Vaping: 2013-2014 Edition

[schild]

That setup is arguably perfect for almost everyone. I personally prefer the vape an sx350 driven mod gives the Atlantis, but it's marginal (SX350s have better battery management and power delivery than whatever the shit is in a CF Sub Ohm).

I'm enjoying an Origenny on my Wapari right now, but literally right next to it is a Silo Beast (Beyondvape.com's kinda high-end answer to the Atlantis - uses Atlantis coils) on a Styx (SX350 thing).

I respect your experience. However, I have to answer to my wife when it comes to my budget for vaping, so that's why my opinion is what it is.

I am on record at many vape expos saying that if the Atlantis and CF Sub Ohm had been the first thing that came out of China for vaping, that the industry would not be nearly as "inventive" as it is now, as that setup is as good as what most people call "high end."

Certainly better than a Kayfun on a fucking tube.

If you find yourself with about $280 kicking about, I think getting an SX-Mini M-Class and a Silo Beast w/ Nano tank is probably the "best" you'll get til technology shifts again.

[schild]

New best kit on the market is the Kanger Subox. It's not even funny how good it is. They nailed it. I don't typically tell people to shop at Fast Tech but when I do it's because their price is $20-$30 less than everyone else:

https://www.fasttech.com/product/2385501-authentic-kanger-subox-mini-black-starter-kit

[shiznitz]

Is the item pictured at the link what you hold in your mouth? It looks cumbersone and ridiculous.

*This question will very likely reveal that I know nothing about vaping.*

[Yegolev]

Is the item pictured at the link what you hold in your mouth? It looks cumbersone and ridiculous.

You could post this on any internet forum and it would be funny.

[schild]

Is the item pictured at the link what you hold in your mouth? It looks cumbersone and ridiculous.

*This question will very likely reveal that I know nothing about vaping.*

I uh

huh

It's like the smallest electronic-chip driven mod on the market. You must have carny-small hands if you think that's cumbersome looking.

[MahrinSkel]

Is the item pictured at the link what you hold in your mouth? It looks cumbersone and ridiculous.

*This question will very likely reveal that I know nothing about vaping.*

It's the part you hold in your hand, it contains the battery and the electronics that regulate the current. You screw your atomizing components of choice (it comes with one of the latest RBA/replaceable core tanks) onto that, which in turn holds a 'tip', which is the part you put in your mouth.

'Cig-alike' models are considered 'starters', what you use when you're worried that holding a battery/tank rig to your face will make people look at you funny. Then you realize that batteries big enough to pass for a cigarette have a power capacity of about an hour's use, and something that looks like a cigarette is actually going to attract more attention when used inside, so you move onto something better.

If you want a recap of the current state of rigs, it's been a year or two since we did one, and probably worthwhile. Or maybe a new thread since this one is about six months past the declared date.  Schild is now a big cheese in commercial vaping suppliers, maybe he can give us a new overview.

--Dave

[schild]

I suppose we could retire this thread.

Since fucking EVERYTHING has changed.

[Yegolev]

LOL

[schild]

Naw, for real, I mean just today my company was just voted Vape Summit's Best eJuice for 2015 by actual human beings.

So, yayy.

[Pennilenko]

Naw, for real, I mean just today my company was just voted Vape Summit's Best eJuice for 2015 by actual human beings.

So, yayy.

Where do I browse to, to purchase your ejuice.

[schild]

http://www.giantvapes.com/teleos/

[Furiously]

http://www.giantvapes.com/teleos/

Send me a crunch sample and if I like it I'll buy 5 vials.   

[shiznitz]

Naw, for real, I mean just today my company was just voted Vape Summit's Best eJuice for 2015 by actual human beings.

So, yayy.

Where do I browse to, to purchase your ejuice.

Phrasing? Or are we not doing that any more?

[Furiously]

New best kit on the market is the Kanger Subox. It's not even funny how good it is. They nailed it. I don't typically tell people to shop at Fast Tech but when I do it's because their price is $20-$30 less than everyone else:

https://www.fasttech.com/product/2385501-authentic-kanger-subox-mini-black-starter-kit

I like my kanger subtank. I like this even more. The vapor is colder somehow even at higher wattage. The airflow is amazing.

[schild]

Yea. The new coils, being vertical, are vastly superior and closer to the Atlantis.

Ill start a new thread when I get home from ECC in Pamona this coming week.

[Signe]

ACK!  Since I broke my wrist, I find I can't fiddle with my Atlantis innards.  I'm using some common and not very satisfying now.  I am sad.

[Engels]

I bet if you got some needle-nose pliers you could probably manage without much applied force.

[stray]

If I knew how to replicate Halo's Turkish flavor, I'd be set.

I'm pretty much a slave to this company. And since they're from Jersey, that's probably not good in the longrun.

