Hi everyone, I've been reading this post for the last few months and the amount of work put in by so many, over such a long period of time is amazing. VapeDonkey you sir are the man, your extensive and informative post have helped me and I'm sure many others. If you ever have some time, you should make a video of your custom coil/atty.
I have finally made a batch from some wax I got at the dispensary near me. I picked up 1 gram of wax, Green Crack 76% THC. I used Wax Liquidizer, just the plain version, no flavor added. I have read it had a nasty chemical taste in various corners of the internet. So I was kind of skeptical and just bought 15ml online. I followed the standard recipe on the bottle, which was 1g of concentrate to 2ml of Wax liquidizer and I used the double boil method in this tiny little beaker. It melted down easily and I mixed it around until it was clear. I ended up with about 3ml of juice altogether.
I have the Pico Istick, I have used this for vaping regular ejuice over the last year. I love this little mod, it packs a punch. The Melo 3 was a good tank, but that shit leaked on me multiple times when I got it. I got a few other tanks, but I picked up the Smok Baby Beast a few months ago, and this tank is awesome. Vapor production is great, flavor is really good, and it doesn't leak. They have like 6 different coils you can buy for this tank, including a RBA. I ordered the RBA, to see it will work with some thc juice.
Anyways I put in about .6ml in the baby beast, and let it soak for a minute, The coil in the Babybeast is .4ohms and hits good normally at about 42 watts for me, I took a small pull and noticed immediate that the smoke was way thicker than any vape I have ever tried. And it tasted like some good ganja. I took a big pull the second time and just love how thick and smooth the vapor is, and its potent. One more pull and I was on the moon.
Thanks for your post, welcome to FC! If your juice started as clear when you first loaded the tank, and had that slight darkening by the time it's almost empty, that looks perfectly reasonable and normal to me. My 2ml tanks with co2 oil start lighter and darken over the course of a few grams vaped not much differently than yours.
I'm happy to hear that your smok baby beast tank (top filling, bottom air?) hasn't been leaking on you, but I must ask: how long does it take you to vape a full tank down to empty? Just a few days, or weeks or months? I see the melo was leaking on you, just like for me. But the MELO tank leaked out pretty slowly on me, it would take over a month to leak down, with some useage. If you use it more heavily than I did and could vape a full tank down to empty in a few days, you could avoid this issue?
42W???!!!
Whoa! I think my DT v3 is maybe .7ohms, and I find 23-24W plenty!
(on a eVic VTwin Mini)
For a 0.4 ohm coil, 42w sounds about right. I just hope he's using TC!
Hello all I'm interested in making my own juice to have a portable stealth way to medicate while on the go. After research I've decided on this vtc mini kit:
http://www.myvaporstore.com/Joye-eVic-Basic-Starter-Kit-p/joye-vtn30.htm?1=1&CartID=1
And adding some ni200 coils to to with it. For juice it seems the holy terp pure is getting solid reviews.
Is this a good starter kit to go with? If anyone has input please advise. Thanks!
Thats the evic basic, not the vtc, but either one is a fine choice for a temp control mod, and the kit with the cubis pro mini tank I would highly recommend as being leak-resistant. I also bought my first evic basic from MVS, they're legit
For the juice and mixing and the coils, I don't have much to offer you for help, but at least your mod and tank are a good start.
Urgh
I'm fucking pissed.
Packed my half filled tank in my carry-on, arrived in CA last night and found that 90% of the god damn tank leaked. I'm glad I had the foresight to put it in a zip lock, I'm guessing the pressurization in the cabin fucked this up
FUCK.
I will reply to the responses to my previous post soon, I'm too mad to do so now.
D'oh! Since I motivated you to try out the cubis tank, I can't help but feel partially responsible for this little tragedy
(just a small part )
I know people do take tank vapes on flights often, and their juice must not always be leaking out on them? Are they flying with empty tanks? The changes in air pressure most likely is the cause of your leak out.
If I ever did take my cubis pro mini tanks on a flight, I think I would fly empty, and load at my destination, especially after reading this. But I have 1 more thought on this flying leakage:
you have the original CUBIS atomizer, with no adjustable air throttle on the top. An ebay seller sent one of these to me on accident when I ordered the cubis pro mini. Although I did not use it before I sent it back, I took it apart and examined it, and dry hit it. The airway is much more restrictive compared to the pro / mini. Maybe if you had the cubis pro, with air throttles wide open, the change in air pressure would not have forced as much juice and oil out of the tank, since the tank has more air ventilation. It would probably leak some,
but less?
Or maybe the CUBIS pro would leak just as much on a plane? IDK just speculating....
but...
ENOUGH is ENOUGH! I have
had it with these
mother fucking VAPES on this mother fucking PLANE!
Yeah, I agree that the resistance is odd, what is stranger is that by disconnecting and reconnecting the tank I got different readings! It now varies between 1.1 and 1.12. I have the correct coil selected on the mod, so I dunno what gives
the coil is supposed to be 1 ohm, with wattage range up to 25W. I'll try lowering the power but if it's in TC mode would that really even matter?
After the leakage and loss, I've cleaned up the tank as much as I can, unfortunately I get sputtering into my mouth if I take three consecutive pulls (about 3 seconds each). The liquid is HOT and I've burned my lips and tongue already.
This is the same problem I have dealt with before, I'm getting fed up again. What is the core difference between this and ejuice which doesn't sputter, is it viscosity? I might just go get a 0mg nic ejuice and try adding that, but if I have vegetable glycerin, PG, and PEG would anyone here recommending adding one or more of those to my tank to alleviate the sputtering problem?
Edit: I also see the word "Protected" pop up on the LCD when I hold the button down for 1+second....
So you've tried using the 1.0 and 0.5 ohm coils, and you're seeing readings a little higher than that? With your chunky, viscous thc juice with wax and solvents mixed together, I think this mixture is most likely blocking or partially blocking contact between the bottom of the coil and the positive 510 pin on the bottom of the tank.
Glycerin is somewhat conductive to electrical flow, from my experiences, while cannabis oil is not conductive at all.
The mod measuring the coil resistance off because of the juice can be causing it to "hit protection" too quickly because it thinks the coil is reaching it's target temperature too quickly when it really isn't. the coil resistance not being measured accurately can really throw TC operation off quite easily.
Heh, it's not just sputtering but gurgling. Really gross, I'm getting big spurts of ejuice, blech
I've tried the other 0.5ohm atomizer and it is shown as 0.54. This shit is either not precise or the ejuice is directly.affecting the resistance, which doesn't make sense to me.
Yea, the juice affecting the resistance, that's my thoughts.
Here's another problem with the original CUBIS (not pro or mini) atomizer and using thc juice:
the coil head is mounted directly into drip tip / mouth piece assembly, and screwed into the tank as 1 large piece. And the only way to fill the tank is to remove the MP / coil. (no juice filling slots like the pro / mini)
Therefore, whenever you fill the CUBIS tank, you are necessarily filling the bottom with juice, blocking the contact.
With the PRO and mini CUBIS, you can have the coil firmly installed in the tank making good dry contact with the positive 510 pin on the floor while you fill juice / oil, from the slots. You can't do this with the og CUBIS.
With this design flaw, and the lack of an adjustable air flow, maybe you should get with the cubis pro?
(hint wink)
As for the sputtering and spitting, I get that with my co2 oil tanks, but to a minimal, tolerable degree. I think if you could adjust your intake air flow, it would help with the spitting? But getting your juice mix to have a lower, more consistent viscosity will help alot with that, also.