to do this but I insist on using the dark, sweet juices so they gunk up faster and don't clean out as well. Great customer service has Avid Vaper. So, what did you get in YOUR vapemail today?

I was very lucky when just starting out. My local B&M only sells genuine Joytech and is a licensed supplier, which is rare. My first set up was an eGo-T 650 mAh pass through with CE4 atomizers. The CE4 only lasted about a week and when I went back the (then) brand new Kangor T2 was out. Those lasted me for several months before I got into the variable voltage Vision Spinner at 900 mAh. Since then I've bought quite a few Spinners in 900 mAh and three in 1300. They're just that good. Just recently I bought my first mod: an Evic, which is...okay but I still prefer the Spinners. If you go through and read all kinds of threads and posts here you'll learn a lot. Maybe a little too much information at times, but it'll make sense later on when you get more experience. We've rarely led a new vaper in the wrong direction -- when they listen to what we've advised anyway.

B said that he has eight, and "Tam" doesn't need any more minis because she has eight herself and mostly direct drips.

First off we'll need more information before giving you any advice. What's in the starter kit? Would you post a link so we can see what it is? What atomizer, cartomizer, clearomizer, tank are you using? Do you know what ohm the coil is? Is your battery a variable voltage or fixed voltage? What brand of juice are you using? What mg of nicotine is in it? What's the PG/VG ratio of your juice? I know this is a lot of questions but in order to give you the best advice of what you might need/want to try...

Luckily for me, my local B&M is a licensed Joytech supplier and can only sell the brand names, no knock offs, and his prices are pretty comparable with online stores if you add in the s&h charges. It's nice not to have to wait for it in the mail as well as supporting the local stores. I won't buy his juices, though, with the exception of one flavor. A 10 ml bottle costs $11.99 and is at a fixed 70 VG/30 PG. Ugh.

You're lucky you don't have to deal with my SO's father. He absolutely loves technology but for the life of him can't figure it out and doesn't have the patience to learn something new. If he could remember what to do in the first place. Lol.

http://www.empiremods.com/product_p/driptxxxl.htm I get a lot of drip tips from Keith at Empire Mods. He also sells atomizers so you might want to take a look while you're there. Empire Mods sells quality stuff with excellent customer service. I never worry when I do business with him. Oh, and you might also want to get your drip shield from Keith as he's the one who invented them.

Glad you found out what the problem was, Grant. Now, you just have to get some new coils that aren't knock offs and you should be set.

Bump. Yay! Going to my first vapemeet today.

Productivity is bustling I see. Enjoy your morning.

Because EC Blends only mixes a juice after it's ordered there is no such thing as a "bad batch". The burned taste wouldn't be coming from a juice in any case, it's got to be the voltage level like B said.