Advice needed for a newbie please....

Hi guys and gals!

Wow, extremely sorry for the super delay in replies, things have been a little upside down on my end.

Anyhow, here goes:

I would like to apologize in advance if I accidentally skip someone in my reply here.

Ok, so I made a couple of changes to my cart as per some suggestions made by you helpful guys that took the time to reply to my questions.
And my gear arrived last week!!!! :b1: Yeah baby, Yeah!!!
I was sooo stoked when I saw the courier bloke pull up to my house, that I actually beat my dog to the gate:pancarta:
So I proceeded to SHRED the packaging to peek into Valhalla, and boy oh boy was I in for a treat. Now to be fair, I am a bit of a gadget guy whom is a sucker for eye candy, hence my predisposition to pretty things, even if they sometimes do not make any sense.

I will definitely attach some photos after typing the post, so that you guys can be bored at my enthusiasm,:picknose: Probably a noob thing...

Ok, with all that said, where to start, lets see... Ahhh, @adriaanh :

With regards to your advice on the Aegis X having bad battery life, I DID take that into account, and did some more research into the mod, with around 80% of reviews that I could find stating that they tend to get a whole day of vaping on a set of batteries at around the 35Watt setting. The ones that did not get a full day, I kind of chalked up to the AWESOME 2.4" OLED screen...:OOOOOOO:

With regards to the tanks, I am a weird person when it comes to mixing brands, when i used to still be young and noisy, I would pruchase my car stereos in the same manner, if I bought a JVC headunit, i would buy JVC amps, mids,tweeters, subs, etc.. ALL in JVC. It does not make senseto normal people, I know, but in my (sometimes scary/troubled/happy) head, it makes a difference...:loko2:

Then, @Timwis :

I understand and appreciate the concern regarding the running before I can walk problem, however, I am a HUGE DIY Dan... As mentioned I have a severe inclination to setting my goals (sometimes WAAAAYYYY) too high:nut:, and then suffering for a bit, until that blissful moment when I get it exactly right... Then I feel like a Jedi!

I think that I have a psychological need for that battle and that I might be addicted to that sense of accomplishment...

On the note of MTL and DL, you do not have the wrong end of the stick, it is in fact my startup kit, however, I have had some limited experiences with vaping on different brands/styles or whatever you call it.

My mother has a Twisp Edge MTL device, which is a pen style e-cigarette that I tried a couple of times when visiting her, it was OK, but the fact that I had to suck on it like a hooker in a glory hole shack, just to get some vapour production going properly(and then be hit with the 10second cut off thingy...), was immensely frustrating, and almost put me off vaping completely...:yikes:

I then had my brother in law come visit us with a Smok Vape Pen 22, which he was vaping like an old school hubbly, straight through to the lungs, and that was an indication to me, after trying it out once or twice, that I do, in fact, prefer the DL type devices.

As for the flavour from the Zues X, I would have to say that I do think that you must be right, (no offense to anyone else on here that offered up their time to give me options and/or advice), but for another RTA or tank to beat this thing on flavour, they would have to be something truly remarkable...

Man!!! Does this thing give me a whole mouth full of flavour...:worship2: It is litterally like eating or drinking the real deal of the flavours that I have... Mind you, it might just be because of my limited knowledge and possibly unsophisticated palette, lol!

Then I believe it is @Chickenstrip :

Thank you for pointing out the dangers of charging the mod via the usb... Definitely not something I would EVER want to experience...

Rest assured though, i did follow the advice of @Grand Guru above, to buy the extra 2x batteries and an external charger, so I think i should be safe on that front now. I did, however keep the wire and the measuring tool on my order, but did remove the battery wraps.

Let's see... Who's next...:THINKINGPOUNDERING:

Ahh Yes... @Resistance :wave1:

What a comprehensive reply, thank you very much for the heads up about the recall on the golisi s4 chargers. I ended up buying the Nitecore New i4 intellicharger, which seems to be working perfectly.

Once again, I have to agree that the flavour that I am getting from this Zeus X, is just INSANE!:thumbup: It does GUZZLE though, with dual coils at 0.12Ohms and at 60 Watts... Have had a couple of days to try her out, and sometimes go through 5-6 tanks of ejuice in a day... However, i only went through 2 tanks yesterday.

