Do they make rechargeable cartridges for e cigarettes? What brand? Anyone have a link that explains the process?
Thanks in advance,
Jake
There are several companies that make rechargeable e-cigarettes. Two brands I have personal knowledge of are N-Joy and Blu.
Generally, the battery portion of the thing is connected by a cord to a USB plug for recharging in any USB port or various chargers designed for phones that use a USB to recharge. Then you put on a fresh cartridge of the nicotine/water stuff and you are good to go.
At least with the N-Joy brand, the “starter kit” contains a charger cord, one battery, and two cartridges, and costs a bit more than two disposables. Additional cartridges, in a range of potency, are the same price as a starter kit, but contain five.
If you meant something where you can refill your own cartridges instead of buying more, then no I haven’t heard of that.
Both brand of e-cigs I used are refilled directly. No cartridge at all (in fact I’m yet to see an e-cig with a cartridge. Either they were disposable cigs, or they were refillable) . I’m in France, but I don’t see why the same models wouldn’t exist in other countries.
Thanks, clairobscur! Will you give me a brand name so I can look them up?
I have refilled the cartridges that look like a cigarette filter with a syringe. There is absorbent material inside that you can soak with nicotine liquid.
I’ve changed to ego batteries and containers called “clearomizers”.
Here is a link.
Thanks, carni. I’ve checked them out and I think I’m going with them. One question:
How expensive can this get?
Thanks in advance,
Jake
The ego batteries eventually fail. The clearomizers get a burned taste, perhaps the wick becomes charred from the heating element.
I bought three clearomizers on Ebay for $9.00 and a battery ion Ebay for $9.00.
I use Magic Mist fluid.
The Ebay prices are much better than e-cigarette online shops.
I would say a battery and clearomizer last three months. Depends upon how often you use them, of course.
I use a company called VaperMate and all their stuff is refillable. There’s a smoke shop down the street that specializes in e-cigs and roll-your-own tobbacco, so I can go in there and try everything before I buy it. And then of course I can go back when I need a new battery and more supplies.
Unzipped, can you tell me how long a container will last? And what a container of e-juice costs? And lastly, how long (on average) a battery will last?
Well, I’m an ex-smoker who uses nicotine-free juice just occasionally throughout the day. So I’d be a bad measure of how long anything will last for someone who is a regular “real” smoker.
A 5ml container of juice costs around $4. Then it depends on how much you smoke it as to how long it lasts. I literally buy like 5 per year, that’s how little I smoke.
Batteries come in different sizes and last longer - both charge-wise, and lifespan-wise.
Find a shop in your area - they will answer everything!
Generally speaking, 1mL of fluid is equivalent to 1 pack of cigarettes. This will vary a bit as people have different smoking and vaping styles, but it’s a good guide to get you started. If you’re buying the ones that look like cigarettes, they are usually prefilled with about 2mL of fluid, but you can pop the end off and refill it with about 1mL of fluid. Refill before they get totally dry or they burn. It’s kind of a pain in the ass, and you can only get 3 or 4 refills before they taste like burnt ass no matter what you do. If you are concerned with economics and the best refilling experience, you definitely want to get away from the cigarette look alikes and into the refillable tank systems. A reasonable stays kit will run about $50-$75, and then figure 75 cents or so per mL (per “pack”) for 6 months until you need to replace a battery or tank. If you get one kit and like it, you may choose to get a spare tank and battery so that you’re never waiting for a battery to recharge or a tank to dry. I clean my tanks after a day of use, and find that the atomizers last much longer and I don’t get the tickley throat cough I used to get when I went 3 ir 4 days between cleanings.
Your profile says you’re in NC. Madvapes.com is a popular and highly respected online ecig shop that also has several retail locations in your state.
http://www.madvapes.com/store-locations
There is an initial investment in ecigs. You can get something for around $20 that won’t work very well, won’t last very long, and will be just about as expensive as cigarettes to continue to use … or you can spend perhaps $100 up front for a rechargeable and refillable setup that will work very well, will last you a year or more before needing new batteries, and will cost somewhere in the range of 10% to 25% of the money you currently spend on cigarettes to continue to use.
Unfortunately, it happens that despite an english name, the e-cigs I’m using now are a French brand and apparently so were the previous ones. It’s very possible that they’re imported and that the same e-cigs are sold in other countries, but there’s no way to figure out under what brand. Sorry.
Too late to edit : I googled american e cigarette manufacturers and the sites I looked are selling e-cigs similar to those I used. So, finding/ordering them really shouldn’t be a problem. I would advise you to visit a shop, though. IME, they explain to you how the different e-cigs work and let you test them.