General chat for vaping vipers.

[magimedi]

Hooray to getting our own space (within giving up smoking).

& (gin) to MNHQ for giving us this space.

I'm hoping some of our most knowledgeable vapers are going to start threads about specific aspects of vaping.

It's like a creamy one as far as I can tell. Smells delish, it's made by suicide bunny some posh juice maker calls themselves an artiste have a Google

A doctor from the BMA was recently quoted in the paper saying that ecigs are obviously targeted at kids because of the fruity/sweetie flavours, because what 50 year old smoker could possibly want to vape flavours like peach! Hmm I thought, as I took a draw of caramel toffee and remembered my 50th birthday recently(ish). Yet another example of the complete lack of understanding of the whole vape issue by medical professionals.

oh i know, its ridiculous! I have a box of sweet and dessert flavours and i'm 32 lol!

I tend to avoid reading stuff on them at the min, I'm happy it's working for me and dp so, I don't want them interfering.

A few sellers have started selling their 20/30ml but sending them in separate 10ml bottles because, I assume, of the changes the law wants to bring in. It's annoying I wanted big bottles :-D

Yeah it matters, they won't screw back into the bit holding the liquid if you use the wrong one bitter experience

i have the mvp in purple :)

I've got replacement coils that have longer posts, no problem in using them.

However having bought GS-H2s from various different suppliers (I have a habit of dropping them & cracking the plastic) I have noticed that the whole base unit that holds the coil can vary a tiny bit in size. The coils can still be used in any of them, but the base unit CAN be clearo body specific.

The one issue I've found with some replacement coils is that sometimes the wick is very long (for a bottom coil clearo) and quite bushy & thick. I have to carefully thin it out with tweezers & sometimes trim it to prevent a slightly burnt taste.

Yesss! Do it Polter! it would be great to have someone to be geeky with about kanthal wire and ohms law.

So, I'm a week off three months vaping n no fags, I've celebrating by allowing us to finally touch all the 12s I ordered in. Currently vaping monkey jizz from vaping king. It's bloody marvellous, creamy and bananary. I'm going to enjoy life as a 12mg-er I hear you get more flavour but less throat hit, so I'm using 1.8ohms to ease me in.

Yay Oohquack! You do know though that 1.8 ohms will be hotter than a standard coil though?

Polter, the CoolFire is the one that looks like a hand grenade isn't it?

Yeah I've noticed they don't last as long before I need tochange and clean them, pain but iit's about finding what works isn't it. Do u think I could get a decent throat hit changing the settings on my mvp if I'm using a higher ohm coil?

You need Ohm's law, probably for the first time since O level physics

This is from one of the old 'evangelical' threads on AIBU ...

Resistance ... it's all to do with Ohm's law - V=IxR or I=V/R or R=V/I

So what does that mean?

V is voltage. A standard eGo battery is 3.7V. This is what you can change with a variable voltage battery.

R is resistance. This the ohm value of your coil. Most seem to be either 2.4/2.5ish or 1.8 ohms.

I is current in amperes (I'm a bit vague about this one, it's closely related to watts, which you can change if you have a variable wattage battery). This is a measure of how hot your coil will get and so is the important number.

If you do a google image search for 'e-cig volts chart' you'll find lots of pretty coloured charts showing the best wattage to aim for (generally between 4 and 8ish watts) and various combinations of battery voltages and atomiser resistances for achieving that. As you will see, you can either use a low resistance and low voltage or a high resistance and high voltage to achieve pretty much the same result. Variable wattage batteries read the resistance of your atomiser and calculate the correct number of volts to achieve the desired wattage.

Different liquids will have their own 'sweet spot' and everyone will have their own personal preferences as well.

Basic guidelines:

If you're using a standard eGo battery (this will be 3.7V when fully charged) , you'll get more vapour from a 1.8ohm coil. Don't use anything below 1.3 ohms.

If you have a VV battery with any atomiser, crank it up a bit at a time until it starts to taste burnt, then back off a bit. That's the most vapour you'll get from it.

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Throat hit depends mostly on PG/VG ratio in the juice (PG for flavour and throat hit, VG for big clouds of vapour). More power (watts) will give you more vapour but not necessarily more throat hit. Nicotine provides a bit of throat hit but not as much as PG.

That's a very helpful post thank you! So my mvp automatically chooses and sets the voltage it thinks is best for a coil? Then I change it till it's right for me?

I left my mvp on charge at my friends on Thurs so I'm stuck with my ego batteries but this is exciting news. Would u leave the voltage it's chosen and mess with the watts to find where u need to be or vice versa?

With the mvp what I've been doing is looking at the ohms then checking the pretty grid guide thing u mentioned and setting the v and w around that

You don't need to set both volts and watts, it has two separate 'modes' which work independently of each other.

If you have it in variable watts mode, you choose the watts then the mvp reads your coil and delivers the right amount of volts to get that wattage.

If you have it in variable volts mode it doesn't work out anything for you, it just delivers however many volts you set it to.

e.g. say you have a 1.8 and a 2.4 ohm coil. If you set your mvp to 7 watts and change from one coil to the other, you will still get 7 watts and roughly the same amount of vapour from both. The mvp will deliver more volts to the 2.4 coil to compensate.

If you switch to variable voltage - say 3.9 volts, the 1.8 coil will deliver 8.45 watts but the 2.4 coil will only deliver 6.34 watts (values from a chart) and so will not get as hot or produce as much vapour.

But when I look I can change both and it stays at what I've set on both v and w, the instructions are rubbish that come with it!

Today I've noticed two things; when it's hot weather liquids can leak and I've been blowing vapour out my nose which has lead to water droplets flying out my nose when I breath :-D

They've pulled Klaudo AGAIN? He has so many "not for use with nicotine products" notices on every one of his listings, he's strictly within their rules (sigh).

Nope he's back up - everything there. Sorely tempted to get these in purple.....

Klaudo is good! One of my Gs-h2 was stuck and I couldn't unscrew it. I emailed him and he was extremely apologetic and said he would put an extra in my next order :)