I did end up keeping the little toolkit, and I am pretty glad that I did, because of one simple little thing, and that is that the clippers that are included in the kit actually fits underneath the build deck(atleast I think that is what it is called...) to trim the legs of the coils after they are screwed onto the deck... Which in my humble opinion is pretty cool.

I di not take an extra Bubble tank though, because I saw that the Zues X comes with a straight tank as a spare, I did read that the straight tank takes about a millilitre less ejuice, but figured that it would do in a pinch, should something go horrendously wrong.

I will definitely be posting a new thread for advice on the art of coil making... :coti:

Then, @Silver :

Thank you for also putting you advice in with everyone else.

Seems like this forum is a big, supportive family :chupi: with siblings like @Timwis and @Resistance sometimes having quarrels...(Which was quite funny though, and actually makes a newbie like myself feel more welcome, and broke the ice a little:eusa_dance:)

As for the CBD juice, all of their cheaper ones were sold out, and were also weaker dosages (some were like 25mg CBD, etc), whereas the one i ended up ordering was a 500mg 30ml Grape Ape bottle. Which, I have to say, seems to be helping quite a bit with my couple of issues. It does also help for the pain management of my broken right hand, broken left ring finger, which is now skew because of a screw that's in there and hernia, etc... (ALL of these injuries and some that I didnt even mention, was due to being run over by a :drink::drive:) Pardon the emoticons, I am not allowed to say that he was in fact under the influence...

Last but not least ... @Dela Rey Steyn :

I did cancel the Demon Killer coils like you suggested, (thank you for that), I hope i did not swop it out for something worse, though...:eusa_doh:

I ended up taking the Vapefly Ni80 24GA 0.4Ohm Normal coils, they came in a pack of 100pcs...

Will see how they work soon enough i suppose.

OK guys and gals,

I hope I did not skip anyone, if I did, please accept my apologies.

PS. I am happy to report that I dropped in the "Stinkie" category:)risas3:) down from 40-60 cigarettes per day to a measly 5-7 per day, all thanks to my vape gear and knowing that there are forums like this out there with people that truly assist where they can, support when needed, and are not information hogs/hoarders. People whom are willing to share advice and council.IMG_20200520_120406.jpg
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Hi guys and gals!

Wow, extremely sorry for the super delay in replies, things have been a little upside down on my end.

Anyhow, here goes:

I would like to apologize in advance if I accidentally skip someone in my reply here.

Ok, so I made a couple of changes to my cart as per some suggestions made by you helpful guys that took the time to reply to my questions.
And my gear arrived last week!!!! :b1: Yeah baby, Yeah!!!
I was sooo stoked when I saw the courier bloke pull up to my house, that I actually beat my dog to the gate:pancarta:
So I proceeded to SHRED the packaging to peek into Valhalla, and boy oh boy was I in for a treat. Now to be fair, I am a bit of a gadget guy whom is a sucker for eye candy, hence my predisposition to pretty things, even if they sometimes do not make any sense.

I will definitely attach some photos after typing the post, so that you guys can be bored at my enthusiasm,:picknose: Probably a noob thing...

Ok, with all that said, where to start, lets see... Ahhh, @adriaanh :

With regards to your advice on the Aegis X having bad battery life, I DID take that into account, and did some more research into the mod, with around 80% of reviews that I could find stating that they tend to get a whole day of vaping on a set of batteries at around the 35Watt setting. The ones that did not get a full day, I kind of chalked up to the AWESOME 2.4" OLED screen...:OOOOOOO:

With regards to the tanks, I am a weird person when it comes to mixing brands, when i used to still be young and noisy, I would pruchase my car stereos in the same manner, if I bought a JVC headunit, i would buy JVC amps, mids,tweeters, subs, etc.. ALL in JVC. It does not make senseto normal people, I know, but in my (sometimes scary/troubled/happy) head, it makes a difference...:loko2:

Then, @Timwis :

I understand and appreciate the concern regarding the running before I can walk problem, however, I am a HUGE DIY Dan... As mentioned I have a severe inclination to setting my goals (sometimes WAAAAYYYY) too high:nut:, and then suffering for a bit, until that blissful moment when I get it exactly right... Then I feel like a Jedi!

I think that I have a psychological need for that battle and that I might be addicted to that sense of accomplishment...

