subject: What is a good electronic cigarette [print this page] What is a good electronic cigarette What is a good electronic cigarette
I'ld like to share in this article my experiences in finding a good electronic cigarette that i can recommend to anyone who wants to quit smoking.
To find an alternative to the real or analogue cigarette, most of us smokers or ex-smokers will look for something that resembles very much an analogue cigarette. It is the psychology of it initially. Hence most manufacturers of e-cigs will sell you that type of electronic cigarette as this is all that we want.
It certainly serves the purpose initially no doubt about it. What i am trying to let you know here that this type of e-cig is not for the long run, so in many ways i'm trying to let you know that sooner or later you will be looking for something else. So rather than spending your hard earned cash on something that you might use for a short while, get something that will last longer and give you greater satisfaction.
I am merely passing the information to you so you can save money eventually.
You probably know having read my other articles that my first experience with vapourettes electronic cigarettes was with an e-lites PCC (Personal Charging Case) pack.
It worked well initially barring a few minor hicups which e-lites have sorted out promptly in due course.
All the well publicised and well marketed electronic cigarettes do function well to a certain extent. In the first few days if not weeks of vaping all a person wants is to have a product that will produce smoke (vapour) in the case of electronic cigarettes and a decent enough throat hit so the person does not have to go back to analogue cigarettes.
In my hunt for a good e-cig i tried a good few of them. Only a couple or so really stood out for me and i stuck with them ever since.
The likes of BLU, skycig, e-lites, Volcano and many others are very good for this initial stage. They are all based on very much the same principle and technology which is comprised of a battery which forms the majority of the e-cig, then we have the cartridge part which is like the filter on an analogue cigarette. Inside that filter on an e-cig is where the liquid nicotine is stored in a small container by some sort of filler.
The point to mention about the filters / cartridges on the those e-cigarettes is that it is not that easy to get to the container that holds the liquid to top it up.
Most of these e-cig companies tend to rely on people buying additional cartridges which works out fairly expensive for you the consumer yet it makes these companies a decent amount of profit. On average a cartridges costs about 1 or thereabouts. The cartridges vary in size but either way they are relatively small compared to say a DSE901 or a 510 cartridge.
As an example a cartridge of an e-cigarette that is 88mm up to 109mm in length that looks like a real analogue cigarette will hold about 3-6 drops of e-liquid or ejuice as they call it which will give you the equivalent of say 2-6 analogue cigarettes. Many if not all the companies that sell that type of e-cig will tell you that each cartridge is worth 15+ analogue cigarettes. In all honesty it is nowhere near that. The max you would get is 7 analogues out of a cartridges and that is out of experience.
After personally using that type of e-cig for a good few weeks, i immediately thought that this could work out quite expensive buying cartridges, ofcourse health wise this is priceless anyways, so i looked at eliquids / e-juice then.
The subject of eliquids will be discussed in another article.
Topping up that type of cartridges is a tricky thing to do to some extent in the way that if you put too much liquid, it will leak and also you will get liquid in your mouth which i can tell you tastes horrible and bitter. But after a few times you will learn how many drops you put in the cartridge and work it out. Still though, you have to do that quite often in the course of a day unless you prepare your cartridges from the night before so you can have a stock with you when you go out the next day.
I had to find something that is more practical by then. I found out about the DSE901 and the Joye / Boge 510. Both had bigger cartridges and can easily be topped up with liquids. Also the spares were more universal too. Like you can buy spare batteries, atomizers from many sites on the internet. Unlike the previous ones i mentioned which you have to be careful where you buy the spares from as not all manufacturers do them the same. There is no sort of standard for them. Such as the polarities of the batteries might be reversed, male/female ends, etc...
901s and 510s have much more of a standard so in many ways you can buy a battery from somewhere and an atomizer from somewhere else knowing that they will both be compatible irrespective where you bought them from.
The 901 and 510 produce much better and much more consistent vapour and throat hit than any of the ones i have tried before.
There is a difference between 901s and 510s. They look slightly different but the main difference that a lot of people say is that the 901 gives more flavour where as the 510 gives more vapour. It is a matter of preference i suppose to the individual. You will find that any vaper will have a 901 and a 510 in their collection amongst other ones but those 2 are sort of a must have.
So my advice will be is get yourself a DSE901 or a Joye or Bogetech 510 or 510L in the first place to avoid most of the pitfalls i have been through.
After that you can move to a bigger e-cig if you so wish like an Ego or a Leo say and so on.
They are bigger in size, almost like a cigar size. The main reason is the battery life of those bigger ones. Some Ego and Leo batteries can last up to 8hrs on one charge.
Please feel free to email me from the website vapourettes or comment on the subject i have mentioned and i will endeavour to reply as soon as possible.
