Earthling789

There are great starter kits where you can get a good battery and tank in combo, such as the e-Vic or Kanger SubKit mini. They can satisfy the noob or experienced vaper, and allow you room to grow. The drawback to these is they require a separate 18650 Li-Ion battery (which is extra cost). I would recommend you start with a battery which has a Li-Po or Li-Ion pack built in, such as the iStick 50W... which has huge battery life, and will handle most any tank/coil you put on it. Other good iStick offerings are the 40W-TC and the 30W versions. Another reliable, small-sized battery (mod) is the Wismec Presa 40W-TC. If you can find one, they are awesome. If you go with a mod that requires an 18650 battery, I suggest getting Samsung 25R5 (green) or 30Q (pink)... or LG HE2 (red) or HG2 (brown) batteries. Best to buy them in pairs, and from a a reputable seller. Backups are a necessity... even if you only have a couple of eGo-style batteries, they're better than nothing. We preach backups around here, and people may make fun of you for having 3-4 batteries handy when you're only going to the store, but I've personally needed to dip into my 4th backup because I vaped one dead, the second malfunctioned, and the third didn't get charged And I was only gone from the house for about 6-hours!

Half a pack a day of menthol... 12mg should be okay, but you may also want to go up or down, depending on the resistance of your coil and the juice you're using. 12mg @ 1.8 Ohms would be a good starting point, yes.... but 18 may satisfy your cravings more and reduce your need to chain-vape so heavily. Sometimes new vapers need even higher nicotine levels to get over the cravings and detox from analogs, before settling back down to 12mg (or lower). Let's address the juice... some menthol juices are quite harsh/strong, and that could be causing your issues? If you want a menthol "hit", I would suggest changing to a mint flavor (wintergreen, peppermint, spearmint, cinnamon, etc.) and use a PYREX tank, as menthol, mint, and heavy citrus flavors will damage/crack/destroy plastic tanks. Changing to a mint flavor can also be mixed with fruit flavors for excellent vaping... blueberry/peppermint is an excellent flavor, and good for a stuffy nose too Cinnamon/bubblegum is quite tasty, as is spearmint/birthday-cake flavor. Try another brand and flavor of juice, and I'm sure you'll find a better taste, and less chest/lung irritation.

Were you ever a smoker? If so, how many packs per day, and what brand/strength? Chest pains are highly uncommon and not a side-effect of vaping, nor an indication of allergic reaction. If you were never a smoker or user of tobacco, using any e-liquid that contains nicotine is not recommended or advised. What device are you using (battery/tank) and what brand/flavor of e-liquid are you using?

Wow gang... I just realized this morning that my two year anniversary of being smoke-free has come and gone already (3/31), and I've been so busy I didn't even notice I've not been active much lately, but I do read the threads every chance I get... and comment when I can. Hopefully, my life will be a little less hectic soon and I can at least participate a bit more, lol.

When I bought my juices from the shops or online, I found the only way to vape less was to go to a higher Nicotine level, but that's not a good idea if you're using sub-ohm coils Now that I mix my own, I just mix what I need, when I want it... and I buy all my materials in BULK, lol. It takes a few bucks to get started (about $50 to get bare minimums... $150 to get your own mini-lab, lol), but in the long-run, you'll save a fortune and have full control of what you vape. Just today, I mixed 1200ml of our ADV (600ml of mine and 600ml for my GF), and have maybe $20-25 in those two 600ml batches? We each vape about 40-50ml/week of our favorite flavors, so this will keep us vaping for another 3+ months! Paying vape-shop prices, that would run us $20 per person, per WEEK, instead of $3-4 per person, per MONTH... so you see the savings almost immediately when you mix your own juices Yeah... I'm an advocate for mixing your own

First of all... if she were using 100mg/ml nicotine, it would have taken 18 drops to bring your volume to 3mg/ml strength, so I'd not even consider your juice to have more than 0.5mg nicotine in it (and probably far less) . As for mixing right at the counter... yeah, I've seen shops do that (like taking three 10ml bottles of chocolate, peanut-butter, & caramel, and mixing into a 30ml bottle), and it makes me cringe too. I understand making the customer happy by mixing flavors or bumping nicotine levels... but its just not cool... If I want to mix flavors or add nicotine at home, that's my prerogative... I just hate the idea of KNOWING someone (who's hygiene is unknown/questionable) has opened my bottle before I get my hands on it. YUK!