On the note of MTL and DL, you do not have the wrong end of the stick, it is in fact my startup kit, however, I have had some limited experiences with vaping on different brands/styles or whatever you call it.

My mother has a Twisp Edge MTL device, which is a pen style e-cigarette that I tried a couple of times when visiting her, it was OK, but the fact that I had to suck on it like a hooker in a glory hole shack, just to get some vapour production going properly(and then be hit with the 10second cut off thingy...), was immensely frustrating, and almost put me off vaping completely...:yikes:

I then had my brother in law come visit us with a Smok Vape Pen 22, which he was vaping like an old school hubbly, straight through to the lungs, and that was an indication to me, after trying it out once or twice, that I do, in fact, prefer the DL type devices.

As for the flavour from the Zues X, I would have to say that I do think that you must be right, (no offense to anyone else on here that offered up their time to give me options and/or advice), but for another RTA or tank to beat this thing on flavour, they would have to be something truly remarkable...

Man!!! Does this thing give me a whole mouth full of flavour...:worship2: It is litterally like eating or drinking the real deal of the flavours that I have... Mind you, it might just be because of my limited knowledge and possibly unsophisticated palette, lol!

Then I believe it is @Chickenstrip :

Thank you for pointing out the dangers of charging the mod via the usb... Definitely not something I would EVER want to experience...

Rest assured though, i did follow the advice of @Grand Guru above, to buy the extra 2x batteries and an external charger, so I think i should be safe on that front now. I did, however keep the wire and the measuring tool on my order, but did remove the battery wraps.

Let's see... Who's next...:THINKINGPOUNDERING:

Ahh Yes... @Resistance :wave1:

What a comprehensive reply, thank you very much for the heads up about the recall on the golisi s4 chargers. I ended up buying the Nitecore New i4 intellicharger, which seems to be working perfectly.

Once again, I have to agree that the flavour that I am getting from this Zeus X, is just INSANE!:thumbup: It does GUZZLE though, with dual coils at 0.12Ohms and at 60 Watts... Have had a couple of days to try her out, and sometimes go through 5-6 tanks of ejuice in a day... However, i only went through 2 tanks yesterday.

I did end up keeping the little toolkit, and I am pretty glad that I did, because of one simple little thing, and that is that the clippers that are included in the kit actually fits underneath the build deck(atleast I think that is what it is called...) to trim the legs of the coils after they are screwed onto the deck... Which in my humble opinion is pretty cool.

I di not take an extra Bubble tank though, because I saw that the Zues X comes with a straight tank as a spare, I did read that the straight tank takes about a millilitre less ejuice, but figured that it would do in a pinch, should something go horrendously wrong.

I will definitely be posting a new thread for advice on the art of coil making... :coti:

Then, @Silver :

Thank you for also putting you advice in with everyone else.

Seems like this forum is a big, supportive family :chupi: with siblings like @Timwis and @Resistance sometimes having quarrels...(Which was quite funny though, and actually makes a newbie like myself feel more welcome, and broke the ice a little:eusa_dance:)

As for the CBD juice, all of their cheaper ones were sold out, and were also weaker dosages (some were like 25mg CBD, etc), whereas the one i ended up ordering was a 500mg 30ml Grape Ape bottle. Which, I have to say, seems to be helping quite a bit with my couple of issues. It does also help for the pain management of my broken right hand, broken left ring finger, which is now skew because of a screw that's in there and hernia, etc... (ALL of these injuries and some that I didnt even mention, was due to being run over by a :drink::drive:) Pardon the emoticons, I am not allowed to say that he was in fact under the influence...

Last but not least ... @Dela Rey Steyn :

I did cancel the Demon Killer coils like you suggested, (thank you for that), I hope i did not swop it out for something worse, though...:eusa_doh:

I ended up taking the Vapefly Ni80 24GA 0.4Ohm Normal coils, they came in a pack of 100pcs...

Will see how they work soon enough i suppose.

OK guys and gals,

I hope I did not skip anyone, if I did, please accept my apologies.

