Id steer clear of vape shops unless you are getting the exact product you planned on getting in the first place. In my experience they like to always say what they carry is the best.
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I think I am starting to see that that is how it really is in them vape shops lol. Thanks so much for everyones help.
So I can use the Sony VTC6 or Samsung 25R with no problems? Just use the mod like normal? Im sorry im just afraid of messing something up or doing something dangerous with them batteries lol...
Great!!! I just got 3 new flavors of ejuice today and I can't wait to try em.... I got peach, blueberry, and fruit-loops.
I can't wait to use this thing....
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So I can use the Sony VTC6 or Samsung 25R with no problems? Just use the mod like normal? Im sorry im just afraid of messing something up or doing something dangerous with them batteries lol...
Just don't crank the mod up nearly as high as it will go. The 25R should be fine up to about 40 watts. If the mod starts to get too warm, to where it is even slightly uncomfortable to hold, you will need to lower the wattage.
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sounds perfect. You'll be just fine there with a 25r.
Could ya give me a hint and tell me what other model & brand tanks are out there that will take the .5 coils that go in the eleaf melo 3 mini tank? But a tank that fits my Istick Pico 75w and that can hold more then 2ML of juice. Reason is I want to buy a couple more tanks, something at least 4ML and the same width as the melo 3 mini which is 22mm I think.
The melo 3 mini that came with my pico 75w is cool, but I have another pico 75w on the way and I would like to use 4 or 5 or 6 ML tanks with both of them. I would still like to use the coils from the melo 3 mini beings as I have a supply of them, but I want a pair of tanks that hold more vape juice and that are pretty much designed just like the melo 3 mini. I know the obvious thing would be to buy a standard melo 3 tank, but them things are like $30, and eleaf.com is out of stock. Also from what I can kinda guestimate there are nice tanks on directvapor.com and breazy.com that only cost like $10-$15....
I guess the question is which other brand tanks out there are designed like the melo 3 mini and can use the coils from the melo 3 mini? But that hold more ML of ejuice.
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@SpectoVia already shared the link that gives that info. There are dozens of tanks that use Aspire Atlantis style coils, which is what the Melo tanks use.
Tobeco Super Tank is going to be one of the easier tanks to find still on the market. Seems like it may be a 25mm tank, tho, so may not fit on the Pico.
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Dozens use/d the Kanger Pro Tank assemblies too. By assemblies I'm meaning the coil and the surrounding aluminum/alloy housing the coils were put into. Let me grab a quick picture, nope not a pitcher fish, or water vessel, but an image.
Something akin to one o' these.
Lots of SmokTech's atomizers could use these and an Evod style clear-o-mizer called the RM2 could as well. Here they are, the picture here is the ARO by SmokTech but these all followed the same basic design.
Making the tiny .50 mm inner diameter coils for these was a PITA with a capital pain. I am so happy to now to make 2 to 3.5 mm inner diameter coils.
Yes, I know the smaller coils were designed to extend battery life and so on. It is a trade off I can live with as I lack dexterity any more to do the tiny things, some fool thing called arthritis seems fired up about reminding me we age. I can ignore it all I want but it remains. *sighs*Might break myself down and go for a six month health retreat, or just get busy as we move into our homestead. Ah, yep, there's work and exercise enough for me.
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To add to my earlier post, last year when I first started using sub-ohm tanks, I decided to "standardize" on the Atlantis-style coils for sub-ohm so that I didn't have to keep a dozen different types of coils at my house. I was able to find the following tanks that use those coils:
(1) Aspire Triton tank
(2) Sigelei X-Tanks
(2) Geekvape Illusion Mini tanks
(1) Tobeco Super Tank Mini 25mm
(2) Herakles Honor tanks
My favorite of those was the Geekvape Illusion Mini, but it is a 24mm tank, and you can hardly find them for sale anywhere. Next favorite was the Aspire Triton. Those are 22.5mm, so they'd work on a Pico, except that they are very tall and kinda big and would look odd on a Pico, imo. Also hard to find, but the odd one does appear to be available. The Super Tank is 25mm. There is a 22mm version, but it only holds about 2ml. The Herakles Honor tanks would work for you but they are almost impossible to find now, and the ones I have leak like a sieve. The Sig X-Tanks are lower capacity than you want, and I had trouble with leaking on them, too.
In my experience, not a lot of good alternatives. Just my two cents.
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Tobeco Super Tank Nano 2ml - kinda rare, I haven't seen them available at too many places; I bought 3 because I found them on a clearance sale for $4 each and promptly ruined one of them because the top section got stuck on the coil and I gripped it with pliers and the soft aluminum just "skidooshed" on me.
Tobeco Super Tank Mini 4ml - awesome tank and the top fill makes it very easy to refill and better air flow control than the original Super Tank
Tobeco Super Tank 4.5 - 5 ml - the OG .....good tank, just a little tall for some tastes
The 25 mm Super Tank is my favorite, but doesn't fit on the Pico.
When you get to the point where you want to get matchy-match with the drip tips, the Nano, Super Tank Mini, and Super Tank 25mm ALL use the same size and style of drip tip.
Yea iv been studying about vaping gear for the last few weeks and I have already learned so much, but i know its just the tip of the ice burg.
Vaper towels or a Terry/Cotton cloth between the plier biters can sometimes help avoid tearing gear up. Granted sometimes is a long way from all the time but at least it might be a step in that direction. I discovered this taking over-tightened evod tanks off Ego batteries, just another reason I got away from those imo-fwiw crummy tanks.