LOL... The original mechanical mods were made from flashlights swap out a momentary contact button for the on/off button, and replace the bulb-head with a 510 connection and you were good to go... If I'm not mistaken, I've seen LED/CREE flashlight heads available with 510 connectors to turn your mechanical mod INTO a flashlight

One thing to keep in mind BirdDog... when you move into sub-ohm territory, you need to REDUCE your nicotine strength by the same percentage (general rule). So, if you're currently using a 1.8 Ohm coil, and you drop to a 0.5 Ohm coil, you're reducing the resistance by 62%. If you were using 12mg with that 1.8 Ohm coil, you should drop to 3mg Nicotine strength. If you try to use 12mg in the 0.5 Ohm coil, it will tear you up with throat-hit, as well as increasing the Nicotine absorption rate due to the increased heat and vapor volume.... it would be like using 43mg strength in your Nautilus @ 1.8 Ohms.... which I'm sure you'd not want to do

The bill specifically names the Li-Ion battery, which (if passed) will give the TSA the ability to ban all portable electronic devices from airplanes... laptops, cell-phones, MP3 players, tablets, etc. Damn straight I wrote my Senators to voice my opinion on this bill... as well as the other 98 Senators, and especially a lengthy letter telling the sponsor and co-sponsor what a complete and utter moron they were for even suggesting such lunacy!! If this passes, and it DOESN'T include a ban on all other LI-Ion battery devices... "We The People" should take the case to the SCOTUS and sue the TSA because they are violating the law in allowing those dangerous cell-phones and laptops on airplanes! See how fast the airline industry gets their lobby involved to have the law scrubbed or re-written. Once LI-Ion batteries are defined as safe for carry-on luggage again, let them TRY to stop me from carrying my batteries separate, along with an inert (battery removed) mod!!!

50 glass bottles from suppliers can run you from $35-60. 99% of the time, they are not clean or sanitized, so you'd also have to have them properly cleaned if you don't have a bottle washer at home. This is time and/or extra expense, and your time is money also. FXRich is correct on the additional cost of labels, time to print them, and sitting on product while you're trying to sell it is also costly. 50 10ml bottles (of the same flavor/nic-strength) are hard to move, even for a retailer... trust me! Honestly, you'd be lucky to make $20, and more realistically breaking-even or having a loss! Furthermore... selling a re-packaged product for profit is not really kosher (moral), and in some instances illegal if the product you're re-packaging is trademarked or licensed by the original manufacturer.... even if it is a house-brand from the local shop...

Seriously? Are you asking how many empty bottles you should buy to fill with your product, or how many bottles a potential customer (B&M / retailer) would buy? Perhaps before you start this venture, you should know your market better? This would tell you more than a stranger on an Internet forum can ever "guess" for you....

I've looked at the 100W Presa too, but I have three 40W Presa and two 75W-TC Presa, so I really don't "need" another mod at the moment, lol... but like Jason, eventually shinyitus wins out, and I'll end up with one (or two)... although I must say I've held out buying any new mods (or tanks) for nearly 5 months, so I should probably reward myself with one

I like the look of them as well, but never tried one. You are correct that they output a constant voltage (3.7-3.8V), just like a basic eGo. As for the tank, I like the Triton2 as well for MTL vaping, and Patricia's suggestion of the Aerotank V2 is still one of my go-to tanks. The Aerotank has plenty of coil options, from 0.8 Ohm up to 2.4 Ohm (1.2 and 1.5 Ohm being my favorites @ 9-15W), and since they've gone to Organic Cotton, their flavor is much improved. I still get the occasional coil with a very tight draw, but it doesn't happen too often, but she may prefer the tighter draw?

I agree with Jason... Those batteries will be great for the Wattage you're using. I'd not push them (together) above 150W. I personally run a few of my single-18650 MOD's up to 50W with the LG HE2 batteries and have zero issues with them. They are great batteries. Jason's other suggestions for spares (LG HG2 or Samsung 30Q) are spot-on. You should have at least one spare set to charge while another set is in use, and it wouldn't bet a bad idea to pick up six (two sets for spare). Be sure to label them with a sharpie so you know which batteries you have mated together. I use alphabetical... A, B, C, etc. for those used in single mods... A1, A2, B1, B2, etc for dual-mods... this way I can keep track of not only mated sets, but also their position in the MOD, so I can rotate their position each time I change batteries.... 1-2-3, 3-1-2, 2-3-1, and back to start-position, but I"m OCD that way... or as my family tells me... CDO (alphabetical, as it should be, lol).

Editing is a wonderful thing, but I'd say many of these guys in the videos are using pure VG to get maximum cloud, and they probably had already played with the settings to know the optimum for their coil/juice combo.

+1 on the hardware store! I picked up a bag of 25 o-rings which were the perfect size for most of my drip-tips from the local True-Value. Actually, they fit all of them, but some are a bit more snug, some a bit loose, but the majority fit perfectly. @FXRich A good idea on the o-rings from old coils. The coils for my Subtank Minis (the ones at the top of the threads) look very close to the correct size, when compared side-by-side to the ones taken off the Subtank drip-tips.

Agreed... best to err on the side of caution

Actually Comp..., it will be absorbed by the lung tissue (similar to digestion from the stomach) and passed harmlessly through the bloodstream to be excreted by the kidneys or colon... but it does take at least 72 hours from the time it hits the lungs, depending on the size, consistency, etc., unlike how fast the stomach will digest or pass. The same principal occurs when you inhale food particles (when eating), dust, or other contaminants from normal breathing... these things don't build-up over your lifetime and stop lung function I remember an instance while working in the ER many years ago... a child had choked and inhaled a large chunk of a food (hamburger if I recall)... They called in a lung specialist, and he did nothing but prescribe an inhaler (to keep the lungs more open while healing) and asked the parents to monitor the child's activity levels... He said the "debris" would be completely absorbed by the lung in about a week through normal metabolic function...