[schild]

State of Mass Market Vaping, September 2015 (Links provided are basically the result of just knowing some stores, I don't care where you shop, but definitely shop at Giant Vapes whenever possible):

Best Mod - IPV D2: http://www.beyondvape.com/store/all-ecigs-mods-c-10_59/pioneer4u-75w-ipv-d2-temp-control-p-2989.html
Use this battery - https://www.imrbatteries.com/aosibo-18650-2600mah-60a-flat-top-battery/

Atty for Savory Flavors - Kanger Subtank Mini: http://www.beyondvape.com/store/clearomizer-tanks-c-21_62/kanger-subtank-mini-p-2084.html
Use this coil (Subtank Vertical OCC) - https://www.myfreedomsmokes.com/occ-vertical-coil-replacement-head-5pack.html

Atty for Sweet Flavors - Beyond Vape Silo Beast - http://www.beyondvape.com/store/bv-tanks-atomizers-c-112_117/beyond-vape-silo-beast-tank-kit-p-2310.html
Buy this tank replacement thing - http://www.beyondvape.com/store/bv-tanks-atomizers-c-112_117/beyond-vape-silo-beast-shorty-sleeve-p-2314.html
Use these coils (.4 ohms) - http://www.giantvapes.com/triton-occ-bvc-coil-5-pack/

Best New Stupid Priced Juice: http://www.giantvapes.com/symmetry-six/ - It's ridiculous.

I'm happy to pimp my own brand, but whatever. We released 4 new juices in the last 3 months. One of them tastes like some corn nonsense. No, I'm not joking.

Also we won "People's Choice" vote that took place over nearly 6 months. We're in somewhere between 500 and 1000 stores now. Yay team. Throw a rock and you can probably find us near you.

[stray]

That's your stuff? What's the best tobacco flavor? It's the one thing I see others not try well. Which is why I'm a fan of Halo's tobacco juices.


Because even after a few years of vaping, I'm still a cigarette fiend at heart. I'm only trying to recreate the experience.

[Yegolev]

Did you know?  A study is released which shows kids are using ecigs to vape THC and other things which, unlike nicotine, are terrible.  Obviously funded by Big Tobaccy since "everyone" knows you vaporize weed in a pax.

[stray]

Smoking weed with this equipment sounds like a waste. Way too much resin and hard to clean. Just get a pipe.

[Yegolev]

There is another purpose-built tool for it.  You can get rid of your pipe unless you somehow like the taste of burning.

[stray]

Well, I don't smoke weed. Not in decades. You would know better than I. 

[Yegolev]

Good talk.

[schild]

That's your stuff? What's the best tobacco flavor? It's the one thing I see others not try well. Which is why I'm a fan of Halo's tobacco juices.


Because even after a few years of vaping, I'm still a cigarette fiend at heart. I'm only trying to recreate the experience.

We only have one tobacco flavor, Eight Bells. It's absolutely nothing like a cigarette. One of my friends is making a flavor that's the closest I've come to an actual cigarette and it's fucking awesome. It's not out yet. I'll post when it is. It won't be cheap, actual tobacco extracts and whatnot.

Tobacco sells like shit for the most part. Ours does ok, but it's an inertia thing, we're popular so everything does ok. On the market as a whole though, tobacco is a losing game.

Edit: We experimented with some raw virginia tobacco and created this amazing flavor, but without knowing what's in it, we weren't willing to sell it.

[stray]

That's your stuff? What's the best tobacco flavor? It's the one thing I see others not try well. Which is why I'm a fan of Halo's tobacco juices.


Because even after a few years of vaping, I'm still a cigarette fiend at heart. I'm only trying to recreate the experience.

We only have one tobacco flavor, Eight Bells. It's absolutely nothing like a cigarette. One of my friends is making a flavor that's the closest I've come to an actual cigarette and it's fucking awesome. It's not out yet. I'll post when it is. It won't be cheap, actual tobacco extracts and whatnot.

Tobacco sells like shit for the most part. Ours does ok, but it's an inertia thing, we're popular so everything does ok. On the market as a whole though, tobacco is a losing game.

Edit: We experimented with some raw virginia tobacco and created this amazing flavor, but without knowing what's in it, we weren't willing to sell it.

Cool. I'll check here some other time.

I've tried some extracted types.. some have been good, but thick and clogging. I don't know what the hell Halo does.. they're not heavy VG juices, but somehow hit the spot for me.

[schild]

Halo has been around forever, like one of maybe 10 or so that predate my own by a good amount of time.

The only thing I don't like about them is they made a business out of selling stuff direct, but they're priced like there's layers of people between them and the public when really there's no middleman. I don't want to get into a talk about the pricing of ejuice as it seems astronomical (it's not), but I will say that Halo could be around $15.99 or $16.99 and it would make more sense to me given their business model.

When it comes out, you're going to want to try Screwbacco from Steam Factory, in either a subtank or an atlantis. It has a strawberry note, but mostly it's a cigarette.

[Pennilenko]

Due to an accidental destruction of my atlantis tank and sf sub battery, I have picked up the kanger sub box + included tank. I am very happy with the vape that it provides.

P.S. Tanks and batteries do not survive seven story drops.

[Signe]

Did you kill anyone?  Even close?

[Pennilenko]

Unfortunately not, however, my kit left a divot in the asphalt it landed on.

[Furiously]

I am amazed at the vertical coil in my kanger mini. It's not getting gooped up, it's pristine after like a month.