I'm a bit
this morning regarding an RDA and Clapton or twisted coils. Do enjoy using the U.S. 1 RDA, really do, it's a wonderful RDA. The praise aside I'm puzzled why it seems to not want to play well using Clapton or twisted wire coils. It does alright until, ... "WTF!? I'm standing on the fire button 'ere!" I know once it was a simple matter of "hey dummy, try a different battery. Bet the one in the tube is out of juice." Twice it happens, well, yeah maybe. A third and on to sixth time; ... Sorry, no it's not me not realizing the charge is spent. Something else has to be foul. Guess I'll put my reading peepers on and look at the post holes. Man that sounds wonky. *smh* I'm used to post holes in the ground. Might be some wire debris in the holes on the RDA. If not, then I'm back to stump soup. Insulator seems alright. Coils are not dead shorting on the top cap, no arc traces inside the caps nor do I notice any arcing.
May need to fuss at the pixies or call it on account of gremlins. Just looked at the holes. They seem clear and clean. *sighs* Reckon I'll just use simple dumb old single strand wire coils. Yee ha doggy, go me! *lobs a water grenade in the general direction of @snake94115 as he's been absent a bit and likely up to dispatching gremlins, knows he throws like a girl and might hit @MrMeowgi instead, prepares for an onslaught of the time honored food fight by stocking up on flappy jacks, hot dogs, peas, chicken nuggets, lettuce shreds *
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Vaper towels or a Terry/Cotton cloth between the plier biters can sometimes help avoid tearing gear up. Granted sometimes is a long way from all the time but at least it might be a step in that direction. I discovered this taking over-tightened evod tanks off Ego batteries, just another reason I got away from those imo-fwiw crummy tanks.
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Guess I'll put my reading peepers on and look at the post holes. Man that sounds wonky. *smh* I'm used to post holes in the ground. Might be some wire debris in the holes on the RDA. If not, then I'm back to stump soup. Insulator seems alright. Coils are not dead shorting on the top cap, no arc traces inside the caps nor do I notice any arcing.
May need to fuss at the pixies or call it on account of gremlins. Just looked at the holes. They seem clear and clean. *sighs* Reckon I'll just use simple dumb old single strand wire coils. Yee ha doggy, go me! *lobs a water grenade in the general direction of @snake94115 as he's been absent a bit and likely up to dispatching gremlins, knows he throws like a girl and might hit @MrMeowgi instead, prepares for an onslaught of the time honored food fight by stocking up on flappy jacks, hot dogs, peas, chicken nuggets, lettuce shreds *
Maybe something else is awry, but I'm telling y'all, staged heating coils are the bomb. Well, not literally. You press the fire button, though, they fire. Like right NOW they do.
FC 28x2/38 n80 plus 24 n80 round, wound together, say 6 wraps if you have room. Single coil at approximately 0.24 ohms. Warmth! Heat! Sizzle! Fog!
*LOL as he takes this & holds up the big aluminum garbage tin lid as a shield, while slipping into wet suit* I'll see your Ultimate Soaker and raise you two soccer goals, a pair of fours, bag of jacks, eight Buddha's Palm comic books in sequential order (was thinking about the Ninjack but recalled my vow "Nobody gets the Ninjack!"), two mysteriously green poker chips one reading "Last Hole" the other reading "Tiny's", six juicy rumors about Cleopatra that are not made public knowledge, a bullfrog named "Joe", a shiny red checker, proper lyrics of Woolly Bully scribbled down on a diner napkin, a base hit.
*falls down sliding into the mud bog created by the Ultimate Soaker* Ha ha, "no Brrr Fox, No No No, don't throw me into the brier patch I is so a skared of it!" *only his eyes peek out of the mud, blinks, closes eyes and rests*
I'm still trying to figure which of the 250 me's running around got the lyrics, much less when they had time, ... hm, ... ah wait, it's catching up, something about Newton's ideas of quantum physics & time travel. It seems I'm down to 245 mes, they sacrificed five to work out the time travel. I should have noticed that in the Farce. Gee, I am getting old. *sighs*
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I plan upon living to the age of 170 years at the least, this time around. Have a nice "to read" book list with this one now on it. Currently, having some minor narcoleptic problems. I read five minutes and pass out asleep. I drink any milk it knocks me out as well, really not sure why this is happening. I drank raw milk as a child and consumed a lot of milk growing up, raw and pasteurized.
My thought? Possibly the GMO crap they put into cattle now.
Who knows what goes into the commercial milk supply? I do know in some cases poultry offal gets put into the feed. Still not quite sure I appreciate life consuming death to live. Seems like if you want an organism to live you put living into it, want it to die, ...
Sorry this really plays into an OP trying a new mod for sure. I do want a new mod, a regulated one that I can run Debian Linux on. Ha! I'd have that thing *ahem* hacking *cough* into cell phones in a day, using cell phone battery power via WiFi. *LOL* I will watch for one to run Linux, or even a liberated copy of Unix, ah, NetBSD and then consider using a regulated mod.. If I can run the software then I can keep the hardware going. I actually had to replace hardware with software still going already, the hardware was a decade old and finally gave up the ghost physically. I tried saving it but well entropy is an opponent without limits.
True story time. Told wife I would hack into her brand new shiny out of the box cell phone. Two days later her sister tells her that she got text messaged in response to calling her. "I'm occupied driving and will get back to you as soon as I can." The wife did not send the text nor did she have auto text messaging on. I laughed. "Told you I would but you didn't believe me." Trouble being I did it simply thinking it. "Let's see, she'll be driving about x time so let me set up a responder." Right, me thinking now interfaces the cyber-sphere & does B&E to set up quirky helpful pranks. I better go check my .22 ammo.
I don't want to be the Indigo kid fall guy that allegedly shuts it all down. Yeah, need a mod with *nix capacity and a USB port for a monitor & keyboard, mouse. ... Just wait, China will make it, soon. Hm, actually Raspberry mod sounds like what I'm thinking. Hmm, ... I betta, ...
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