+1 on the Kanger Subbox Mini kit. Contains all you need except an 18650 battery (and I suggest a Samsung 25R5 or LG HE2). Aspire has many good kits a well, and you can always mix and match your battery (MOD) and tank combo to suit your own needs or preferences. I would suggest the Subtank mini or AeroTank V2 from Kanger, and from Aspire, the TritonV2 (not the same as what you have), Triton Mini, or Nautilus for tanks. As for battery (MOD), I would suggest a reliable box-mod like the Kanger 50W (that comes with the subbox kit), Wismec 40W or Eleaf iStick 50W. The latter two have built-in batteries and won't require separate purchases of 18650 cells.

I'm running 28 batteries right now... ten (blue) Samsung 25R, a dozen LG HE2, four Sony VTC4, and a pair of LG HG2. I must admit I like them all, and as my aging Samsung and Sony begin to die-off, I'll likely replace them with LG HG2, more HE2, or Samsung 30Q. I worry far less about the Amps these days because I rarely go over 40W, and welcome a little more life between charges BTW, 101Vape has great sales on authentic batteries every so often.... I paid $7/pr for HE2 and $9/pr for HG2 on their last sale. I'm pretty sure I was practically stealing them at those prices Their current (everyday) prices: LG HE2 - $10/pr LG HG2 - $13/pr (out of stock) Samsung 25R (blue) - $12/pr (out of stock) Samsung 25R (green) - $12/pr Samsung 30Q (pink) - $14/pr

You can try, but likely won't be successful, unless the person at the shop doesn't do their job, which could cost the business their license. They're bound by state law to check ID (unless you are obviously over 21), and you will be bound to abide by that state's age-restriction law. This is the same as someone (18) from GA going to NYC and trying to purchase cigarettes where the law says you must be 21... you can't do it (legally) just because you're from another state where 18 is the minimum age. Sorry, but your best bet is to buy what you need in YOUR state and take it with you to MO. Even buying online will be an issue, because they cannot ship to MO to someone under 21 (but can ship to your home address because your state allows 18+ purchases)... again, sellers are bound to honor state's age-restrictions. Also, many online sellers will only allow shipping to the same address (or zip-code) as your CC (address on file) you use... so buying online may restrict you to having purchases shipped to your home address, anyway?

I had one Samsung (of the dozen I have/had in rotation) go belly-up about 2 hours after putting it in a mod... it was just sitting on the desk, and when I went to use it... it was dead, and I had just charged it the night before, and it registered full on the MOD when I put it in I thought the mod had a short, but it has never done that to another battery, since. The one that died had been charged maybe 60 times? So far, that has been the only one go die like that. I've bought roughly 30 batteries in the past 2 years, and two have gone bad (the other one, also a Samsung 25R, refused to charge after maybe 100 cycles, but showed no signs of being ill on it's last use)... the rest are still kicking... Samsung, Sony, and LG.

Welcome to Vapor Talk, Holly!

Flux, if you bother to read any of the archived posts... you'll clearly see that we promote smoking cessation, quality equipment, safety with equipment, etc.... and don't really condone vaping just to do "tricks" or blow huge clouds... Cloud chasing (or tricks) in the privacy of your own home is up to you, but far too frequently cloud chasing in public places (even parties) is all the media and anti-vaping groups focus on. It casts a bad light on the vaping community (all because of a small percentage of vapers), and fuels the political drive for regulation, prohibition, taxation, and reduction of our freedoms in the name of "public health and safety". Furthermore... there is no ONE RIG which will be the end-all-be-all for doing tricks. Is there only one car for "doing donuts"? Is there only one motorcycle for "popping wheelies"? Is there only one microwave for reheating your soup???? Far too often we see the trolls who pop onto the board and ask these same questions on their first post... never to hear from them again, so you see our reluctance to assist or even make a suggestion... YOU have to participate and let us know more than "I want to make jellyfish, tell me what to buy". You may as well say "I want to scuba-dive, so tell me which regulator, mask, tank, and flippers are the best for me....

CE4 is the tank portion (clearomizer), and the battery portion (eGo-style) is the issue. After charging for 3-4 hours, it should be fully charged. Either you have a defective charger, or the battery is not capable of holding a charge... it happens, even with a "new" one... you can't tell by looking at them if they are bad. Take it back to the store and let them know it won't charge and they should replace it, no questions asked... unless it was bought at a flea-market or similar type venue. Also, what is the brand-name of the kit? Is there any markings, logos, or identifying marks/labels on the battery? Knowing what the brand is will really help out. Even no-name brands can be quite reliable, but you can get a bad one even from reputable brands like Joyetech, Kangertech, Aspire, and Vision.