Disappointment. Boro.

[zouzounaki]

i think if you ditched rebuildable tanks because of faff, it would be wise to avoid these devices. they are interesting but fundamentally flawed. i think their popularity is due to their ability to scratch the fiddler’s itch and enable obsessive compulsions. they aren’t for people who want ease imo.

 

[vapervince]

I never jumped on the AIO bandwagon but I do occasionally have a read of the posts, I`ve come to the conclusion that the vendors are selling a concept which sounds and looks the dogs danglers, they make loads of upgrades, add ons and customisations as extras because they know that a lot of vapers are tackle tarts.
I would hazard a guess and say that the number of these devices that work as they should out of the box could be counted on the fingers of one foot.

 

[John R Phillips]

No device is perfect, sadly, and Boro devices have their flaws just like any other device.
The best anyone can do hope for us to choose/use a device that ticks as many boxes for you that it can.
I run a pair of BBs (& another pair of Bantams) with stock (Nautilus) coils. They meet/suits my needs and if the BBs died/got lost or stolen, I’d replace them in the blink of an eye.
Each to their own I guess.

 

[SnapAsh]

Sometimes i will get a leak in the Ether, but not a dry hit or wicking problem so far, been using it a while

What coil size and wick size are using?

The current build I'm running (0.28, Boro coil by scott at 25 watts), is wicking better than the last one I tried but still dry every 30 seconds and anything close to 30 watts is just dry hit immediately.

I could just be completely out the loop on methodology and science of it but chaining a stock 0.16 sakerz coil at 75 watts I didn't have a single wicking, flooding issue for nearly a year, but on the ether, no matter what wick combination I try, a dry hit every third drag at 25 watts on a 0.28 seems utterly baffling.

 

[Deleted member 54254]

Are you direct lunging it or MTL?

 

[SnapAsh]

i think if you ditched rebuildable tanks because of faff, it would be wise to avoid these devices. they are interesting but fundamentally flawed. i think their popularity is due to their ability to scratch the fiddler’s itch and enable obsessive compulsions. they aren’t for people who want ease imo.

I think maybe I'm just fundamentally useless at rbas. Over my 10+ years of vaping and 25+ tanks, I don't think I have ever got a quality vape from one that's consistently good. Sometimes I fool myself into thinking "aha, I've got it" then 10 mins later, it's dry hit or flooding, hot spot, no flavour, shorting, and frankly, I don't have the patience to spend an hour rebuilding a tank only for it to work as intended for 15 mins.

Even last night when I thought I had solved the ether after 2 hours of faff, the quality from it still didn't match my old £25 horizontech tank and £1 coil. I just didn't want to be missing out but sadly it looks like I'm destined to struggle forever

 

[SnapAsh]

Are you direct lunging it or MTL?

Typically on my old sub ohm tank I would DL/rdl but after attempting that even at low wattages with the Ether, with the biggest air flow pin, still wouldn't keep up for even 3-4 seconds so had to switch to a more mtl style, and it's still struggling.

I think, although it's all connected, it's an air lock issue rather than "too much or not enough wick", just tried it again, and with the fill port open, I can DL endlessly no problem, but as soon as the fill port goes back in, game over.

 

[Deleted member 54254]

What kind of cotton is it?

 

[Deleted member 54254]

I'm asking this because it almost sounds like you're using muji and cutting the pads the wrong way.

 

[SnapAsh]

I have tried vapefly cotton laces, BP mods pro vape cotton and cotton bacon. All at various lengths, thicknesses, fluffed/not fluffed,