PS. I am happy to report that I dropped in the "Stinkie" category:)risas3:) down from 40-60 cigarettes per day to a measly 5-7 per day, all thanks to my vape gear and knowing that there are forums like this out there with people that truly assist where they can, support when needed, and are not information hogs/hoarders. People whom are willing to share advice and council.View attachment 196715
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Congrats , may you have a long and happy vape journey , If I landed on this forum a year earlier , I would have saved a shipload of money and frustration , my biggest stress were Smok coils , didn't know about RTA's etc .
 
Congrats , may you have a long and happy vape journey , If I landed on this forum a year earlier , I would have saved a shipload of money and frustration , my biggest stress were Smok coils , didn't know about RTA's etc .

Hi there,
Thank you.

Yes, I am surely blessed to have stumbled upon this Forum in the embryotic stage of my vaping journey. With regards to the Smok coils, I am actually busy trying to rebuild one for my brother in law now... Am busy modifying one of the Ni80 coils that I got in the set I bought, and decided to use the 3-4cm strips of Thunderbolt cotton that was snipped off when I wicked my RTA, instead of just throwing them away...

So will post some pics and outcome on a new thread, :--P
 
Hi there,
Thank you.

Yes, I am surely blessed to have stumbled upon this Forum in the embryotic stage of my vaping journey. With regards to the Smok coils, I am actually busy trying to rebuild one for my brother in law now... Am busy modifying one of the Ni80 coils that I got in the set I bought, and decided to use the 3-4cm strips of Thunderbolt cotton that was snipped off when I wicked my RTA, instead of just throwing them away...

So will post some pics and outcome on a new thread, :--P
Never tried that , washed them in vodka ,airdry and good to vape another week or 2 , :)
 
Never tried that , washed them in vodka ,airdry and good to vape another week or 2 , :)
Will keep that technique in mind for my brother in law, and possibly for my mother with her Twisp edge coils then. Twisp does seem to be rather expensive with their coils. However, I think i might win with this rebuild vibe i've got going here, lol.

Its just niggly with one hand...:BangsHeads:

:jump1:
 
Will keep that technique in mind for my brother in law, and possibly for my mother with her Twisp edge coils then. Twisp does seem to be rather expensive with their coils. However, I think i might win with this rebuild vibe i've got going here, lol.

Its just niggly with one hand...:BangsHeads:

:jump1:
Good luck , let us know ... what happened to your arm/hand ?
 
Good luck , let us know ... what happened to your arm/hand ?

Thanks, will do.

I was hit by a, let's just say "less than sober" driver on the 7th March this year. He hit the power box outside my house. When our power died, I went out to see what was going on, and saw the power box flattened and an SUV just idling down the street, headed toward the wall at the end of the street. (We stay in a dead end street)

So, I ran after the vehicle to see whether the person needs assistance with stopping the vehicle, or maybe they were having a heart attack or something:nusenuse:

So, as I reached the vehicle and started knocking on the window, the person looked up at me, popped the car in reverse, clocked the steering wheel and reversed right over me.

He then tried to drive away, but my brother in law ran after him, and the neighborhood watch assisted in following him home, so we now know who it was and, get this, they followed him for like 15minutes, just to have him turn into my street again, and pull into his yard 3 HOUSES FROM MINE!!!

Anyhow, the lawyers must sort it out from here, and then waiting on SAPS to do their job...
 
Thanks, will do.

I was hit by a, let's just say "less than sober" driver on the 7th March this year. He hit the power box outside my house. When our power died, I went out to see what was going on, and saw the power box flattened and an SUV just idling down the street, headed toward the wall at the end of the street. (We stay in a dead end street)

So, I ran after the vehicle to see whether the person needs assistance with stopping the vehicle, or maybe they were having a heart attack or something:nusenuse:

So, as I reached the vehicle and started knocking on the window, the person looked up at me, popped the car in reverse, clocked the steering wheel and reversed right over me.

He then tried to drive away, but my brother in law ran after him, and the neighborhood watch assisted in following him home, so we now know who it was and, get this, they followed him for like 15minutes, just to have him turn into my street again, and pull into his yard 3 HOUSES FROM MINE!!!

Anyhow, the lawyers must sort it out from here, and then waiting on SAPS to do their job...

yoh, crazy stuff man, glad you're ok
 
Those vape fly coils are decent., much better than the Demon Killer. Congrats on a great haul and welcome to the family!
 
