Dear all, loving the cigs but fearful for my health I brought a starter pack of an ego C Slim and clearomiser and some juices .
Wow it was good. But after a few weeks no vapour. So I got a couple of new cheap clearomisers off amazon and they worked for a few days then gave up. I tried cleaning them after watching a youtube vid but with no success.
congrats on moving towards vaping. It takes a while to find what setup suits you best but it's well worth it.
Clearos are disposable items, though some cleaos like evods or vision vivi novas let you just throw away the head bit (which is the part that weas out) and reuse the tank part over and over. Whats happening is that when you use an clearo juice gunk kind of builds up on the heating coil and after a while the heat from the coil doesn't get to the e-liquid enough so much much less vapour gets produced. At which point you need to clean the head properly or replace it. Replacement heads for vivi novas or evods can be had for about £2 a time. If you are the type of person that likes to fiddle with things then wrapping your own coils is realy easy to do and will cost you no more than a few pence each time. If you get a clearo like a CE4 that isn't rebuildable then when it wears out you need to throw it away and use a new one. how quckly they wear out depends on what type of e-liquid you use, what wattage the coil is getting, how long you drag on it, how well saturated the wicks are with e-liquid and lots of other things, but generally you shouold get 3-4 days of good use out of a coil before it starts getting the worse for wear.
Next I purchased a Evod Kanger and a Bauway CE8 stainle mesh clearomiser.
The Bauway was ok but the Evod leaked and despite trying to add an extra bit of silicon rubber to seal it ( you tube advice) still leaks
You might have just got a duff Evod. It sounds like you might have a cheap copy of an original kanger evod, but even if you do have a 'proper' evod sometimes you do get a rubbish one, not very often but it can happen.
I am alo coming to the conclusion that my battery thing is just not powerful enough . I feel that I am in danger of sucking in juice not vapour.
What next before I get fed up?
Should I accept that clearomisers are throwaway items?
Should I get a more powerful battery thing?
A I have spent £40 this week on fags I am willing to spend a bit for a better vaping experience.
I welcome your advice.
Thanks Richard
Are you batteries variable voltage ones or fixed voltage? Variable voltage eGos have a twisty thing at the bottom of the battery that allows you to increase/decrease the amount of power that is getting to the coil. If it's a fixed voltage battery then get hold of some 1.8ohm replacement heads for your evod, or some shiny new 1.8ohm clearo. A vision vivi nova 2ml kit is a good buy. In the kit you get 1 slim tank that will fit nicely onto the eGo battery and 3 heads. 1 head at 1.8ohms 1 head at 2.4ohms and 1 head at 2.8ohms. Then you can try out all 3 heads on teh same battery with the same e-liquid and see what you like the most. Most people tend to prefer vaping at about 7-8watts power. A fixed voltage battery with a 1.8ohm resistance coil gets you to about 7.6watts which is right in the sweet spot.
If you don't mind spending a bit of money on some vape gear then the best battery to go for atm to start with is probably the Vamo. You can get a Vamo kit for around £50 from a UK vendor (there are lots of good vendors here on POTV. The downside to this is it's quite a big device, but if you're ok with how big something like that is it's about the best next step. A VV/VW device lets you tune the vape you get from any clearo or atomiser by varying the power that gets to the coil and lets you get to your preferred power level easily no matter what resistance coil you are using.
Other good VV/VW kits will set you back £60-70 a SmokTech SID a Sigelei ZMax or an SVD are all good choices, similar prices, similar sizes, similar functionality. You can also get eGo VV kits, which if you like your e-cig slimmer will work just as well.
I'd recommend you get a variable voltage type of battery and maybe try a vision vivi nova (if you do get a vivi nova make sure you get a vision branded original one) as a good next step in vaping. Variable power makes a big difference. If you are going to spend a bit of cash then a ProTank (£15ish) is a really good quality clearomiser. You can also get mini protanks that will fit the diameter of an eGo battery better than it's big brother which are more designed for the wider battery mods (vamo ZMax etc)
Hope this helps and you find what you're after.
