# E-cigarettes: What's your setup? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 19, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256 "2015-01-19T04:56:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/41 "2015-05-18T14:15:16Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Who the hell buys some of those bizarre flavors? I bought a pizza bottle, because I was desperate and it was the only 18mg nic one they had all the others were 0mg and it was on clearance cheap. > > OMG it tastes like a mixture of black pepper and oregano and BURNS my sinuses when I exhale out my nose. Yeah, I don’t get the flavors either. I wanted mine to be as close to a real cig as possible. Most of them sound gross anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/42 "2015-05-18T22:35:37Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Yeah, I don’t get the flavors either. I wanted mine to be as close to a real cig as possible. Most of them sound gross anyway. Some of them are gross, but some are truly good. Once you get past the limitation of the burned tobacco flavor you open up the door to some interesting tastes. It’s no different than trying different flavors of soda. Right now I have two tanks loaded, one with a menthol flavor and the other with a blueberry flavor. They’re both really, really good. Or you can stick to the tobacco flavor. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/43 "2015-05-18T22:43:19Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Do you find you burn through the juice faster with it? > > I bought a Kanger protank and despite it’s dimensions it didn’t seem like I could fill it as much as my cheapo iClear 16b. It was also burning a lot more per drag. And the 16b is just so much more discreet. When I am holding it my hand with my little itaste vv battery, I could almost be mistaken for holding a big pen. More importantly, it goes in a pocket like an oversized pen. There is no way I’m wearing a lanyard. > > You have to change the coil a little more often for good clean taste. Change it once a week or so and I’m happy with it. Not to get all spiritual in a hardware thread, but I guess I like certain vices to be basic so they don’t elevate to hobbies. Lol. I haven’t had it long enough to know how fast it uses juice. I suspect that all things being equal it will burn through juice faster, but I don’t hit it enough to matter. I’m still on my first tank and the level is still pretty high, if that’s any indication. I typically change my coil every other week and my wick weekly unless it tastes like it’s burned, it which case I’ll do it then. Otherwise you can just pull the wick, fire the mod, and burn everything off the coil. I’ve had some really good builds that lasted a month or more. As for the hobby aspect, everybody has one. My first vice is guns, but that’s ridiculously expensive. This is comparatively cheap and interesting from a technical perspective, with a payoff that I find satisfying. There are worse things to be interested in. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/44 "2015-05-19T02:43:51Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Yeah, I don’t get the flavors either. I wanted mine to be as close to a real cig as possible. Most of them sound gross anyway. I’m so basic, I really prefer (still) my boring ol’ Tribeca. I will sometimes fill a tank with something else, and I vape it for a couple of hours before I go, “meh” and want my Tribeca back. [Snozzberries](http://www.vaporbank.com/shop/index.php?p=catalog&parent=249&pg=1)is really good, though. I’ll vape a whole tank of that once in a while. Whenever I order from Vapor Bank (they have some awesome clearance sales), I choose that as my free 7mL sample. My husband is really into the deserty flavors - chocolates and caramels and bananas foster and the like. I find those smell stronger to the non-vaper in the room, so if you’re vaping in the office or something, you probably want to avoid those. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/45 "2015-06-15T17:49:24Z")
I have several times with the slit style jacketed tanks without realizing it inhaled dry burns, like just now I was like huh producing very thick vapor and tasting burned DAMMIT! Yes wick dry as a damn bone. At least with the clear tanks it is visible, I am absent minded enough to ruin a wick and inhale the very bad for you smoke of such before realizing it DOH. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/46 "2015-08-14T05:08:44Z")
I’m bumping this because tomorrow I’m expecting my new mod. I went crazy and got the latest and greatest because the price was pretty good and now I don’t need to get anything new for a while. Not that it’ll stop me, but that’s what I’m telling myself. Anyway, here it is: [Sigelei 150W Temperature Control](http://vapingcheap.com/sigelei-150w-tc-temp-control/). I would have to work on my coil building to build anything even remotely able to accept the full 150 watts, but it gives me a lot of power to work with. I tested my current build to 50 watts on my brother-in-law’s 100 watt Sigelei and it was amazing. I’ll have to experiment to test the limits with the new mod. Amazingly, that’s not even close to the most powerful mod out there. The top end is pushing 300 watts. That E-Go some of you are using? That’s about 6 watts with a 1.8 ohm resistance coil. Think about that before you go big. I’ve been using these for a few years now so I know what I’m doing (mostly), but they are very much NOT for newcomers. RBAs and high-powered mods require a lot more attention than starter kits. But they’re worth it when you’re ready to step up to them. One of these days I’m going to try to build some more complex coils. I’d really like to build a [Clapton coil](http://i.imgur.com/E1msobk.jpg), which is one or more wires wrapped around a central wire, then coiled. If I do I’ll let you know how it turns out. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/47 "2015-08-14T05:24:03Z")
I’d like to note that in this thread I decried a 100 watt mod as a “cloud maker”. The irony of getting a 150 watt mod is not lost on me. Still, my 30 watt mod (the E-LVT) is currently maxed, and I’m curious what I can do with more power. I’m slowly, inexorably drifting to the dark side. That said, I will NOT become a cloud chaser. I walked into a shop 3 days ago and got dizzy from all the vapor they were blowing out. If I didn’t know what I was walking into I might have thought the place was on fire. That’s just obnoxious. I’m still not going to be that guy. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/48 "2015-08-14T14:55:19Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I’d like to note that in this thread I decried a 100 watt mod as a “cloud maker”. The irony of getting a 150 watt mod is not lost on me. Still, my 30 watt mod (the E-LVT) is currently maxed, and I’m curious what I can do with more power. If you don’t want to be a “cloudchaser” then what _are_ you going to do with more power? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/49 "2015-08-14T15:01:31Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > If you don’t want to be a “cloudchaser” then what _are_ you going to do with more power? I’ll almost certainly never approach the max wattage. I probably could have gone with the 50 watt or the 100 watt mods. But hey, the price is right, I like the temperature control feature (no dry hits), and what the hell, it’s only a few dollars more than the lower-wattage mods. It gives me wide leeway to experiment with different builds. It’s like a sports car that tops out at 200. Nobody is realistically ever going to drive it that fast, but they could if they found the right place and time. The difference between me and the cloud chaser is that for them everywhere is the right place and time for max power. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256/50 "2015-09-01T22:34:55Z")
So I’ve been playing around with the Sigelei 150 watt temperature control that I bought, and I’ve discovered that I can’t get even close to 50 watts with any of my builds. I put together a Twisted Clapton coil, which is two wires twisted together with another wrapped around it, then coiled. It looks neat, it heats up slowly unless a good bit of power is put to it, but it’s a very low resistance build. The problem is that with more power it burns the cotton wick. As a result, my builds aren’t any more or less than what I had before, making the mod a serious case of overkill. Again though, the price was right and I had no intention of being a cloud chaser anyway. But it’s been fun trying to build some of the more exotic types of coils out there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-whats-your-setup/710256.md?page=2)