@Dela Rey Steyn , are these the Vapefly coils you are referring to? View attachment 196723 View attachment 196724

How'zt bro. Happy you got sorted. Those coils look good. Sometimes the simple coils gives better flavour.(subjective)
SS is my go to wire ,but nothing wrong with ni-wire.
The Zeus X can take a single coil as well. It should make it less thirsty, but size and placement make the difference here in flavour production.
Other than that vape like a king!
Ps. rebuilding those commercial coils work,but get the cotton pads or sometimes you get spitback and leaking using normal cotton.
The twisp coils is a bit finicky,but get better the more you do it.
Good luck!
 
Also your setup rocks and if you do decide on single coil experimentation the coils you have can be made bigger on a bigger screwdriver or mandrel.
Although 3mm ∅ works fine.
 
How'zt bro. Happy you got sorted. Those coils look good. Sometimes the simple coils gives better flavour.(subjective)
SS is my go to wire ,but nothing wrong with ni-wire.
The Zeus X can take a single coil as well. It should make it less thirsty, but size and placement make the difference here in flavour production.
Other than that vape like a king!
Ps. rebuilding those commercial coils work,but get the cotton pads or sometimes you get spitback and leaking using normal cotton.
The twisp coils is a bit finicky,but get better the more you do it.
Good luck!
Howzit guy,

I am quite glad to hear that those coils are ok... Will have to rewick tomorrow, the fancy looking coils that came with it is looking quite black now already.

I also got a roll of 30ft 24Ga 316L wire, but am struggling to figure out how many times to wrap the coil with it, to get to around 0.3ohms in a dual setup, or even where to start to figure out how to set up the Zeus X in single coil setup...

With regards to rebuilding the Smok coils, it came out awesome, brother in law is picking it up tomorrow, so will pop it in and revert with pics and feedback about the leaking and spitback.
 
Also your setup rocks and if you do decide on single coil experimentation the coils you have can be made bigger on a bigger screwdriver or mandrel.
Although 3mm ∅ works fine.
Thanks for saying it rocks, I also think so :headbang: LOL
Will the cotton still sit snug enough in lets let a 3.5 mm id coil?

Is bigger better for flavour? I am lost on all the extra technical stuff... How would one place a single coil? Diagonally or just straight on only one side of the deck?
 
Thanks for saying it rocks, I also think so :headbang: LOL
Will the cotton still sit snug enough in lets let a 3.5 mm id coil?

Is bigger better for flavour? I am lost on all the extra technical stuff... How would one place a single coil? Diagonally or just straight on only one side of the deck?
The coil legs just go in on opposite terminals.(diagonal).
The cotton should still work fine.
I have had success with a vertical coil in a Zeus single.
And the coils you have in the atty can be cleaned by dry burning and dunking or holding the hot coils under running water
 
The coil legs just go in on opposite terminals.(diagonal).
The cotton should still work fine.
I have had success with a vertical coil in a Zeus single.
And the coils you have in the atty can be cleaned by dry burning and dunking or holding the hot coils under running water
Wow, thank you very much for the advice. Will give it a try.

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As for the coils. There's an app for that.
I just wrap it 5 to 8 times and check the resistance when done.
I think @NOOB or @Ugi can help us with a calculator.
When you dry burn your coils, set the wattage lower. All you need is the coils to glow medium to check for hotspots.

The cotton burning through is coils holding heat for longer periods than after the button is released. That's due to a few factors. Too much heat while vaping or the coils are too bulky.
The resistance can also have a big relationship to cotton burning through. The longer your coils take to ramp up. The longer it will take to release heat.
Hope this helps.
 
Howzit guy,

I am quite glad to hear that those coils are ok... Will have to rewick tomorrow, the fancy looking coils that came with it is looking quite black now already.

I also got a roll of 30ft 24Ga 316L wire, but am struggling to figure out how many times to wrap the coil with it, to get to around 0.3ohms in a dual setup, or even where to start to figure out how to set up the Zeus X in single coil setup...

With regards to rebuilding the Smok coils, it came out awesome, brother in law is picking it up tomorrow, so will pop it in and revert with pics and feedback about the leaking and spitback.
3mm 8wraps 24g dual setup u should get 0.3ohms. Try a lil space between coil wraps.. . Will improve flavor
 
This is the coil tool i use when building my coils
And its all you need

You can download from Playstore on Droid
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